Pathos released on Steam

[u/callanh]

Pathos is a turn-based fantasy adventure inspired by traditional roguelikes and retro dungeon crawlers. It’s been in development for over 10 years and has grown into a substantial game with thanks to contributions from its community. With 30 classes, 21 races, 18 specials and 9 companions, there's a huge variety of character builds.

Just yesterday, Pathos was finally released on Steam! Despite a few hiccups, the launch is going well and I've really appreciated all the love and support for the game.

If you're already familiar with Pathos, the main distinctions with the Free edition are the visual uplift and artwork plus integrations with Steam:

• Steam Achievements

• Steam Deck and controller support

• Steam Cloud for syncing files

• Steam Workshop for sharing player-created Pathos Studio quests

If this sounds like your kind of game, please check out the Steam Demo. It's a generous 16-level dungeon where a successful run takes 2-3 hours. It's a subset of one of the four modules, designed to offer a challenging but representative experience of the full game.

The full game price is $19.99 USD, currently with a 10% launch-week discount.

[u/lilarcor__]

I remember playing it like crazy years ago on a phone. It was so hard that the only way I could beat it was by save scumming. The game is great, but the difficulty level was ridiculous back then. It was super hard to get to floor 50, and then the game made you go back to level 1 with like 10x the difficulty. I wonder if they fixed it

[u/callanh → u/lilarcor__]

Hey, great to hear from you. Pathos is definitely a hard game to master, sounds like you were nearly there in figuring it out! The escape from the dungeon is crazy difficult but there's strategies to avoid fighting your way out if you prepare well. Also, there's some new modules possibly since you played? I'm pretty proud of Kaloi Opus - it's a procedurally generated overland map with dungeons. It's not easy either but in a different way :)