Retro dungeon crawler with the crazy minimalist style. Take part in fast-paced encounters with inhabitants of the huge alien temple and pay special attention to numbers to solve puzzles and avoid traps. Players gave ASCIILL a 94% positive score. Released February 25, 2022. Top tags include Dungeon Crawler, Procedural Generation, Turn-Based, Retro, Replay Value, Parody, Difficult, Grid-Based Movement, Roguelite, and Old School.
Retro dungeon crawler with the crazy minimalist style.
Retro dungeon crawler with the crazy minimalist style. Take part in fast-paced encounters with inhabitants of the huge alien temple and pay special attention to numbers to solve puzzles and avoid traps.
Developed by Andrei Fomin · Published by Andrei Fomin
Player Review Breakdown
ASCIILL has about 60 positive and 4 negative player reviews out of a total 64. We'll add a detailed breakdown here when there are more reviews.
94%
positive of 64 player reviews
Full Game Details
From the Devs
Special Agent ASCIILL goes to an alien temple full of traps. Powerful electromagnetic emission blocks the video signal, so all information has to be transmitted as alphanumeric characters.
In these difficult conditions Agent ASCIILL will have to fulfill B.O.S.S.’ orders: plunder the treasures, destroy alien beasts and disable the security system.
As you progress through the levels, you start realizing that B.O.S.S. is not what he seems to be and Agent ASCIILL and Earth are just pawns in the game of huge powers of the Universe. But any pawn can eventually become a queen.
Mechanics of the movement. Pay attention to numbers when choosing your route. A figure in the cell indicates the number of traps around it. The position of the traps and treasures is randomly generated each time.
Features
Nonlinear levels
Procedural generation of traps and treasures
Alien creatures that feel quite at home on Earth
TNT and grenades for the abovementioned creatures
Underwater brawls and rumbles in waterfalls
Razor-sharp plot twists
Controls. There are three ways to control the game:
Keyboard. Arrows — move. Spacebar — shoot/throw. Enter — select. Esc — open menu.
Gamepad. D-pad — move. A — shoot/throw. B — select. X — menu. You can also move using joysticks and use the right bumper to shoot/throw.
Mouse. Move the mouse pointer to select the direction. Left-click to move. Right-click to shoot/throw.
Tips and Tricks
Hearts and lives. Extra lives save you when you fall into a trap. The trap is permanently disabled after that and you can safely step on that cell. At the start of each level you get one life. On some levels, you can find hearts that give you extra lives. Extra lives don’t save you from bugs, laser and drowning. If you die of any of these reasons, you’ll have to start the level over again no matter how many lives you have.
Light mode. Use the menu to switch to the light mode during the game.
Reaching the treasures and narrow passages. The traps and treasures generation algorithm ensures that you can always safely reach the treasures and narrow passages. There is always a way.
