This is one of the best games I've ever played and is singlehandedly responsible for giving birth to my love for roguelike/lites. The insane amount of possible builds and playstyles give this game a replay value and a satisfying learning curve like few other games. I urge everyone to give this game a try.
From what I have gathered it seems its Tales of Maj'Eyal and Caves of Qud that take the cake for best roguelites around. Dwarf fortress I heard is nuts as well.
ToME has a lot of nice modern QoL improvements too that make the game so much better without compromising on its traditional roguelike foundation, and I wish more games in the genre took inspiration from how ToME does things.
And to top it off... Dark God is a really nice guy, too. I strongly suggest getting a hold of Tales of Middle Earth; which predated Tales of Maj Eyal. It was the best angand variant in my opinion bar none.
ToME4 is my most played game on Steam, and also my favourite Roguelike. After over a 1000 hours put into it, I am proud to say that I have achieved the entirety of two wins! ToME4 is great at every level - it's awesome for beginners, because every traditional RL system is streamlined, so it's easy to jump straight into it without getting bogged down into long-term resource management. It's aslo great for veterans, because the amount of classes, skills, and difficulty levels is one of the highest in the genre, ensuring a huge field for exploration and experimentation. A campaigh on Insane or Madness can easily take you a hundred hours if you are being careful with every move. The game keeps getting regular updates, DLCs, and advanced features every half a year or so, so it remains fresh even after you've beaten it several times. Man, I just love ToME.
@@Skartak Your comment if VERY right, I mean TOME was good before, but its changed in all the right ways, and never forgot what it was. This is also a thank you to SpaltterCat, for reminding me.
The classes are what makes the game so unique for me. There are plenty of them, even without the DLCs or mods, and most of the ones I tried (I didn't even try half of them) were an absolute blast to play. Highly recommended!
If you use the auto-explore or just press R, or rest from the menu it'll pass as many turns as it needs to to get your health to full. There's no need to keep going into fights wounded.
Well, not all new people watching, will go back and look at older videos... but yay for this~ I've been playing... since around the time they were coming onto Steam...
I just randomly found it on steam I spend too much time thinking should I buy this or darkest dungeon I didn’t know the sale was about to end when i finally made my decision i missed it guess I’ll have to wait for the next big steam sale shit lol the base game is free so I guess I can just download it anyway
My all-time favorite. I've got 500 hours in this game. I don't know if the Brawler has changed, but it's a stupidly fun class. It's the equivalent of a Monk in D&D. You've got high mobility with jumps and charges that you can use to enter/exit combat. Really makes you feel like you're Bruce Lee.
@@IgnacioGimenez Brawler is one of the only vanilla classes that can do reasonably well in Madness. Last time I tried it, I got past all the first-tier dungeons, but got stopped at the second-tier.
I love how much ingenuity and passion transpires from this game with care for both things not being too easy, but still being fun. A proper treasure of its genre.
This is the first Roguelike I actually played a couple of years ago. I always skipped it because of the graphics which was really stupid cause this is an awesome game. The community is really welcoming and nice. Bought it on Steam to support the dev and I don't regret it one bit.
Game is a legend in genere. Might consume dozens if not hundreds of hours if you got into it with all those class unlocks itc. To my not-pro-roguelikegamer taste only Caves of Qud reached same levels of being "intresting to play" - probably both got right mix of exploration vibe, deep development system and even some storyline (not so common for roguelikes).
Yoooo, so glad you're covering this! I'd love to see you play this, but unless you play on sunday, I'll have to catch the vod. Definitely gonna watch either way though!
This game has some pretty neat build possibilities that open up later in the game too, like there is a society of anti-arcane fanatics that can give you powerful nature and magic resistance boons, but they will kill you on sight if you are carrying any arcane items or have magic inscriptions on your body (or play as an inherently magical class).
@@Izawwlgood tbh temporal warden was just a stepping stone to the real time manipulation class; paradox mage. Paradox mage is some of the most fun I've had in an rpg.
Lost interest in the game after encountering a fire breathing bear which was also shooting a bow. I'm all for fantasy and could maybe accept a fire breathing bear as long as there's a historical explanation.... or maybe a bear shooting a bow as long as there's a historical explanation showing how the bear became intelligent and trained on a ranged weapon. However when the game gives both of these to a bear with zero explanation... it kills immersion into the game.
