1-Bit Rogue: A dungeon crawler RPG!

First off: Great app! It's a small single focus app, that keeps me coming back. Not many apps can do that. If it were made by anyone else, I would play like 3 times & delete it. I do have some suggestions, from least to most important, here they are: The exits: I would appreciate it if the staircase rotated so that it would make sense, and not be a staircase facing a wall. The staircase would always be facing the way of the hallways. It's small, but I feel like it would make the game feel more polished. Variation: As much as I love playing the game, I can only do it a few times a day, and then I come back the next day. Some more variation other than floor layout would be interesting. Maybe secret hidden rooms behind non solid walls? What about legendary varieties of common enemies, that have more health. The ability to add 1 custom weapon that gets added to the pool ofexisting weapons would be neat, and it would always be cool to encounter it. What about a class of character that can walk two frames without causing enemies to have a turn? Lastly, either a melee weapon that can hit two spaces ahead of you rather than one would be awesome.

This game definitely gets down the feel of a traditional roguelike, with simple controls, permadeth, and an enjoyably tense atmosphere as you try to resource-manage between gold, health, and progress. That’s the game at its best. At its worst it’s grindy and tedious, and sometimes feels unfair. While I’ve definitely died a few times to mistakes I’ve made, too often it feels like you just find yourself in an unwinnable situation: you have no weapon, you’re in a dead-end area, and there’s a monster in the way. It’s kind of annoying to die every time because you took a wrong turn in the maze (or spawned in the wrong place), especially when death means a tedious slog through the earlier levels of the dungeon to reclaim your progress. All in all I’d recommend it, but it gets repetitive pretty quickly.

If the game developers are reading this, they need to know this is my favorite game on the App Store. I bought the ad-removing and 3-bit color granting In-App Purchase, which was well worth my money. I love the game and it's great, but I feel it has a lot more potential. If you would keep updating and fine-tuning the game, maybe with a daily/weekly challenge setting, I could see the game becoming way better. Better than it already is, which is hard to beat! Keep improving the game, and I think you could have a real success here!

This game is wonderful especially for free, I couldn't help but supporting the devs for the 3-bit graphics they truly are lovely. I beat the game in a day, that's not to say it's easy by any means, I personally play a lot of roguelikes so I'm rather familiar with the genre but this game is a wonderful little roguelike with replayability cause even after you beat it you still can beat it with other classes which offer a whole new play style. If you're on the fence about this game, trust me, you're gonna love it if you're a fan of the genre.

Very enjoyable game, but, like so many other games, has an annoying behavior. I understand only supporting portrait orientation. But developers, please please PLEASE support flipping when I turn my tablet over. The iPad’s charge cable plugs into the bottom of the tablet. When I play at night I have my tablet plugged in to charge and I rotate the tablet so the charge cable is on the top... and your game doesn’t flip so it’s upside down. I have to turn my tablet over so it puts weight on the charge cable potentially damaging both my tablet and my cable.