The Stone Path to Madness

Set a foot into a dungeon to find an artifact that can change your life...

Story

Based on information you gathered, a powerful artifact you are searching for is here, in this dungeon. In one of it's numerous rooms.

Goal

To win, you must clear a certain amount of rooms. You may use coins to decrease this amount, or spend them on equipment instead.

Gameplay

Manage your inventory and fight monsters, strategically choose weapons and items from chests. Chests always have one more item than you can fit in your inventory.

Endings

There are two endings. You may or may not reach the good ending accidentally, but if not, the bad ending screen will give you a hint on how to get it.

STRATEGY TIPS

• The best shield you have in your inventory will automatically be used. You don't have to equip or 'use' it manually.
• This means having more than one shield will not increase your defense.
  

• Don't underestimate dagger. Each weapon has it's use.
• Monsters HP range from 2 to 5. I'ts possible to estimate it by how a monster looks.
• You can move items in your inventory using 'INVENTORY' option... if there's no monster in the room trying to kill you.
• The less items you have in your inventory, the more items there will be in chest!
• Therefore, try to use potions as soon as you need, increasing potential loot amount.
• Dead monsters don't fight back! Use shuriken before your main Attack to prevent unnecessary damage.
• As a rule of thumb, the price you sell your items for is the number of slots the item takes (1 or 2).
• A single bag of coins keeps all your money. But sometimes it may be worth it to discard it in favor of another, more valuable item.
  
• Discarding 'bag of coins' discards all your coins.
• If you pick up some coins while not having a 'bag of coins ' item, it will appear again. (It's coins that take space after all, not a pouch).
• Try attacking slimes multiple times per turn. Axes seem to deal no more damage than fists to them.
• Avoid touching fire. Use shuriken for ranged attacks.

"One Too Many" Jam Theme: Chest always generates items in a way that 1 item will not fit.

Try to use this to your advantage!

Please leave your feedback, positive or negative! It's necessary for helping me make better games in the future. Thanks!

Credits:

• Hexany's Monster Menagerie by Hexany Ives
• Hexany's 1-bit UI Panels by Hexany Ives
• Most items by Kenney
• Music by: beardalaxy, SterlingRay, Machine
• Sound effects: StarNinjas, Little Robot Sound Factory, artisticdude, Bart Kelsey
• Font: PressStart2P
• Title Font: Antiquity Print
• Heroine Dusk is created by Clint Bellanger http://clintbellanger.net Ascension: Adventure Tiles by Chris Leclair/XCVG (xcvgsystems.net) [CC-BY-SA 3.0] based on Heroine Dusk by Clint Bellanger (heroinedusk.com) [CC-BY-SA 3.0]