@@NTJedi Its almost impossible for me to get any immersion here, not with graphics like these. I would say that this game is mechanical one, you come here to enjoy the possibilities, not immersion. And also music, its excellent. I didnt see yet the flaming bear with a bow, but i doubt i would even register what it actually is :D
The best Roguelike, hands down. So many strange unique classes and fascinating loot, tons of quests. The paid version is great because it comes with the possessor class, maybe the most fun (though not the easiest) class in the game
YESSSS you did ToME! This is one of my favorite games ever! The breadth of class diversity is absolutely unreal, and a stunning amount of creativity went into the simple pixel art game. I haven't even checked out the last two updates, but holy shit this game is great, and singularly responsible for adding about a month to my thesis writing time! Anyone who is interested in game mechanics/design should look at the wiki's class listing, it's absolutely crazy!
10 years old game but still good. I do remember playing archmage as it is pretty damaging and easy class but then you got stabbed in the back by invisible enemies))
Im not a big fan of dungeon crawler RPGs but I did loved this game. I remember creating a mage type character (I believe it was called something like "Arcane Blade") that autocasted all sorts of magic bolts whenever I melee'd an enemy. The funny/interesting part is that all I had to do was invest points in Magic and my character began dealing absurd amounts of physical damage with armor piercing stone bolts but also other magic elements as well. It also had insane amounts of physical and magic resistance granted by passives and protective spells. There is also a passive once you reach lvl 42 that makes your character hit with your bare hands each time you land a melee attack, and that made the autocasting skill proc twice per attack (almost doubling your dps). I never tried another class as I wrecked the game on my first try xD
The amount of passion that the traditional roguelike genre inspires in its most dedicated fans is kind of astounding. Passion project games that eventually get a commercial release agent unique to this type of game, of course, but it just seems to me that the people behind this game, Dwarf Fortress, Unreal World, etc are incredibly driven by their desire to make really cool and extremely intricate games, and they spend a lifetime doing so.
Man how did I never hear of this game I love games like these that have sandbox and RPG thanks for highlighting it definitely going to download it. Also after seeing the game play this reminds me a lot of a game called elona, basically it's a sandbox RPG and I think it's made with one of the old RPG Maker programs but yeah if you ever have the time you should probably check it out hell I don't even know if it's even listed anymore anywhere I know it had its own website I mean this was like 8 or 9 years ago same sort of style of graphics
Just FYI, ToME is not sandbox - there is a set of dungeons that you must clear, and not much else to do in-between. Unlike Elona, where you could build a house, a farm, a museum, and do a lot of other stuff in the world, ToME is 99% combat.
You never heard of it because, quite frankly, 90% of the people that play roguelike don't play "traditional" roguelikes at all. There are a lot of them that are great games in their own right but they are just not discussed, even by people that would enjoy them.
The comparison to Dwarf Fortress is real. Both are singularly perfect and insanely detailed games that any gamer would be remiss to have at least tried. High art.
I remember this game, the last thing I did was touchable strange tentacle and get teleported to the core dimension, I was promptly digested. Quite a fun game.
This was THE game that got me into roguelike ten years back. I returned to this about couple months ago off of an 8 year hiatus, and it's still as fun as I remembered. Definitely a must have for all roguelike/permadeath appreciator
Lost interest in the game after encountering a fire breathing bear which was also shooting a bow. I'm all for fantasy and could maybe accept a fire breathing bear as long as there's a historical explanation.... or maybe a bear shooting a bow as long as there's a historical explanation showing how the bear became intelligent and trained on a ranged weapon. However when the game gives both of these to a bear with zero explanation... it kills immersion into the game.
@@PandemoniumGameDev The game has no fantasy boundaries. It's like reading a book which has a talking chair eating bees and a bird which flys in space without any explanation.
@@NTJedi Every enemies have classes and skills, those that the player could have, so you can encounter a bear archer, and there is nothing like bear skills. The player is treated by the game as an elite monster actually.
I immediately bought this game and have been playing it non stop since. I love trying to unlock classes. Working on the stone warden now, but I keep getting trapped in the sand. Alchemist is my favorite class.
I love you for this channel and it's focus. Unironically. Roguelike and Roguelite has such simple and strict rules, yet goes through all sorts of gameplay genres. It's simply genious, we really should celebrate the creator of Rogue for what he has given to the Gaming Industry by developing Rogue.
The thing about Transmogrification-chest is that you'll get it in an early quest, and once it has been unlocked, it is unlocked for all your created characters. Forever. Hail Dark God.
I got into playing true roguelikes a couple years ago, and I really quite like them. A game like ToME is the pinnacle of RPG design, in my eyes: it focuses entirely on customizing your character, and fighting enemies using that character’s specific strengths, weaknesses, and playstyle. Story/narrative takes a backseat and is replaced with procedural generation to make the gameplay experience even more varied and interesting. It’s one of those types of games that I can keep in my library for a long time, and I could always go back to and find something new to do in it. I love games like that; there’s something oddly satisfying about knowing that you’ve never seen or done everything. (And it’s probably the source of my struggle to finish games, too.)
