Welcome great adventurers! As you know lately we had troubles with the crypt of the old Lich King! His tomb attracted nearby goblin tribes and they set up camp on the many levels. We ask you to go and clean it up, find their boss so we can rest assured once again. The Lich? Don’t worry he was defeated decades ago, only bones remained.

Now, gather you party and go onwards!

Crypt

Crypt is a solo/couch-coop turn based dungeon crawler, heavily inspired by the tabletop game of draftCrawl from Luiz Bills! Venture into the old crypt, find treause, potions and goblins. Many many goblins. Your goal is to find their boss and eliminate him! That is all. Everything you find inside is yours!

This is the first published playtest version. You will probably run into bugs, which I'd be happy to hear about, so I can fix them!

Gameplay

Gameplay is divided into turns. Players act first, in the order of your choice, then enemies. They attack who you want, as the games places player agency highly in this regard. The game is based on a 1d6 system in the background for many things, keep your eyes peeled. And be careful, the dungeon might hide things you did not anticipate!

There is a little green/red dot in the corner of each character, showing if it can act, or not in the given turn.

Certain characters have abilities that modify combat and there are spellcaster who start with spells. Once you find treasure chests, everyone who has a scroll can cast a spell. Spells are listed on the status window and if you press the secondary button and the unit has spells, the casting window will pop up!

Controls: Arrows and X and C (shown by a circle inside PICO-8)

Dev Discord

Started a little discord server around gamedev, gaming! Invite link: https://discord.gg/zjWFeSQnXa Best place to provide feedback about the game!

Support:

My awesome supporters over at Ko-fi! They allow me to pursue this niche hobby of mine! If you'd like more, consider hopping over to my Ko-fi page, where I share pixel art, game devlogs, postmortems, code rundowns, all that gamedev jazz! And if you can maybe drop in a coffee so I can make the next one faster!

Thank you Csöndi, Nerdy Teachers, Fletch and Squidlight for allowing me to keep up this hobby!