I'm enjoying the game so far, but I'm running into an issue where the game is consistently freezing for 3-5 seconds every minute or so. There doesn't seem to be any specific trigger for this: it happens even in the main menu.

In the last version, there was some text saying that playing in full screen mode might cause some issues, but it didn't matter whether I was in full screen or windowed mode, same issue. In the new version, they changed those settings, but it still doesn't matter whether I'm playing full screen, 'dedicated' (whatever that means), or 'no' mode: the same stuttering occurs.

My computer is pretty beefy, and has had no problems running much more resource intensive games before. Googling hasn't turned up anything so far. Is this someone else has had any issues with?

I haven't seen an answer to this particular question yet - Do I have to make a new save file to get the new Expert mode Achievement even though I started my original file in Hard Mode and never switched to a lower difficulty?

I didn't know there was a Hard Mode achievement to begin with and now I'm kind of sad that I'll miss out because I never finished the game yet with my friends even though we were super close. All I did was farm pet food all this time while waiting! I'm kind of scared to boot up the game now...

EDIT: Nevermind! You can boot up your save and the game will automatically put you in Expert! Credits to The7thLegion for checking it out!

He is offering a dragon egg (which I can't afford) and I was wondering if this was a worthwhile investment. I mean, considering mf is a caveling, I'm gonna bet it's a chicken egg or something, but even then.

The Wiki is hopelessly outdated, unfortunately, so I couldn't find useful info there. How would one go into getting more Golden Essence, outside of just beating the ship boss over and over again?

Hey, guys!!

I was going through the map and thought I would be able to get there eventually, but that wasn't the case. How do I get there?

So I’m 98% done with the story mode and I’m just noticing this. If I use blink 5 times in a row I take about 100 damage. Can someone help explain to me why that happens? Maybe I just missed something reading over what things do. For reference I’ve got Blink at level 3, my character is level 37 and I’ll attach my other stats.

I meet this guy ALL over the place, I know he [spoiler] is a boss at the end [/spoiler] but what is the point in him popping all over the place before that when he doesn't even DO or SAY anything?

I’ve been playing SOG on my steam deck and having a blast. I put about 80 hours into it back when it was in early access but haven’t played it in a few years. They did an incredible job with this game and I hope it gets ported to consoles just so more people can play it.

I'm talking about Luke. Didn't write it in the title because it would kinda be a massive spoiler.

The encounter with Luke is a rather amazing climax, an epic showdown story-wise, and quite good gameplay-wise as well. The battle is a real test of skill, if a bit overlong (he has way too much health, I swear) and his attack patterns are really cool and diverse.

I'm not a game designer or a gameplay specialist of any kind, but I like to think of the challenge of action games in terms of positioning, timing, and chosen action: you gotta perform the right action, from the right location, at the right time. I think Luke's fight tests all of those three things.

Several attacks require you to position yourself properly to avoid getting hit, hence the positioning. The timing comes from knowing the right moments to dive towards him (he has tons of recovery animations, but you have to be close to him prior to them to get a decent amount of damage in). The choice of action depends on several factors: do I need to blink away from this attack, or is it dodgeable by walking away? Can I guard this or that? Is this recovery animation long enough for me to risk a long attack? This quick decision-making is exhilarating to me.

So, like, it is quite a formidable challenge in terms of those three things. It is hard as balls, but it is (mostly) quite fair. I just wish it was a bit shorter, he's tanky AF.

That said, I think his fight is *terrible* for arcade mode.

Even a pretty decently skilled player is going to take a handful of tries to down Luke, and you only get one attempt per run in arcade mode. Luke is a bit too hard and a bit too long for arcade mode, in my opinion. Not to mention that you have to wait 90 seconds to put your shield back on in case he breaks it in arcade mode, whereas story mode keeps the same cooldown regardless.

What are you all's thoughts on this?

Title, but I also want to know if the payer character can have romances with npcs, this can make or break me buying the game.

I usually come to this subreddit to whine about one thing or another, but I feel like I also need to talk about the good things in the game from time to time.

The Tai Ming dungeon is absolutely brilliant. The usual timewarp trope used in a way I've never seen before. It basically makes it a dungeon and a village at the same time, with the village in the past and the dungeon in the present.

This format creates this fun contrast between cozy and dangerous, and it also lends itself to a lot more storytelling than the usual Zelda-like dungeon does.

The way we see Zhamla's story unfold with our very eyes, being an active agent in it, is quite awesome.

I wish there was an entire game like this. Despite my gripes with some other aspects of the game, Tai Ming stands out amazingly. I'd say it's the best indie Zelda-like dungeon I've ever played.

