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= Featured Roguelike: [http://en.cataclysmdda.com/ Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead] =
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[http://en.cataclysmdda.com Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead] is a roguelike set in a post-apocalyptic world. Surviving is difficult: you have been thrown, ill-equipped, into a landscape now riddled with monstrosities of which flesh eating zombies are neither the strangest nor the deadliest.
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Yet with care and a little luck, many things are possible. You may try to eke out an existence in the forests silently executing threats and providing sustenance with your longbow. You can ride into town in a jerry-rigged vehicle, all guns blazing, to settle matters in a fog of smoke from your molotovs. You could take a more measured approach and construct an impregnable fortress, surrounded by traps to protect you from the horrors without. The longer you survive, the more skilled and adapted you will get and the better equipped and armed to deal with the threats you are presented with.
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In the course of your ordeal there will be opportunities and temptations to improve or change your very nature. There are tales of survivors fitted with extraordinary cybernetics giving great power at extraordinary risk and stories too of gravely mutated survivors who, warped by their ingestion of exotic substances or radiation, now more closely resemble insects, birds or fish than their original form.
Rift Wizard is a turn-based roguelike which focuses on spell-based combat and character building.


Featuring a huge generative overland area to explore and improvise and learn from as well as a variety of procedurally generated dungeon crawls to attempt, [http://en.cataclysmdda.com Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead] is an open-source roguelike that requires creativity and risk in order to survive a future where everything that could go wrong has gone wrong.
Combat in Rift Wizard is tactical and puzzle-like, with fixed damage numbers and no fog of war.


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Upon completing a level, the player has a choice of 2-4 rifts, all leading to different procedurally generated levels.  Levels vary both in the loot they contain, and in the enemies that inhabit them.  Matching your next rift to your build- and vice versa- can be the difference between victory and defeat.
 
Players gain skillpoints from completing levels- of which each run contains only 25. Thus players must be quite careful with their character builds, balancing their near term needs with long term goals, while also  balancing versatility with synergy.
 
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Revision as of 23:25, 30 November 2020


Featured Roguelike: RiftWizard

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Rift Wizard is a turn-based roguelike which focuses on spell-based combat and character building.

Combat in Rift Wizard is tactical and puzzle-like, with fixed damage numbers and no fog of war.

Upon completing a level, the player has a choice of 2-4 rifts, all leading to different procedurally generated levels. Levels vary both in the loot they contain, and in the enemies that inhabit them. Matching your next rift to your build- and vice versa- can be the difference between victory and defeat.

Players gain skillpoints from completing levels- of which each run contains only 25. Thus players must be quite careful with their character builds, balancing their near term needs with long term goals, while also balancing versatility with synergy.

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