I like Dungeon of Rikka.
I recorded some of my progress in Dungeon of Rikka.
[b]Please take a look if you value a more Audio / Visual experience, as I discuss the game as I hack, slash and magic blast my way through it; in some semblance of style perhaps![/b]
https://youtu.be/UZS1GgPt9y4
Dungeon of Rikka is an Indie, Traditional Roguelike Dungeon Crawler that feels like a turn based Roguelike take on Diablo!
Oh ya!
[h1]A Roguelike Take on Diablo?[/h1]
Like Diablo, Dungeon of Rikka is rocking the Random Dungeon lvls born of Procedural Generation; good.
Dungeon of Rikka allows you the increasingly rare honor in RPGs of actually allotting your attribute points at the start, along with allowing you to pick your class, right at the beginning of the adventure.
Plus, in Dungeon of Rikka, you can put in a skill point at lvl 1, as you are lvl 1, not lvl 0; thank you!
Remember to spend your skill point at the start!
Every lvl, you get 5 more attribute points and 1 more skill points, like in Diablo 2; awesome!
Equipment slots are the same as in Diablo / Diablo 2 too.
Dungeon of Rikka also is rocking the familiar and excellent grid inventory of the old, yet still great Diablo games, focusing on volume, as opposed to tracking weight as some other dungeon crawlers.
Equipped items are shown on the character as well; unexpected and nice!
[h1] The Dangerous Dungeon World:[/h1]
You start in town; you can rest at the inn to restore health and energy, but it is pricy.
There is an enchantress in town that can enchant your gear for gold if you wish.
Then, you pick your dungeon: you can pick either the cave or the crypt; to eventually unlock the main dungeon while the big bad is busting out.
So, time is a factor here, as you are alerted as the Big Baddy slowly busts their way out, dungeon layer by dungeon layer, ascending towards the town to destroy it.
All while you attempt to descend down the side dungeons to become strong enough and get the keys to unlock the main dungeon in time; intense!
Managing and regaining your HP in Dungeon of Rikka is very important, as you do not heal normally in the dungeon, you must use potions, scrolls, or the lucky well to regain your life.
Resting in the dangerous dungeon only restores your energy, useful for using your active use abilities, but does not heal you.
While regular attacks do not cost energy, your much more powerful attacks and abilities do, so you will often want to keep your energy up in order to use them to save your hp.
The Dungeon of Rikka has hidden traps too; spike traps; poison traps, teleportation traps; you can try to disarm them if you wish for exp, or just avoid them, or even used them.
There are wells in the dungeon too; one granted energy on drink, another drink from the same well cursed me for 19 turn, while the last sip gave me more energy, another well gave me a permanent stat boost! Wells are good!
There are merchants in the dungeon; you can attack these merchants; but it’s best not to; as they’re really strong, but if you do, they drop their stuff; tempting…
Unidentified scrolls and potions are present as well; beware!
There are 1 way pits you can dive down if you dare, and no damage on using a pit to descend, very generous!
You can light wall braziers in the dungeon for exp; fun and immersive!
When you kill all monsters on a floor, all lights are auto lighted, and you get the exp; a nice feature!
[h1]Dungeon Combat: [/h1]
Walk into enemies to melee attack them.
Hotbar abilities cost energy, and have cooldowns.
You can skip a turn by pressing “X” for rest, restoring energy, but not health.
Many monsters you find in groups, like groups of giant spiders or rats; this makes the little monsters much more threatening; good.
You can magic enemies around corners as long as they are in range if you know where they are; handy.
[u]Remember: Energy does not recover by default; you have to rest to get it back.[/u]
You completely restores your hp and energy when you lvl; very generous!
[b]Drinking potions and using scrolls costs no action / time; very generous.[/b]
Can swap items at no cost in combat
Arrows are not tracked; so assume you character has a bunch, and pulls em them out of pincushioned enemies; ok.
While I did enjoy my time with Dungeon of Rikka, I did come across some areas where it could be better.
Please let me know if anyone thinks I’m off base here, or if any of this is out of line.
I’ll try and keep this organized.
[b] Tech Issues: / Minor Asks[/b]
[h1]1: Minor Bug: Seems to be a limit to the amount of stuff you can loot in a square, vs. what can be dropped there by killed enemies.[/h1]
Removing some stuff caused the items to display and become lootable.
[h1]2: The Nameless One…[/h1]
Cannot name your character; odd…
[h1]3: Teleport Too Slow![/h1]
The teleport animation is way too slow; it must be faster!
[b]Bigger Suggestions:[/b]
[h1]4: An Ability to Throw Potions![/h1]
This provides both a use for the flaming and acid potions, as well as allowing a fun way to test them.
[i]Take that midboss![/i]
[h1]5: Dungeons Don’t Feel Lived In :([/h1]
Where are the monster nests?
The camp sites for the wayward adventures?
The doors?
An absence of doors here removes the means of blocking or locking doors, both for resting in the dungeon more safely, as well as barricading / blocking doors with spikes / pitons to slow monsters down.
Maybe much fewer doors in the Caves, but some in the Crypts could fit, even if they are steel grate doors, or there is a portcullis present that monsters and you can shoot, fire and poke through.
That would feel much more interesting.
[h1]6: Stupid, Stupid Monsters! [/h1]
Some enemies should be able to follow you up stairs; at least the smarter ones the humanoids.
It is a bit silly that other adventurers refuse to follow the beaten up mage they just were pounding down a moment ago, only to let them rest up and come down and blast them away.
They’re adventurers too! They know this trick!
[h1]7: Friend or Foe?[/h1]
Please add a red outline around hostiles, or some other means of clearly communicating to the player that this entity views them with ill intent.
As I was killing humanoid adventurers for a while, when a merchant popped up, I took a shot at him, as they all look so similar! It led to my death. :(
[h1]8: Inspection Needed![/h1]
[b]An ability to inspect enemies to see if they are at less than 50% hp would be very helpful here.[/b]
To better identify and reinforce to that player that yes, your attacks are making an impact and at some point, that you are visually damaging your foe.
This is important for player motivation, to keep them engaged in the battle, and reduce the odds they just give up.
Anyway, my hopefully helpful suggestions aside, I enjoyed my time with Dungeon of Rikka.
Dungeon of Rikka is a fun traditional Roguelike Dungeon Crawler with a strong Diablo influence, and is well worth a wishlist and a watch.
Watch?
