Open the gate to the egyptian underworld! Hieroglyphika is a roguelike game completely without text but with pictograms.
Mixed
100 Steam reviews
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| Chinese (Simplified) | — | — | Y |
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Просто классная игра! В самый раз, чтобы отвлечся после рабочего дня. Очень атмосферная и необычная. Отдыхательная, но в то же время выключить мозги совсем и играть на автомате не получится)) Отличная музыка и сама задумка с иероглифами. Всё хорошо продуманно и выполнено явно талантливыми людьми! Оправдала мои лучшие ожидания на 150%! В первые пишу отзыв, и это о чем-то говорит! Поиграв в эту игру ожидал чего-то такого и от остальных небольших инди игрушек, типа раз разработчики подобных ретрографичных игр не пошли в сторону супер графики, то всё должно держаться на балансе и выверенной идее но это оказалось совсем не так, лучше этой крохотной игры в этом смысле я так и не встретил. Здесь как-то интересно сделано, как только более менее разбираешься со значениями иероглифов игра плавно начинает подталкивать изучать механики врагов, ловушек и прочего, постоянно поддерживая к себе интерес. Очень хотелось бы вторую часть, но немножко побольше и с возможностью выбора какого-то пути в приключении, типо выбора из нескольких взаимосвязанных локаций, или выбора в какую дверь в этом же подземелье пойти в приключении, или чего-то в этом роде. 10 из 10, но хотелось бы подлиннее
This game has so much potential but it's too slow to play, and balancing isn't quite right.
I wish it would get updated even if it seems abandoned for good.
Still had fun finishing my first run after many tries.
Brutal rouge-like, turn based, dungeon crawler with perma-death.
Learning curve starts way above player's head.
Whole game is super brutal and frustrating, but that's the charm of it, but the more you learn, the better it gets.
It's like dark souls on nightmare difficulty, but actually hard, on steroids, and set up against player. And it's normal mode in this game, there's also hard one, but it demands 5D brain to be played. My smooth ball-brain barely makes it possible to reach level 5.
Gameplay is heavily inspired by Legend of Zelda - forced top-down-like perspective, turn based move, traps, environment to interact with and to use against enemies.
RNG makes each run interesting, and you can't just memorise layouts. As for the enemies, on the right-side of the main screen there is a hint list, showing what each enemy does.
At first, items are a mystery. You start just like british and german grave robbers of the XVIII-XIX century, decoding on
the go, what your gear and enemies actually do.
To be honest, I hate this game because how hard and unpredictable it is, but also, it's a clear 9/10 tittle.
My only negative is for the slightly bugged or convoluted move/action menu, but once you'd get a grip of it, all is good.
Just buy this game and finally git gud you filthy casual scrub.
Chess inspired, it's named hieroglyphika, your supposed to make a little effort to understand what's happening here, the game is not forgiving but as you progress so as your knowledge on the various enemies and danger across levels... Nothing impossible here, play on the weakness of your foes hope for the best and try a bit played less than ten hours to beat the game, was on the edges to beat it several times before that...
It's charming, smart and simple at the same time, loved it, the pace is perfect for learning what's happening at wich moment and in wich order, little luck on the loot and certain aspects like the spirits, but the turned based insure a lot of control, so if you mess that up, it's mostly on you, that's honestly a stellar point in a landscape of swarming scrappy sketchy fast paced roguelites with action combat. Here you also need to learn the paterns, you also need to learn the gameplay but it's not in a reflex action way.
Creo que el juego esta bien pero se siente muy pesado para jugar. Si jeugas una y se no quieres jugar otra porque se tarda. Una o dos partidas al día apetece. La idea de los jeroglíficos esta chula pero solo ayuda a no tener que traducir. Ojala cambiaran cada partida. Quizás con mas personajes o algún elemento nuevo y mas rápido estaría bien. La ambientación es poco habitual y la musica te mete bastante. Una actualizacion o uan segunda parte con mas elementos seria jugoso.
I've seen many comments complaining about the slowness of this game, as one of the key complaints.
However, i'm sure the dev has heard that so many times now. I really hope it hasn't burnt him/her out on developing games.
I want to actually appreciate this game for what it can do. I was hunting for that elusive "win hard" achievement over the weekend and by god was it truly brutally difficult.
But I DID it!
And you know what? That sense of satisfaction after quite a bit of "suffering" was TOTALLY worth it, and gave me something other games may lack, a sense of pride of achievement and also enjoyment at being able to master this games mechanics.
I'm a big fan of hard challenges and at first I thought "this game is really unfair". But actually it IS fair. To an extent. There are still moments where luck really screws you over.
But this game plays a little like chess. You have to stop and consider every piece on the board. You have to consider that your next move could be your last, even if you have been destroying everything in your path. Even if you have 99 hp. There are clear chain reactions in your actions.
Every time I got to a new floor, I thought I was on top of the world, but then the game throws a new set of challenges at you with new enemies and increased traps. There were tense moments where I didn't think i'd live, and somehow I held on through thick and thin. To create that in such a punishing way really shows just how well this game creates tension and release. The moment you stepped down to the next floor, its a sense of complete relief and a hyping of yourself up again, I CAN do this.
At first it feels like you're completely out of control. Enemies can reduce your impressive HP down to peanuts in a matter of moments. You could have traps going off in every direction, be frozen for many turns in a row as the chasers hunt your butt down, surrounding you from every direction.
But then you start to realise what dictates the AIs movements, how to manipulate them in the way you want. How to prioritise speed and elemental advantage, how to manipulate the flow of the fight, fast paced rushing for the exit or slow paced holding back to slowly wittle your HP back up or to outmanoeuvre the pieces on the board.
In that sense, the slowness of this game actually suits it well and I commend the developer for sticking to his/her guns. Yes it can feel agonising. But I think that's the point. Agonising is part of the experience. You're supposed to agonise over every detail of the terrain and the game movements. You're supposed to analyse the movements of your enemies closely. You're supposed to see how things play out one after another. Will the AI get their move before the trap kills them? Which monster will move first? All of this is critically important to master hard mode and the later floors. When staring down death, you may only have one move that allows you freedom, and having the knowledge of the way the AI behaves allows you to better decide what that movement may be.
I do wish it was faster at times, but it was not enough to stop me hunting for total completion of this game and enjoying the feeling afterwards. I was enjoying myself, and that's all that matters. It was worth my time.
Whether people agree or disagree, that's fair. All criticism is valid after all. But I hope that some others can agree too that actually this game achieves quite a lot despite its humble presentation and relative obscurity. I think anyone who enjoys strategy and tactics games could find something unique from this game, or at least enough to scratch an itch.
Thanks mhanka !
顶栏第四个准星图标的属性，是命中对吧？
它除了添堵有什么实际意义吗？
This game is on the verge of being good. If you are a person who has a lot of patience, or at least a lot time to sink into a smaller game like this, then it may still be worth picking up.
The reason it's a no for me is that the game has two major characteristics and they are counter to each other.
Characteristic #1: There are no words in the whole game. Technically there is perfect information in the pictograms but it's very much an iterative process to figure out what everything means. Understanding how enemies and the environment work is also a thing that one must learn as they go.
#2: The game is incredibly slow. In most turn based games like this you take your turn and all of the enemies take their turns instantly. In this game you take your turn, then every enemy unit individually takes it's turn, then the environment takes its turn. Granted, there's something to be said about actually seeing what the enemies are doing (it works in CIV games, for example)
BUT
When the game is only learned by doing and the doing is so slow.. it's just not an enjoyable experience to get your sea legs.
In my best run I died instantly from full health and am not sure why. The fact that I don't know, and it would take a lot of time to re-create that scenario makes me not want to play the game anymore.
Cute trad roguelike with bitesize runs. Uses symbols to explain what the items/spells do. In many games would be a flaw (just tell me what XYZ does!), but in this game is part of the charm. You're an adventurer digging up an ancient's culture's artefacts , after all. (You'll get them soon enough, tho ;-)). You see a lot of complaining about slow enemy turns. While there is some validity to this, I suspect those reviews were before an update that sped things up. Especially in the beginning the speed is fine. You'll be busy enough trying to figure out what's going on. Another small minus is that the game is mouse only.
这游戏没打完，通了普通难度就真的不想再碰了。你问我为什么不想碰？我这么跟你说吧：玩过火焰纹章没，1vsN就算了；但是**冰陷阱太太太太卡时间了，为何不换冰头，呵呵了，换完对面一刀砍我大动脉、还老有远程拽毒的老流氓、火爬爬毒爬爬真就当不存在呗；AI比猴都精，真就敌不动我不动呗，就为了谁先攻击少吃伤害跟电脑***勾心斗角；不知不觉打到后期就烦了，每一关无非就那些东西，好使的技能也就毒和磁铁，一杆枪戳也戳麻了（讲道理，我破冰的次数绝对比捅怪的次数多的多）。
是什么支撑我打通这游戏：成就。
是什么逼迫我卸载这游戏：***、****、****、****、*****、****、**、***、***、**、****、****，精彩。
游戏不做任何文字，想法很大胆，但是游戏里很多图形都没有做到让人一看就懂的高度，冲着美术买这游戏，结果有一丢丢失望。不过总的来说这个美术足够推荐。
Thought I would swing back around and make a contribution to the thumbs-up jar for this one.
First, the graphics are wonderfully stylized, and I thought the use of pictograms explaining how everything works was really clever given the theme. Sure, it may still take some trial and error to fully understand what things do, but that can happen even in games where you have text descriptions.
Music is good, sounds are great, and I also appreciate that any gear you equip shows up on your character model.
One of the most common complaints is the slow pace, but I find myself leaning more towards agreeing with the developer on this one. If enemies moved too quickly, you could miss quite a bit of what's going on. You need to be able to pay attention to how many tiles an enemy can travel so that you can learn their patterns, which panels they're stepping on, which traps they're triggering, the tiles the traps are affecting, and so on.
