Rack and Slay (tuxdb.com)

THE BILLIARD ROGUELIKE

A pure-fun roguelike dungeon crawler where you're a billiard ball making your way through randomly generated levels full of monster balls, traps, collectible power-ups and more!

DRAFT YOUR BUILD

Between levels, draft from a wide variety of 100+ items with game-changing effects (all of which are stackable) to find combos, build synergies and refine your playstyle!

ASCEND THE LADDER

Battle through 20 levels of difficulty, each one adding more challenging modifiers!

VALUE YOUR TIME

While you unlock additional items by playing for even greater variety, there's NO meta treadmill "+1% power" grind!

PLAY YOUR WAY

Play a full 10-level dungeon crawl in 20-30 minutes, or choose the condensed Delve Mode with half the levels but extra loot, or tackle a single-level raid with random items.

TRACK YOUR PROGRESS

Wins are not just tracked per difficulty and mode, but you also receive difficulty-specific badges for each item you win a run with. Fill your item compendium and collect them all!

SUPPORT AN INDIE TEAM OF 2

Design & Code: Fabian Fischer (@Ludokultur)
Art & Animations: Victor Negreiro (@estivador)

FEATURES (if you're into lists)

UNIQUE GAMEPLAY: Face physics-based billiard combat challenges tied together by a rogue-like run structure in a dungeon setting!
LONG-TERM REPLAYABILITY: Procedural dungeon layouts filled with randomized monsters, obstacles and power-ups combine with a large variety of 100+ items to draft from to ensure no two runs play the same!
RELENTLESS CHALLENGE: Climb through 20 difficulty levels, each one modifying the game to become more challenging!
GAME MODES: Play a full dungeon crawl in 20-30 minutes or condense your run to half the length with extra loot, or tackle a single-level raid for just a few minutes!
DAILY RUNS: Face a new gauntlet featuring a unique combination of run modifiers every single day!
SIMPLE CONTROLS: Pick-up-and-play controls make sure you’ll aim and shoot (via mouse or controller) within seconds!

Billiard roguelike anyone? Rack and Slay is part of Steam Next Fest!

Its Steam Next Fest and Rack and Slay is participating to bring billiard roguelike wackiness to the event! The demo comes with 60 items featuring all kinds of fun combinations to explore, and full access to the 10-levels Crawl Mode through 20 difficulty levels.
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As a reminder, here's what's coming to the full version on top:

Many additional items to unlock for more complex effects and synergies.
The shorter Delve Mode with double the item rewards.
The one-level Raid Mode with random items for a quick burst of mayhem.
Daily Mode featuring a unique set of game-changing run modifiers every day.
Wild Mode for random (and sometimes pretty crazy) sets modifiers.
Plus, obviously, all kinds of tweaks, fixes and polish all around.

If you like what the demo has to offer, please consider wishlisting the game. You probably have heard it quite a bit already, but its true that for a tiny indie dev project like this every single wishlist makes a big difference! So seriously, thank you so much for checking out the game!

Finally, if you have suggestions for what could be added to the game, want to provide feedback, or you found a bug, please drop by the Steam forums, the Discord or let me know via Twitter ! Your feedback has played a critical role in shaping the game the ever since the first version of the demo was released.
Just some of the things that happened the past couple months:

Replaced all item art in the game with shiny new graphics.
Added a variety of 8-ball boss enemies to shake up your runs.
Added many new objects, obstacles and collectibles for more variety.
Lots of item reworks, balancing and new items for the full version.
Improved difficulty scaling and more transparent difficulty selection.
Quality-of-life improvements such as effect indicators and a new shot gauge.
A new run-progression map so you can plan ahead for upcoming bosses.
UI and look-and-feel improvements, including new sounds and visual effects
Improved physics and stability even in extremely crazy combo situations.
Hugely improved gamepad / Steam Deck controls.
Countless bugfixes.

All this wouldnt have been possible without your feedback, so THANK YOU! All the best everyone and I hope you have an awesome Next Fest!

P.S. You can catch a live stream showcase of the game by Graeme of 2 Left Thumbs this Tuesday and Thursday (both 8 PM UTC).

[ 2024-02-05 16:27:07 CET ] [Original Post]