Dungeon Souls (now at Early Access Update #9) $

[getter77]

http://store.steampowered.com/app/383230  $9.99 Windows, Linux

Dungeon Souls is a 2D hack n' slash roguelike dungeon crawler.

The objective is for the player to stay alive throughout the course of the game. Each level is randomly generated so each playthrough has a unique environment and challenges. The player's goal is to search and activate all the marks placed in each level to unlock the dungeon and hopefully escape. However, players will encounter different obstacles in the labyrinthine dungeons. Players can collect various items and upgrades to counter the dungeon's dark forces.

Some elements in Dungeon Souls were inspired by Risk of Rain, Nuclear Throne, Overture, BitVenture and Shoot First.

Current Features

6 Playable characters with unique abilities
Upgrade your hero's skills
4 different environments with randomly generated levels and bosses
50+ unique passive and orbiting items
Challenging encounters with hordes of dynamic enemies

Future Updates

Multiplayer
Rare and more exciting items
Unlockable characters and items
More classes
More traps
More enemy types with unique abilities
Secret Levels!
New Music
And more...

Why Early Access?
“Dungeon Souls had improvements since the demo release. However, we still continue on improving and adding more elements into the game. We want to bring the best out of this game so the Early Access will be a great opportunity to solicit input from the community so that we can incorporate their views into the game.”

Approximately how long will this game be in Early Access?
“The game will be in Early Access until all features are already implemented and polished.”

How is the full version planned to differ from the Early Access version?
“Dungeon Souls full version will features: Multiplayer, more secret levels and releases for Mac and Linux.
More content are to be added such as:
Rare and more exciting items
Unlockable characters and items
More characters’ abilities to choose from
More enemy types with unique abilities”

What is the current state of the Early Access version?
“The game is playable and has more exciting levels and more items to discover.
There will be more additions to the game every week.”

Will the game be priced differently during and after Early Access?
“We are going to continue to add new features to Dungeon Souls! Once we leave the Early Access stage the price will be raised slightly.”

How are you planning on involving the Community in your development process?
“The community has a greater role in our game development process.
We value the views/comments, input, suggestions, recommendations, and any other relevant information provided by the community. The community's involvement and contributions will bring in great elements that will support the entire game development towards improvement.”

Update #1

Upon reviewing all comments and suggestions, our team has carefully kept an eye on every detail of your feedback. We are very pleased with your participation. Your insights were very helpful to our development.

Here’s Dungeon Souls Update #1:

- New Items!
- Pop-up will now be “BERSERK” instead of “SLOWED” in berserk mode.
- Thief Dash was changed to “Thief Bomb” while Smoke Bomb was changed to “Invisibility.”
- Cleric’s description has been changed.
- Archer’s 3rd ability will be raining 10 arrows instead of 20 arrows.
- Key has been fixed when buying an item.
- Melee attacks will now destroy projectiles.
- Fixed the bug where your normal attack has no damage when you have Thornmail or Molotov.
- Soul Jar can now create more souls but will heal slower.
- Gold is not stashed anymore when in EASY difficulty.
- Soul orb is now required to rank up your character.
- You can now mute the game, disable screen shake and flashes.
- Details of the class abilities will now allow you to view them when hovered (in game).
- Ability icon dims when deactivated.

We are continuing to incorporate all your suggestions/comments so there will be more updates.

On behalf of our team, thank you very much.

Mike Studios

Seems promising and they definitely appear to be putting in work as far as a sense of style to the presentation and whatnot.   

[getter77]

Update #2

We are continuously reading your posts and collecting them. Our development team is making sure everyone's views/suggestions will be addressed in timely manner. We also appreciate the time you have taken to write a game review as well as participating in the discussion. We assure you that we will be responding to your queries as immediate as we can and we make sure that we will continue to focus on improving the game to make it better.

Thank you for your insightful feedback and for bringing more inspiration to the game.

