KeeperRL
Started again with this game... I left it months ago because it was too damn difficult... in a classis Rogue you have one character to use and upgrade, and WHEN you die, you must start again with that single character ... here you need to build and manage a dungeon, babysit many creatures with level up and inventory, and WHEN you die, you lose everything ...
The difficult part is that every single thing is capped until you do some other thing, so it's not possible to just level up / upgrade until you are ready to advance, you need to plan every single move wisely to obtain the necessary stuff for the next step ...
The even more difficult part is that when you attack one of the main enemy factions, and at some point you have to, different enemy factions are triggered and will attack directly your base with a champion and a group impossibly strong ...
... I tried different times to make a maze full of traps before the main rooms, but the one made of wood are almost ineffective, and the more effective traps needs components difficult to find ...
... also, many stronger enemies just evade the main entrance and crush down the walls to reach the main rooms directly ... so there's always the need to reinforce the walls ... and the components are difficult to be found ...
Anyway, this time I tried lowering at max the difficulty settings... there is a VERY good setting that makes you disable the attacks directed at your dungeon, this changes things A LOT ...
but there's also a setting to lower the difficulty peak while you advance, and actually I can't see so much difference here ... so there's still the need to plan in the right way where and how to attack ...
This game gives also the possibility to play with a single character, almost exactly as Rogue, but I tried different times and I don't think it's something doable ... elves can one-hit-kill you even before you see them... and this is just an example ...
I see a lot of potential in this game, and I see that the devs are still adding and updating things, but somehow there's something still not mature enough ...
The game has official MOD support, and I see that there are already many fan made around ... maybe if I continue to fail like now with the official game I'll have a look at those ...