It's 'Space' for rest until healed and 'R' for auto-explore for myself - it would be too easy to press the wrong one otherwise and past lvl30 that can put you in a tight spot, even on Normal. But yeah, not a bad idea for the early levels.
I can't believe you are playing without using auto-explore. That's the best feature ever made in any game in history! I bound it to space key so I can easily use it always. 100% exploration and loot with zero paying attention (and when the whole level is explored and all loot looted it automatically takes you to exit to next level)
I love the game's website. Reminds me of the old diablo 2 websites which (that part of) the internet was full of about 15-20 years ago, and I loved exploring them :D
Aaaah fun to see you covering my favorite game, All hail the dark god! But seriously though, there is just an endless amount of possibilities in this game to customize your character, entire runs are always different depending on what you find and what you get from certain encounters. One example of how complex the game is: Turns are used in percentages, you can have more movement speed than your opponents and thus maybe move twice after 10 turns if you have 110% movespeed. Now archers or mages throw or shoot stuff at you. Even these spells and arrows have speed. If you have enough movement speed through for example a spell, rune or the rush skill for example, you can just dodge these spells and arrows! The same is true with skill speed, some skills are actually increase your overall speed so that you can attack twice a turn, or for example a lot of infusions don't have any use time so you can combo your defensive infusions and skills together! And this is just one little thing about the game! so yes it does have quite a learning curve but damn is it rewarding when you learn all these things! So far I've yet to beat the game with around 600 hours into it haha... Furthest I've gotten is the boss before the last one. So that says enough about the roguelike qualities it has. That character was even able to defeat the "SUPER OVERPOWERED HYDRA" room... I've got no idea how I couldn't complete the game with it. This game has the ability to just checkmate you in every encounter it does not matter how strong your character is, you have to really look at an encounter and say to yourselve "I will die, RUN!!!" and just come back later or take the hit and run strategy.
Shout out to Unreal World right at the beginning of the video, nice 🙏🙏🙏🙏 that's a name I wasn't expecting to hear on youtube anytime soon, awesome... hopefully Tales of Majeyal scratches my Angband itch I've been feeling recently (these games without graphics get my imagination to fill in the blanks in such an unique way I feel like I can't really compare them with anything else that exists... when your head has to imagine what a Slime or a Green Ooze enemy looks like, it gets much more menacing than any artwork could ever portray it...)
It's an excellent game. It has a really fun way of making your gear feel powerful, yet somehow still feeding you more interesting gear and balancing the monsters so it's always a challenge.
Been playing TOME for 10 years. This game is the pimp diddily shizzle snip snap sandwich Edit: If anyone is curious, Spatter did a good job, but I can answer questions for any people who havent played before.
that is the kind of description someone gives somethings they truely love and enjoy, I shall play it then if it's your pimp diddily shizzle snip snap sandwich
Yes. YES. YEEEEES! As a more than a decade-long fan of TOME, I'm already hyped even before listening to my favorite indie game reviewer talk about Tales of Maj'Eyal again. It's been too long. ^_^
After watching... the pain. xD Splatty's great, but his observational skills while commenting aren't the best... but, then again, that's something everyone in this community already knows. Same goes for him barely using his skills and taking unnecessary risks wandering around while at 2/3 health. C'est la SplatterCat.
This game is insane. Not for the feint of heart. You will die. You will die a lot. You will keep coming back. You will get better every time you die. You will feel robbed every time you die. (unless you get pissed at something and die on purpose early-game.)
Do you remember when it was Tales of Middle Earth? It was a massive overhaul of a roguelike called angband, which was derived from a predecessor called moria. Gets muddy then but rogue and nethack are all in its DNA.
Depth first; pick a path and stick to it. If it doesn't work; try another path. Also; play the tutorial so you get an understanding of the fundamental mechanics.
Been playing this one also since it was on a website! Love it, so glad SC finally got around to is. There is an older version still available for free on Dark God's website. This game is Great. Extremely dense, but great. I've put some 400hrs into it and still pick it up every now and again. In fact, think I'll go start a run...
Base TOME is still completely free. There are two expansions that you can choose to pay for (donation-based DLC, basically) that add this and that to the game, plus there's the vault that essentially lets you send your alts gear once they're at a certain point in the game, but the base game is and has always been free. On Steam it has a price tag, but that starts you off with... I think the DLC unlocked off the bat, if I'm not mistaken (I don't use Steam, so I only have vague memories of such from years ago when I got curious).
Totally thought you've already covered this years ago. ToME is an all time favorite and a personal standard for roguelikes. Think I've been playing since about 2015ish?
He did. I remember the video - if I'm not mistaken, he was playing an archer (or slinger?) and at some point he was in Norgos' Lair. Might have ended up fighting Wrathroot as well.
