Some potential ideas: - Give players some control over what monsters, chests or healing items are added to the pool of things that can generate in the grid (the easiest way to balance this is probably to have the tree mentioned in the last point) - Have relics with passive effects that can be bought or that you can pick for free between levels, without a downside (while teeth can keep their downside, and those have the better passive effects) - There could also be other active skills that charge after a few turns, which you get or buy between levels (rather than just having single-use consumables in addition to the sun active). They could have effects like swap 2 cells or reduce the strength of a monster. - Maybe players can work their way through a tree of levels, where a level might have more chests or more monsters of a certain type, etc, and different levels might have different rewards That may make it more similar to other games, but those are some well-established ways of making a roguelike engaging and making players feel like they're progressing through something.

I think a good thing to add could be getting something for defeating the monsters, like XP that could lead to unlocking some perks for your run (maybe even some class specific perks) so you would feel becoming more powerful by each floor and making room for a big variety in builds and making each run more different from the other. To balance that of course enemies would keep getting stronger faster by the floors you progress through :)

Thank you for the feedback! We'll definitely improve both those things for the next demo 🙏

@@DocGeraud It’s a very interesting concept and design. I like what you have going on, and I hope you keep improving the ideas here.

After the door is open, monsters drop a small amount of gold based on strength maybe?

It deals the difference! We're improving the user interface so players don't have to estimate the damage every time😅