-Mike Studios

•   A new class added!
•   Added Mark counter on the HUD
•   Added new information in the Status Screen (work in progress)
•   Items' outline is now color coded
•   Added effect when standing on blood when you have Zombie Tooth
•   Game Over screen now shows who killed you
•   Buffed Barbarian and Warrior
•   Melee characters should now have longer reach
•   Changed Warrior’s third ability
•   Items can now be automatically picked except on the shop
•   More visible skill highlight
•   Abilities can now be cast using “Q” for second abilities and “E” for third abilities (Keys can be changed in the Options menu)
•   Removed Red Devil’s contact damage
•   Bosses should not take too long to kill
•   Thorn traps in the sewers has less damage and can now be destroyed
•   Melee classes has stronger knockback on start
•   Changed Wizard’s attack damage to 3 x 3 fireballs
•   Wizard’s Hell of Fire should not all be critical when you have no bonus damage
•   Boulders should now hurt hero that much
•   Change how Molotov burn enemies
•   Boulder Traps are marked
•   Zombie Tooth can heal hero 5 per 3 seconds
•   Reduced damage of Arrow trap
•   Changed how rare chests spawn in the game (especially gold and metal chests)
•   Slingshot's scatter shot now deals (10% of character attack damage) x (number of Slingshot Item)
•   Spikeball now deals (20% of character attack damage) x (number of Spikeball Item )
•   Eyeball now deals (15% of character attack damage) x (number of Eyeball Item )
•   Rocket now deals (50% of character attack damage) x (number of Rocket Item )
•   Reworked leveling up system
•   Improved item radius when picking up
•   Changed the position of the map (Toggled by "M" [default])
•   Pick Axe should can now give hero +2 damage and critical chance
•   Increased Shout of Rage and Axe Throw cooldown
•   View ability details when hovered

[getter77]

Update #3

First off, we would like to thank everyone for your participation in the discussion. We have been following the thread, read your posts and watched every gameplay so we can understand everyone’s perspective. However, we also discussed about the different aspects of the game where we will be able to generate a fair game for you to play. We understand that not all of you are happy with the previous patch but, we did try to reach out explaining future plans for the game.

As we progress in the development, we are also starting to bring in more into the game to make it more exciting, fun, and adventurous for you to enjoy. We are very happy about your feedback and suggestions because it opens more portals of imagination for us. It is something we are grateful for having such an involved community.

We are proceeding with positive thoughts of making the game even better and with your patience and continued participation we will also continue doing our job well.

•   Balanced Red Devil’s damage
•   Fixed Cleric's regeneration bug where it stack when you use it
•   You can now use (“Q” and “E”) or (“Mouse Wheel”) to set abilities and “RMB” to cast
•   Redeemer will now suck 0.001% of hero’s Max HP
•   Elite enemies will have greater 50% Max HP instead of x2 Max HP
•   Blood for attack will now drain 1% of hero’s HP and increase by 0.5% instead of increasing it by 1%
•   Removed the bug regarding the Ally Soul
•   Changed the color of slimes and the lights in the Sewers
•   Improved how CHANCES work in the game
•   Added tooltip for difficulties
•   Changed Redeemer’s blood suck art style
•   Reduced Unicorn Horn’s chance to deal 999 damage
•   Improved Necromancer’s Skeleton AI
•   New Items and Rare ones
•   Reduced chance to launch a rocket when Rocket Item is acquired
•   Changed Door to Portal
•   30% chance to find golden chest and 50% chance for metal/silver chest
•   Drops of Golden and Silver chest are now more worthy
•   Bosses and Enemies now has chance to stun you
•   Fixed Skeleton Fire Burst hit box
•   Character turns purple when poisoned
•   Fixed Merlin’s Hat item effect
•   Added superior type of enemy in the Nightmare Difficulty
•   Item are now AUTO-PICK
•   Elite and superior enemy don’t drop items in the boss room
•   Boulder trap marks are now red
•   Upgrade you passive skills
•   Upgrade rank by earning points from killed enemy, bosses, collected loots and items
•   *NOTE: Points is not saved when you exit to main menu.
•   Rank titles and icons!
•   Added an option to disable and enable auto-cast
•   “Enabled” – cast skills automatically with “Q” or “E” key or any key you’ve assigned
•   “Disabled” – use right mouse button to cast and mouse wheel to scroll
•   Characters are unlocked in NORMAL MODE/DIFFICULTY
•   You can navigate on the menu by using "W","S", and "Space". In preparation for the controller support.