Given that the maps aren't that large, and once you advance so far, you then have guards chasing you from behind, it essentially forces you to pay close attention to your surroundings and carefully work out how you plan on making it to the floor exit. Whether or not you're going to skip grabbing some goodies because the guards are too close for comfort, or if you're going to risk walking into a trap zone because the consequences of staying put are much worse, etc.
This isn't an easy game, but I wouldn't necessarily say it's harder than any other rogue-like, just difficult in its own unique way, if that makes any sense.
Nie lubię gier, w których najwięcej ma do powiedzenia przypadek. Taka jest własnie Hieroglyphika. Choćby nie wiadomo jakby było się świetnym strategiem to i tak w grze dużo zależy od szczęścia. Startujemy praktycznie z niczym i w napotkanych sarkofagach zbieramy broń, elementy ubioru jak szata i hełm, rozbijamy amfory, w których możemy trafić na orby życia zwiększające nam punkty życia lub orby śmierci, które zabierają nam określoną liczbę punktów życia. Niektóre rozbijane naczynia zatruwają, zamrażają lub podpalają pola obok. Jednak one są najmniejszym problemem. Największym są wrogowie. Nie dość, że niektórzy mają dwa lub trzy pola ruchu, to jeszcze potrafią zabierać mnóstwo punktów życia, podczas gdy nasza postać może wykonać jedną czynność na turę a zabicie wroga to często dwie tury, bo wylosowaliśmy jakieś dziadostwo lub w ogóle nie trafiła nam się dobra broń i biegamy jeszcze ze sztyletem, który często trafia powietrze... Jednak najlepiej jak trafi się na wroga, który porusza się po dwa pola na turę a jego ciosy zamrażają. Jeśli nie mamy ochrony przeciwko zamrożeniu możemy zaczynać grę od nowa, bo ciągle nas zamraża i nie mamy szansy na jakąkolwiek reakcję. Musimy też poruszać się ciągle do przodu z racji, że za jakiś czas gonią nas wrogowie, którzy pokonują trzy pola na turę, są odporni na ogień i zabierają 20 punktów życia. Gdzieś utkniesz, dopadną cię a nawet jak mamy broń lub czar zamrożenia - zamrozimy ich na 3 tury, pokonamy 3 pola a oni i tak w następnej turze już będą przy naszej postaci. Bez sensu.
Jest 10 poziomów a ja przeszedłem jedynie do 4 poświęcając 5 godzin. Na czwartym poziomie zaczynają się przepaście, w które mogą nas zepchnąć przeciwnicy lub pułapki. Ogólnie gra jest bardzo trudna, ale tylko dlatego, że jest niesprawiedliwa dla gracza i dużo zależy od szczęścia. Fajnie jest jak wypadają dobre przedmioty czy szaty, które zwiększają nasze poruszanie się - mamy wtedy szansę zajść daleko, ale dzieje się to naprawdę rzadko.
Pierwsze podejścia to sprawdzenie co z czym się je. Nie ma typowych objaśnień, są z początku enigmatyczne ikony. Dopiero po kilku podejściach wiemy co one oznaczają...
Jest jeszcze jedna rzecz, która utrudnia nam rozgrywkę. Na zmienienie przedmiotu potrzeba tury. Jednak w przypadku specjalnych zaklęć/uderzeń obszarowych poza stratą tury na zmianę musimy jeszcze czekać kilka tur zanim to specjalne uderzenie będzie można użyć... Taka gra zwyczajnie frustruje. Nawet nie chcę wiedzieć ile godzin z życia wycięli gracze, którzy tę produkcję ukończyli. Mi wystarczyło 5 godzin i więcej już nie chcę. Oprawa jest naprawdę świetna dla oka, muzyka nie irytuje, ale rozwiązania w grze mocno kuleją. 3/10
Je le trouve très bien,le fait de devoir déchiffrer les symboles,et qu'il n'y ai rien pour expliqué,fait complètement partit du style du jeu.Vraiment originale,très beau style,son,et musique...Une petite pépite dans ma collection ...Oui je conseil !
Stylish, rather pretty. Lovely ambient music. Turn-based, which is good because the combat is almost puzzle-like. Still hard.
I really like this game and had fun playing it (and would have) but......
there are game-breaking bugs in it that will not let you continue playing
and the developer is aware of them but doesn´t do something to fix this.
Another weakpoint is that there are no level saves after you beat one Level,
you must start from the beginning every time.
BUG偏多 玩著玩著回合數不動了怪把路封住你打不了他 玩著玩著地圖不動了 去不了下一關
玩法單一 前期很容易死 中期投毒就好了 [strike] 後期碰到BUG我還沒打到 [/strike]
後期也是沒有一個投毒解決不了的事 如果有 那就刷新再投一個
[b] 為什麼通關困難拿不到通關普通的成就啊 還要我再來一次普通模式 [/b]
Tried LVL1 3 times on easy difficulty, died horribly in a no fun way. It´s not the fun and challenging hard like Darksouls it´s just stupitly hard.
I love the Idea, that it does not explain stuff, it fits into the theme to find things out,
I love the design,
I love the sounds.
It´s just sad that it´s an impossibly stupid hard game, with a ton of random deaths : (
Игра хороша. Интересная идея, хорошее воплощение. Однако есть пара ложек дёгтя в этом меду:
1) Рандомность. Обычно не самый критичный пункт, но тут он решает всё. Если, на первом уровне, не выпало нормального оружия, то даже с хорошей снарягой и магией, долго не протянуть.
2) Баланс снаряжения. Это конечно зависит от привычного стиля игры, но заметил, что собирать героя в атаку выгоднее, т.к. можно убивать, почти всех, одним ударом, имея большой объём здоровья, который ГГ имеет изначально.
3) Отсутствие настроек скорости ходов. Это плюс, для невнимательных игроков, но минус, когда у тебя уже всё под контролем, но ты вынужден смотреть анимацию ловушек и ходы мобов, после каждого шага.
4) Возможно мне просто очень не повезло, но, после выхода из игры, продолжить нельзя. Функция "продолжить" присутствует, но, при попытке продолжить, экран темнеет, но ничего не грузится и даже можно слышать звуки кнопок главного меню. Если хотите пройти игру, то проходите одним заходом, т.к. сохранение может не запуститься.
This is a mad game, old skool gaming values at their best, and the music is absolute FM synthesis heaven!
This game is great. Hard as heck, but I keep coming back to it over and over again. I'm still learning about the inticacies of the game and occasionally get a bit further before dying. This is a thinking strategy game where very move and action counts. Sort of like chess.
画面单调，敌人回合等待时间过长并且不能调整，没有任何文字说明，全靠自己摸索，在没有什么亮点的情况下实在没耐心再去摸索玩法系统了。
开局99血，之后全靠猜
除了数字以外没有任何文字，而这一点也是游戏性的一部分，[strike]怕死不要玩[/strike]。这是个比较“经典”的Roguelike游戏：你通过不断尝试和死亡来学习一切你该学习的，来让自己在游戏中的表现越来越好。在每一轮游戏之间，角色并不变得更强大，只有你“变得更强大”。我个人认为这款游戏最突出的特点，是在极简化上的打磨。为了贯彻没有任何文字的特点，游戏系统，机制，以及配套的UI都是把能做减法的全都做了减法，但游戏依然够好玩。
我已经警告过你了，这款游戏是比较经典的那种roguelike，如果不喜欢开局就死死死的，那么反正你买下来也是会退款的
A 3/5 rating as yes it is a bit fun, but frustrating to play.
Sorry, but there needs to be more ways to boost your health than one as there are WAY too many things that decrease it. It is especially annoying that the thing that gives you health has wings and keeps moving about. It makes the game hard (even on the easy mode) to get past level one. I will get as far as the very end, literally the last tile to the stairs, and then die. Assuming I even make it that far. Only once so far have I got to level two, but died instantly.
Although it takes a bit of figuring out, it is fun to see what new skills and armour do. It's just REALLY frustrating the amount of times I died. To me it feels like there's no goal to reach the next level, just survive as long as you can on the current level.
Oh, and it seems monsters can move AND attack you per turn, whereas you can only move OR attack. A bit unfair.
This game is probably good for some people who are experts at this kind of thing, but not for those who just want to play for fun.
I would only recommend this game if there were some other way to gain health other than to risk chasing around the health with wings icon.
This game is just meh. It`s not addictive, it has no rogue-like replayability. It`s slow and, most of all, boring. You feel no urge of digging into it and playing more. I`ve been wanting to buy it for a year or so, finally got it on the sale and it just didn`t impress me. Even the visual style is somehow unexiting. So I ended up farming cards and deleting it for good.
Can`t recommend.
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 and is a truly beautiful game.
The biggest problem I have—which I share with most people complaining in their reviews—is how frustratingly slow it is. This is coupled with the fact that you as the player have one single action. You can move, attack, shield, use a skill or simply wait. Forget moving and attacking on the same turn or anything like that. Meanwhile there are enemies in this game who can move two tiles, position themselves perfectly and then attack you, doing massive damage.
This is further infuriating as the enemies often simply undo what you literally just did. Oh, you grabbed some health? No, this enemy just attacked you for just as much, if not more. Oh, you moved a step forward? No, this trap was just activated by an enemy at the edge of the screen who stepped on a tile and you were pushed back again. Oh, you readied your shield expecting this enemy to step forward and attack? No, he just stood exactly where he is and won't move for several rounds just waiting for you to step into range so he can [i]♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ push you back again[/i].
