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[Rogue Fable IV]

Played the game many times and finished at least one run with each class.
It's definitely more challenging than Rogue Fable III, but also more simple and slightly more balanced.

Like in the previous one, also in this game there're some talents that are incredibly powerful and you'd like to get at every run. Here's my Top 5 of them:
1- Shield block. Simply broken. Shields will always be good to equip and two-handed weapons that prevent you from using it are very rare, so you're likely to get one everytime. 40% block chance means that almost every other attack on you just misses. Always go for it

2- Shroud of wind. Two very good bonuses in one. Even if it takes you 12Int to get the best of it, Shroud of wind grants 20% reflect chance and Levitation. 1 out of 5 projectiles bounce back from you to the enemy AND you no longer have to worry about pools or unstable terrain (which would grant crits to the enemies). Get it, but only if you want to bring it to LV2

3- Shadow step. Read the description carefully and between the lines as well; it's not "Blinks you close to an enemy", it's "TELEPORT for FREE close to ANY enemy you can see". It's insanely good to prevent being surrounded or getting the annoying enemy healers, and it fully works even at Lv1, so you don't even need 14DEX to get the best of it (though 10 cooldown instead of 20 is not bad at all).

4- Burst of flame. It's a lot of damage, can hit multiple enemies and it doesn't have limited range (for the flame to burst) or line-of-sight requirement. You think inflammable objects are hard to find? Just know that the torches on the walls are inflammable objects as well.

5- Dominate. Useless to say, it's extremely good as anyone would expect from it. It requires 14INT to get LV1 (though you won't probably need LV2), but for 8 mana you immediately get rid of an enemy and turn it against the others. Suggest to use it on enemy wizards (elementals included) as most of them have AoE attacks or on enchanted enemies that would last much more than normal ones.

Honorable mention- Perfect aim. Since 8 classes out of 10 use ranged attacks (duelist requires high DEX, so you''re gonna get a bow), having extra range (and lesser line-of-sight problems at LV2) means shooting from safer places and an extra attack before that obsydian golem gets to you and you have to run from it. Also very useful with Summon skeleton or Domination as you can shoot from behind your minions when they get the front line.

Also, some tips that may be useful for those who still need to clear their first run.
- Not all runs are meant to be beatable. Not with each class. Some seeds just spawn items for everything but your class and you need a reliable build to defeat the final boss. If you see things are not going fine (the first 8 floors are enough to see it), just quit and start a new run.
- Strenght is a must. Always. As it increases maxHP, max encumberance and melee damage, you'd like to always bring it to 12 at least (also for LV2 Shield block as soon as you find it and a shield). You may choose which one between INT and DEX as they both increase ranged damage, but you'll always need strenght.
- Plan ahead and not come to compromises. Enchanting a weapon or a regular equip is not as good as enchanting a 3-stats item (like Mushroom cap shield) or an Attribute-plus item (like ring of Dexterity), and transferance tables are VERY rare (found only one in like 50 runs). Keep enchanting scrolls with you for all the time you need until you find an item worth of enchantment or you get to the gates of Yendor's vault. Also with tomes of skills (gives you 1 out of 4 available talents at your choice), if there's one talent you want but you don't have high enough attributes (YET), just leave it there, level up and then come back to get it.
- If you're new to the game, check each enemy's stats and skills they know, expecially in late game. You can do it by hovering the enemy without clicking. Useful to also check how much damage they deal and if you'll survive the next round without consuming that potion.
- Buy javelins and chakrams and use them. Projectiles have been buffed a lot from Rogue Fable III and are very cheap. A Chakram deals 24 damage (+DEX bonus) to all enemies in a row; that's twice the base damage of lightning bolt. If you see any by the merchant, just take 'em.
- If you run as one of the 5 mages, you're gonna need an offensive spell not of your element (or an AoE of an element if Enchanter). Staves are very rare in the game and it's very likely you'll find enemies resistant to your main element so, unless you're eager to use all your consumables on a couple of ordinarily weak mobs or risk your life and attack them with weapons that deal half your main damage or less, you'll need a spell of another element to use against them, and possibly one that doesn't interfere with your other spells (no Poison cloud if Storm or Fire mage as your attacks would ignite it, for example).

That's all. I finished at least a run with every class (no seeding if not to restart the same run after a dumb mistake/missclick in early), so each one of them is winnable. Just like with every roguelike, you need to fail several times and discover both mechanics, enemies and available items in order to use such knowledge and win.

[SNEKMEK]

Quite an impressive remake, but there're some things you could improve:

1- The game has no Author comments. You sure you have nothing to say about the videogame you created?

2- If you get hit while your snake body closes an upper corner, you may get stuck forever (happened to me)

3- I would add some tougher late-game enemies or even boss fights because the game seems to not get harder at all after a certain amount of points (the snake body doesn't even get longer).

RowanFuture responds:

soft-locking fixed :)

[Auto Necrochess]

Good and very challenging game, but after several tries you understand what works and how to build a winning team.

