Hieroglyphika

I can confirm what others said. The game is turn-based and the turns take quite long with no option to speed things up. The entire game is controlled by mouse. If you like to play with keyboard or gamepad: Nope, not working. The "no text" gimmick is kinda interesting, since you have to figure out yourself what the stats and symbols mean, but the fun is killed quickly when the game pace is extremely slow. Also, the...

40 found this helpful, 2016-12-28

This is a quite clever and enjoyable game that I see as a slow-paced puzzle rogue-like (turn-based, procedural levels, random loot, permadeath). The premise: you walk from left to right, killing things, avoiding traps and looting other things until you go down the stairs at the far right and the difficulty ramps up. Everything happens in turns, order is determined by a speed stat that mainly depends on your equipped...

25 found this helpful, 2016-02-07

There are some mechanics spoilers, and I haven't blacked them out, so if you don't want to see them, don't read any further. I want to like this game, but it's too slow for the pay off. Being a roguelike game, there are obviously frustrating moments, like getting to level four only to discover that apparently some enemies can blast you against the wall at nearly full health and insta kill you. Well, FTL and Don't...

15 found this helpful, 2017-01-30

Hieroglyphika is a fun, new Egyptian themed, Turn Based, Roguelike with old school sensibilities. With no item descriptions to guide you and no text in the UI, your first couple of runs will just be figuring out what you can and can't do. Your next few runs will be trying to figure out the various pieces of clothing and equipment that you'll find strewn around the pyramid and why those nasty big critters start...

21 found this helpful, 2016-02-04

A traditional roguelike in many ways, and breaks the mold in many others. It's slow paced, brutally difficult, and certainly not for everyone. Personally? I love it. It's a great game that does what it sets out to do with great audiovisual panache. But there are game-breaking bugs that have never been fixed, and I've had several frustrating encounters where stairs did not spawn and the end of the level, and no way...

9 found this helpful, 2020-05-25

I wish I could say I like this game. I really do. It's pretty, runs well and has a lot of potential. But it's frustrating as all hell. I can get over the overly stylised interface and obtuse item descriptions. It's actually kind of rewarding to figure out what the symbols and descriptions without words mean. You'll do several runs so you'll have plenty of time to get accuainted with the items. It also sounds good...

9 found this helpful, 2018-02-24