It has always amused me how the quests where you have to protect some dude in this game have the NPC just beeline directly for the teleport no matter what you're doing. Like, they'll run directly into enemies, completely abandon you, etc. It's quite easy for the NPC to get themselves killed with little you can do to stop them, so it's actually kind of justified you get great rewards for that.
To tell the truth what you showed here looks interesting and I think I'm not the only one that likes this type of old school graphic. But holly cow 1782 achievements?! - I try to be a completionist when I can but that would mean a few years of playing only this game... hm... I think I need to get this as my body is ready!
It looks awesome, like Dungeonmans. I just wish the map would remove the solid black fog of war to show where you've explored already. Hard to keep track otherwise.
Hard to see sometimes, but it is a different shade of grey. Hell, there are abilities that do just that - Archmage has access to two of them - Illuminate (Phantasm category) and Vision (Divination category). Vision's available through escorts as well, if it's an actual issue for you. Mind the starting Archmage zone though - that boss is a killer (you can say no to it, but it drops good - pick your poison).
Correct me if im wrong, but i think i remember not being able to actually see your character change armors/weapons ? Like, didn't you just used to choose a sprite and that would be the way you looked for the entire playthrough ?
sometimes, I feel like I could just listening to splatter voice, even if it's a bad game (NOT SAYING THIS GAME IS BAD). hahahaha cool video, also very cool game, didn't knew about it
This is one of the best games I've ever played and is singlehandedly responsible for giving birth to my love for roguelike/lites. The insane amount of possible builds and playstyles give this game a replay value and a satisfying learning curve like few other games. I urge everyone to give this game a try.
From what I have gathered it seems its Tales of Maj'Eyal and Caves of Qud that take the cake for best roguelites around. Dwarf fortress I heard is nuts as well.
ToME has a lot of nice modern QoL improvements too that make the game so much better without compromising on its traditional roguelike foundation, and I wish more games in the genre took inspiration from how ToME does things.
I got it cause of this video and so far I'm loving it but I am suck in a dungeon with a boss that will probably kill me... 😩
And to top it off... Dark God is a really nice guy, too. I strongly suggest getting a hold of Tales of Middle Earth; which predated Tales of Maj Eyal. It was the best angand variant in my opinion bar none.
Same for me ToME is the game that made me love roguelikes but for me no roguelikes came close to be as good as this one. I always Come back to ToME.
ToME4 is my most played game on Steam, and also my favourite Roguelike. After over a 1000 hours put into it, I am proud to say that I have achieved the entirety of two wins!
ToME4 is great at every level - it's awesome for beginners, because every traditional RL system is streamlined, so it's easy to jump straight into it without getting bogged down into long-term resource management.
It's aslo great for veterans, because the amount of classes, skills, and difficulty levels is one of the highest in the genre, ensuring a huge field for exploration and experimentation. A campaigh on Insane or Madness can easily take you a hundred hours if you are being careful with every move. The game keeps getting regular updates, DLCs, and advanced features every half a year or so, so it remains fresh even after you've beaten it several times. Man, I just love ToME.
I haven't played this game in around 6 years, and it looks so much more slick than it used to. Time for some more time with TOME.
Been playing this an absurd amount of time the recent years, dg and the team have done amazing work with the game.
@@Skartak Your comment if VERY right, I mean TOME was good before, but its changed in all the right ways, and never forgot what it was.
This is also a thank you to SpaltterCat, for reminding me.
The classes are what makes the game so unique for me. There are plenty of them, even without the DLCs or mods, and most of the ones I tried (I didn't even try half of them) were an absolute blast to play. Highly recommended!
If you use the auto-explore or just press R, or rest from the menu it'll pass as many turns as it needs to to get your health to full.
There's no need to keep going into fights wounded.
Well this is a nice surprise to see someone try to bring more awareness to this game. Dark God deserves all the support!
I think this is his third of fourth video covering the game over the years.
Well, not all new people watching, will go back and look at older videos... but yay for this~ I've been playing... since around the time they were coming onto Steam...
I just randomly found it on steam I spend too much time thinking should I buy this or darkest dungeon I didn’t know the sale was about to end when i finally made my decision i missed it guess I’ll have to wait for the next big steam sale shit lol the base game is free so I guess I can just download it anyway
Any game that has Oozemancer as an unlockable class has automatically legendary status in my eyes!
My all-time favorite. I've got 500 hours in this game. I don't know if the Brawler has changed, but it's a stupidly fun class. It's the equivalent of a Monk in D&D. You've got high mobility with jumps and charges that you can use to enter/exit combat. Really makes you feel like you're Bruce Lee.