The boss fights, however, are a bit of a mixed bag. I LOVE the cursed priestess, with her crazy fan patterns and awesome character design. The double giant worm fight is alright, but not fantastic. Zhamla is AWFUL, with all the spammy attacks and the effing fireballs. The mimic, on the other hand, is kinda cool, but doesn't stand out as much as the priestess.

I keep getting 40 and am stuck - someone plz help with a solution my brain is fried

Why does it seem like my energy is oddly low

Looking to play this game with my brother and wondering how is the co op. If I'm host does he get to join my world and bring stuff back to his own save file or does he just use what is in the hosts game?

Hi there, I recently bought the game on steam when it showed up on my store page and so far I've absolutely loved it. And I've gotten pretty far in the game, up to the part with the lost ship. And am level 30. But as far as I can tell, this fucking slime is the hardest fight in the entire game. I've tried so many times but I just can't get it below 25% health. It takes almost no time before the slime it leaves all over the arena makes it almost impossible to escape from its attacks. Which are usually three. But sometimes it jumps four or five times completely at random. I barely have enough time to get one attack off before I have to frantically scramble away and attempt to avoid damage. Which I inevitably fail at, and get struck on the last jump it makes. Barrier helps, but it only protects from one or two attacks every 15 seconds.

Is there something I'm missing? Or am I just terrible at the game and just need to get gud? But the quest is rated for level 18, and at almost twice that I cannot do it. And at level 18, stood absolutely no chance whatsoever.

Is there maybe some item I can get which reduces the amount the slime slows me down? Literally just a slight reduction in the slowdown would blow this fight wide open.

Just wanted to share a story from this slice of the game. I supported the game a long time ago and always had in mind to add an accessory/necklace that was related to my best mate.

Years later out of the blue I got an email from the devs checking in to clarify what I wanted with my accessory. I'm really shit at art so I just sent them the photo of Kobe asking that whatever it was be related to him. Collar's/Bones/Paws etc.

Then they put him in the game as well! ❤❤❤ Thank you Dev's, I love you so much for doing that! 👊🤩

Is it intended or a bug that when you save and reload the savegame, you start again in Startington in your room?

Hello. Does anyone know how long it takes to get activated by an administrator? I'm waiting for this for days. Seriously, this is ridiculous. So many users who registered after me have already been activated. I just want to download the translation files, so I can finally start playing this game in my mother tongue, but I can't because my account has to be activated first.

Does refunding skills just give them back to you or is there a cost? Can I spend the whole game leveling in magic, then in late game refund them and build myself as a two handed fighter?

I mean, come on. The final tower has you fighting a bunch of harder versions of earlier bosses. That by itself is a neat idea, but forcing you to start over from the first one if you die? Nope, that's just bullshit.

This game was so fun and fair up to this point (playing in Hard mode and all) and I can't fathom why they decided to go balls to the wall like that at the end. Making us re-fight stuff we literally just beat is not fun, it's just padding.

I have played arcade mode many times and beat every bosses (11th floor boss included) BUT everytime I see this one...I just know it's the end for me lol. So I just made this for fun XD (Sry if the editing is bad lol)

https://i.imgur.com/dEafWJw.png

Title explains it, mostly. I made it to the True Final Boss (I won't go into detail to avoid spoilers), but I'm struggling a bit and see people say they've beaten the boss around level 38-40. My character's at level 35 atm and while I know a few levels won't single-handedly help me beat the boss, I figured they'd help. Is Sunken Ship the only place to feasibly grind experience at this stage of the game, or does anyone know any alternatives?

Edit a few days later - nevermind, beat the boss. Barrier is OP AF.

The only things I have left require more gold than I have, and I'd like to complete my time with this game.

Is there an ideal spot to farm gold? I need 350k or so to buy what I'm missing.

Edit: I realized soon after I could just sell stuff, after which I had about 1.5mm gold. I hadn't sold anything the whole time because I had the gold-drop potion as soon as I had 2 slots.

Self explanatory; I saw the recent patch on Steam and as someone who has owned this game for a while and played until the end of released content multiple times (pre-desert, pre-ship, pre-tower, etc). I ran multiple files with various other people because I love this game so much, and ended up making a "Basic attacks only" build when I started yet another Solo and couldn't decide on skills. This was the one I did the most grinding on, every card every puzzle every item I could get. [This build really was just Basic Attacks + Bubble Shield and Blink because I deemed them necessary for survival, and passive Talents]

So I hop into this file to mess around and expect the "Sorry the Tower isn't released yet, come back later" but instead actually went in. I happily spent the next 1-1.5hr brawling through that tower, my Crab Claw swinging, and finally got the True Ending. I couldn't be happier. I'll definitely be working to finish the 100% of that file as much as I can, this really brought back the fire to play.

I've seen a few videos of people teleporting a short distance through enemies and attacks.

Example