No Heroes Belong Here
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A reverse dungeon-crawler where you are the bad guy. Pick up cards every turn and use them to summon monsters - don't let the hero through!
Each dungeon is procedurally generated and the deck is shuffled every level. As you progress, the heroes that enter will get progressively stronger, and the dungeon layout more challenging! How many of these heroes will fall by your hands?
You can:
- Play the jam version here
- Play the post-jam version here. This one has a few small quality of life things to address some feedback from the comments (such as camera movement with the mouse and a small description for what each monster does). Feel free to play and rate based on the original jam version though! :)
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Made by just me, with the help of some free music and the occasional sound effects, mostly in the first 48 hours.
I spent the last day trying to create an auto-balancer that would prevent some levels from being too hard, but ended up spending an unproductive 5 hours trying to fix one bug and ultimately ended up ditching the balancer due to performance reasons (turns out trying to predict every possible move the player can make quickly gets expensive). #regrets
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EDIT: Thanks for all the positive feedback! It seems like some of you would be interested in seeing this game scaled up into a full version... so I might just work on that. The pixel art has been really fun to work with so I would definitely enjoy adding more content. If you want to follow along, I'll be posting game updates to my Twitter / X account: https://twitter.com/Shasaur
Each dungeon is procedurally generated and the deck is shuffled every level. As you progress, the heroes that enter will get progressively stronger, and the dungeon layout more challenging! How many of these heroes will fall by your hands?
You can:
- Play the jam version here
- Play the post-jam version here. This one has a few small quality of life things to address some feedback from the comments (such as camera movement with the mouse and a small description for what each monster does). Feel free to play and rate based on the original jam version though! :)
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Made by just me, with the help of some free music and the occasional sound effects, mostly in the first 48 hours.
I spent the last day trying to create an auto-balancer that would prevent some levels from being too hard, but ended up spending an unproductive 5 hours trying to fix one bug and ultimately ended up ditching the balancer due to performance reasons (turns out trying to predict every possible move the player can make quickly gets expensive). #regrets
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EDIT: Thanks for all the positive feedback! It seems like some of you would be interested in seeing this game scaled up into a full version... so I might just work on that. The pixel art has been really fun to work with so I would definitely enjoy adding more content. If you want to follow along, I'll be posting game updates to my Twitter / X account: https://twitter.com/Shasaur