The ground gives way

The Ground Gives Way
Stable game
Developer	BtS
Theme	Fantasy
Influences	Castlevania, POWDER , Incursion, Angband
Released	2014-06-20 (release #1)
Updated	2014-08-29 (release #3)
Licensing	Closed Source
P. Language	C++
Platforms	Windows
Interface	ASCII, Simplified
Game Length	short
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The ground gives way is a coffeebreak roguelike

Overview

The Ground Gives Way is a short, highly varying roguelike with lots of content.

Main features:

• Characters will be very different from game to game since progress depends on what you happen to find.
• Progress is made through equipment, items and paid training rather than experience points.
• Hundreds of items, monsters, services, traps and features of different rarity that will make each game different from the last. No winner will look the same in TGGW.
• Rapidly increasing difficulty, there is no time to be bored.
• There is no grinding because there are no experience points or character levels. Also, there is no hit point regeneration, so no tedious waiting.
• TGGW has a console-game like interface. No keys or commands to remember. Game play is still smooth and quick.
• Very short game time. The game could be completed within an hour. However, the difficulty increases very fast.
• Small levels, few levels, auto-running, a map system and a portal system makes quick and easy access through the dungeon.
• Interesting equipment choices where most items have pros and cons, very few trivial choices.
• Very simple to understand combat system.

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