I also love the brawler class :D
The brawler was the only class with I beat the game. After that start playing in nightmare and get pwned hundreds of times
@@IgnacioGimenez Brawler is one of the only vanilla classes that can do reasonably well in Madness. Last time I tried it, I got past all the first-tier dungeons, but got stopped at the second-tier.
How to unlock the brawler?
@@LucasSoaresy Talk to the boss of Hidden Compound. Enter the Arena fight by paying 150 gold and win.
Played through this a few years ago, it's definitely not for the faint of heart. A lot of content, no doubt more now.
I just saw the steam achievement list...holy crap...
So i have like 800 hours in it and still havnt beat it......
Started playing this game because of how much you talk about it lol, top tier roguelike for sure
I love how much ingenuity and passion transpires from this game with care for both things not being too easy, but still being fun. A proper treasure of its genre.
This is the first Roguelike I actually played a couple of years ago. I always skipped it because of the graphics which was really stupid cause this is an awesome game. The community is really welcoming and nice. Bought it on Steam to support the dev and I don't regret it one bit.
Game is a legend in genere. Might consume dozens if not hundreds of hours if you got into it with all those class unlocks itc.
To my not-pro-roguelikegamer taste only Caves of Qud reached same levels of being "intresting to play" - probably both got right mix of exploration vibe, deep development system and even some storyline (not so common for roguelikes).
I love it when games start like, "You must escape your home! You have no idea where anything is and the map is blank!"
This game needs so much more recognition, thank you!
Yoooo, so glad you're covering this! I'd love to see you play this, but unless you play on sunday, I'll have to catch the vod. Definitely gonna watch either way though!
This game has some pretty neat build possibilities that open up later in the game too, like there is a society of anti-arcane fanatics that can give you powerful nature and magic resistance boons, but they will kill you on sight if you are carrying any arcane items or have magic inscriptions on your body (or play as an inherently magical class).
Time Warden 4lyfe
@@Izawwlgood tbh temporal warden was just a stepping stone to the real time manipulation class; paradox mage. Paradox mage is some of the most fun I've had in an rpg.
@@yeetskeetbam6918 It took me some time to get used to that convoluted perception of time in turn based game, it is not a noob friendly class
Lost interest in the game after encountering a fire breathing bear which was also shooting a bow. I'm all for fantasy and could maybe accept a fire breathing bear as long as there's a historical explanation.... or maybe a bear shooting a bow as long as there's a historical explanation showing how the bear became intelligent and trained on a ranged weapon.
However when the game gives both of these to a bear with zero explanation... it kills immersion into the game.
@@NTJedi Its almost impossible for me to get any immersion here, not with graphics like these. I would say that this game is mechanical one, you come here to enjoy the possibilities, not immersion. And also music, its excellent. I didnt see yet the flaming bear with a bow, but i doubt i would even register what it actually is :D
The best Roguelike, hands down. So many strange unique classes and fascinating loot, tons of quests. The paid version is great because it comes with the possessor class, maybe the most fun (though not the easiest) class in the game
It makes me happy to read all the comments about how much everyone loves this game. TOME was always special to me, thanks for covering it!
YESSSS you did ToME! This is one of my favorite games ever! The breadth of class diversity is absolutely unreal, and a stunning amount of creativity went into the simple pixel art game. I haven't even checked out the last two updates, but holy shit this game is great, and singularly responsible for adding about a month to my thesis writing time!
Anyone who is interested in game mechanics/design should look at the wiki's class listing, it's absolutely crazy!
Splatty did review TOME years ago. But, ofc, things have changed and TOME's had several major updates since then.
10 years old game but still good. I do remember playing archmage as it is pretty damaging and easy class but then you got stabbed in the back by invisible enemies))
The other great archmage death is blowing yourself up with a fireball and misclick-moving into the AOE! I lost track of how many times I did that -_-
@@Vodius Archmage (and Bulwark) are the only classes I can play.
Im not a big fan of dungeon crawler RPGs but I did loved this game. I remember creating a mage type character (I believe it was called something like "Arcane Blade") that autocasted all sorts of magic bolts whenever I melee'd an enemy. The funny/interesting part is that all I had to do was invest points in Magic and my character began dealing absurd amounts of physical damage with armor piercing stone bolts but also other magic elements as well. It also had insane amounts of physical and magic resistance granted by passives and protective spells. There is also a passive once you reach lvl 42 that makes your character hit with your bare hands each time you land a melee attack, and that made the autocasting skill proc twice per attack (almost doubling your dps).
I never tried another class as I wrecked the game on my first try xD
The amount of passion that the traditional roguelike genre inspires in its most dedicated fans is kind of astounding. Passion project games that eventually get a commercial release agent unique to this type of game, of course, but it just seems to me that the people behind this game, Dwarf Fortress, Unreal World, etc are incredibly driven by their desire to make really cool and extremely intricate games, and they spend a lifetime doing so.