Meanwhile, in between every single turn, you have to wait for every single enemy on the screen to make their slow moves as well as every single trap to activate and show their slow animations and every single effect on every single tile to animate. [i]There is so much waiting in this game.[/i]
The predominant feeling I get in this game is utter powerlessness: a complete lack of proper agency. That is [i]not[/i] what you want to feel in a game. In this game I am at the complete mercy of the game in terms of what items I get, what the level layout looks like, what enemies are where and what they do—and like I said, sometimes they decimate you and sometimes they do literally nothing. I feel like I'm playing poker but I have to play the first hand I get. No exchanging cards. Oh, I got a pair of threes? Well, too bad. The game just plucked that third ace straight from the deck and slapped me in the face with a full house.
I want to love this game, I really do. I just wish I didn't have to struggle with my impulse to rage quit every time the game turns my perfect run into instant defeat in one or two turns in a way that's completely out of my hands.
피라미드 도굴하면서 최종층까지 도달하면 되는 로그라이크 게임
일단 이 게임에 제일 마음에 들었던 점은 게임 자체의 분위기였다. 고대 이집트 피라미드 벽에서 볼 수 있는 그림체로 컷씬들이 나오고, 이와 비슷한 비주얼로 실제 게임플레이도 진행되기 때문에 시각적으로는 불편한 점이 없었다. 또한 게임 장르가 전략적 턴제 게임이라 적절한 타이밍에 적 공격, 스킬 사용, 함정 발동 등등을 해서 수적으로 열세인 상황을 타파하고, 무덤과 관을 털어서 다양한 아이템들을 루팅하는 맛이 있다. 아쉬운 점은 위에서 말한 "고대 이집트 비주얼" 게임 컨셉 때문에 아이템 설명을 그림으로만 해줘서 처음 아이템을 들면 뭔 기능인지 파악을 하는 데 시간이 걸린다. 또한, 한 층 내에서 시간을 너무 끌면 입구에서부터 강한 몬스터들이 나오는데 초반에 이거 떄문에 진입장벽이 있다.
그런데 이 게임의 단점은 난이도가 드럽게 높다는 점이다. 일단 위에서 말한 특징 때문에 파밍이 제한될 뿐더러, 함정 하나 잘못 밟으면 끔살당하는 게 일상이고 한 턴만에 체력이 반피가 깎이거나 몬스터가 길막하는 경우가 종종 나온다. 사실 여기까지면 상관이 없는데, 더 큰 단점은 한 턴 한 턴이 정말 오래 걸린다. 주인공 (플레이어) 가 행동을 하고 다음에 내 차례가 빨리 오는 게 아니라 몬스터와 함정의 움직임을 하나하나 보여주는데, 거짓말 안하고 문명 한 턴 보는 기분이다. 차라리 문명은 "AI 속도향상" 모드라도 있어서 시간 절약이 가능하지, 이 게임은 그딴 모드도 없어서 한 턴 기다리다 보면 인내심이 갉아먹히는 기분이다.
차라리 난이도와 느린 속도는 이해가 가능하다고 치자. 그런데 이 게임은 무려 최종보스에 버그가 있다 ! 정확히 말하자면, 최종보스를 죽이지 못해 게임이 끝나지 않는 버그이다. 심지어 버그가 존재한 지 3년이 넘었는데 아직도 안 고쳐서 거의 3시간 동안 하던 판을 날리고 리셋해야 했다. 이런 버그를 아직도 안 고친것부터 이 게임이 방치되었다는 걸 증명해 주고 있는 것이다.
결론적으로, 컨셉은 좋은데 다듬어지지 않았고 결국 그 컨셉에 잡아먹혀버린 게임. 다른 전략게임을 하다가 내 턴이 너무 안 오는 거 같아서 답답할 때 이 게임을 사서 상대성을 느껴보는 이유 빼고는 구매하는 걸 비추천한다.
A fascinating turn-based dungeon crawler that is a delightful mystery, communicating complex mechanics via a few symbols and observation of environment.
完全不公平的游戏。是不是因为我是个盗墓（考古）的，所以金字塔里所有东西都要针对我？AI很迷，无法勾引。15血3动牛头怪（埃及神话有牛头？）打你必定暴击10物理+15火伤，带盾击。 3血小狗头，行动规律摸不透，有时候2动，有时候1动。不知道行动格数到底和什么有关。BOSS会选择一个你下一回合必定会被他攻击到的地方等你，绝对不会再移动一步。你可以选择站着不动，你可以等着后面越刷越多的牛头人来爆你的菊。牛头人死了，你也别高兴的太早。减血的圣甲虫会找到你的地方，然后扑上来狠狠的咬掉你20血。加血的圣甲虫会离你远远的，减血的圣甲虫会千方百计的靠近你，你打它还不能破防。每个回合要处理的单位太多，基本上是我玩1秒钟，等电脑运营1分钟。玩了一个下午，只有在拿到减血圣甲虫变加血的盾，才勉强爬到2楼。挫败感太强。就算我玩黑魂这种初见死死死的，一个下午，我多多少少还能推进一部分剧情。这破游戏……麻痹的……有人说，这个是国人做的，不能批评，你批评它就是阻碍国人游戏的发展。我呸！你TMD做成这么个鬼样子，我作为玩家，玩了以后一肚子火，还不能说么？ 对了，最后说一句，去你X的命中率，去你X的MISS
Pros - the art design is lovely; there are a lot of items to discover and usually just enough clues to infer what they do.
Cons - turn speed (as others have mentioned) can be very slow; have encountered same game-breaking bug twice on the same level (seems like it hangs during an enemy turn).
I wanted to like this game; unfortunately there are so many other rogue-likes I could be playing I'm not going to spend any more time on this one, only to hit that bug again. If you don't run into that bug you may enjoy it.
游戏节奏太慢 动一次 要等地图中每个怪物 都行动一次才行 就连穿装备都算一次行动 也就是说你打开一个箱子 拿个装备 穿上 基本上都要几十秒 而且全游戏无文字说明 萌新根本看不懂 慎入
以上观点之代表我个人感觉
難しいけどまぁまぁ楽しめる しばらく最小化した後にゲームの続きをはじめたら攻撃やらできなくなった そんな致命的なバグがあるので注意
Really fun game. The artistic choice to exclude text added a level of problem solving and discovery to the turn-based combat and startegy. The music and art were fantastic, as well. Although, I wouldn't recommend this game to anyone looking for a mindless game to pass the time with.
- The game has nice graphics, though system requirements are surprisingly high for static sprites in a turn-based game, it's like Binding of Isaac all over again.
- Icons are mostly self-describing, bit it needs some time to figure out the rest. Guess I'll just read the wiki on most difficult ones.
- The turn-based roguelikes are usually faster as others say, but for me it's more of a chance to catch up of what's going on on whole map, I can catch up with all changes without having and unexpected enemy if they were all moving simultaneously. Suits for a slowpoke like me. Could have the "field of view" for enemies though, player should not see the map so far behind so many obstacles, but that could raise the difficulty. Still would like to see a toggle of this feature.
Pas fou.
C'est vrai, il n'y a aucun texte, donc on comprends rien. On a 4 stats, visiblement une stat d'attaque, une de défense, une de précision. La dernière stat, aucune idée de ce que c'est.
Ce jeu est plutôt cruel, on arrive en face d'un monstre qui attaque avec des bourrasques, il nous fait reculer, on retente d'avancer, game over.
On se prend une bourrasque depuis l'autre bout de la carte, ca nous pousse dans un trou, on meurt.
On a des sorts, servent à rien. Voler 2 hp en étant au corps à corps quand on se prend un coup à 10 juste après, aucun intérêt. Balancer une boule de feu sur les ennemis qui sont tous insensible au feu, aucun intérêt.
Beaucoup trop frustrant pour être fun. J'aime les jeux qui me résistent, mais là c'est juste pas amusant. On est loin d'un binding of isaac ou on arrive toujours à boucler le premier niveau. Là, on passe le premier niveau une fois sur 10. Suffit d'avoir la bonne arme, un bon bouclier et c'est fini.
故弄玄虚，玩的不明不白，不是我不去参悟，而是这个游戏的进行速度像便秘一样令人不适，不知道是卡还是原来如此，我走向第一个怪用了十分钟。
Well this game is interesting.
I bought.. refunded.. re-bought again.. struggled over and over.. many ragequits etc..
And then I beat it. This is one of rarest roguelike game in existance that has such high skill cap and made me feel "pride and accomplishment"..
no, there are no lootboxes..
Game is turn based, hard to learn, but once you really get used to it(takes a lot of time because no youtube guides available or real gameplay that doesnt suck.
But the game really shines because its really a lot depends on your skill.
At first I swear it was stupid rng over and over but now its just SKILL and SKILL only*
*except if you pick that shield as first item. Shield that drops - health. Then you need to find another shield asap or die..
Ce jeu fût ma grande surprise de ce mois-ci, je l'ai acheté un peu par hasard et au bout d'une semaine j'avais déjà une trentaine d'heure sur le jeu. Simple avec les éléments basiques du tour par tour, on découvre petit à petit comment accéder au prochain sous-sol jusqu'à parvenir (avec un peu de chance) au niveau final. Je le recommande vivement, ce jeu à une très bonne durée de vie.
this game is made for the tablet, it's terrible to play on the PC.
Très bon petit jeu au tour par tour, sur lequel on se casse très souvent les dents. Mais pour ceux qui aiment se confronter aux mystères de l'insondable Egypte ancienne, c'est un plaisir. On aime à y revenir de temps en temps pour voir si on va être capable d'aller plus loin dans les dédales du temple. Très bonne durée de vie.
