Ricave

[h3]RANKING:[/h3] [table] [tr] [td] [h3][strike]AVOID | FLAWED | MAYBE | WORTHWHILE | COMPELLING[/strike] | [b]UNMISSABLE[/b] [/h3] [/td] [/tr] [/table] [h3]SYNOPSIS:[/h3] [table] [tr] [th][b]ASSESSMENT:[/b][/th] [/tr] [tr] [td] Ricave is an impressive roguelike with no real flaws. Built upon a fantasy themed gameworld brought to life through an eye-popping volume of interactable elements. Smartly populated with levels generated by deliberate proc. gen. that admirably limits the feeling of duplication & repetition. RPG mechanics possess the breadth & depth to deliver gripping turn-based tactical gameplay. While the challenge of balancing resources with the need to complete quests & stay alive, make for an exceptional experience. One that compels being played over & over due to the amount of modes, starting parameters & content. Cutesy looks obfuscate a difficult & complex challenge. While a pimped out UI makes it very accessible. A real deal surprise. For its type, an [b]UNMISSABLE[/b] title. [/td] [/tr] [/table] [table] [tr] [td][b]STATUS:[/b][/td] [td]Looks fully released, with x1 update since [/td] [/tr] [tr] [td][b]APPEAL:[/b][/td] [td]For fans of fantasy themed, complex & t…

I've played long enough now to be thoroughly delighted by this one. Lots of systems in play, which is why the amount of clarity and legibility to the experience is so impressive. In my last session, my hunger clock was running out, so I decided to eat uncooked meat, which I would have cooked with a fireball spell, but I was out of mana, so the uncooked meat sated me but also diseased me, so started looking for fishing opportunities, so I could make fish oil to cure my disease, and so it went. So many little microdecisions spinning into new problems and opportunities, and more or less never have I died and gone "well, there's nothing I could have done". And even then, if you aren't rushing, you can rewind a few turns to see if you can pre-empt that critical moment before you doom yourself. This has some metaprogression, but mostly it is about expanding options and progressing the story, or getting cosmetics, or maybe buying one-off boosts. This is a roguelike that wants you to succeed, but won't succeed for you.

A very interesting game. The basic mechanics are easy to learn, but at the same time offer a lot of possibilities. I see a lot of potential for modding here.

This game is really cool! A shame it's so unknown. Maybe one day more people will see it >-<

Really fun game! Wish more people were playing it

An elegant, straightforward, and clean dungeoncrawler with plenty of depth and variation, which is unlocked as you go through meta progression, to keep you interested for a good while. The game generally does an excellent job at explaining everything what's happening and how everything around you works, though some things still could be made a bit clearer, for example, I had no idea how you acquired new spells/abilities until I just accidentally happened to hit the correct button when I noticed it just over my inventory, as that was one of the things the game never explicitly told me about it, I didn't even notice it until much later in my runs. Modding support out of the box is excellent and I can't wait to revisit this game down the line with some mods, especially as the game's main weakness is that there's not that much variety to the classes in my experience so far, modding will definitely help that a ton.