7DRL Contest 2011 Reviews

Here lie the reviews of the many entries in the 2011 7dRL Challenge!

Reviews by Eben Howard

Stygia by Perdurabo

Stygia opens with a well designed ASCII block title screen and proceeds to tell a dark introduction. We are informed that the surface of the world is a frozen wasteland who's sun is long gone. The only way to survive is now to move deeper into the Earth where heat can still be found.

I really like the heat mechanic which forces you to keep going deeper to escape the cold. Plentiful items with neat add-on abilities makes item grabbing quite fun.

Play Experience: The first time I tried this game, I was killed by an invisible kobold :( The second attempt went better, until a kobold that wasn't there walked so there was only one path could get hit from, moved towards one path, walked without hitting anything and kept getting hit... I really like the premise, and the FOV and mechanics seemed smooth. Hopefully a bug fix will come around and I'll try it again.

Update: Bugfix version 0.11 fixed the issues I previously had. This game is now quite awesome, I recommend trying it out!