Shamogu

Shamanic Mountain Guardian (Shamogu) is a coffee-break roguelike game with a focus on tactical movement and careful timing of totemic spirit invocation and comestible consumption. Visibility and noise stealth mechanics also play an important role.

“All life in your mountain is being corrupted. Beasts are losing their mind and becoming aggressive. These disturbing events started to happen after a dungeon portal suddenly appeared at the top of the mountain. As the guardian, you decide to explore that dungeon in order to find and destroy the source of corruption… You hope luck will be on your side!”

Features (v1.4.1):

• Short runs (around half an hour).
• 9 levels deep dungeon, 3 distinct map generators, 27 monsters including various wandering uniques and guardians, 5 primary spirits and 7 secondary ones, 4 magic menhirs, 5 runic traps, and 7 comestibles.
• Optional advanced content through expansion and challenge mods, including 2 new primary spirits and 7 secondary ones.
• Both graphical tiles (web or SDL) and terminal ASCII versions. Animations. Simple controls. Mouse-friendly compact 80x24 layout. Automatic recording for later replay!
• Find totems to chose and upgrade spirits with both passive and active abilities.
• Comestibles all have more than a single effect!
• Fun interactions between the various status effects.
• Varied attack patterns depending on chosen primary spirit.
• Many monsters with ranged attack patterns.
• Visibility and noise stealth mechanics. Monster footsteps can be heard.
• Flammable dense foliage.
• Limited healing through comestibles and magic portals.
• Ergonomic targeting based on the player's current direction.

Shamogu is free open-source software: see also the development website and source-code repository for information on how to build yourself the native versions for the terminal or with SDL2 and graphical tiles.