Curse of the Lich King

is there a release of a .p8 file somewhere? it would be really cool to play this on my miyoo

This is the first roguelike I've beaten-somehow this implementation just clicked with me. Thank you for 2423"last tries" before having to head out to work, sleep, function. This was delightful. 

A true lesson in good game design,  which I'd love to learn more about. Do you remember which decision had the biggest impact on the feel? I was always overwhelmed by the complexity of some other roguelikes and I was  looking for something more 'casual'-in the best possible sense. 

top craftsmanship

Great game! Love every part of it, especially the sound effects

perseverance tick

increase knowledge about game 

wait and see my hopes and dreams came true wait and see remember the name. You are an inspiration Johan peitz

Nice little roguelike you have here with effective, minimalist design. The only complaint I have that hasn't been brought up or addressed already is how two of the "improvements" for weapons are actually terrible. Blight is awful because in the rare instance its damage actually means anything, it robs you of exp and potentially items if it kills a fleeing chest. If you made it so any death of an enemy netted exp (and items if applicable) or made it so items could appear on the ground to then be picked up, you might solve this one (if you were to implement something like this, you could also make it so the Lich drops an object that triggers the end, avoiding the problem of being cheated out of an ending if the Lich wanders onto spikes). Confusion is also an awful thing to have on your weapon because it makes a monster walk away, which potentially sets them up to get a free hit on you thanks to the lack of a wait button. While I think the lack of a wait button is perfectly fine if you're going for for that, these two weapon affixes being so negative is a bit of an oversight.  That said, I know this game is now an old project. Perhaps you have considered issues like this in some of your more recent projects. If not, I hope these tips can help you make some even more wonderful games in the future.

After 2 hours of straight gameplay and many many tries, I have finnally beaten the game (I think). I'm on the nineth floor and I cannot find another staircase. Thinking about it, I killed this teleporting man, have I just won withouth knowing it?

Wow! That was very good! Having to return  to the good stations was a brilliant idea! This is the very first game that I was excited to find cursed stuff! enemy variety was low, but that is ignorable and I wish there was more use to the blessings on weapons because I always found myself going with the one with the bigger number. Battling with the lich king Raq'zul was very exciting, so this game is a solid 9/10!

My last run ended with me being killed by an imp on floor 3! This is really well made and I've had a lot of fun seeing how far I can get. Thanks for making Curse of the Lich King, it's obvious that you've put a lot of effort in to it and it shows. I know how hard it is to make a roguelike game, so I really appreciate how much work has gone in to this!

Wery well made!

Won on my 3rd try, great game, once you'll learn how to how to lure your enemies you can get pretty far, found a holy spear that did 18 damage on floor 7, it was so good.

Beat it after a week. BOI it is hard. But with cracking the mechanics and a bit of luck, I defeated the lich king
Keep up the good work!

Really, REALLY like this. Very slick. nice and simple, pure gameplay and well done all round :)

Just died on Floor 7 with a freshly upgraded Sword of the Leech. So devastated. This game is super fun. Can't wait to dive back in and give it another short. Hats off to the dev.

After 27 consecutive days, I finally finished the game. I was incredibly unlucky until today and the feeling of sheer accomplishment overwhelmed me. Is this how people feel when they beat a boss in Dark Souls? I can see how that'd be addicting.

That being said, very well done! It's not often I come across a game that's challenging, but not too hard that it frustrates me. The procedurally generated rooms/floors kept things interesting, and I really enjoyed learning the various monster and environmental hazards. The first time I walked into a spike trap was quite memorable.

"Why is this tile different than the others?" Steps on it and dies. "Ah."

10/10.

This is a good game and tough to make it alive till the end. I died over 7 times and I still have not met the lich king. Over all good game with good art style and graphics. Good luck.

Very cool game

I really enjoyed, thank you! Love the simple xp display, would be ocd perfect to sort items haha. Kind of makes me think about Orc & Elves

the animation is so squishy <3

This is amazing, really impressive how much animation you've managed to fit into pico game.

I got to the last floor, traded blows with the Lich King a few times... and then he warped behind a bunch of other mobs. I lured those mobs away, killed them, and cleared out the rest of the floor, but never saw the Lich King again, even after going around the whole floor again three more times. Is it supposed to be possible for him to escape and render the game unwinnable? (Might he have stepped on spikes while I was dealing with the regular mobs?)

Ok, I beat the game on my third or fourth attempt. Here's a guide for how to beat it (don't read if you don't want any help!):
* The key is to get the mob to move next to you, so you can strike it on your turn
* To do this you will often have to sacrifice a turn, for instance by using inventory objects
* Save interactibles in a room to use for turn-skipping (pots, bookshelves, etc). Only interact with these immediately if you direly need a power-up, otherwise you'd better clear the surroundings of mobs first.
* Wells, anvils, book stand etc only skip a turn if you have the correct inventory.
* Levelling up will replenish your health; try to time this with an almost drained health not to waste power-ups
* Vials can be used right away, they increase the max health so no point in saving (unless for, again, turn skipping). 
* Identify the traps, and lure your mobs to walk into them. This does not skip a turn btw.
* For mid-levels, save a cursed food item to use with an untampered weapon to upgrade the weapon on an anvil. 
* The most annoying mob throughout the game is the red, teleporting mob. It will hit you and then fly away a short distance. This means that without turn-skipping objects, it can hit you repeatedly. If you have no turn-skipping objects handy, lure it into a tight space or a space with untriggered traps.
* The Eyes will shoot a confusion beam upon line of sight. Approach it diagonally. If you can't get right in turn, lure it into a safe room, preferably a tight space where you may attack it by chance.
* The toughest normal mob is the large ogre. He will hit you for 3 and has 20 h.p, which means until the last level he'll probably hit you at least twice.
* I think the scimitar is the hardest-hitting weapon. A Holy Scimitar on lvl 9 (your xp lvl, not the map level) hits for 20, and can one-shot even the ogre. There's no point in using other upgrades for weapons unless in the window where you can't one-shot the Ogre, but you'll still comfortably one-shot other mobs; in this case you may want to have a Basilisk-weapon ready. This has a chance to stun all mobs and you might beat the Ogre in two strikes with no counterstriking on his part.
* Carrot, bread, soup, steak (might have missed one) all heal double the HP with Holy as a prefix. Holy Steaks should be saved until level 8, if possible. 
* Identify a mysterious weapon before using it; it might become stuck to you so that you can't discard it if it turns out to be cursed. 
* Save some 10 HP or so before engaging with the Lich King, which is a mob somewhere on map level 8. 

cool game.

was hoping to see if this would run on my pocketChip, but it’s not in the bbs/splore. Is there a url I could dl the cartridge from?

(Btw, you mobile UI has issues, the discord link is triggering underneath the control overlay)

Great addition to the PICO-8!

Damn I really enjoyed that, didn't quite make it to the 8th floor but perhaps I'll try again later!

Love the look of the game, and the sounds are good and crunchy as well. The item prefix system is simple, but it made me think twice about what I should use, discard, or carry to identify later.

A couple things I found myself wishing for: faster movement (by tapping the key perhaps?) and a "wait a turn" -key. Do you reckon the latter would've made the game too easy?

I did eventually figure out I could walk into interactible objects to force enemies to move within range, so as to not give them a free attack. But then there were times when my inventory would be full, and I couldn't walk into objects if they would give an item. The exception to this rule was altars (and anvils, water wells, etc.) which would always advance a turn when walked into, even if you didn't meet the requirements to make use of them. So this could be used as a cheesy way to pass turns. I resisted the urge, feeling this may not have been intended.

Great work overall!