Touhou Crawl

This isn't a touhou rogue-like this is touhou ROGUE, it's as rogue like as a roguelike can get without just being a direct port of the original game, and it's an absolute treat as a result. The controls take a bit of getting used to, since it is Rogue: touhou edition, everything is a keybind and those keybinds are case sensitive for various things. And as is only appropriate for a proper rogue game the difficulty is heavily varied, and the dice can give you a 1 shot on a boss just as quickly as they can by sheer mass of fairy bodies in a field chew through your maxed armor. I've yet to properly finish a run but It's scratched my "one more go" itch enough to far longer in sessions than intended both times I've booted it up. Also a few varieties of gamba gods to choose from on the sliding scale Highly recommend, and the game's free so even if it winds up not being your thing you're only really out the time Only real complaints are I wish it wasnt just one song on repeat, it's not offensive or grating but it'd be nice, also a few more flavored characters, sakuya for the pile of throwing knives around for instance, or hata for spears or nemuno for greatswords, given we're doublin…

A lovely DCSS inspired roguelike! To be honest I'm still not sure what the strategy with defense is, but it's really fun!

Touhou Crawl is a surprisingly deep roguelike, especially considering that it is a free fan made game. It combines Touhou characters and ideas with the traditional roguelike structure inspired heavily by Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. I liked the combination because the familiar characters fit surprisingly well into a game built around careful exploration and tactical decisions. The character creation gives me a lot of freedom. I can choose different races and classes or start from specific Touhou characters, then build a run around the strengths of that choice. I enjoyed experimenting with different setups because the game encourages me to think about my character as a collection of abilities rather than simply relying on one powerful attack. The dungeon exploration is where the game becomes genuinely engaging. Movement is grid based and combat is turn based, so every decision can matter. I have time to think, but that does not mean the game is easy. Enemies, resources and positioning all need to be considered before I commit to a move, and I enjoyed the feeling that a bad decision can have real consequences. The faith system is another nice touch. Worshipping different Touhou deiti…

Touhou and DCSS. So cool, also so hard. I'm impressed!

I never played Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, but I've played a ton of Nethack and Slash'Em, and less of Angband and TOME. Against those, Touhou Crawl misses some niceties like the up/down-stairs buttons autopathing you to stairs to take, and at least in shallow levels it seems to have slightly less interesting level design. Against those, Touhou Crawl has a huge advantage of: Touhou. Instead of Knight, Mage, Tourist, you can spawn as Reimu or Marisa or any of the Three Fairies, or more. Instead of some boring lawful/neutral/chaotic gods with not much influence on the game, there are Touhou gods whose granted powers can completely change a run. My gameplay bored one God so she destroyed walls with earthquakes - thus freeing some strong monsters from behind glass, who chased me down and killed me. In another run as Star Sapphire I recruited three additional fairies and fought as a small army of six fairies and could empower them with Great Fairy War. As Reimu I preferred to retreat into hallways so I couldn't be surrounded; as Star Sapphire I would run into rooms and summon my army (which got me bisected by a samurai). Even when playing as a particular character, by changing Gods and b…

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