Heya Christian, I've been playing the Flagellation Challenge.  The number of sacrificial whips is correct now, thanks!  

A couple of things:  I was able to destroy Balrogs with Rain of Fire, but I was not able to collect the experience reward afterward.  They just remained as Balrogs with a red X and a numerical experience value  over them.  Clicking them did nothing.  This happened 3 times, each with different Rain of Fire spells.  In the initial case, the Balrog was the last remaining enemy (so the Rain of Fire only had one enemy available to kill rather than 3).  The following Balrogs were on the next level.

Also, the game gave me a lot of healing potions.  The second dungeon started me with 3, the third gave me 6, the fourth 9, and the last 12.  Maybe some item was meant to start me with a healing potion and they kept stacking.  Unsure if you intended this.

I played the first dungeon of the challenge before your last update, and the other four afterwards.  Just mentioning in case that had some effect.  Excellent game, thanks.

I'm not going to say this is peak, but this game f**ks. Like, this is real as hell. The only recommendation I have is keybinds. It is tedious to move all the way down to the character portrait to level up every single level, of which some boards has dozens. Maybe even a courser that can move around the map with the arrow keys or WASD. But as far as content, this is amazing, especially for a free game. So much to do and see, achievements to hunt, it has everything. We are eating with this one. Thank you for making it.

The three sacrificial whips in a challenge become one sacrificial whip on the second level of the challenge.  I did stop after the first level and load the second level later-- unsure if this is relevant.

Can't play the first level can't progress passed character screen

Hello. The game looks broken since today. It can’t completely retrieve my saved progression.

Since recently, the game is able to adapt the language to my locale (my browser is in French). But it can’t show the achivements and the challenge I already did. I put the game back in English, but it did not change anything.

I’m a bit sad. I love this game and made lots of progress on it, but for the moment, I can’t continue.

A bug report:
When I use fireball on more than one Balrog, usually one or two of the golds left by Balrogs cannot be collected.

During the challenge "Potion Overdose" I'd like to mark fields with a value between 10 and 20 (12 in my case) but the menu does not offer any suitable values. It's only 1 to 10, 200 and the flags and question marks. Before the latest update, all the values of the present enemies were available.

But I like the redesigned of the numbers. Readability has been improved a lot for me.

Interesting update. You want to keep us playing, hm?

Observation during "Oops, all beasts!" challenge: Clicking the first blood moon uncovered _all_ werewolves of the level, not only the "disarmed" ones related to the clicked blood moon. Is this intended?

I'm still really enjoying this game!  I just keep playing it.

I did discover what I think is a bug, and also a typo.

Bug: the "Menu" for collecting "ingredients" seems to break if the next item it wants is the firefly, and you instead take out the firelord.  Once you do that, it seems that the "Menu" no longer recognizes the firefly, and won't accept it, or move on to another "ingredient".

Typo: In the Achievements the Novice Ascetic says to defeat the third dungeon, when it should say the first dungeon.  And the Intermediate Ascetic says to complete the fourth dungeon when it should say the second.

Please do yourself a favor and review the sight effects, both revealing and obscuring ones. The point of this game should be the minesweeper aspect – ie figuring out whether the next step is safe or not. By offering too many reveal options, this is subverted into a boring counting exercise. By using too many obscuring options, you effectively create walls which the player cannot progress through safely. 

In the original game, the kraken enemy worked because you could pinpoint its position reasonably quickly and snipe it safely. Your obscuring enemies are both too varied, too frequent and in the case of the cyclops, too far away to find them naturally. I'd also say too strong in terms of HP, but as a seasoned Dragonsweeper player, I found the various shop items overpowered, to the point of letting me finish the final level with some 10-15 healing items left over. 

Or to rephrase it: minesweeper and dragonsweeper are puzzle games. The entire thrill about puzzle games is that you have to think carefully before making your moves. Designing a roguelike around this which reduces the difficulty through purchasable items is misguided; you won't make a Sudoku master happy by allowing them to make the puzzle easier, instead, you'd make them happy by providing new and interesting constraints they have to work with. 

As it is now, this game has Plants vs Zombies 2 vibes: while the core gameplay works, none of the added features really add to the experience, the opposite, in fact. As a result, this game is more boring and annoying than its predecessor.

