SanctuaryRPG: Black Edition

SanctuaryRPG: Black Edition is a humorous, text-based dungeon-crawling RPG. You take on the role of an adventurer exploring the world of Sanctuary, with characters, enemies, and environments presented in animated ASCII symbols.

Explore dungeons and face enemies and bosses in menu-driven, turn-based battles. Combat involves choosing abilities and equipment, managing character stats, and adapting your approach to each encounter.

Choose from different race and class combinations, then develop a build with skills and collected weapons and armor. Procedurally generated areas, events, and loot offer variation between playthroughs; the game also includes crafting and quests.

Players who enjoy the game often point to its ASCII presentation, strategic turn-based battles, and the choices involved in balancing stats, abilities, and equipment. Some also appreciate the variety between runs and the soundtrack. Other reviewers find the combat or writing unappealing, describe the loop as repetitive, or say the difficulty and restarting after a failed run can be frustrating.