My all times favourite, 2000 hours played, that is 10 more than any other games I loved and 100 times more than my avarage interest time of a game :)
Man how did I never hear of this game I love games like these that have sandbox and RPG thanks for highlighting it definitely going to download it. Also after seeing the game play this reminds me a lot of a game called elona, basically it's a sandbox RPG and I think it's made with one of the old RPG Maker programs but yeah if you ever have the time you should probably check it out hell I don't even know if it's even listed anymore anywhere I know it had its own website I mean this was like 8 or 9 years ago same sort of style of graphics
It used to be called Tales of Middle-Earth. Or well, his previous game was called that but it's just a continuation of it.
Just FYI, ToME is not sandbox - there is a set of dungeons that you must clear, and not much else to do in-between. Unlike Elona, where you could build a house, a farm, a museum, and do a lot of other stuff in the world, ToME is 99% combat.
You never heard of it because, quite frankly, 90% of the people that play roguelike don't play "traditional" roguelikes at all. There are a lot of them that are great games in their own right but they are just not discussed, even by people that would enjoy them.
The comparison to Dwarf Fortress is real. Both are singularly perfect and insanely detailed games that any gamer would be remiss to have at least tried. High art.
Definitely one of my favorites. I've got thousands of hours in this, even a few wins. So much fun.
I remember this game, the last thing I did was touchable strange tentacle and get teleported to the core dimension, I was promptly digested.
Quite a fun game.
This was THE game that got me into roguelike ten years back. I returned to this about couple months ago off of an 8 year hiatus, and it's still as fun as I remembered. Definitely a must have for all roguelike/permadeath appreciator
This is my all-time favorite roguelike!
Stupid amount of content and depth in an unassuming, classic-styled, package.
“I’ve never played the elves” I knew I loved this channel
Hell yeah, T.O.M.E. is one of my all time favorites
Crazy to see ToME on this channel! It's one of my all time favorites.
Lost interest in the game after encountering a fire breathing bear which was also shooting a bow. I'm all for fantasy and could maybe accept a fire breathing bear as long as there's a historical explanation.... or maybe a bear shooting a bow as long as there's a historical explanation showing how the bear became intelligent and trained on a ranged weapon.
However when the game gives both of these to a bear with zero explanation... it kills immersion into the game.
Why's it crazy? He covered it a couple years ago as well and he loves the game.
@@PandemoniumGameDev The game has no fantasy boundaries. It's like reading a book which has a talking chair eating bees and a bird which flys in space without any explanation.
@@NTJedi I got your point and it's totally valid, I ran into these kind of scenarios as well. I was replying to @MerelyFlowers though.
@@NTJedi Every enemies have classes and skills, those that the player could have, so you can encounter a bear archer, and there is nothing like bear skills. The player is treated by the game as an elite monster actually.
Best roguelike for me. DCSS is another gem
I immediately bought this game and have been playing it non stop since. I love trying to unlock classes. Working on the stone warden now, but I keep getting trapped in the sand. Alchemist is my favorite class.
I love you for this channel and it's focus. Unironically. Roguelike and Roguelite has such simple and strict rules, yet goes through all sorts of gameplay genres. It's simply genious, we really should celebrate the creator of Rogue for what he has given to the Gaming Industry by developing Rogue.
The thing about Transmogrification-chest is that you'll get it in an early quest, and once it has been unlocked, it is unlocked for all your created characters. Forever. Hail Dark God.
I got into playing true roguelikes a couple years ago, and I really quite like them. A game like ToME is the pinnacle of RPG design, in my eyes: it focuses entirely on customizing your character, and fighting enemies using that character’s specific strengths, weaknesses, and playstyle. Story/narrative takes a backseat and is replaced with procedural generation to make the gameplay experience even more varied and interesting.
It’s one of those types of games that I can keep in my library for a long time, and I could always go back to and find something new to do in it. I love games like that; there’s something oddly satisfying about knowing that you’ve never seen or done everything. (And it’s probably the source of my struggle to finish games, too.)
Dear SplatterCat, I love it when you showcase these passion projects I have never heard of.
"I never played the elves" Ah, I See You're a Man of Culture As Well
ToME is one of my favorite Roguelikes. Love the depth of it.
So many classes and races and such to unlock, just a MASSIVE amount of variety.
Crazy awesome rogue like. Great content dude!
Press Z to auto-explore areas
Press X to rest until healed
Using these two keys makes exploration much less tedious
It's 'Space' for rest until healed and 'R' for auto-explore for myself - it would be too easy to press the wrong one otherwise and past lvl30 that can put you in a tight spot, even on Normal. But yeah, not a bad idea for the early levels.