Speaking of inventory: I noticed that potions do not really stack. Sometimes I have 2 yellow potions and another 2 yellows etc. Why not use one slot with 4 yellows?
Is this maybe caused by buying the potions at different prices?

In one of the recent releases, you changed that the inventory closes after using a consumable.

Suggestion: Revert it or make it configurable. If you are in a later level and have several e.g. potions that you want to apply, you need to enter inventory again after using each potion. That's inconvenient.

Thank you! This game made my day! A good version of the Dragonsweeper game with more to do and levels! Congrats. 

Item idea: Lucky 7: Revealing or updating a tile's value to 7 regains 1 HP.

Also, as it is the last level is way too easy as not the ascetic, and also honestly probably too big. Maybe the compromise would be to make it smaller to make it harder for non-ascetic?

I managed to get all achievements - except one: Ascendant Ascetic.

Did anybody manage to beat level 5 as an ascetic? It's so hard...

If you are taking requests, I would appreciate if the bug that crawls across the screen was either squishable or able to be turned off. 

Really, really cool game. It kept popping back into my head, which is why I’ve already played it several times.

I didn’t play Dragonsweeper, but I really like how enemies interact with the world here. The roguelike approach and building your own build (revealing them, increasing XP, etc.) is something I found very cool.

I’m personally not a big fan of characters only differing by their starting item.

What I do really like is that you can see enemies early that you can’t (or don’t have to) defeat yet, and then encounter them later and understand their purpose.

Sometimes it was a bit frustrating to me, similar to Minesweeper. One moment of inattention and booom, game over. I think that has its charm (with mimics, bombs, etc.) and i liked it, But as an exampel, attacking a revealed enemy with 5 HP when you only have 3 lives left, just because you weren’t paying attention, feels unnecessarily punishing. (Maybe a small confirmation pop up would help)
Also: why isn’t XP collected automatically after defeating an enemy?

Anyway… this turned into half a bible😅
Cool game, I had a lot of fun! :D

P.S.: I’m absolutely not a fan of Ai art; "Are we players really worth being presented with cheap, soulless Ai art?"

The new counters for the menu and tinkerer overlap with the map:

Quirk found: Although I had the clamancy item "turns all bricks into lesser clay golems", two bricks still showed up in my dungeon. 

The mimic chest is so frustrating. Having it be 11 means it is basically instant death until there are only a few hidden spaces left on the field. There's no way to predict when they'll show up. The only way around it would be to skip over some pretty necessary chests until you're strong enough to risk it. 

It might be better to cut back on the number of playable characters and to try to make them more distinct experiences. Right now you can happen upon almost any of the items and then it's the same as if you had that class.

This is great! But the achievements are cluttered by how many variations of each there are. Some things you could do include different tabs for different achievement types or compressing the versions for different levels into a single box (maybe with little checkboxes for each level?)

Why do an exact copy of Dragonsweeper?  Unambitious.

So there is a level cap?

Could you make it so that the levels fit onto the screen, rather than going off it? I'm on a level with the dragon, having 30hp, and I literally couldn't see all the tiles.

This is a really cool game but I'm struggling with two aspects:

1. How hard is it to support a SHIFT key modifier for placing marks? I have arthritis and right-clicking is challenging for me. I'm constantly triggering squares and dying instead of placing a mark. The setting to not trigger already-marked squares helps but for me it's the initial placement that's hard.

2. Once you get far enough to get 2+ Ourobouros' it's basically just a guessing game. They're SO far-reaching that they really unbalance the game if you get an unlucky layout. I just died on a board where I had like 25 "?" squares and it was just random chance on what to click.

Can you rework the achievements ui? A scroll bar would be nice for example.

Since I also played the heck out of Dragonsweeper, this game is exactly what I was waiting for.

However, I wish the UI were easier to read. Some numbers blend into their icons, like the Minotaur 6, Dragon 11 or Rat 1. Could you make these more distinct or just make all numbers bright white? Being able to quickly recognize all the numbers is an important feature in a game like this.

Also, the diamonds for experience points are hard to distinguish at a glance (whether they’re active or not).

Anyway, thanks a lot for this game. :D

Having played Dragonsweeper and knowing the rules already, having so many unskippable tutorials pop up every time I click anything annoyed me to the point I just gave up. 

art rework when

license to kill is broken, but tends to get you carried away until you eventually make a mistake.

this is becoming a sub-genre...