Just several bugs that I found in game:
1- When you buy the pigman it says he gets +1/+1, but on game he actaully gets just +1/+0
2- Both the Blacksmith and the Farmer say they give the buff on end of the turn, and instead they give it as soon as you drop 'em on the battlefield
3- The Milkman says he gives +1/+2, when instead he gives +2/+1
4- I would add a little warning about merging units specifying that if the units you merge are buffed, any item and buff on the unit you move to merge are totally lost

That being said, I'd give a useful tip for anyone struggling to win here:
When you bring a unit to LV3 you get the chance to buy a unit of higher tier. This is very useful since it gives you the chance to get units like the Succubus, Big boned or the Farmer early and buff the former two in time for the final battles. Just keep your LV2 units unmerged and wait to reach Tier Level 3, then merge them one per turn to get the big surprises.

Remaining health: 3
Turns needed: 9
Number of units: 24
Number of spells: 0 (Exactly; not a single spell used in game)
Number of buildings: 7
Level three things: 5 (Skulls, Bowie, Bard, Summoner, Farmer)

[Ophisk]

Original concept and pretty replayable, but there are A LOT of bugs (random key spawn in rooms, complete lack of hearts after 1st run, glitchy wall bounce, ecc.)

[I HATE circles]

Good little pastime, even if pretty short.

Here're some tips if you need any:
- The "- box" shinks and reduces multiplier by 0.25, but the "+ box" increases it by 0.5 and enlarges of the same rateo. However, it's not a good idea to alternate them to get a solid +0.25 while keeping same sizes. Since gems' spawn and circles' spawn are not connected, you might want to rush for as many points as possible in early, so the best is to get all "+ boxes" in early and only when circles start getting too much you go for "- boxes" and try to go as far as possible.

- Since dash also reduces circles' size, it's better to play aggressive in early and willingly dash into the first 5 or 6 circles to make them as small as possible. Avoid doing this in late game, since one or two big circles ain't gonna affect your play so much compared to the other 13 little circles.

- The angry cube doesn't help so much, since there's a limit to how small you can make circles by dashing.
- The greedy cube is what I used to get the highscore of 150 for the achievement (precisely 157 points. not my highscore, though). Even if it's huge, you can get about 80 points very soon; just remember to use dash as much as possible.
- The chunky one looks good because circles are slower and you start with +0,50 multiplier, but I don't suggest it. In a game that gets harder as time passes, going slow is a terrible idea.
- Mike has only upsides but getting used to that speed is not easy; very good if you've the time to learn and master it.
- Yppah is... ... kinda awful? Having to jump to get high-value gems is a very different mechanic and it's ok, but being totally vulnerable makes it incredibly hard. Not worthy
- The cyclops's feature is not an upside. Even if you shrink the circles, new ones may be big anyway. And of course, no dash=no party.
- PAIN cube is what takes the most skills. Even too much skills. You can try it, but I don't think it'll bring you a higher score than what you can get with Greedy, Mike or even just Happy.

That being said, there's a problem with the saving system, and my save file gets lost if I return after 10 minutes or even less.

Sulfur-Cretin responds:

Bro, I was thinking of leaving the game here, but with all this I'll think about making some big balance changes, thanks!

[Witchcraft Tower Defence]

40% of comments on this game:"Bruh game is too hard and RNG sucks!1!1 How to win?"

40% of comments: Posts accurate guides and strategies to win the game.

19% of comments: Reports bugs on the medals and/or praises the original RNG 'n merge mechanics of the game

The remaining 1% (Me):"... ... Did anyone notice that the shopkeeper is MEGUMIN?"

[Catatattack!]

The game is fine (although pretty short) and the animations are very good, but it presents several bugs:
1- Once I got literally stuck inside a car, unable to jump and move properly. Dead before managing to get out of the bug.
2- Hitreg seems a bit messy. Some "attacks" on the boss are not counted at all, same thing for the stray cats (even if less likely) and more than once I got triple the damage for falling on the road.
3- The first time I almost beat the boss the game TOTALLY CRASHED. I had to reload the page and try again.

I hope this will help improving the game and solve such issues.

[All Right on the Knight]

When you realize all the obstacles and enemies are perfectly synchronized to let you win the game just (and only, almost) by holding right from the very beginning to the end:

"We've been tricked, we've been backstabbed and we've been quite possibly, bamboozled!"

[Pixelo]

Truly an awesome game and the best way to learn picross.
I had to play all the levels twice because part of the medals didn't get registered first time, but that's not a problem.
The problem is that the Daily puzzle stopped working. Now it just says "Failed" everytime I try to download and play the daily puzzle. Fix please?

[Slim Wall Reslimed]

The game is very good and challenging but My Goodness!
At some point I started wondering if this game ever had an end for how many levels there are, until I finally reached it and finished the game, and it was pretty satisfying.
Completed in 11.29.00. I don't remember clearly the deaths number, but it was about 120 or 130.

May I suggest a "levels counter" to show how close is someone to the game's end?
I imagine that poor guy that doesn't have my nerves and ragequits because he doesn't even know how far he got, just to realize later he was at the last (or semi-last) level, one step from the goal.