Verminator

Verminator is a classic hack & slash roguelike made during the Seven Day Roguelike Challenge 2020.

You have arrived at the Prancing Rat to meet with your adventuring party. You are the first one to arrive and while relaxing near the fireplace, the innkeeper offers you some coins and free lodgings if you help him with a pest problem. Although you are tired, the promise of extra money calls you to accept the request.

How to play

Your objective is to go down to the 10th floor of the cellar and deal with the rat problem. You need to make sure your lantern stays lit, otherwise you start to slowly lose your sanity in the darkness and go mad.

You move by clicking the tiles and you can pick up items by standing over them and clicking the item's name on the list that appears on the top-left side of the screen. You can view your inventory and stats by clicking the backpack icon and from there you can also use your items by clicking them. Equipped items go into your currently active equipment slot. You can turn on and off your lantern by clicking the lantern button.

The game is played using mouse. You can also use the following hotkeys:

1/2/3 - Selects one of the three equipment slots

A/S/D - Another keybindings for the three equipment slots

I - Open/close inventory

G - Pick up item

Space - Wait one turn (you can also wait one turn by clicking yourself)

Stat overview

Hit Points - Once it reaches zero, you're dead.

Mana Points - Used for casting spells.

Sanity - You gain sanity slowly while your lantern is on and you lose sanity when you are in darkness. You start to die slowly when you have zero sanity. You deal more damage but also take more damage when you have low sanity.

Strength - Affects your melee damage.

Intelligence - Affects spell effectiveness and damage.

Melee - Gives you better chance at hitting rats in melee.

Ranged - Gives you better chance at hitting rats in ranged combat.

Source code | Development blog