看得出来这种几乎没见过的美术和创意是用了心的，
但是在游戏性上确实待改进。
难度高其实不是主要原因，
如果只是下面其中一个，
也许可玩性还不错，
可结合起来就有点惨了：
[h1] 单调 [/h1]
从一层到二层，发现没有太大变化，
从二层到三层，发现还是没有太大变化，
只有一些新怪物。
[h1] 节奏慢 [/h1]
如果策略性较高，
需要对自己的行动做出相当的计算，
那么慢一点是正常的。
但是我觉得我很少需要像下棋一样过多思考
没怪就走，有怪就打，
路上有东西就顺手牵羊，没有东西就过河拆桥，
一次还只能做一个动作。
[h1] 运气成分重且不可控 [/h1]
怪物的行动，获得的物品，命中伤害等各项属性的收益
甚至是格挡和暴击和装备特效的触发率，都无法得知
有时候怪物也不攻击我，就从我面前走过去了？
不知道是我掌握的信息太少还是纯粹随机。
对图形的猜解确实有一种好像埃及考古的探索趣味，
【破解新技能的图形其含义】很有新意。
可是这似乎并不是这个游戏主要在玩的东西。
[spoiler] 不如考虑做成解谜游戏。 [/spoiler]
19元买入的此游戏，客观来说，不太值。
1、图形化毫无文字，即可以说是一种个性，也可以说是一种匮乏。
2、对新手不太友好，玩游戏前30分钟，基本处于懵逼状态。如果没有一个很好的新手向导或预热，毕竟现在是一个快速消费的快节奏社会，很多人都会知难而退。
3、游戏背景很吸引人，这也是我为何看了几张图片和背景介绍宣传，就立即下单买入的原因。游戏中可以看到坐着对文化背景也做过一些研究，但是对文字、陷阱、魔法、敌人、甚至基本剧情的都毫无文字说明，只会让人觉得有些惋惜，而且让你没有代入感。毕竟埃及的古墓历史和文化名声很大，但了解细节的人并不多，需要有一个铺垫。好的游戏是给你先讲一个故事，而这个故事最好是厚重的，有文化背景的，故事讲完后，表现在操作和图形上可以是精简的。显然坐着前一步都没做好，后一步就急匆匆的实现了。
4、可以考虑通过ART BOOK或一些官方指引手册来补足。对于独立游戏，我一直是比较乐观购买的，但最近买了很多独立游戏后，发现很多独立游戏所谓的个性，还是由于四个字，资金不足。至于是否能巧妙的以个性的方式展现那又是另外一回事。
最后考虑到游戏主题的新颖，鼓励据说是国产游戏坐着继续奋斗，还是给予推荐。我们支持国产游戏，但也希望能在市场中的定价和定位更有竞争力，实话实说，此游戏的购买者要注意评估性价比，此游戏在我心中，至少10元以上的价格相比其他同类游戏是缺少性价比的。
Although I LOVE the idea of this game, I simply cannot stand how slow turns progress. Once you move, EVERY SINGLE ENEMY moves singularly, and slowly for that matter. This problem is so prevalent that I could not continue playing this game. In these regards, I cannot recommend this game.
居然是国人制作的！！！
真的把我惊艳到了
一个这么有新意的游戏不应该被埋没
但是话说难度也高了点吧
脸黑的话第一层都过不了
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更了之后并没有什么卵用
难度还是高到吃屎
我打个球，而且难度是靠敌人数量和属性堆起来的
各个跑得比我快，攻击比我高
开不到关键装备就GG
我玩个球玩，roguelike游戏也不带这样强行受苦的
魂3每次死亡都能下次进步，这个游戏就看脸是吗
FTL也是回合制(笑)roguelike，装备差可以靠经验和操作
这个游戏不存在的，输赢就看脸
说到看脸，隔壁FTK也看脸，设计的就比这好
之前因为国产/冒险/回合制战棋/roguelike给了好评
现在再玩就彻底暴露了游戏设计上的缺陷
真的很棒的游戏，没过第一层的大兄弟一定是获得装备以后没有装备上去，获得后点开装备栏点击装备才能装备上去。尤其是进入游戏还有个小人（作者君）鞠躬~~~
Excellent mais sans pitié, c'est un roguelike au tour par tour qui à la particularité de n'avoir aucun texte. C'est au joueur de découvrir et de déchiffrer chaque glyphe afin d'exploiter son environnement et survivre.
Si dés le début vous êtes pourchasé et mis en pièce par des balrogues, innutile de ragequit faut juste recommencer en espérant tomber sur un meilleur loot ...
Au fur et a mesure de votre progression, vous aurez des infos sur les momies des niveaux que vous avez terminé, ce qui doit faciliter vos prochaines parties.
Petite astuce : Ce jeu EST hardcore, mais si par chance vous avez réussi a traverser plusieurs niveaux et que vous sentez que la chance va tourner, faites donc un backup de votre sauvegarde. Elle est "planqué" ici (sous Win7) : C:\Users\<Utilisateur>\AppData\Local\Hieroglyphika
Voila, vous avez un mode "Homme de Bronze".
Игра вроде хорошая, контента в ней много, механика интересная, но для рогалика крайне важно быстро переиграть в случае смерти (а ранняя смерть из-за тотального рандома - это обычное дело) или, если видно что уровень плохо сложился, или если дела с начала не задались.
Поэтому всё хорошее где-то "там".
А "тут" у нас, надо ждать пока поочереди походят все вражеские юниты, потом дождаться срабатывания каждой ловушки, потом появление/исчезание эффектов ловушек. Всё это происходит с анимацией. Потом совершаем 1-о действие и всё заново (причём на смену 1-ой шмотки тратится полный ход).
1/10 вместо 9/10 рандомов, которых я так и не дождался.
Es innovador con el tema de los pictogramas pero se vuelve repetitivo y depende mucho de la suerte.
难度略高不推介把这个游戏当成休闲游戏，打了七小时最高到达第五层玩这游戏需要智商和人品。。。
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 Starve have those moments too, but at least they don't seem as slow as this game.
I don't have a problem with turn based games--original XCOM is one of my favorie games, and some of those turns can be quite long. The problem here is, that it just isn't as fun for me. This isn't really objective, as some reviewers don't mind it. What I really find frustrating is that when you loot sarcophagi it can take you a full turn to equip the item, unless it's the first item. For example, if you loot a shield and you didn't have one before, it's automatically equipped. If you already had a shield, you now have to choose to spend a whole turn equipping it. The problem is the turn based system for this game. It's the whole design. It seems to be built around initiative, so you get our speed up and it seems you get more turns, but it still just takes way too long.
I really like all the different equipment and spells you can get: armor, helmets, amulets, defensive/offensive spells, and weapons. Probably my favorite spell is the vampire spell which allows you to take half an enemie's life.
There is a lot of thought put into this game, for sure, and I do enjoy trying to figure out the mechanics myself. Some enemies you kill will turn into white bat-like creatures that you can heal yourself with, or they may heal or kill certain enemies. There are also black bat-like creatures that can heal or harm you and enemies. There are certain conditions for that which you have to figure out. You can knock enemies into walls, each other, and various items and have completely different reactions. It can be quite dangerous figuring out what new spells do, as they can hurt you. There are different kinds of traps: acid/gas, fire, freeze, spikes, etc. and each level is random. There are a lot of different things going on each turn, and you can't stick around too long in the levels as enemies spawn in from the left, and you really don't want to face all of them.
I like a lot of things about this game, but it's just so slow. I may play it again, but I really can't recommend it, because I know a lot of people aren't going to like this aspect.
玩儿了半个小时，先吐槽一点，实在不能忍，装备界面掉帧严重，有时候人物攻击也掉帧，玩儿起来超级蛋疼，游戏乐趣真的会减半。
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Hieroglyphika确实很好玩儿，刚玩儿30min就觉得很不错。
这不是一个刷刷刷的roguelike，而是需要去思考才能玩儿下去的游戏。比较符合我的胃口（滑稽）
陷阱的配置相比很多其他的roguelike复杂的多，对我方和敌人都是一种考验。
敌人的ai也还算聪明（知道防止我吃回血的。。。那是蛾子吗 lol）
这个游戏的难度。。。确实很难，但是绝对不是难到无解。对于一些人说自己连第一关都打不过去，只能说too young too naive。roguelike玩儿的太少，自然很难接受这样一个硬核的游戏。
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我特别的希望这个游戏的开发者可以对游戏的交互体验做一些优化。
道具栏打开的方式啊，界面增加一些跟这个游戏背景相关的细节，让整个界面可以让人有所把玩。
比较重要的是，也是其他很多评论都提到过，敌方回合太长。一个场景里不仅有敌人，也有大量的陷阱，游戏中怪物和陷阱会按照某种顺序一个一个行动，再加上陷阱和怪物有喷火，喷冰，喷毒之类的动。在一个充满陷阱和大量敌人的场景里，敌人的回合时间会非常的漫长。十分建议开发者可以解决这个问题，让敌人的回合起码“看上去”，不是那么冗长，能让整个游戏更流畅的进行。
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推荐这个游戏，虽然有一些小问题，但是瑕不掩瑜。希望作者可以把这个游戏打磨的再精细一些。
Nice little turn based dungeon crawler. The music gets old really fast, but otherwise it's pretty fun. But look out, it's tough!
1，没有任何教程的游戏~
2，语言中文怎么用？全是图画数字几乎没有语言~
3，拼脸的游戏~有时候就算在会玩，也会被脸黑拖累~
4，其实还算蛮好的游戏~但是内容太少太空洞了~
5，画面很独特~几乎没什么音乐~
6，打折入蛮好的~全价的话算了吧....
补充：平衡性非常糟糕~
打了半小时终于过了第一层，但感觉这游戏随机性也太高了。而且换装备要一回合这个点有点蛋疼吧。游戏总体是可以的。但是他的难度注定不适合所有玩家
Игра интересная, красивая.
На первый взляд непонятная, но вообще разобраться во всех этих "картиночках" и механике легко и просто.
Вроде в игре есть все, что нужно, НО:
[b]Здесь очень многое зависит от удачи:[/b]
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[*]Как заспавнятся мобы.
