ANATOMIST
A game from Core Systems Asset Factory. Genre: Role Playing. Paid; free browser demo on the page.
ANATOMIST is a game, paid, with a free browser demo on the store page.
ANATOMIST is a Game Boy roguelike where a monster's shape is its stat block: 8,640 creatures drawn by a real 32 KB cartridge. The free browser demo on this page is floors 1 to 4, with no download and no account. Monsters sleep until you come within two squares, or until you hit one. Read the silhouette and decide whether this one is worth waking.
The nine tells Many legs: it moves twice for every step you take Roots instead of legs: it never moves at all A scythe arm: it reaches one square further than you expect A stub where an arm should be: it cannot hurt you, so walk past it A shell on its back: the first hit you land does half damage Spines on its back: hitting it costs you a life, every time A heavy torso: six life.
A gaunt one: two No eyes: once awake it wanders instead of coming for you, until you are beside it The rest of the body is variety. The cartridge composes a fresh set of creatures on every floor, so what carries between runs is knowing what a shape means. Six of the nine tells, each drawn by the cartridge.
What is inside 10 floors · 8 lives · a staircase gives 3 back · permadeath · 8,640 creatures · 32,768 byte ROM It is hard.
AI disclosure, as the store page states it: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text
Paid · free browser demo on the page · Get it on itch.io. Files, screenshots and the full description are on the store page.