Recent reviews by 14 Hours Productions

This is a rouelike. Sometimes called a 'true' rougelike or a traditional rougelike. Anyone who has been playing the genera long enough will know that thanks to the word Yendor in the title.

If you enjoy classic rougelikes, the older ones. Nethack, ADOM, Angband and so on, this is definitely something to look into. The sheer amount of terrain and terrain interactions with your spells is worth it. Often turning even simple encounters into odd yet engaging environmental puzzles.

If you're not into traditional rougelikes? Check it out anyways. It has a fairly good tutorial (that you are supposed to die in) and it's a touch' stripped down' from some other traditional rougelikes. It's a top down fantasy turn based adventure where you control a single character. Death is permanent and you have to start over each time you die. Which sounds frustrating but... well, it is. That does not mean it isn't fun.

While Curse of Yendor does pretty much all the classic rouge like stuff, it does it with style. A solid persistent story with a villain that you begin to feel a relationship with. Turn based single character control combat. Spells. Equipment. Risk vs reward gameplay, lots of weird fantasy monsters all with different weaknesses and strengths.

Of course, you'll die, a lot. That's kind of the rougelike thing. However, it's at least in my experience, YASD way more than anything else. As in, Yet Another Stupid Death. Where when I die I look back ten rounds of the game and see, oh, no, I died because I decided to try on this heavy armor in an unsafe area.

If you're an old hat at rougelikes this one is a solid continuation of form that has perfected environmental interactions with an interesting and detailed weakness and strength chart for weapons and magic. If you're new to rougelikes, this is not a bad one to put your money on and see what the fuss is about.

Dying and having to start over from scratch isn't for everyone, but the knuckle dragging intense experience that can come from it is often worth the trade off and this is one of those games that will give you that kind of experience. Just be sure you know what you're getting into.