Learn to Build Roguelike with this 2D Roguelike Kit for Unity Developers.
Roguelikes can be some of the most fun, frustrating and unfinished games you will ever find on Steam. I find them to be great fun.
The degree of randomness and potential pain seems that it would be easy to emulate, just let the players run through some random events and you have your game.
The amount of failed games based on a misunderstanding of how to build Roguelikes show the problems of a simplistic approach. The complications of having an incredibly random array of events and actions as well as the various survival or handicap mechanics being funneled into something even remotely cohesive is a pretty huge deal.
If you’re looking for some help in setting up the bones of your dream Roguelike, The 2D Roguelike kit by Unity gives you a look at how to set that up properly.
The kit is free so that’s a huge benefit. The game that is built with it is simple it has all the elements of a survival Roguelike.
You have food, travel, water, monsters and a map to navigate through it all.
Food runs out with ever step and also serves as your health pool.
The kits sprites and prefabs are simple but are perfectly suited to theory-crafting and iteration on your own.
The whole kit is easily co-opted to creating your own variations and attempting new ideas. I would suggest this kit to practice different systems or to have a solid foundation to implement your own homegrown scripts and ideas for it.
Being free is always a sell and the Unity Technologies quality is very apparent. That alone is an easy check in the box whenever I am looking for a new kit to try.
Some Pros to force your hand
- A game to play through and experiment with
- Full collection of sprites
- Food, monster and travel systems to play with
Some cons to take away.
- Can be hard to manipulate when cracking it open to try your own things.
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