Future update include:
•   Soul orb

[getter77]

Update #4

•   Other attacks doesn’t decrease Necro’s HP aside from his own attack
•   The character should not be able to get invisible when on the top most wall.
•   Fixed Arrow, Fireball and Knife throw collision mask
•   When axe is picked it should now appear in the inventory
•   Item will no longer appear near the portal
•   Fixed the issue on critical chance:
o   Formula: critical chance += (n%/100)
•   Critical chance can now be seen in the stats screen
•   Wizard class can now be unlocked in any difficulty but not on EASY level.
•   Fixed the bug when upgrading passive skill
•   Spikeball will not multiply anymore when picked up instead it stacks it’s damage
•   Hammer, Rusty Sword now gives you +2% damage and stack
•   Better shooting at hallways
•   Wooden shield now gives you +10% bonus defense
•   Lifesteal and Blood for Attack only work in normal attacks
•   You now gain 50% EXP on EASY level and 300% on Nightmare level
•   Eyeball will not multiply instead it will increase its attack damage
•   New enemy type on Frozen Caverns
•   Ice Golem doesn’t spawn normal ice block
•   New class has been added (Check it out!)
•   Changed screen flash effect
•   Fixed the effect of stun
•   Reduced duration of Invisibility
•   Thornmail now deals damage to nearby enemies instead of dealing damage on collision
•   Access Options menu in the Pause screen!


HOW CRIT CHANCE WORK:
item crit chance = +50% crit chance += (50/100) crit chance += 0.5%
*This works the same on the items that gives bonus damage/defense

For those who are still waiting for the controller support and resolution options, we are still working on it. We are trying our best to update as much as we can every week and we are also working now on making the game available for Mac and Linux soon. We will post an announcement as soon as this becomes available.

[getter77]

Update #5

- Secret Levels!
- Added New Items
- Reduced amount of snow in the Snow Cavern
- Frost Caverns new tiles
- Fixed the bug when acquiring beating brain
- Add a little sign board on the shop
- You cannot change 2 keys at a time
- Added exp and money counter
- Floating text are now color coded
(Red: damaged taken | Yellow: Critical | Blue: Double damage | White: Normal Damage)
- Enable and Disable Glow
- Elite and Champion enemies doesn’t drop chest anymore instead it gives you large amount of exp
- Twin Blade stack chance by 2% instead of 30%
- Rusty sword now has a bleed chance
- Clearer item descriptions
- Vanguard don’t stack but spawn 3 shield when obtained
- Removed potions inn the Boss room, instead, we made an item which grants you 4 random potions in the beginning of boss battle
- Necromancer can now unlocked by killing 15 skeletons.

Additional:
Dungeon Souls is now available for Linux based OS

[getter77]

Update #6

We know that you all been waiting for this update and we thank you for your always taking the time to reach out to us to report bugs/issues encountered. We appreciate your support and interest in the game. Your participation has inspired us more to keep enhancing the game and we will proceed to adding more features and to fully polish the game.

•   New dungeon level generation
•   New Secret Level
•   The Judgment (WIP)
•   New enemies are added
•   Merlin's projectile is now slower
•   Wood chest has 100% chance to drop items
•   Treasure box increase the chance to get uncommon items
•   Traps hit harder now when defense is low
•   Merchant should now sell soul orb anymore
•   Rebalanced barb's 2nd ability
•   Rebalanced archer's 2nd ability
•   Necromancer's 3rd ability upgrade now spawns more skelies!
•   Hammer now gives you 5% stun chance
•   Added an effect on shout of rage
•   Nightblade has its own alternate skin
•   Elite and Champion enemies has a chance to drop keys instead of chests
•   Enemies do not constantly spawn in the dungeon anymore
•   Stats screen closes when you open inventory (vice-versa)
•   Merchant is no longer selling soul orb
•   Abilities display "RMB" as control to cast when auto-cast is disabled

Note:

The final boss is a work in progress. We will continue to update the final level until it is finish.

[getter77]