[*]Как встанут сундуки и что в них будет лежать.
[*]Какие стихии главные на уровне и какие есть у нас (полностью зависит от предыдущего пункта).
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По всем этим пунктам разброс очень велик. Скажем, вместо 4d3 тут 1d12.
Такой рандом вкупе с "неторопливостью" игры сводит на нет все старания по прохождению (потратить [b]кучу[/b] времени на прохождение двух уровней и выйти на третий практически голым, с бесполезными заклинаниями и без хп).
Но больше всего в игре удручает момент смерти.
Нам просто показывают местный экран "гейм овер". На каком бы уровне мы не погибли, сколько бы врагов мы не положили. Ни количества ходов, ни счета. Ничего. Конец и все.
Я благодарен разработчику за старания, но удовольствия я не получил, запросил возврат средств.
在以撒的结合之后已经很久没有看到这么有趣的小游戏了，游戏可玩性较高，而且给玩家很多探索的乐趣。在大约探索了一个小时之后大概就能知道大概的套路。游戏唯一的问题是难度较高，常常要看脸，很多玩家在几次死亡之后就消失兴趣。但是，有的玩家所说的几个小时过不了第一关我是不敢苟同的，那不是游戏的问题，是脑子的问题。
挺有意思的游戏，完全没有文字，纯粹只有图形。好处是可以适应任何语言环境，但是因为完全没有解释，所以一开始上手难度非常大，都不知道怎么玩……
很难，或者说可玩性很高，但是真的有人通吗？而且这个游戏语言设置真的有用吗？
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 music is mediocre at best.
Very challenging but rewarding. I found ther lack of detailed instruction frustrating at first but ultimately it adds to the charm of the game.
Игра вроде бы и не так плоха, но слишком однообразна.
Все нахоимые предметы хоть и дают значительные улучшения но все они схожи, нет каких-то уникальных возможностей. Вся разница в цифрах и дистанциях. Различных механик попросту мало. Оружий по сути 3-4 типа, в остальном - разне параметры и стихии, которые тоже не сильно меняют погоду.
Скорость игры также немного удручает, но терпимо.
Сложность - не разобрался. Сачала слил пару персонажей в самом начале из-за банальных промахов, потом получил неплохие предметы, без проблем дошёл до середины игры - и какая-то штука уубила меня издалека, когда у меня было 99 хп. Ну, наверное это можно было как-то законтрить, этого я уже выяснять не буду.
Оформлена игра красиво, но идея с картинками вместо надписей откровенно просрана - на каждой шмотке банально клетки её действия относительно персонажа и параметры, уникальные изображения увидел на трёх начальных предметах.
В итоге за интересной задумкой так и не увидел хоть немного затягивающего геймплея, а для рогалика такое фатально.
Оформил возврат, даже сотню на это жаль.
游戏是好游戏，创意也很新颖，但是玩过一小时后我还是决定退款。
让我退款的理由是，难度。虽说roguelike游戏都是上手难，而且我玩过的roguelike游戏不多，但没有遇到过一个小时第一关过不去的情况，其中最让我不太理解也最让我气愤的是，从后面追过来的15血的追兵。当你不断前进，远离入口的时候，就会有追兵从后面刷出来，而且一般都是刷出两只，移动都是每次两格的，一刀砍你10滴血，附带燃烧效果再掉10滴血，5刀你就死，而且你还跑不过他们，跟他们打吧，盾牌推击如果撞到墙能2下搞死他们，但是你自己也基本上半残了，后面boss就没法打了。说到boss我也得吐槽一下，第一关的boss我一个小时内只打过两次，第一次用魔法打死了（然后被追兵干死了），第二次被他干死了，风魔法强无敌，推你后退一格，没远程根本近不了身，boss也是一次走两格，几乎是无解的状态。要是没有追兵，或许我就想想方法耗死boss，但是考虑到后面追来的两个近乎boss的小兵，我等不了啊，只能硬上，这就是难点所在，也是我觉得设计的有点问题的地方。如果去掉追兵或者只减少到一个，那么或许还能打打，但是两个，真心抗不过。
关于游戏创意方面，看图识别能力我觉得挺好的，不过了解了基本意思之后，大概就掌握了这个游戏的套路了。一个小时内，第一关没过，我就差不多预料到后面能遇到的情况了，这方面也是一个问题，哪怕第一关简单点，只拿些特别普通的武器、盾牌，没有魔法，打败boss后获得一些特殊装备，进入第二关难度暴增，获得一些带新符号的装备，也是不错的，所有的游戏元素在一开始就全部展现，很快就会腻的。我一开始玩拿到一个装备的感觉是，“嗯嗯嗯？？？这什么意思，什么效果？”了解了之后觉得很有趣，但是一个小时后，拿到新装备就是，“哦，这样啊，赶快走，后面追过来了”，对这些符号已经没什么兴趣了。
最后一方面，游戏没有让人多周目的奖励，我游戏库里只有5个roguelike游戏，4个算是了解的游戏大概的内容的，都含有多周目元素。虽然说这不是roguelike游戏必要的，但是配合上这个难度，就会让人没有玩的欲望，这也是我退款的一个原因。
整体来说，游戏的立意不错，但是游戏体验没有搞好，让人难以提起继续玩的热情，我不是很推荐入这个游戏。
这游戏实在太看脸了.游戏开始时的武器装备太差，开不到盾牌以及合适的武器直接GG根本没的打。
Petit roguelike aux allures de speedrun, qui devient vite assez punitif.
Nous y affrontons des créatures mythiques aux commandes d'un petit archéologue qui visite les tombes (ouais dit comme ça moi aussi je trouve ça dégueulasse) et y évitons des pièges (qui peuvent d'ailleurs aussi bien s'avérer des alliés que des adversaires gênants), dans un "scrolling" (qui n'avance que si nous le faisons) horizontal dans lequel on ne peut revenir en arrière et sur lequel les ennemis arrivent des deux côtés, ce qui pousse à foncer comme en course pour ne pas retrouver envahi par des adversaires devenus trop coriaces.
Aucun texte, il vous faudra retenir quelle compétence s'associe avec quelle image et donc vous faire au climat (ou tricher en dessinant sur un calepin, aussi).
L'intérêt de ce jeu est celui du défi, car on meurt pour mourir à nouveau... je ne suis d'ailleurs pour le moment pas arrivé bien loin... ;)
难度略高，能不能加快点游戏节奏呢？感觉有一半的时间在看敌人移动和机关的特效。
没有任何剧情 画面音乐太单调 节奏很慢很无聊
不推荐 虽然是国产
Had the normal retail been only $3 I might've been able to recommend but unfortunately
there is no sense of progress in this game, since nothing carries over from play to play, and the content/gameplay is only slightly more advanced than a freebee like Minesweeper.
The game also suffers embarrasingly from 'Little Man Syndrome' where in it tries to overcompensate it's shortcomings by attempting to offer a 'hardcore' challenge. That challenge (however) fails leaving the impression that playtesters (if any) just got a lucky draw during thier randomization. More or less the game relies a lot on luck; how generous the level drawn for you is from the start.
A bit of Casino Slots mixed with an OS complimentary game; neither asking for $12
I'd suggest waiting for Hieroglyphica to turn up in a bundle or a holiday sale for $3 or less.
Great Roguelike. A unique take while having that familiar feel of other great roguelike notables, like 868-HACK.
Will buy again, and again, when this comes to Android/IOS
if you like strategy games and dungeon crawlers, you should try this!
The game has a simple but great art style! the basic mechanics of the game are unique and feel nice.
the items are intresting, but I'd like it if there was a bit more variety in the items, sometimes they are really simular.
the game is hard, and has a lot of random elements to it, if you don't like that, I wouldn't suggest you buy this.
I have 2 big issues with the game:
1- The generation: sometimes the generation of the rooms is a bit weird, I would like it if there was a bit more space. a lot of the times you get stuck between traps and enemies,
2- I feel like a lot of the runs are a bit the same, I'd like some more variety in items and some cool new things to interact with, you can replay this game a lot, but not as much as a game like the binding of isaac, or enter the gungeon.
so: great game! I hope the devs update it a little bit tho
这款游戏可以打发时间，可玩性也不错，但是 为什么不能随时随地存档！！！
我打到最后一关的最后 有一样道具没收集到，去打了几只怪 竟然死了！然后现在又要从第一层重新打了····
I get the game...I don't get the the complaints about the slow pace of the game, as though the negitive reviewers had never played a TBS game before? The disconnect may be an element of the rouge-like crowd expecting a fast twist game like Spelulky- a great game but so is Hieroglyphia which has elements of both turn-based strategy and the rouge-like.
Slow down and think rather than react for once- pay attension and observe the monster moves to have a slim chance to learn more of hieroglyphics before your exploror's career is abruptly terminated once more. The game pace moves along just fine. It difficult but but not unconquerable. It is mentally challeging yet refreshing rather than taxing because there is great depth within its simplicity. Artistically speaking Hieroglyika is brilliant, the stylish medium res graphics setting a mysterious and sinister tone.
