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For me, this is the winner for this 7DRL - we finished making our games, now we need to play Coop Catacombs for the other 51 weeks as a daily challenge.

This game is amazing! I think I haven't had a better case study of how to add cozy elements to any game, ASCII roguelikes being the most base kind of visual storytelling. Good work!

Thank you Tiger! I didn't see this until now, but thank you so much! I'd love to see you have a go at the new 1.666 version at some point in the future, as I've learned a lot from watching you play the last one :)

Thank you so much! I tried to balance simple base mechanics with a somewhat complex stat+curse system, and all the while kept thinking back to my first roguelike experiences and the feeling of not understanding their worlds but sensing that there IS something there to understand. I know it sounds like a cop out for not making better mechanics, but not having everything explained was very much part of the design. The initial idea was much worse and I had to grind it down to this level, and I'm still not quite sure I'm there!

Moving down was probably the largest change from typical roguelike fashion, as it's an action you can do from the get-go, even as your first action, but it's punishing and I made sure you can't win this way (you'd actually certainly die before level 4, I think). The balancing of what to do around the sacrifice opens up some nice avenues for different builds, it looks like :)

HELLTH 2: more pain, more gain -- soon, in cinemas near you!

Seriously, though, thank you! I'm going to slowly add some more stuff in, including better names and more item types, multi-turn move animations (so that you can actually SEE thrown things fly!) and the magic system that I've cut out last moment. Also some bugfixes that I think I might even land today!