BARDA: Backpack Roguelike

谜语人

The objective is to carry your granddad’s ashes to the top of the mountain. Each run is random and built from nodes and regions where you can sometimes choose where to go next. Nodes are marked with icons so you can see what kind of event or challenge awaits you there, including climbing, fighting, looting, and light challenges. Each node you visit is a single screen with a few points you can interact with, and it can contain different types of challenges at the same time. The main challenge is always clearly shown with its icon, and you only need to complete that one to progress, while the rest are optional. Depending on the region, simply choosing to travel to the next node can come with a drawback. You might gain fatigue, which makes you get hungry faster, or fear, which can make items unusable. Hunger increases with every new node you enter, and if you do not manage it with food, it will eventually start to damage your health. A node also contains extra loot spots marked with a small diamond, which can sometimes be easy to miss on bright backgrounds. Clicking a loot spot with the left mouse button drops a few random items that you can place in your backpack, and it is always worth checking them whenever you see them. Items are your main tools for reaching the summit. You can technically progress through challenges without them, but you will face far more penalties and risks. The only exception are optional challenges that require specific items. If you do not have what you need, you will have to skip them. For all other challenges, you can either use an item by dragging it onto the challenge or attempt it on your own by right clicking it. Items come in several types, including food. You can quickly see if something in your inventory is useful by hovering over a challenge and checking for a highlight on matching items. In general, you will find ropes and pickaxes for climbing, swords and sharp objects for fighting, and candles and lanterns for light-based challenges. Some items can be used for more than one type of challenge. Each challenge has a number above it that represents its health, or the amount you need to fully clear it. Items also have their own strength value, and your goal is to reduce the challenge health to zero in a single attempt. This does not depend only on the item, since most of them have relatively low values. Your character also adds a strength bonus, which is a random value from one to four. If you manage to clear all the health in one attempt, you receive a reward such as loot, a new challenge, or safe travel without penalties. If you are unlucky and do not fully clear the challenge in one try, which will always happen if you rely only on your character without using items, you will receive a punishment tied to that node. The most common is scratch, which reduces item durability. You can also encounter madness, which changes item effects, or illness, which lowers item strength. Any item left outside your bag will be destroyed when you travel. Beyond backpack space limitations, items also have durability that decreases with each use. Food and certain consumables are an exception since they are used up immediately. Depending on the item, it may break completely and disappear, or it may remain broken in your inventory, allowing you to repair it later if you find the right tool. You can also reach repair nodes, which are special locations. Other special nodes include markets, where you can sell items you do not need and buy new ones, rest areas, where you can use items to remove negative effects or cook them to reduce hunger, and merchants, which let you choose one perk out of three. The first perk increases your backpack size. The second gives you a strap that lets you carry one item outside your bag, ideally a large one that takes up too much space. The third offers useful badges that grant special effects, such as protection from weather conditions or a chance to reduce hunger during travel. A merchant always appears after clearing a region or defeating a boss. A small layer of meta-progress comes from random quests you receive at the start of each run. If you complete them, you gain talent points. Once you collect enough, you can unlock new items and characters that appear during runs, expand the pool of available quests, and even start each run with two random items.