Rayel

Rayel
Beta Project
Developer	Anfeir
Theme	Fantasy
Influences	Daggerfall, ADOM, ArcticMUD
Released	Mar 5, 2010
Updated	Apr 18, 2011
Licensing	Freeware, Closed Source
P. Language	C++
Platforms	Windows
Interface	ASCII, Keyboard, Mouse
Game Length	50+ hours
	Official site of Rayel

Rayel is a single-player role-playing game similar to a roguelike. The game world is predefined and almost static: all the areas, dungeons, most of item properties.

A character comes to in a world that is completely new to him. He knows nothing about it. How he should behave and what to do - it's all up to him.

Features

The game is stable, playable, winnable and rather balanced starting from version 0.1. There are winners already.
The plot with at least 3 endings.
Pseudo real-time actions: every action and movements takes some time, has the beginning and the end, and everything can happen during this period.
Missiles (and some spell effects) are flying in the real-time. Some classes have ability to gain amazing speed and overrun them.
Internationalization support: full Russian and English versions.
Interface: flexible settings of quick movements, autorunning along the long plains roads, etc.
Random quests with different difficulty degrees.

World

The big and fully active world.
178 areas, over 500 sub-areas
Variety of the world: dungeons, plains, forests, steppes, swamps, deserts, seas, isles, rivers (with underwater part), mountains, castles, temples, towers, towns (plains, forest, underground, mountain), ruins, ancient misty constructions.
No strict bound between locations. There are some areas which extend over the significant map part.
No strict levels/floors division: in any place of the map you can encounter an ascending, descending or stairs. Many corridors lead very far away.
Hidden and locked passages.

Monsters

340+ monster races. The significant part of experienced monsters (capital 'letters') can be met only outside the well-known region of map.
Monsters have almost the same set of attributes that the main character, they can use weapons and other items.
One the same monster type can be of different professions.
Large variety of temporary monster effects. Miscellaneous buffs, weaknesses, diseases, venoms, curses etc. Like 120 effect types total.

Skills and Spells

Over 200 total skills and spells (inc. monsters).
Skills: real raising, without manual raising.
Monsters, especially experienced, can have large variety of skills and spells, depending on their races and classes.
There are some spells, effects of which can vary depending on caster's power (mostly his intelligence).

Objects

930+ different item types.
40+ artifacts.
12 unique classes, every of them has its own set of skills and spells, besides the common skills and spells. The significant part of them are accessible only after gaining a particular level.
Different types of non-item objects: signposts, traps, fountains, plants, levers, caches, windows.

Current Version (0.1.12)

fixed bug with empty messages in quests, when you get hidden secret rewards.
fixed several mistypes.
some skills are not trainable now because of too boring training: hide, poison.
slight balance tweaks. More starting items.
some items in inventory are highlighted now.