Release date: 12/12/2014As the world's first fully-ASCII game to grace the Steam platform, SanctuaryRPG: Black Edition is a humorous and strategic turn-based dungeon crawling adventure. Drawing heavy inspiration from both Roguelikes and Japanese RPGs, the game was meticulously designed to offer a truly compelling role-playing experience complete with a robust action-rpg inspired combat system.
Black Edition builds upon the classic SanctuaryRPG formula with all new procedurally generated artwork, as well as a plethora of areas to explore, races to experiment with, skills to master, and loot to collect. Whether you're a valiant hero or a dastardly villain, the fate of Sanctuary is in your hands.
Features
- Enjoy a blast from the past with retro ASCII graphics
- Travel through vast dungeons with classic roguelike action
- Experience hundreds of hours of immersive gameplay
- Put your strategies to work with a sleek combat system
- Over 160 class and race combinations to experiment with
- Wreck your enemies with over 1400 weapons and armors
- Rock out to an original 8-bit chiptune soundtrack
What's new with SanctuaryRPG: Black Edition?
A ton of new features and improvements of course! Here are some of the changes that comes with Black Edition:
- 95% of the art has been overhauled by our staff artist, Angel Rodriguez
- More glorious music and revamped tracks from our composer, Rafael Langoni Smith
- Thousands more lines of witty writing from Yixin Li and Dorian Karahalios
- Double the amount of class related perks for character enhancement
- A bigger variety of selectable races for you to experiment with
- Increased amounts of loot and gear variety to collect and hoard
- Double the amount of interactable zones and areas
- A whole new range of affixes on both monsters and items
- More side quests and diversions for you to explore
- Unique mercenaries that you can hire to assist you in battle
- Factions system where you can fight for a faction, opening up a series of new quests
- Wardrobe system where you can equip different wardrobes to customize your abilities and characters
- Imbue system so you can enchant weapons with powerful abilities and wreak havoc on your enemies
- Plenty more diverse mini-games where you can engage in glorious town activities
- Even more advanced enemy AI for a truly engaging combat experience
- Distance mechanics that keeps track of movement, allowing for much more diverse combat strategies
