Chained Path

Been a while since Ive caught any potential bugs(which is a testament to the excellent development), but this one I'm only sorta sure of

I equipped Shana with the Bottle of Elements, and she attacked an electric slime. I used Cinder Cut, which hit three times, and the Bottle of Elements tried to apply lightning(which didn't work) twice, but ended up triggering 5 times total. Idk what happened here, because I had the Bottle work normally when it hit the fire slime and got burn cancelled.

And Lyra. Her Shatter attack healed Brox(who had Favor 1) the first time I used it that combat, but not at all the second time or the third time. I'm sure about that one

It’s been two weeks since I released the demo, and some of you have already beaten it! I’ve been busy putting together some new challenges for you.

I’m putting the finishing touches on a major update. There’s a new boss waiting in the Wildwood and new Nightmares to try. I’ll let you discover the rest.

Hoo boy, here's an evil bug: My run just got ended by Pug because Emberwood stopped the burn I applied from ticking down and it just infinitely used burning strike until my whole party died. That's a doozy

The Crystalis tablet is also giving me a visual bug, showing a line between where T3 and T4 would be on the left side, but I don't have a T3 or 4 in those slots.

Oof, here's a big one: I tried using the oracle's starting boons for the first time and it didn't actually give me the boons. On top of that, it ate all the spirit I spent(so it didn't just auto refund me anything either)

I know I'm throwing a lot at you, but after each run it keeps saying that I'm unlocking characters that I already unlocked as part of the rewards

Now that I've finished N5, you may want to check the interaction between Elements in a Bottle and Shana's T1 skill Cinder Cut. I seemed to be getting an insane amount of element triggers, making her by far my strongest attacker!

4 more Tier 2 tablets, 4 more potions, and 2 more vestiges, and I'll have unlocked everything that isn't a boon(still haven't played a run with starting boons)

Simple typo: The Blessing Condition says "Heales are 20% stronger"

And Steven's Charged Armour is not applying stagger when slimes hit the bearer with an absorb attack. I assume that absorb is a direct attack? I could be wrong.

Regardless of that, the Keen Wakizashi +15 crit condition icon appears higher and to the right than it should, appearing inside the character banner in combat, whereas the other conditions appear under the banner. Brox's Forgefather's Gold Boon has the same visual bug when it blesses items.

And Twin-Faced Coin doesn't tell me what side it's on(which I really need for Lyra) :(

These are all the small things I found on my last couple runs

Bug and missing data: When I use alt over Shana's Shadow Step to see its full description, it calls itself Smoke Step. I assume this is wording from an older version. Also, when I hover over Steven's name plate during combat, it just says Elementalist, whereas for the other characters it gives a brief description.

I'd also like to point out that though I love going through the game and inspecting every aspect of it, anything I point out is in no way something you have to fix immediately. I don't wanna put any pressure on people, I just wanna help shape the game into the most bug tested version of itself that I can.

The Infusion charges fixed Steven's bottlenecking quite nicely, and the awakened abilities of his T1s make him feel a lot more versatile :) I like what you've done with him, and I think he's become more balanced by far. I did notice that his Bottle of Elements item doesn't have an icon, is that a bug or just not designed yet? Either way, he's a much more interesting character to play and I really enjoy it.

I was thinking about Shana though. I enjoy the fact that her abilities change with her shadow and flame states, but it makes it harder to plan a turn with multiple free casts when I can't see the different options depending on her state. Is it possible you could bind a key that would allow you to see the alternate options, such as the Shift key? I noticed you did something similar with Alt for greater information.

Everything else seems to be going really well! I'll keep playing into greater Nightmare modes and unlocking more content to see what else I can tinker with.

I like the game, too, these is some beauty in the seemingly restricted number of ability we can use per combat. It gets a bit repetitive but somehow I liked it, especially when exploring devastating combos such as Blake's. But sometimes very simple combos were the most effective, making it a bit anticlimatic (Burn stacking: tank and spam the first skill, Endless punches: Overcharge and spam the first skill, etc.). 

Curses were a bit repulsive since it can screw up a lot of preparation, especially on the first slot of the chain. I encountered a Cursed slime in a normal encounter and it gave me three curses, two on awakened slots, crippling my character.

I guess more ways to acquire skills are better, because eventually we only get to use a few abilities per character. Something akin to getting more skills and team-wise boons might make the game less repetitive.

I like the wound mechanism, since some health loss can be healed between combats.

I could somehow play the fourth dungeon but realized it was not fully prepared yet. Looking forward. 

I love this game, I've played through the entirety of the first 2 levels(and training of course) and I just wanted to point out two bugs I found. 1: The boots item that advances a character's initiative order triggers even on Blake's Chain Combo despite saying that it only affects non-attack casts. This means that with an upgraded Gathered Spirits, you can go infinite turn 2 and kill any encounter with ease, making all other characters in your party useless. 2: For whatever reason, my game glitched and Shana's tablet reverted from its tier 2 version(which I unlocked) back to its tier 1 version, locking me out of her more powerful options without switching to a general tablet. This tablet never advanced again so I had to give her a different tablet, which worked but it's still a bug. Also, Idk if this is a bug, but characters unlocked at seemingly random times after runs. There's probably a trigger that I don't understand cuz I'm not watching, but if there is a trigger, I'd love to see it where you could hover over the locked icon and it would tell you how to unlock the character. Other than that, you've done an excellent job! I'll be interested in seeing how the elementalist develops later on, as well as the game as a whole.

This is an absolutely fantastic game. A shame it does not look like it's still being worked on, but wow, great stuff for a very pixely old school rogue-lite. Absolutely quality work right here.

when I play and I finish the fist combat the page reloads, can it be fixed?

Here's my video with top turn-based strategy/RPGs on itch.io February 2020 (featuring Rogue's Awakening)

Amazing game, had a blast with the demo! Really hope there'll be a Linux version once its out. =)

It looks great! About skills, did you categorize them based on natural elements such as Fire, Water, Electricity, Wind, Earth, etc? I think that would be neat and nice! Also hidden and ultimate skills are good to be considered.

And I agree with doing combos by direction keys. That would accelerate the combat pace because turn-base games are usually  slow.

Looking forward to the demo!

Really like the ideas of combining skills. But I wonder if the heroes' skills will depend on a Combo list, or some basic skills then chain up (like some basic elemental skills)?? Because 38 to me are a little to many.

Hello guys. I'm interesting your idea, same as Darkest Dungeon. I think you can add some element that can be interacted with people better like: Use mouse drawing figure 2D to use skill, or press any direction button for combos.

I love use weapon like use skill. Hope you can develope a weapon-skill tree or something like this. Sorry if its not clearly.