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= Featured Roguelike: [http://www.midboss.net/ MidBoss] =
= Featured Roguelike: [http://en.cataclysmdda.com/ Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead] =
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In this roguelike (which tips its hat to Disgaea in both title and art style) you play as the weakest of the dungeon denizens, the imp, scorned by all for its frailty. But the imp has one edge over all the other monsters; the ability to possess any enemy it defeats and take its form for its own! Make your way down through the randomly generated dungeon floors leveling up, possessing ever stronger enemies, and unlocking the secrets of their abilities for yourself. The game is easy to get into, but has plenty of complexity in its mechanics if you care to look.  
[http://en.cataclysmdda.com Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead] is a roguelike set in a post-apocalyptic world. Surviving is difficult: you have been thrown, ill-equipped, into a landscape now riddled with monstrosities of which flesh eating zombies are neither the strangest nor the deadliest.


A complete from the ground up overhaul of last year's Python version of [[MidBoss]], this new rendition has better art, controls, (graphical) user interface, and is generally an all around improved version of the old game with way more abilities to unlock.
Yet with care and a little luck, many things are possible. You may try to eke out an existence in the forests silently executing threats and providing sustenance with your longbow. You can ride into town in a jerry-rigged vehicle, all guns blazing, to settle matters in a fog of smoke from your molotovs. You could take a more measured approach and construct an impregnable fortress, surrounded by traps to protect you from the horrors without. The longer you survive, the more skilled and adapted you will get and the better equipped and armed to deal with the threats you are presented with.
 
In the course of your ordeal there will be opportunities and temptations to improve or change your very nature. There are tales of survivors fitted with extraordinary cybernetics giving great power at extraordinary risk and stories too of gravely mutated survivors who, warped by their ingestion of exotic substances or radiation, now more closely resemble insects, birds or fish than their original form.
 
Featuring a huge generative overland area to explore and improvise and learn from as well as a variety of procedurally generated dungeon crawls to attempt, [http://en.cataclysmdda.com Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead] is an open-source roguelike that requires creativity and risk in order to survive a future where everything that could go wrong has gone wrong.
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Revision as of 16:01, 20 August 2014

Featured Roguelike: Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead is a roguelike set in a post-apocalyptic world. Surviving is difficult: you have been thrown, ill-equipped, into a landscape now riddled with monstrosities of which flesh eating zombies are neither the strangest nor the deadliest.

Yet with care and a little luck, many things are possible. You may try to eke out an existence in the forests silently executing threats and providing sustenance with your longbow. You can ride into town in a jerry-rigged vehicle, all guns blazing, to settle matters in a fog of smoke from your molotovs. You could take a more measured approach and construct an impregnable fortress, surrounded by traps to protect you from the horrors without. The longer you survive, the more skilled and adapted you will get and the better equipped and armed to deal with the threats you are presented with.

In the course of your ordeal there will be opportunities and temptations to improve or change your very nature. There are tales of survivors fitted with extraordinary cybernetics giving great power at extraordinary risk and stories too of gravely mutated survivors who, warped by their ingestion of exotic substances or radiation, now more closely resemble insects, birds or fish than their original form.

Featuring a huge generative overland area to explore and improvise and learn from as well as a variety of procedurally generated dungeon crawls to attempt, Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead is an open-source roguelike that requires creativity and risk in order to survive a future where everything that could go wrong has gone wrong.

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