Update #7

- You can now display hp bar on character
- Increased damage of Nightblade but with slower attack speed
- Added Redeemer spawn timer
- Shop items should not be misplaced anymore
- Changed the art of boulder trap marks
- New Fireball trap
- Rats and Big Slimes doesn't shoot anymore
- Floating eyeball in Ice Caverns now has slower projectile
- Fixed the description bug of Zombie Tooth
- Fixed cooldown reductions
- Some abilities start cooldown after effect wore off
- Fixed item description box
- Merchant now sell 1 random potion and 2 random items
- 2% life steal should now give you 2% not 0.02%
- New art for explosion
- Ability descriptions are now color coded
- Necromancer can now be ranked up again
- Necromancer's third ability now shows how many skeletons are left that can be summoned
- Enemies should not spawn too close to the hero
- Removed the defense cap
- Purple mages now sucks hero's hp even if their hp is full
- Some items can now deal magic damage instead of attack damage
- Reworked the map
- Barbarian's normal attack now shakes the screen a bit
- Some abilities can now deal magic damage
- Fixed Thief Bomb damage
- Abilities now has preview images in character selection
- Improved GUI when adding stats
- Some traps now deals magic damage instead of attack damage
- Nightblades hammer swing now shakes the screen a bit
- Increased magic damage of green and red wizard
- Decreased Merlin’s rate of fire
- Barbarian’s normal attack now deals % damage instead of + damage
- Increased Nightblade’s Thick Armor cooldown
- Nighblade’s Weapon Switch is already in Tier 1 on start
- Weapon Switch
Chakram: First strike deals 60% additional magic damage (60% - 70% - 80% …)
Hammer: First strike deals 60% additional attack damage (60% - 70% - 80% …)
- New Nighblade ability icons
- Madu Buckler now gives 10% chance to parry attacks (10% - 15% - 20% …)
- Redeemer now sucks 10% of your health
- Active items!
- Potions are now automatically consumed
- Upgrading Necromancer’s summon ability now increases ally’s maximum health
- New walls in the Dark Dungeons
- Broadsword now just increase your cooldown a little bit
- New difficulty
- New passive skills
- Increased the maximum upgrade for passive skills
- You can now reset your progress
- Ranking up now gives you upgrades (can be viewed when hovering the icon)
- Difficulties are now unlockable
- Boulder trap should not spawn more than 1 boulder
- New Items
- Skeleton King summons don’t stuck on the wall anymore
- New Ice Cavern boss

[getter77]

Update #8

How is it going guys?

Sorry for the delay in update. We were supposed to release an update last week but Mike has been busy preparing for the IGDA Manila meetup because he was chosen to be one of the speakers. One of our team members took all your suggestions/recommendations/comments to keep track of the updates.
If we were not so active in the discussions in the past weeks it is because we are also busy preparing for some other things.

If there are other things that we haven't included yet in this patch especially those have been posted in the discussion, we will go over it again and include them on the next patch.

Here are the changes made:

- New magic and active items!
- Enemies in Boss Room and Judgement's Big Projectiles now has chance to drop potions
- Lady Laine now drops big chest
- Lock pick now gives you 25% chance to open all chests
- Increased chance for enemies to drop potions
- Reduced laser beams' knockback
- Item acquired popup text is now back
- Leveling up now increases your maximum hp by 5%
- Merlin's hat now gives you 10 magic resistance
- Laser staff should now display "20% chance" not "20 chance" and gives you 5 magic damage
- Necromancer's skellies can't be stuck on walls anymore when summoned
- Map frame can now be enable/disable
- Use items now has their own outline color
- Fallen Soldier Shield should now have a green outline
- Reduced number of traps but still are dangerous
- Reduced the range of arrow traps

[getter77]

Update #9

- New HUD
- New WIP Boss
- New wall visual art
- Added some new sound effects
- Reduced the speed of arrow trap projectiles
- Merlin’s hat now adds 10 magic resistance
- Hallway arch is now back
- Traveler’s cloak should now add magic resist and not magic damage
- Boulder’s appear a little bit longer
- Lights are now less messy
- Opening map should not slow down your game anymore
- Added flames on fireball traps
- Enemy health bars only appear when hit and disappears in a certain amount of time
- King’s crown now gives you 15 bonus damage and 10 bonus damage
- Reduced the damage of arrow traps
- Leaving options menu should not make your game blurry anymore
- Added potion slots which can be used by pressing keys 1,2 and 3 (these keys can’t be changed for now)

We know that it has been a while since the last update. We have taken the time to review your comments/suggestions. We also have been also watching some of the gameplays and read the game reviews so we can implement those that you have shared with us. We appreciate your patience and participation every week. We enjoyed your collaboration in this project with your thoughts that help us to enhance the game and add as much to make it better.

We apologize if we have missed some of your questions, but we go over them and we try to reply as soon as we can. We are still working on some of your suggestions/comments and for the controller support and other platforms, these will really need some time for us to be able to implement. However, please know that we are not disregarding them we are just trying to do as much in terms of balancing the game and making it more convenient for you.