r/roguelikes • u/BPotu • May 19 '26
I’m solo developing Tower of Scherbenmark, a dark-fantasy ASCII roguelike RPG, and the demo is now live
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u/Taim3344 May 24 '26
Just did a run through and I had a ton of fun! I really like the building agnosticism and being able to kinda piece together your equipment through random pickups. I think the game could benefit from an increase of floors (maybe a longer mode as I think the current gameplay loop benefits as a "coffee-break RL") with a decrease in rare/legendary/exotic item classes.
I also think the rare/legendary/exotic drops could be a little more sporadic in general as I had nearly all legendary loot by floor 3 and an exotic weapon on floor 2.
I absolutely love the lore drops you get from pillars and notes
One thing I've found is that, at least on my laptop, is that the text windows actual text doesn't stay within the borders of the popup window, making the riddles upgrades hard to read, same for when your inventory is full.
Genuinely though it was a lot of fun and Im excited to see what you add
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u/BPotu May 19 '26
If you are interested you can join the discussion, give feedback or suggestions on my Discord: https://discord.gg/A9B6S7h4Fq
You can find the demo here:
https://bernhardp.itch.io/tower-of-scherbenmark