I can't believe you are playing without using auto-explore. That's the best feature ever made in any game in history! I bound it to space key so I can easily use it always. 100% exploration and loot with zero paying attention (and when the whole level is explored and all loot looted it automatically takes you to exit to next level)
Why is it so hard to believe he wants to play the game instead of having the game play itself???
@@spacequack5470 Because that's the boring part. You play traditional roguelikes for interesting strategic combat
I love the game's website. Reminds me of the old diablo 2 websites which (that part of) the internet was full of about 15-20 years ago, and I loved exploring them :D
Love this game! Oozemancer class is a blast!
I just find a legendary poison ivy to be hilarious. "We've tried everything to take out that poison ivy. Not even Agent Orange will take it out."
I know it's not your style anymore, but I'd love to see a series of this like once a week or something
Aaaah fun to see you covering my favorite game, All hail the dark god!
But seriously though, there is just an endless amount of possibilities in this game to customize your character, entire runs are always different depending on what you find and what you get from certain encounters.
One example of how complex the game is: Turns are used in percentages, you can have more movement speed than your opponents and thus maybe move twice after 10 turns if you have 110% movespeed. Now archers or mages throw or shoot stuff at you. Even these spells and arrows have speed. If you have enough movement speed through for example a spell, rune or the rush skill for example, you can just dodge these spells and arrows! The same is true with skill speed, some skills are actually increase your overall speed so that you can attack twice a turn, or for example a lot of infusions don't have any use time so you can combo your defensive infusions and skills together!
And this is just one little thing about the game! so yes it does have quite a learning curve but damn is it rewarding when you learn all these things!
So far I've yet to beat the game with around 600 hours into it haha... Furthest I've gotten is the boss before the last one. So that says enough about the roguelike qualities it has.
That character was even able to defeat the "SUPER OVERPOWERED HYDRA" room... I've got no idea how I couldn't complete the game with it.
This game has the ability to just checkmate you in every encounter it does not matter how strong your character is, you have to really look at an encounter and say to yourselve "I will die, RUN!!!" and just come back later or take the hit and run strategy.
Shout out to Unreal World right at the beginning of the video, nice
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that's a name I wasn't expecting to hear on youtube anytime soon, awesome... hopefully Tales of Majeyal scratches my Angband itch I've been feeling recently (these games without graphics get my imagination to fill in the blanks in such an unique way I feel like I can't really compare them with anything else that exists... when your head has to imagine what a Slime or a Green Ooze enemy looks like, it gets much more menacing than any artwork could ever portray it...)
One of the few "roguelikes" that actually resembles Rogue
It's an excellent game. It has a really fun way of making your gear feel powerful, yet somehow still feeding you more interesting gear and balancing the monsters so it's always a challenge.
Dungeons of dredmor and tome were my first rogue like games
Shout out to Dredmor!
Been playing TOME for 10 years. This game is the pimp diddily shizzle snip snap sandwich
Edit: If anyone is curious, Spatter did a good job, but I can answer questions for any people who havent played before.
that is the kind of description someone gives somethings they truely love and enjoy, I shall play it then if it's your pimp diddily shizzle snip snap sandwich
Hell yeah
@@ahmedakmal9244 Can confirm. It is idd 'the shizzle'.
Yes. YES. YEEEEES!
As a more than a decade-long fan of TOME, I'm already hyped even before listening to my favorite indie game reviewer talk about Tales of Maj'Eyal again. It's been too long. ^_^
After watching... the pain. xD
Splatty's great, but his observational skills while commenting aren't the best... but, then again, that's something everyone in this community already knows.
Same goes for him barely using his skills and taking unnecessary risks wandering around while at 2/3 health. C'est la SplatterCat.
this is an absolutely amazing game, once you get into it you soon realize that it's a very very precious gem!!!
This is a true Rogue-Like. A direct descendent of Rogue----> Moria -----> Angband -----> ToME Been around for years.
Aaaahh, the entry point for roguelikes. So heart-warming.
This video got me into TOME, FYI this game plays well on the steam deck. Also you can press z for auto explore.
Another expansion is coming out soon, just announced a day or two ago
Thanks for this video - ToME has become my new favorite game to play on my Steamdeck.
This game is insane. Not for the feint of heart. You will die. You will die a lot. You will keep coming back. You will get better every time you die. You will feel robbed every time you die. (unless you get pissed at something and die on purpose early-game.)
Do you remember when it was Tales of Middle Earth? It was a massive overhaul of a roguelike called angband, which was derived from a predecessor called moria. Gets muddy then but rogue and nethack are all in its DNA.
