Caves (Roguelike) - Explore dungeons & level up

A classical turn-based roguelike styled game with pixel art graphics, featuring caves that players can dig through using a pickaxe. The game blends magic and high technology elements. As defined on Wikipedia: "Roguelike is a subgenre of RPG games characterized by random level generation, turn-based gameplay, tile-based graphics, and permanent death of the player-character."

Key features include:

- Player's own main base

- Unlockable high-tech armors

- Various special abilities

- Resource gathering and item crafting at a Crafting Station in the base

- Enemies such as skeletons, mutants, robots, and other creatures

- Character customization via different stats for varied playstyles and tactics

- Perk system

- Expansive randomly generated areas

- Diverse range of intriguing items

- Extensive weapons arsenal spanning from conventional bows and daggers to advanced plasma guns, energy swords, experimental firearms, and magic superweapons

- Unique abilities for each weapon

- User-friendly controls with Gamepad support and Touchscreen D-Pad

The game is under active development with ongoing work on new content and gameplay elements.

Tactics

You can have different tactics when you have different purpose and resources.

How do you deal with your current situation? Slay or retreat? Use 1 or 2 effective resources or abuse useless items? Play around or finish it in a few turns? There can be uncountable solutions.

Basic Tips

Shoot melee enemies when they are 2 tiles away.

Ranged enemies do reload and can run out of ammo, but the ammo regenerate with time.

Lure ranged enemies to open the door behind which you wait and attack in melee.

Make use of the faction system, enemies have their enemies besides you. Lure and KS to save ammo and effort.

Leave crystal chunks alone if you have low HP or difficulty killing them in few turns.

Leave crystal chunks alone, break the crystals from range when enemies are close to the crystals.

Mushrooms and plants on the floor are invisible enemy indicators.

Throw an acid potion on units so that you can trace them even they have turned invisible.

Most invisible units remain on the same tile on casting invisibility. Use tile-targeting attacks like flamethrower, lightning scroll or bombs, can damage them.

Enemies cannot see units behind obstacles like stalagmites. Thet cannot break obstacles deliberately either, so far.

Teleport across obstacles to get rid of chasing.

The most potion after collecting few types of potion and the potion obtained from digging gravel is likely to be healing potion.

Throw a random teleportation potion on an empty tile if you run out of items and money. Just beware there is a decent chance to summon a teleporting guard/knight.

Throwing an unknown potion on a weak enemies or floor is the best way to identify it.

Use an unknown regular scroll when enemies are far in sight is the best way to identify it, giving that you can not predict what it is from identified scrolls.

Use an unknown black scroll at the tiles adjacent to enemies 3 tiles away from you is the best way to identify it, giving that you can not predict what it is from identified scrolls.

Throw an acid or fire potion, use the flamethrower or use Scroll of Barrier on the only way between you and enemies to buy you time or escape.

Throw an acid or fire potion, use the flamethrower or use Scroll of Barrier on the tile between you and melee enemies 2 tiles away to buy you 1 turn of time.

Activation of shields removes Burning effect.

Shields prevent units from obtaining Burning effect, but does not affect fire damage from tile.

Search for structures: portals, Merchant, Vending Machine or Ancient Ruins using your Radar and Map Scanner to avoid danger or to find useful resources.

Purchase in shelter is more economic than in vending machine on late locations.

Be prepared to anything, in Cavesrl there are moments of prosperity wherein you will find all sorts of goods, but there is also several moments of misery/famine when any mistake can cost your life.

Save your health crystals, they might be better than healing potions but due to their rarity and expensive price it is recommended to use them only in emergencies.

DON'T break the cracked walls at the Portal room, some Portal Guardians won't mind if you get inside the room, while others will attack on sight, so only break these walls if you are prepared to fight.

If you are having difficulty in a fight, call in the Mop up squad since they will attack every other unit (except Robots) giving you time to retreat or heal while your enemies are distracted. Also they can drop some high quality loot when defeated.

The Demon Grenadier and Demonic Knights have a chance to drop a Demonic beacon when killed.

Using an Inversion Scroll when raiding a Spider Nest, will not only make the battle easier but also safer.

Bombs are excelent when attempting to destroy spider nests, especially when placed in the center of the 3x3 area.