Monolith: Tiermes

Game made in 9 days for dungeon crawler jam 2024.

If this gathers enought interest I will make this in to a "proper" game. Had to cut over 70% of content even for this jam version. Not counting the ones I have planned if I will make this in to a "proper" game.

Incorporates 3 themes of the jam:

• Cosmic Horror
• Solitude
• Acient Ruins

Wanted  to add infinity by random level generation and allowing to optionally go torugh infinite levels but ran out of time.

HOW TO PLAY:

To make jam testing easier, try to turn on elevator generators to access higher levels. You can find and extra character on level 1.

MORE TIPS: 

• Power of skills is halved if both hands are equipped!
• Weapons have range, you cant hit enemy backrow with short range weapons.
• Attacking and skills use stamina. Attacking while 0 stamina causes stress and reduces damage.
• Skills cost hp. 
• Using ranged weapons in first row (in melee range) has slightly reduces damage.
• In combat heal your other character Ilya and only use healing items for Tiermes.
• Try to flee form larger groups of enemies
• Eating unless the items says different reduces stress.
• Too high stress causes things like more powerful enemies to appear.
• Speed determines who goes first (in this jam version highest enemy speed is 7). 
• You need to unequip item before you can equip it. unequipped items go to the bottom of the inventory so you might need to scroll down to see them.
• Repeat action in combat allows you to automate previous actions for current turn.

CONTROLS:

F1 turns on/off mouse movement buttons.

F2 turn on map on/off.

Movement controls keyboard and mouse:

Q,W,E,A,S,D arrow keys also supported. Q and E turn left and right, W and S forwards backwards, A and D move left and right.

Space is the general interaction key. Can also be used with mouse by pressing use at the bottom of the screen.

Use mouse to interact.

Mouse wheel to scroll menus up and down, both info and inventory. 

Clicking on character portrait opens inventory.

Using items when not in combat will use the item on the character whos stats are open.

Right clicking items in inventory opens menu for that item.

IN COMBAT:

Move mouse below character to select commands. Once you have other than denied symbol in combat in the characters portrait, the character will init its command once ready is pressed.

All living characters need to have an action to ready a turn.

To use items in combat you need to equip them in pouch slots.

OTHER:

Manage your stress (the purple bar) or suffer.

Mouse only movement included.

Windows only.

Music:

"Ossuary 1 - A Beginning"

"Ossuary 6 - Air"

Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/