Hydra Slayer

Match the number of heads on the hydra with your weapons to kill them. Quite interesting and difficult at the same time. I recommend this roguelike for someone looking for a small amount of puzzle solving in their roguelikes.

Nice time killer. Though I need a calculator when doing later levels.

Just a plain great game. Simple in it's mechanics and you dont have to be particularly good at math to do quite well!

weird, but very interesting, highly recommend!

I enjoyed this game quite a bit. It's very numbers based, and I'm very numbers stupid, but I managed to persevere. Still need to play it more, but it is an inventive concept and well worth trying.

A very interesting game concept, and it works better than you'd think! The balance is a bit skewed in favor of one or two of the character classes but all are viable.

I wish other games had weapons like this one does.

It was surprisingly good! This math-based roguelike is pretty tense. You're rarely sure of how well a fight will go, and vanquishing a big hydra feels truly epic. Like Hyperrogue, Hydra Slayer is very well balanced and the weapons and consumables you encounter open interesting possibilities. Like Hyperrogue, the downside is a lack of streamlining in the effect of consumables: you often have to read a page of text, then make calculations to foresee what a consumable will do. Sometimes, crucial information is not mentioned, and you'll have to try it out to find out. All in all. Hydra Slayer is a hidden gem full of epic moments.

Grab your sword, your shield and your calculator for this roguelike where every encounter is different! Hydras, the mythical many-headed beasts, come in 10 elementary and some special variants and so does the arsenal of weapons that our hydra-slaying hero encounters during his descent into the depths. Elements affect one another differently, a weapon forged in one of the elements will have a varying impact depending on what kind of hydra you face. Striking a hydra with weapons made of favorable elements for the monster might even be beneficial for it, that is, causing excessive growth of additional heads. But that is not necessarily a bad thing. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2978703917 Each encounter is a mathematical puzzle: how to beat the hydra with weapons currently at your disposal. You can only strike a hydra with a weapon if conditions for its use are met, which commonly means that the amount of damage the weapon does must be equal or lesser to the number of remaining heads. Or, in the case of specialized weapons, if the number of heads is divisible with it, rootable with it, and so on. For better understanding of how combat works I recommend skimming through the comprehensive guide written by Ibid and before you know it you will be decimating, quasisecting and whatnot those heads to oblivion: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=891556800 Approaches to combat vary considerably depending on what race (out of 6) you choose for your hero. As you delve deeper in their lair the hydras grow bigger and tend to specialize more. Drinking the blood of slain hydras reinvigorates our hero and causes him to grow a little (both replenishing and increasing HP), which is the key mechanic of the game making the combat strategic. In the long run, you have to dispose of individual hydras effectively enough to weigh the benefits from their blood over the damage their heads deal when you engage them. If mathematical theme has you on the fence, I recommend trying it for originality. Which is what I did, and it grew on me. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2366065757

Such simple math, yet I still can't process it... Good game, though.