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Honestly it’s hard to pick a specific thing that’s different between Shattered and the original Pixel Dungeon, there are fewer things that are similar at this point! Almost everything is different gameplay-wise aside from the very core gameplay loop, but if you’d like a little summary of the biggest visual changes I did write a blog post about that semi-recently: https://shatteredpixel.com/blog/ten-years-of-shattered-pixel-dungeon.html

Unfortunately there isn’t any difficulty selection. I have considered adding a ‘start mode’ at some point, but it would probably end at floor 10.

In the meantime though, you shouldn’t be afraid of dieing, trying and failing and trying again is the best way to learn. There’s also an in-game guidebook meant to help point you in the right direction.

I didn’t include an Android version here because I wasn’t planning to offer a paid version of it like I can with the desktop version. I wasn’t aware that itch is accessible in china whereas github is not though. I’ll consider adding an Android version here in the future.

It’s because there isn’t an Android Paid apk. Android has free versions distributed though places like Github and a free (but with cosmetic micro-transactions) version on Google Play. There is no up-front purchased version of the game on Android.

I’m afraid not, those purchases are tied to Google Play’s payment system. The closest equivalent would be purchasing a paid copy of the here, or on Steam or GOG.

I double checked to remind myself and this is due to Shattered being a ‘pay what you want’ game on itch.io. Due to the way itch’s system works, ANY payment, even $0.01, would entitle someone to a Steam key. I can’t set a minimum payment threshold like I can for the separate ‘paid’ files you can download directly from itch. Because of this the only way to offer Steam keys here would be to also remove the free version and only charge $10 up-front.

Afraid there is no Steam key included here, if you want to play the game on Steam then purchase it on Steam. Sorry about double paying, but it’s like any other game over multiple platforms.

The game has a built-in update notification, but relies on you to download the new version yourself. If you like to download games through itch then they also have a program you can download that can manage most of this for you.

Save progress is saved under your user app data folder, not where the game is downloaded. You should be able to update without any changes to your save data.

If you would like to play on a 32-bit computer, there is actually a legacy .JAR build available on github: https://github.com/00-Evan/shattered-pixel-dungeon/releases

Note that it requires a separate Java installation on your computer.

Yes, the beta for v2.5 should be available on all platforms.

Unfortunately multiplayer isn’t really feasible to add. Aside from all of the networking code I would need to add (even on LAN), the game itself is entirely designed around one player. Most of the game’s systems would break or need serious changes to work in multiplayer, and even then gameplay would be very awkward as you would spend most of your time waiting for other players to take their turns.

I’m afraid I don’t have a W11 machine to test with currently, does any sort of error message appear?

I can’t say what might be causing the cursor to disappear in particular, but it’s likely some mix of the new record function and the custom mouse cursor that Shattered uses. You might consider seeing if there’s an ‘enable mouse cursor’ recording setting, or using more well-tested recording software, such as OBS.

Odd, that really sounds like the game is running somewhere and thinks it’s in focus when you’re on the desktop. I’d suggest restarting your computer to see if that fixes it, hopefully it won’t come back.

Shattered has triggered false positives on antivirus software before. It should clear up in a few days after they correct the error in their virus definitions.

I appreciate the desire for something like this, but adding meta progression would change the genre of the game. Shattered is a traditional roguelike (lots of folks call games like Rogue Legacy roguelites), and one of the points of that genre is that each run is independent from the others. You have the exact same potential to win on your first run as you do on your 100th.

Shattered does also have a .jar version available on github, which will run on x86 windows if you download an x86 version of java. https://github.com/00-Evan/shattered-pixel-dungeon/releases

The game is open source so probably some modifications with that functionality do exist, but I have no intention of putting cheats into the main game. The closes you could get to that is seeded runs, which would let you find certain items every time if you get the right seed.

There are free downloads both here on itch.io and also on github: https://github.com/00-Evan/shattered-pixel-dungeon/releases