This game has some good points
+only Symbols, no Text
+good music and atmosphere
+loot
+Superslow (0,5 seconds to Attack and wait half a minute to look enemy moves) -> IMHO unplayable
+to many Traps (half the map is flooded with gas or ice)
見た目からしてちゃんとした格好の調査員っぽいおじさんがなんらかの遺跡に入ったところ、大量の罠が作動し、突如として不審なエジプト風アニマルヘッドのコスプレ集団に取り囲まれてしまったので
仕方なく文化財保護の概念をかなぐり捨て、生き残るためにせっせと墓荒らしをするエクストリーム盗掘ゲーム。
どいつもこいつも問答無用で襲い掛かってくる。エジプトの神話世界はホットなラインでマイアミあたりとでも繋がれてるんだろうか。
紹介に書いてある通り、このゲームは言語への依存性が極めて低く、数字と矢印、マークからなんとなくアイテム効果を察しながら進めていくことになる
これによって、英語がわからなくてもちゃんと遊べるゲームになっている。せいぜい出てくる文字はタイトルそのものと、死亡時に出るガイコツみたいなオメガ(たぶん"終わり"を暗示しているのだろう)くらい。ストーリーの大意もステージ間の挿絵で表現される。エジプトの漢たちは象形文字ですべてを語る。
ただし、その分アイテムの説明がカッチリしてないので、図を見てもわからないものは[b]それ以上の説明がない[/b]。そのため一部の魔法などで使いどころに非常に迷うことになるのが欠点。
このゲームの装備品は非常にクセのあるものが揃っており、移動できるマス目を変えてしまうものや、厄介な属性を完全シャットアウトできるものなど有利不利問わずいろいろなものがある。特に胴体の装備は、やたら殺意の高い敵の火力や罠を防ぐために必須なのだが、まあ大抵がとんでもない移動パターンにされてしまうので悩みながら装備することになるだろう
また属性についてもよ～く考えないと、装備の付替えに1ターンかかるので、いざというとき「氷結で行動不能→囲まれてリンチ」という古代エジプトカラテのワンツーパンチを浴びるハメになる。コワイ！
「敵を倒した！」と油断していると湧いてきた黒い悪霊にいきなりとり殺されることなんかも非常によくあるため、一手一手をよく考えることも重要だが、装備品もふだんから吟味して身につける必要がある。かといってモタモタ装備品を集めていると......。そのへんがとても悩ましいゲームバランスになっている。
とはいえ、数十分程度でどんどん死んでサクサクゲームオーバーになったりするし、やめたければいつでもセーブしてタイトルに戻れるので、小粒で区切りが付けやすいわりにガッツリ遊べるおもしろいゲームとなっている。操作もマウスだけでこと足りるので非常にらくちん
独特の雰囲気をもった直感的にプレイするローグライクとして、これはオススメしたい一本だ。
Game got great potential but it needs lots of update. Game mechanic is unbalanced. Code filled with anomally that makes game unbalanced and hard to play.
Graphics, sound and music are great.
Рогалик/логика
Пошаговая игрушка. Управляем археологом. Спускаемся в гробницу, мочим монстров, обходим ловушки, собираем шмотки и спеллы.
Главная фишка игры: полное отсутствие каких-либо надписей. Всё описание к оружию, броне, спеллам, монстрам и т.д. сделаны в виде иконок. Первые несколько игр придется потратить на расшифровку (или посмотреть в интернете - но так неинтересно).
Главный минус игры - слишком медленные передвижения монстров. Когда их много на экране - на 1 вражеский ход уходит по 5-10 секунд. В игре, где 1 уровень проходится по 100-150 ходов, это много.
В целом доставило. На несколько вечеров пойдёт
[b]7/10[/b]
I like this game a lot, it is challenging and fun, but I have found it disheartening at deeper levels.
It seems like the game is balanced with three things in mind:
1. Player Knowledge
2. Strategy
3. Random chance on loot
With the game being permadeath, and loot drops being random out of a wide selection, it can actually depend a lot on the loot as to how far you get in the game. If you don't have the right armour, or abilities to counteract some enemies, you are at a vast disadvantage no matter how skilled you are. The only knowledge-gain players get for playing better is a mouse-over description of one mob for each level you have completed in the dungeon, and that doesn't really give you as great as advantage as you might think.
Even the strategy is a little problematic, for while it is possible to work your way around mobs, you are basically against an invisible timer before really harder mobs start constantly spawning at the start of the level and coming towards you. It is possible to kill them, but because they keep spawning, you are basically encouraged to just avoid them completely and rush through. These rear-spawning mobs don't ever even seem to drop loot either. A careful person, in another game, might use time to eat away at the different mobs in the dungeon until there was a safe route, but because of this invisible timer of these mobs spawning, that really isn't an option, and so it cuts out that sort of strategy.
Due to these things, I found that I was losing the will to really keep trying with the game. The last 6 plays or so I have got down to level 6, but never past it, and my skill as a player, combined with the random chance of loot means that it doesn't really leave me feeling I will be in any better a chance next play-through. This has left me, while pleased enough with the game, likely to uninstall it because while I enjoy it, I don't like feeling I am just going to be spending hours without any real improvement. There isn't really much I can learn about the mobs further that will improve my chances.
So yeah, while I recommend the game, it isn't going to be for everyone due to the limits the game imposes on players to create the difficulty. Some people will adore it for this difficulty, but others, like myself, will just get frustrated.
Despite its abusive game play, I absolutely adore the style, sound, and originality of this rouge-like. A rouge-like should be difficult but not impenetrable. With its difficulty ramping up to ten at every turn, Hieroglyphika is not a game that allows advancement and chooses instead to just thrash its players. Heiroglyphika is not built to allow a player to adapt and learn.
It's a decent game, but not worth $4.99. If you can, pick up Hieroglyphika when it's on sale. Why? The mechanic of using pictograms in place of text evokes mystery and discovery not very common in modern games. It's neat to pick up equipment and discover the abilities of each item.
Despite this clever mechanic, insanely punishing difficulty and long AI turns will have you pulling out your hair. I consider myself a "hardcore" roguelike player, but I rarely make it past the fourth level. The lack of moving animations is a letdown, but I am more disappointed there isn't more background music in the game. Enemy turns take forever, so you're stuck listening to the same three tracks on repeat.
TL:DR Buy it when it's on sale. There are some fun mechanics, but infuriatingly long turns and insane difficulty. Needs more music.
Although most of the negative reviews on this state that the gameflow is rather slow, I had no problem concerning this. The fact that there are nothing written adds depth to the gameplay and makes you feel you're discovering/identifying the items and enemies you encounter. However, once I will figure out all of them I wonder if the game will have the same appeal. I have been playing roguelikes for more than 10 years and yet to complete any of the traditional ones. With Hieroglyphika, on the other hand I have figgured out about 80% of the items/enemies and I have won on normal mode only in my 5th run. So I am not sure if it has the replay value of a traditional rogulike. Some extra content, items and ui improvements would be great. But it is still worth its price, especially when it is in discount.
人物可以带两个技能，武器和盾牌自带一个主动技能。
盾牌的主动可以击退，击退目标撞到有目标的格子上会有伤害。
武器的主动，根据武器不同也不一样，范围攻击或者远距离攻击，并且有概率附加负面效果（前提是装备上有）。
吸血技能应该是按百分比的，想一次干掉一个顺便回血不可行。
衣服不同一回合走的格子数量不同。
踩到地上格子里黄黄绿绿的那个（大概是荆棘之类的），会限制移动，不过是减速还是少走一个格子就不知道了。
地上的陷阱是十字形的，墙上的陷阱是一个朝向的一条路。显示图形后下一个回合就触发。
火球射出来之后撞到目标还会爆炸。
想了这么多，还是没过第二关 不知道会不会有新元素 ：）
推荐，尤其现在是半价
Definitely worth the money if you like strategic puzzle-games.
The decision to have no text on the screen is both infuriating and interesting at the same time.
The first room is hell when you don't know what the various traps do, but once you start understanding the internal logic, the game makes complete sense.
It's still hard as all hell though.
Pretty unique take on the classic rouge-like genre. There are no words to be found aside from the title screens. Items and abilities descriptions are explained only through hieroglyphics and numbers. Clever combat and interesting gear to find. My biggest gripe is it can take a sec for your turn to come up. There are a bunch of traps and enemies that need to take there turn with no way to increase the speed. Unlike many games of this genre. Other then that definitely worth picking up on sale.
還不錯玩的SLG遊戲~完全沒說明字~一切都靠自己摸索~還有看圖意會裝備上的意思
打發時間不錯的小品
This game suffers from a horribly slow enemy turn. You move one tile, then the enemy takes 3-5 seconds per enemy to move. With multiple enemies, it can take what seems like 20-30 seconds of waiting for moving one tile. It's a waste of your time. I'm a traditional roguelike player and have never seen such a poorly implemented AI animation/movement sequence.
The game looks beautiful, has some interesting language mechanics. It's a shame the slow AI turns make it not worth the wait.
