Genre: Role-playing (RPG), Hack and slash/Beat 'em up, Indie, Arcade
Crawl
Crawl Halloween
From October 17 to November 2, the halls are strewn with bat-filled pumpkin husks, arranged as offering to the great Halloween Worms of Pestilence and Horror.
To prepare, we finally reveal the ancient rite used to POWER UP BOSSES TO NIGHTMARE DIFFICULTY:
Upon teleporting to any boss domain, you find your landing spot encircled by small stones.
Using the attack button, action each stone individually, moving clockwise from left to right.
You know the action is accepted if the button does not trigger an attack.
You will see the beast's power level increase if you have performed the ritual correctly, along with a floating follower.
Perform the ritual twice to further increase your chance to be slaughtered.
Have you grown over-confident? Time to raise the challenge. The beasts are hungry.
You will be consumed.
More Multiplayer Fun from Powerhoof!
Apologies for the cheeky cross promo, but we've just released our new game Regular Human Basketball!
If you were into playing Crawl with mates, we hope you'll love this too. It's a very different style, but we've tried to maintain the same friendship ruining experience as Crawl :D
Regular Human Basketball is the multiplayer party-starter that has your team wrestling to control your giant mechanical death machine. Yelling orders, flipping switches, and shootin' hoops in a post-apocalyptic basketball showdown!
You can play RHBB with 2 or more players, same-screen local like crawl and online too. The more players, the more shouting and falling over!
Play Crawl Online using Parsec
We'd always hoped to allow online play in Crawl. I spent a good chunk of time working on it, but eventually had to admit it wasn't going to be possible while maintaining what narrow grasp on sanity we still held.
But recently we noticed some people in the community playing online using something called Parsec. We've played a bunch with it ourselves now and had a great time, so we're happy to be able to give it the Official Powerhoof™ Severed Thumbs Up of Approval®!
Parsec basically lets you stream a game, and have friends watch and play along with their own controllers. Latency was my biggest worry, but it wasn't a problem when we played, certainly no worse than our dodgy indie implementation of online multiplayer would have been ;)
The ancient golden colossus Tezekcal has awoken, brought to life by an evil shaman’s still beating heart. Take possession of his limbs with your ghostly companions to crush intruding heroes into dust.
Demonic scorpion queen with devastating projectile attacks.
A flying beast with a disembodied eye that can attack from the opposite side of the room.
A poison spitting snake.
A Powerful high priestess that teleports and summons seeking runes.
Hymns enable heroes to steal from other players. Take their gold, weapons, even swap all their equipment.
Achievements/Quests.
Steam trading cards.
Loads of tweaks, balancing, bug fixes, and more!
The official soundtrack is finally available as well. Get it here!
Enjoy!
Update v0.12: Eye Bat
We're here with another Crawl update to bring in the new year! If demonic bat-winged flying eyeballs are your jam we've fleshed out their monster upgrade tree. Then there's new traps, special christmas treats for your hero as well as a horde of tweaks and bug fixes.
Here's the biggest changes:
Monsters
An eyebat bomber who fires powerful explosions
A cluster of three eyebat hatchlings, who work together and can heal eachother
Traps
The Double Beam Trap fires in two directions, bisecting the battle with its violent searing light
The Homing Spike Block is magically drawn towards living flesh
The Dart Spout Trap fires a fast and deadly dart in front or behind
The Small Spike Block triggers more quickly than its larger brother
Wreak havoc on the living with oodles of new haunting opportunities for spirits. Farm ectoplasm by rattling chains and bringing paintings to life, or possess stray barrels and furniture to throw at unsuspecting heroes! If you're feeling fishy, we have a turret-spawning fish-like wizard, and a gargantuan fish with a horribly powerful bite to play with.
New Stuff:
New Monsters:
A gargantuan mutated fish with a mighty chomp and a deceptively agile roll
Magic wielding monks hide their fishlike bodies beneath hooded robes, hurling water spells and summoning beastly fish turrets
New Object Haunting System:
Ghosts can farm ectoplasm by animating props around the dungeon
Many props can be levitated and thrown as makeshift traps
New Usable Objects:
Paintings, mirrors, shackles, bleeding grates and haunted stocks for ghosts to animate
Trees can now be drained by heroes to gain Vitality
Heroes can find bonfires, to rest and regain health
Mimics: Some of our chests can now be inhabited to turn them into vicious monsters
Halloween Pumpkins! Don't try to eat them, I'm pretty sure they're full of bats
Hack and skewer with the vermin soldier's blighted halberd, or spawn a writhing rat army to command with our rodent summoner. New ways to trick your friends await in the murky depths, with devious artifacts and powerful new magics.
Major changes:
New Monsters:
The vermin soldier wields a vicious halberd
The rodent summoner commands a writhing rat army
Reworked Store Teleporter system helps new heroes get to the store for upgrades
Expanded Magic Weapon system with magic all magic now displayed in weapon art, and new magic types:
Cosmic Strikes
Explosive Strikes
Life Steal Strikes
New Artifacts:
The Medal of Honour makes your spells recharge faster on a kill streak
The Monster Hand makes your monsters' special attacks recharge faster
The Hymn of Betrayal robs the leading hero of a random artifact
Grind heroes in your beak as the hulking bird abomination, hurl flesh-seeking skulls as the skeletal magelord, inhabit fish, squids and gargoyles or just soak in the stories from our new intro sequences, complete with voice-over from our unhinged narrator.
Main Changes:
Hero Battle Intros: The starting hero is no longer up to chance. Players battle it out in short randomized intros featuring our ghastly narrator.
New Monsters:
The gigantic bird abomination grinds heroes in his beak
The mind squid draws hulking tentacles from the earth
The gargoyle defends by turning to stone
The skeletal magelord throws flesh-seeking skulls
The tiny fish is... kind of useless. Or is he?
New Artifacts:
The Vampire Tooth drinks health from striking enemies when you're bleeding
Cadaver Burst triggers a last-ditch explosion from your monster's corpse
The Emerald Signet heals you when poisoned
New Traps
The Dart Array spits a sequence of darts from an array hidden in the decaying walls
The Spike Train triggers a course of spikes that pierces the sod, and the flesh of any who stand upon it
The Dart Trap fires a cruel dart at any intruder that dares to cross in front
Spend some time with the Challenge Mode to practise your monster skills, wield powerful new artifacts, and try not to be torn apart by our vicious new traps!
Main changes:
Challenge Mode: Practise with any monster you've discovered, battling a stream of increasingly powerful AI heroes
Boss Helper Spirits: Bosses have full funcitonality across 2 and 3 player games now, with AI helper spirits spawning to help when necessary
Four new traps to dodge
Four new artifacts to choose
Loads of monster improvements
And of course tweaks, fixes and balancing across the board
Tear apart unsuspecting heroes with the Dark Yurei lightning attack, spawn an army of deadly chomping Demon Mouths, and keep track of everything you've seen in The Vault!
Main changes:
The Vault: Keep track of all the monsters and items you've seen
Two new beasts to inhabit: The Dark Yurei and the Demon Mouth
Five new arcane artifacts to grief your friends with