THE quintessential trad roguelike. The "Witcher 3" of trad roguelikes. aint nobody does it better, than Dark God himself.
Played it a lot a few years ago, very addictive game
The best Rogue Like! Love to see you return to this one!
I have more than 300 hours in this game. It's one of my favorites, if not favorite roguelikes.
I have the game. I love the game. I'm always getting lost in all the things to do. Decision paralysis.
Depth first; pick a path and stick to it. If it doesn't work; try another path. Also; play the tutorial so you get an understanding of the fundamental mechanics.
Ooooh nice. I was very interested in this one after pouring so many hours in Caves of Qud. Lets go :)!
I actualy bought this game a few months ago after having been playing it for a long time , this is an amazing game
oh i absolutely adore this game was hoping u gonna pick this up for another run.
Would really like to see you continue this play though and make it into a series! The adventures of BLARG beckon!
Been playing this one also since it was on a website! Love it, so glad SC finally got around to is. There is an older version still available for free on Dark God's website. This game is Great. Extremely dense, but great. I've put some 400hrs into it and still pick it up every now and again. In fact, think I'll go start a run...
Base TOME is still completely free.
There are two expansions that you can choose to pay for (donation-based DLC, basically) that add this and that to the game, plus there's the vault that essentially lets you send your alts gear once they're at a certain point in the game, but the base game is and has always been free.
On Steam it has a price tag, but that starts you off with... I think the DLC unlocked off the bat, if I'm not mistaken (I don't use Steam, so I only have vague memories of such from years ago when I got curious).
YUS! TOME is such a gem!
also, Chronomancer FTW, incase anyone was wondering.
thanks for giving exposure to tome4
This game is an absolute gem, too bad it doesn't get more attention.
Its great seeing you play this again
Totally thought you've already covered this years ago. ToME is an all time favorite and a personal standard for roguelikes. Think I've been playing since about 2015ish?
He did. I remember the video - if I'm not mistaken, he was playing an archer (or slinger?) and at some point he was in Norgos' Lair. Might have ended up fighting Wrathroot as well.
My all time favorite too. I've lost hundreds of yours in this game. Its VERY good.
Ahhh, yes. This is among my most favorite games. It is inspiringly deep.
It has always amused me how the quests where you have to protect some dude in this game have the NPC just beeline directly for the teleport no matter what you're doing. Like, they'll run directly into enemies, completely abandon you, etc. It's quite easy for the NPC to get themselves killed with little you can do to stop them, so it's actually kind of justified you get great rewards for that.
been playing this game for years. it's awesome. Even has online chat.
Oh ToME such a great game. Wish there were more like it.
Thanks for showing this. I might pick this up.
I love that he already had a character named "BLARG" and had to overwrite it
One of the best gaming purchase I've ever made.
love this game! spent good 10h trying classes at the end i beat the game with a defiler that at some point could go back in time instead of dying.
It's been years since I've seen Splat play Tome! Please stream this 🙏
Oh nice! My favorite indie gamer playing my favorite indie game. I LOVE TOME 4. And Caves of Qud of course...
Ok since I love Dungeon crawler games I’ll be giving this a shoot And it looks promising
To tell the truth what you showed here looks interesting and I think I'm not the only one that likes this type of old school graphic.
But holly cow 1782 achievements?! - I try to be a completionist when I can but that would mean a few years of playing only this game... hm... I think I need to get this as my body is ready!
It looks awesome, like Dungeonmans. I just wish the map would remove the solid black fog of war to show where you've explored already. Hard to keep track otherwise.
Hard to see sometimes, but it is a different shade of grey. Hell, there are abilities that do just that - Archmage has access to two of them - Illuminate (Phantasm category) and Vision (Divination category). Vision's available through escorts as well, if it's an actual issue for you.
Mind the starting Archmage zone though - that boss is a killer (you can say no to it, but it drops good - pick your poison).
it's ok splat i didn't want to leave my house until Monday anyways.
Correct me if im wrong, but i think i remember not being able to actually see your character change armors/weapons ?
Like, didn't you just used to choose a sprite and that would be the way you looked for the entire playthrough ?
Love your vids, and thanks for playing this gem again. Will you do a Let's Play for us, but as a caster this time?
I played the prequel to this game in the 90s.
sometimes, I feel like I could just listening to splatter voice, even if it's a bad game (NOT SAYING THIS GAME IS BAD). hahahaha
cool video, also very cool game, didn't knew about it
Blarg is orkish name. Dwarfish should be Dain Bloodfoot etc
one of my all time favorites
Aaaah, ToME... i downloaded it again :) And pleaseeee, make a video of Dwarf Fortress :D
can this be played entirely with mouse? i ask bc my hands don't work