很有趣，却又有些难以叫人喜欢上的一款游戏。我也玩了2个多小时，才打到第 4 关，在@kyolin 的基础上补充一些内容。另外我觉得加血、扣血的并非「鸟」，而是「蛾」。
要解读游戏内的图象信息，我觉得可以总结成这样：看颜色猜属性，看形状猜效果，看图形分布猜范围，看组合方式猜逻辑。其中，每个图案都有独立的含义，比如剑代表攻击、盾代表防御、沙漏代表冷却。
游戏界面顶部的是属性栏，分别是：移动性（效用不明）、防御、攻击、精准。
游戏底部是装备栏，分别是：衣物、头饰、项链；盾（盾技冷却）、道具1（以自身为中心发动）、道具2（向其他目标发动）、武器（挥击冷却）。其中盾击可以撞怪或物，挥击一般是范围攻击，范围形状由武器类型决定，可以空挥。
游戏没有公共冷却，但每回合只能做一种且一个动作（就连装备也不能一回合全部换掉），主要的行动有 3 种：移动（无论几格）、攻击、施放装备技能。
除开物理攻防，游戏中基本属性应该是 4 个，这一点在背包中的武器栏数量上可以看出端倪。
通关之后我会补全游戏信息。
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游戏主要的趣味就在解读各种图象，猜测其效果。比起用文字呈现信息，象形的呈现方式有两个优点，首先一定程度上让玩家参与到信息解读中去，而不是把游戏信息当成只有需要的时候才看的词典；另外一点是贴合了故事背景设定，既利用了象形文字这一元素又营造了独特的探险氛围，确实引人入胜。
总的来说，我感觉到了创新意味，但与此同时，设计也略嫌简单。更重要的是游戏进程和学习的平滑度不平稳，简单来说就是游戏难，游戏乐趣容易断档，主要体现在随机性、不可存档上。90 分钟玩下来，我有这么些抱怨：
1. 游戏吃装备。随机生成的地图出来如果开头没有棺木，棺木没有「抽」出武装，那就是用生命在打怪。装备还只能换不能脱！天了噜，看见白蛾在前我却只有一面反转盾！
2. 一命到底，只有自动存档。其实我排斥的不是自动存档，而是我千辛万苦打到某个地方挂了，一切就前功尽弃了。
3. 基础行动方式限制太大，玩的时候有种狭窄的感觉。而这种不适感会在拿到可以移动两格的服饰后减弱。自己能做的事太少，相比之下，等待其他单位行动的时间要更多。
前面两点单看都还算是乐趣，但加起来就有点要命了。这也体现了游戏缺乏引导的问题，但这是好是坏就见仁见智了。在游戏强调粘度的今天，这些笨拙反而显得清新。
我认为教程并不是最重要的，起初难以上手的那一点点时间，稍稍摸索就能过渡：因为每个图象本身的含义都是独立的，不存在理解问题。问题在于即便你明白了所有的图形含义，知道了各种怪物、陷阱、物品的特点，还是不能有效提高存活率、推进游戏。换句话说，如果在图形下都加上文字释义，仍然能让玩家乐在其中，那「埃及地宫」就更棒了。
这就是我到目前为止的想法。
游戏是个好游戏，关于玩法和介绍我就不多说了。
我是来吐槽的！
因为游戏的难度完全就在于
脸黑
前两个墓碑开不到盾牌GG。
开到不合适的装备穿不穿呢？
不穿，怪物攻击高了物理攻击秒你GG。
穿，被组合属性的怪物中克制的魔法攻击秒你GG。
而且这个游戏非常操蛋的一点是，装备的基础属性是根据你获得的顺序来决定的。但特殊属性不变
比如：
有个装备“防火甲”（当然里面的装备都没名字这是我自己取的），
如果你是第一个拿到它。他的基础属性是防御+2 攻击+1。特殊属性是防火弱冰
如果是第二个拿到它，那他的基础属性则变成了防御+4 攻击+2。特殊属性是防火弱冰
如果是第三个拿到它，那他的基础属性则变成了防御+6 攻击+3。特殊属性是防火弱冰
依次类推。
看上去好像很好，每次获得新装备都必然会有提升。
但是这样造成了一个非常非常严重的问题，
那就是如果在火法师多的地图开到弱火的装备穿不穿呢？
在抗毒怪地图开到毒伤武器换不换呢？
不穿，怪物攻击高了物理攻击秒你GG。
穿，被组合属性的怪物中克制的魔法攻击秒你GG。
而且因为视野有限根本不能计算到全部的部署。
也许大部分玩家觉得这就是肉狗类游戏的乐趣，胜利与否完全和运气挂钩。
但是身为刷BT连单刀碎片都没摸过的人，选PA就没大招的人。这游戏完全玩不了啊！！！！！
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我永远都看不见第6关啊！！！
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每次都是被5层守关的风系怪物秒杀啊！为什么怪物平A还能爆击啊！！！！还是刀刀爆击啊！！！
我满血两回合就死啊！！！
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This is a challengeing rougelike with a really neat gimmick.
I have yet to reach the third level, but this is one of those games where I have to step back and think before every action and I love that. Did get it on sale, because I'm not sure if it's woth $10, but it sure is worth $5.
Too slow due to each and every enemy on the screen moving in turn before you can take your next action. Cmon! Seriously? I'm not an impatient person, but when you can easily imagine this being better, more convenient to our time, and quite simply a better game with a simple change in the code.... Not playable right now for me.
Hardモードを完走したので感想でも。（激ウマギャグ）
[h1]RogueLike+SLG=Hieroglyphika[/h1]
[*]ゲーム性
[b]文字の無いRPG[/b]…まず、この言葉に惹かれて買うのはお勧めできません。
何故ならば、ストーリーなど会話が発生し、その内容を推理するようなゲームであれば
この"絵文字を解読する楽しみ"という要素が生きてきます。
しかし、このゲームはせいぜいで装備品の能力説明を読み取るくらいです。
つまり、何回か遊べば装備の能力は覚えてしまい絵文字要素は無視できます。
絵文字要素を無視すれば、SLGの様なターン性のゲームに
主人公の装備品によるランダム性を加えたRPGといったゲームとなっています。
基本は死に覚え系の、プレイヤー自身が成長していくことが必須のげーむです。
[*]良かった点
・難しい
・難易度ノーマル（大嘘）
・ステージのテーマがしっかりしている
[*]悪かった点
・難しい
・そこまで重要じゃない絵文字
・仕事をし過ぎで敵以上に厄介なトラップ
・ゲーム速度がとても遅い
[*]攻略のコツ
装備品によって耐性や移動方向等が変わってくるのでステージによって切り替えると良い
装備品の能力は、手に入れた階を基準として強くなっていくので
あまり最初から飛ばして、手に入れ過ぎると後半で弱い装備しか無く詰むので
目当ての対策装備を手に入れたら、必要以上に棺をあけない事。
また、敵の耐性や特殊行動を覚えておかないと絶対クリアできないので初めての階は
すぐにクリアせず、次の階から一般敵となるフロアーの最後で待ち受ける敵を良く観察する。
最後に、推奨されない事ですが[spoiler]外部ツールで、ゲーム速度を上げる[/spoiler]と幾分ストレスが減ります。
又遇到了一个精品的国产游戏，真是开心。
在steam上玩到的其他国产游戏都多多少少的有个毛病，就是欠缺个性。许多中国的独立游戏制作人自己本身也是游戏的忠实用户，玩的游戏越多，越有可能做出杂糅，不纯粹的游戏。而这个游戏，太~太太太有个性了，有个性到完全不需要语言本地化。
作为一个埃及风格的游戏，象形文字式的菜单与道具说明，与主题相得益彰，给人带来的不适感非常的低。
游戏性方面，并没有太多的说头，感觉是个还未完善的游戏，内容较少。虽然是随机地城，但仅仅是地城的结构上发生了变化，玩法的实质基本没变。而且难度较高，对新人上手有些阻碍。
但这些都不阻碍这是一款值得入手的游戏啊！才36块钱，绝对值了！！！！
great for everyone that enjoy hard games....hoever be warned this game is REALY hard and the smallest mistake will result into your death.....
the rng is fair.it plays still a important role like in any other roguelike but most damage you will take because you made some dump actions like walking into a trap or let you surround by multiple monsters
the game hoever is a little bit slowpaced...you should realy think alot before you do somethink(but hey...that should be the case in any good turnbased game^^).
if you like hard games that require alot thinking....buy this
另一种意义上的“图形”游戏。
说起图形游戏，你可能觉得没什么感觉。毕竟现在接触到的绝大部分游戏都可以称之为图形游戏。
少数诸如“生命线”这样的文字游戏，都快成了大熊猫了。
但Hieroglyphika是另一种意义上的图形游戏，准确的说，除了标题，没有半点文字。
攻击，防御，各类长辈，陷阱，状态，功能等都是通过图形来进行描述。
这样做的好处毋庸置疑，制作组省下了一大笔本地化费用（笑）。
用作者的话说，游戏的乐趣之一就是理解各种图标的含义。
试玩的几个小时里，感受颇深，装备的描述全部靠图标来展示。包括游戏机制，也全部要考图标来理解。
非常考验你的理（xia）解（cai）能力。
完全需要你自己行探索以及发挥创造力去通关。
确实给人一种探险的感觉。
游戏本身是 rouge-like回合制策略游戏，地形，机关陷阱都是随机生成。
除了没有文字外，其他的要素感觉制作的都时非常的规矩，并没有太越界的功能。
游戏本身的美术风格也值得一提，非常的简洁。全部是矢量化制作。
虽然只是一个几百兆的小品游戏，却给人很舒服的视觉享受。
音乐非常动听，充满神秘感。
本身若是说有什么问题的话，给我感觉就是陷阱过多，甚至有时候路都被阻断，只能原地待命。
而怪物本身攻击又比较高，配合陷阱，经常走着走着就被逼到了死路，活活给虐死。
当然，瑕不掩瑜，作为一款国产游戏，值得各位一试。
First Impression video:
https://youtu.be/etjUJi1M0AE
This is one of those situations were I would prefer something between a thumbsup and a thumbsdown. Hieroglyphica is a really cool idea that has some serious flaws in the gameplay.
Hieroglyphica is a game with no text (except for the title, I guess they needed that one). Everything you do, and everything that you pick up, is described through pictures. The player has to interpret what every new item does and, in combat, hope that they get it right.
The gameplay itself is a rouge-like turn based strategy game. You explore and loot the dungeon while being threatened by traps, monsters, and the demons coming up from behind you (they're the rebel fleet mechanic you can see in FTL. They force you forward). Every turn you get to either move or act. Acting can include attacking, looting a chest, or getting ready to block.
Issues:
Now, the most glaring problem occurs with one particular type of enemy. I've never made it past the third floor, because there is an enemy there that can perpetually stun lock you. You can do nothing but hope that the enemies attacks miss and you'll be allowed to do something. This is frustrating at best, it made me want to throw my computer from the ISS at worst.
Another issue comes in the damage system. You start with 99 health. Even the weakest enemies can easily do 10 damage to you. More powerful enemies (on the second floor, so take "powerful" with a grain of salt) can do a quarter of your health worth of damage in a turn. You're limited actions mean that you either have to accept eating damage to try to run, or your locked into combat.
