A challenging RPG that you have to be perfect or you fail. If you die, you start over.
Reviews for "The Rogue Fable"
I thought this game was challenging and fun. It makes you work out tactics for each creature since there's no save and you risk dying if you don't use the right tactic each time to get through all 16 levels. Tactics also change based on what you find. Made it to the end once, and didn't try and clear each level after about 12, just found the stairs down and kept going (lots of stealth).
Don't play this game unless you're using CHROME as the author mentions. I had 100% bug failure using firefox and it was really annoying when you get below level 12 and it keeps freezing, usually after killing something with fire. I gave up with firefox, downloaded and used CHROME and only saw 1 bug, which was the no doorway in a starting room, but clicked the walls and it appeared.
I never found anything special after clearing level 4 for the cold dungeon, but I didn't clear levels 2 and 3 since I was running out of the necessary potions. Didn't try with the fire dungeon. Was there anything special except experience and usual loot?
Didn't give it a 5 just because of the extreme difficulty using any browser except Chrome. I'd vote for no save except on level 8 and 12. Part of the excitement is knowing death is permanent, but it's not always easy to sit down for half a day to finish this.
Thank you for creating it. The only thing I can think of to add is having your character change appearance based on what they are using.
HI
thanks for this retrogaming game :)
as the others said, a save will be fine :) maybe a save before to leave a floor?
About floor, i can't find the stairs for the 3 floor... i was looking for secret passage because there are black zone in the map but don't find some.
(sorry for my bad english )
Solid content but severe bugs ruin gameplay, crashed about 20% of the time, another 20% of the time there would be no gateway to a lower level (for example after exploring all lvl 4 there would be no way to get down to lvl 5). Once these are fixed and a save option is added this will become a pretty cool game. For now though it's pretty frustrating
JustinWang123 responds:
Thanks for the response, I apologize for all the bugs. We made the mistake of only testing on our computers with chrome browser and it appears there's just a mess of problems with other browsers/computer setups. I'm working to fix as much as I can by testing with a number of different browsers. I'll be adding an auto save with the next update. I don't want to ruin the roguelike challenge so I'll just make it save every level so if it crashes or your done playing for the night you can pick up where you left off. If you die though it will wipe the save.
Good except for it froze when I was at lvl 4/4 fire dungeon and tried to take the descending stairs. Having no save feature to pick up and put down this game is a big negative. If those were implemented I could see myself trying this again but for now I cant find the interest to start over
JustinWang123 responds:
Fixed the crash. Pretty easy, just don't spawn stairs on those levels duh! will add in saving with next update. Thanks for playing!