I just discovered a Dwarf Fortress cave diving roguelite

"3D gameplay successful a 2D world"

We are straining Rock Paper Shotgun's innovative "News To Me, Anyway" subcategory to breaking constituent with Anoxic Depths: Caves Of The Yendori, a turn-based spelunking roguelite from Studio Tectorum. The scurvy bean-counters among you mightiness protestation that it came retired 10 years ago, perchance earlier immoderate of you were aged capable to read, run video games, oregon number beans. To you scurvy bean-counters I would say: if you're going to beryllium truthful picky astir details, however astir you assistance maine retrieve which mode is up, due to the fact that I americium stuck successful an underwater cave.

I person possibly 12 breaths near successful my oxygen cylinder, and each I tin spot is stone texture. The ladder to the aboveground could beryllium a ft distant oregon 20. Soon, my assemblage shall articulation those of the divers who came before. Ye gods, I emotion being this confused successful video games.

Anoxic Depths offers "3D gameplay successful a 2D world", to which the lone due effect is surely "you magnificent bastards, get the hellhole successful present and also, get the hellhole out, I ne'er privation to spot your look again". It casts you arsenic a diver fetching bones, pottery and amulets from procedurally generated underground lakes, astatine the petition of a mysterious researcher.

The researcher "is not a cave diving instructor", the developer's authoritative website cautions, which is presumably wherefore determination is nary tutorial successful the demo, conscionable sparse hints from NPCs successful the shops and dwellings astir the cavemouth. I would admit a tutorial, successful that Anoxic Depths simulates "decompression sickness" and "pulmonary barotrauma", and I don't rather cognize what either of these are. But earlier I tin get pulmonary barotrauma, I request to maestro the creation of descending done a satellite that appears flat.

As with Dwarf Fortress, Anoxic Depths deals retired its geography successful cross-sections. Unlike successful Dwarf Fortress, you tin rotation the presumption by 90 grade increments, turning a horizontal cross-section into a vertical one. There is nary HUD denotation of your predisposition by default, truthful you person to truly physique up a intelligence representation of the measurement you're exploring, and number the fig of times you've rolled. There are cogwheel items specified arsenic diving lines to assistance you retrace your way to the surface. While we're talking gear, don't hide to power connected your breathing apparatus earlier you plunge in.

As and erstwhile you've got your caput circular these things, you tin effort playing the crippled with a kanji tileset oregon ASCII, if you privation to truly furniture up the Dwarf Fortress comparisons. Are determination immoderate Dwarf Fortress-style procedural demons below? I've yet to brushwood 1 and I sincerely anticipation not. Imagine trying to elude a Forgotten Beast erstwhile you can't retrieve which mode is up.

Thanks to Resetera idiosyncratic Toma for passing this on. You tin effort the demo for yourself connected Itch.io. It limits however heavy you tin dive, but saves bash transportation implicit to the afloat game, which volition acceptable you backmost by astir the terms of a posh supermarket sandwich. For an adjacent much confuzzling instrumentality connected video crippled swimming, effort Water Level/b.l.u.e. EXPLORATION.