The map is also absolutely jam packed with traps. This one is not so bad as the previous issues, but I thought it was very annoying. The traps are so plentiful that it feels like none of the map is safe. You can usually get a warning that traps will fire next turn, unless an enemy steps on a pressure plate and sets them all off. This makes combat really hard to pull off, especially against enemies with multiple action. Yep, those are things.
Well, it might sound like I hate this game, but I actually liked it quite a bit. It just has some flaws that prevented me from really loving the game. If you have a hankering for innovative mechanics and incredibly punishing (often unfair) mechanics, then go for it. If not, pass it up, by all means.
「Hieroglyphika（ヒエログリフィカ）」はアグレッシヴな発掘調査員となってピラミッドを探索していく、ターン制RPG風ローグライクだ。
――と言ってはみたものの要素の強さで言えばローグライク6：ターン制4：RPG2くらいの割合なので分類がちと難しい。
タグの登録順でRPGが最後なのもむべなるかな。
「日本語サポート外じゃないか！」と思ったそこのあなた、どうぞご安心を。
ストアページ内の「このゲームについて」から分かる通り、このゲームにはテキストが存在しない。
ステージ中はおろかスタート画面のオプションからコンティニューから全てがピクトグラム＝絵で表現されているのだ。
よってこのゲームは日本人でも安心して楽しめる。いいね？
さて、肝心のゲームに関してだが、これはやってもらった方が分かりやすい。ゲームの詳細を述べるにはこのレビュー欄はあまりにも小さすぎる。
なのでざっくばらんにシステム・内容の箇条書きと、良い点悪い点をつらつら述べてみようと思う。
システム・内容について
・目的は最下層で○○すること。そのために各階の右端階段へ向かう。
・各階には敵がいたり、罠があったり、アイテムの入った棺があったり、罠があったり、罠が作動するスイッチがあったりする。
・マップはマス目状。移動は将棋の王将と同じ全方位1マスに移動が可能。装備品によって移動可能方向・マスは変わる。
・移動以外に「攻撃：防御：魔法：待機：装備変更：アイテム回収」のいずれかを行うとターン終了。
・体力回復手段は敵撃破後に現れるユニットと一部攻撃魔法のみ。
良い点
・一般的なローグライクにおけるランダム要素から成るプレイ毎の戦略構築と、二手三手先を見据えて動くターン制ストラテジーの要素が上手く噛み合っている。
・難易度ノーマルでもかなり歯ごたえがあるが、序盤のドロップ運によってはぐっと楽になるので、アイテムを揃える楽しさがある。
・「同じ階に居続けると強い追手が増えてくる」「でも道中のアイテムは欲しい」「敵を倒せば回復できるかも」という具合に上手くバランスが取られていて理不尽さや運ゲー感は余り感じない。
悪い点
・ローグライク＋RPGと題してあるが前述の通り文章は一切なく、絵も階層を挟むごとに表示される一枚絵のみで、この手のジャンルで重要視される「感情移入」はしづらい。
・アップデートは来たものの、ゲーム内（特に敵の）行動が遅く、自分の手番が来るまで若干時間を要する。罠の発動でさらに時間が伸びるため、場合によっては長い時間待たされる。
・上下左右マスでのマウス選択時に隣接したマスと干渉、思ったように行動選択ができない時がある。
・スクリーンはフルスクリーン・ウィンドウモードと選べるがサイズ自体の変更は出来ない。（こちらの環境では1920*1080固定だった）
総評
チェスや将棋が好きで「歯ごたえのあるローグライクが遊びたい！でも英語はちょっと」という人にはもってこい。
全体を通した難易度は「FTL」に近いので、「FTL」が好きなら気に入るかもしれない。
ゲーム所要時間は１・２時間程度で大作の合間合間に挟んだりするのがベターだろう。
それ以上となると上述の点からフラストレーションが溜まりやすく、またゲームへの没入感が途切れてしまって楽しみづらい。
発売直後ということもあってまだ改善点（特にゲームスピードに関して）はあるが、それでも現状充分楽しむことが出来る。
値段以上の価値はあると思うし、買って損は無いと思えるような良作だ。
「棺からかっぱらったアヌビス神の被り物をかぶったおっさん」が見られるのはヒエログリフィカだけ！
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 gear, and traps give a tell before they go off.
The puzzle aspects start to come in to play when you find loot and try to figure out 'what does it do actually?'
All aspects of your gear are visualized as pictograms and while you get all information about its effects, you have to figure out what these pictograms mean in the first place (which isn't that hard if you experiment a bit when you find something new to you).
Examples: a new dress may restrict your movement to the 4 cardinal directions instead of the usual 8, but boost your speed and defence and further increase your speed when you stand in sand tiles instead of reducing it. Headgear may reduce or nullify a certain damage type / effect while making you more vulnerable to another type. With the new weapon you may be unable to attack now and then due to cooldowns, but it extends your reach and hit chance while dealing a damage type this particular enemy is weak against... and so on.
While often things feel at first like flat upgrades to your ability to deal damage or get faster, you will come into situations where you'll have to skip some turns to swap items (each equipment change takes one turn, and spells and such start with cooldowns when freshly equipped) - and that along to changing your own movement or attack patterns give it a surprising amount of depth.
Enemies come with abilities as well and may push you around (beware of holes in the floor after the first few levels), freeze or poison you and generally keep you on your toes since new enemies are introduced every level so far (made it past lvl 5 of 9).
Just to extend on what kinds of things you have to keep in your mind:
- your general stats: life, speed, defence, attack strength and hitchance
- attack pattern of your normal and special attacks, damage type, additional effects when attacking, attack cooldowns
- spell effects, patterns, cooldowns
- your and your enemies resistances and vulnerabilities
- traps, their types and patterns, and with your current speed, will you make it past them in time - or can you even use them against your foes
- your own movement pattern (may need to change your suit to get out of a dead end)
- and also how you deal with +/- health ... uhm... flying things(?); your shield may reverse their effects for example
As for the graphics: Just look at the screenshots and form your own opinion. Npc/trap turns take a few seconds so it's a bit slow going but the important part is that you can always tell what is going on - it could lose its readability if sped up further.
Equipped gear is always represented on your character sprite which is nice, but there are no animations bar some 'swoosh' lines when attacks are dealt.
Also, a codex of some sort would be nice where you could unlock a view (with the same pictograms) of what you are up against, so far it's all about observing and memorizing and quite some guesswork - which isn't bad per se, but e.g. after I've killed the same bugger 20 times it would be nice to take a closer look into his actual stats.
Can't comment on technical stuff, I've experienced no problems like crashes at all. *edit: about half an hour minutes after writing this it crashed for the first time. Well... *edit2: and an update that specifically targets that crash came within one hour. On a sunday.
It's good.
O jogo me impressionou foi pela sua simplicidade, e ainda assim se mostrou como um Roguelike decente, digno de algumas horas caso não tiver nada mais interessante para fazer. Comprei esse jogo quase 3 dias depois do seu lançamento, quando ele me apareceu de repente naquela lista de jogos recomendados. Vou evitar spoilers da mecânica do jogo nos prós/contras:
Prós:
-É verdade que o jogo não possui texto algum além de "Hieroglyphika", apenas imagens e os números. É perfeito pro pessoal que não tem aquele inglês para ler/entender o jogo;
-A jogatina é bem instintiva;
-O mouse é a única coisa que você precisa. Achei sensacional, já que eu jogo em um notebook
-Gráficos simples, além de ser bem leve (o jogo é apenas 50 Mb de tamanho)
Contras:
-O gameplay é meio lento, porque o jogo é baseado em turnos;
-Pegar item é complicado, pois depende muito do mapa gerado;
-Não é chato, mas é provável que ele seja enjoativo (depende de cada um)
Não tenho como falar mais porque eu mal consigo passar da primeira sala. Então não sei qual a história do jogo, além de o nosso personagem ser um explorador em uma tumba/pirâmide, ou algo parecido, nem se ele vai ser atualizado ou não.
De qualquer forma, vou tentar deixar a minha análise atualizada do jeito que puder.
NOTA: 8/10
Very interesting game. Has roguelike elements such as permadeath. The game may seem to be a bit confusing at first, but you will quickly get the hang of it.
[b]Hieroglyphika[/b] is a fun, new Egyptian themed, [i]Turn Based[/i], [i]Roguelike[/i] 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 chasing you [spoiler]for taking to long[/spoiler]. Then finally you'll be making the most of what you have learnt to try and push deeper into the underground to inevitably die at the hands of a newly encountered enemy type.
It's this learning process that will either keep you playing for the first 2 hours or put you off of the game. I personally loved it and am now slowly chasing the achievements for each new floor I manage to accomplish.
**the game has had some updates since my initial review adding more enemy types (some quite annoying) that I feel have altered the pace and feel of the game.
A nice aspect of the game, is that which you have to decipher the "hieroglyphs" which make up every description in the game. There is no tutorial, help or anything like that, just you being brutally tossed in to the ancient tombs of egypt.
Also the artwork of the game is magnificent, and was the settling detail which made me buy this game.
It's good!
It is quite good actually. Unlike the other popular rougelikes, you cannot sit idle and farm like crazy in this game. You have an urgency to get to the end of the level before long or bad things happen to you, which I enjoy. I have not played too much at this point but from what I have seen, the weapon/armor sets are exactly the same in every playthrough. This is not a bad thing however, as the game presents you with a lot of items with drastically different effects. And the ability to change items/weapons/armors at will once you get them, creates an amazing utility that doesn't exist anywhere else.
While I believe the game can be further improved with the addition of randomness to the enemy spawn and other small fine tunings, the game at this point is fully fleshed out and complete.
As for the price, I think 9 dollars is more than fair for this game. It offers numerous replayability options and probably over 50 hours of gameplay before being any kind of bored. Which better than anything I can say for the most A+ titles.
Buy it, no brainer.
