Games Thursday : Loot

Thursday, August 14th, 2008, 12:00 amRoys0 comments

A cross between an exploratory dungeon romp and a card based tactical game (tactical isn’t exactly the correct choice of word since combat is conspiciously missing), Casey Sillito aka MrFalcon’s Loot places you in the shoes of an adventurer on a treasure hunt in a deserted underground crypt.

Unfortunately, while the crypt you’re in is strangely devoid of monsters, each level is littered with devious traps to deter greedy adventurers like you.

Each turn as your adventurer enters a previously unexplored tile, he has a chance to recover bags of coins or other valuable loot (hence the title) or encounter a trap which will deduct a point of health (your adventurer has a maximum of 3 health). Traps are always active on both explored and unexplored tiles so make a mental note of where each trap is. Mapping out each level is important since you’ll have to carry your treasure back out of the dungeon for your score to count.

Occasionally instead of loot, your adventurer may come across useful items represented as cards which can played on the spot (e.g healing potions) or stored for later use (e.g disarm trap scrolls) which help offset the strong luck-based element prevalent in this game. Up to six cards can be kept on hand at any time so forget any idea of attempting to hoard a whole truckload of healing potions

Each successive level holds more valuable treasure in larger quantities and even more traps but will you survive and bring the loot back to the surface?

While the current version is addictive enough, I would love to see an RPGish like system in Loot where your adventurer could actually increase his chances of spotting, avoiding or disarming traps upon levelling up (or entering a lower level) which would make the downward journey much more attractive (besides you would think that an adventurer would learn after falling into the same pit trap several times )

Download Loot at YoYo Games, YoyoGames Forum or fullgames.sk (older version) where I found this.

UPDATE (03 Sep 2008) : The final version of Loot with improved graphics has been posted at the YoYo Games page above. Download from the YoYo Games Forum link if you’re experiencing issues with the main Yoyo Games site. Many thanks to Casey for informing me about the release of the completed version.