Cyclopean: The Great Abyss is a small scale, mechanics driven CRPG/Roguelike in a retro, monochromatic style, that takes place in the underworld of H.P. Lovecraft's Dreamlands.
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You are an old dreamer who, through unforeseen circumstances, has found himself trapped in the Great Abyss, the vast underworld beneath the Dreamlands. Use the resources at your disposal, weapons, armor, supplies, and any alliances you have with the locals, to explore and learn the secrets of the underworld, in order to make your way back to the upper Dreamlands, or back to the Waking World.
Cyclopean: The Great Abyss seems simple at first, but the gameplay becomes more complex as players learn the intricacies of its various systems. Read the in-game dialogue and text carefully, and you may actually learn some useful things.
A Variety of Strategies
Although combat plays a big role in the game, it is not the only means of achieving one's goals. Players may find it much more useful to use a combination of combat, stealth and/or dialogue to deal with the inhabitants of the nether realms. In fact, the game will punish you severely if you try to fight everything as a low level character, so try to manage your gold, health, alliances and sanity carefully as you traverse the Great Abyss.
Old School CRPG
Cyclopean follows the tradition of early CRPGs like Ultima, Questron, and Legacy of the Ancients (among others) in that it presents two differing views of the game world. Outside of dungeons, you see your character from the top down in a 2D display of the map. Whereas, in dungeons, the view changes to a 3D, first person perspective.
Choose Your Dreamer Carefully
When you start the game you will be presented with a random dreamer, with basic abilities and equipment, and any alliances they have. You can choose to play as that person, or "reroll" to see if you can find a better option. Cyclopean gives you the freedom to choose from a wide variety of stodgy sounding English upper class gentlemen to play as. 
Turn Based Gameplay
The gameplay and combat is all turn based, allowing you to make strategic decisions. Enemies are dangerous, but polite, and will wait their turn.
Alliances
Some characters will start the game with an alliance in place. This can be very helpful in the early stages, especially for new players. Alliances allow you to have some of the various denizens of the Great Abyss join your party, and help to fight other enemies. New alliances can be formed during the game by finding and reading the right books.
Roguelike Mode
As of Version 0.9.936, you can now opt to play Cyclopean: The Great Abyss as a roguelike game with perma-death. The game will now prompt you when you first start it, whether you want the traditional CRPG experience or Roguelike Mode. You can always switch back by using the Options menu to restore the default settings. Games played in Roguelike Mode are not accessible via normal mode, and vice versa.
Game Manual
There are many other game mechanics and other things that are described in the game manual. The manual has been fully integrated with the game, so you can bring it up at any time, to learn about the various game mechanics available.
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Languages: English
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TL;DR: 10/10. Thematically maybe the best Lovecraft game of all time. Purposefully brutal gameplay with charmingly archaic (should I say... eldritch?) game mechanics which, despite the clunkiness, get the job done surprisingly well. Full rant: An incredible little gem of a game! I didn't think I would ever encounter a game that [i]perfectly[/i] captured that peculiar, bleak vibe of H.P. Lovecrafts original works, but here we are. For those of you not in the know, expect less of a tentacly splatter (that seems to pass for lovecraftian these days) and rather more the bleakest imaginable version of Alice in Wonderland. Gameplay-wise Cyclopean is a brutal little dungeon crawler, but the difficulty is obviously a well considered design choice that IMO is critical for that authentic Dreamlands-feel (a journey there is supposed to be an insanely dangerous folly no sane man would risk, after all). One thing I really love about it is that the key to success to me was to start thinking like a true Lovecraft protagonist: obsess about gathering allies only to sacrifice them on a whim, lurk around in shadows, attack only when ridiculously overpowered (at which point you go on full-blast fantasy genocide) and snort every little piece of occult trivia you get your hands on (fed to you, in true H.P. Lovecraft fashion, in the form of idle gossip from your eldritch acquaintances). It's not very long, pretty or smooth, but man does it get everything important right! 10/10 would free the Gugs again!
RPG/Dungeon Crawler de la vieja escuela al estilo de los clásicos ULTIMA en el que se alterna una vista cenital para la exploración en exteriores y una vista en primera persona con movimiento por casillas en las dungeons. A nivel jugable hay que destacar que todas las acciones funcionan en base a un sistema de tiradas de dados, por lo que este juego bebe muchísimo de el rol clásico de mesa. Tenemos un personaje con unos stats predefinidos que podemos ir generando de manera aleatoria de forma indefinida hasta encontrar alguno que nos convenza, aunque en tu primera partida no vas a saber muy bien la utilidad de cada stat (PD: la gracia de este juego es ir a ciegas e ir descubriendo todo por ti mismo). No quiero hacer spoilers hablando muy en profundidad del gameplay en sí mismo, pero es de estos juegos que se nota que tienen un cariño especial a la hora de hacerlos. El diseño de personajes y entornos es una gozada, especialmente si eres amante del arte grafico del rol mas pureta ochentero y noventero y de obras como las de Plastiboo. Ahora bien, todo esto lo digo teniendo en cuenta el juego por sí mismo, la cosa es que, si te has leido las obras de Lovecraft, especialmente "La búsqueda en sueños de la ignota Kadath" (obra en la que se inspira, desarrollandose el juego en los reinos del sueño de Lovecraft)... este juego se disfruta el triple. Es increíble ver el detalle y el mimo con el que se han desarrollado ciertos aspectos y estoy muy tentado de explicar los paralelismos que el juego tiene con la obra y como los traduce en el propio gameplay pero no quiero hacer spoilers, solo diré que la primera vez que me encontré con un enemigo llamado DHOLE solo pude esbozar una sonrisa al ver lo que había pasado y como eso casaba perfectamente con lo que ocurre en la obra de Lovecraft antes mencionada. En resumen, lo super recomiendo aunque OJO no es un juego para todo el mundo, mejor que sepas bien a que te estas metiendo porque es un juego inevitablemente de nicho.
Really love the concept but its hard to enjoy when it randomly crashes for seemingly no real reason, error I get is "3d hardware reset failure" if I get any error message at all upon crashing
King British would be proud.
This is a small game with a surprising amount of depth, including a variety of endings. I beat the game (one of those endings) in ten hours, but it would take possibly double that to do everything. If you like old school dungeon crawlers, I recommend it. Good music and atmosphere, too.
It's a nice old styile RPG.Ancient and weird, like old times.FUN. With CRT filter playing at night is absolute blast. retro Crawler. No too much difficult if you are rpg player.Combat,farm,explore.Be carefull.You can save everytime you want. Creepy music is awesome. Game is 9/10 Only for +35
i love stuff like this..
The movement transitions in the dungeons give me motion sickness. Dev won't do anything about it.
vibey and atmospheric.
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