Overview
Rysk of Pain is a fantasy roguelike action RPG where players battle through a 100-floor tower, defeating bosses to collect their hearts and unlock portals to ascend. With cooperative multiplayer, randomized challenges, and divine boons, it offers thrilling, replayable adventures for glory-seekers.
Detailed Description
In Rysk of Pain, you choose from a diverse roster of characters, each with unique abilities, to conquer a mystical tower summoned by gods across universes for their entertainment. Managed by mischievous dokkaebi, the tower appears in the heart of great empires, drawing adventurers who believe climbing it can rewrite their fate and grant immense power. Each of the 100 floors presents procedurally generated biomes filled with deadly enemies, traps, and treasures. Defeat towering bosses to claim their hearts, which activate portals to higher floors or optional secondary realms like dokkaebi shops, rest areas, or high-risk challenge floors. Team up with friends in seamless co-op, combining abilities for devastating strategies, or go solo to test your skills. Earn favor from gods to unlock boons that reshape the tower’s challenges in future runs, and discover new towers with unique mechanics. With vibrant characters set against muted, atmospheric environments, every run feels fresh, strategic, and rewarding.
Key Features
Epic 100-Floor Tower: Battle through semi procedurally generated floors with increasing difficulty, filled with enemies, traps, and bosses.
Unique Characters: Choose from distinct classes, like Assassin, Barbarian, or Wizard, each with specialized abilities and play styles.
Cooperative Multiplayer: Team up with up to sixteen players, combining abilities for powerful strategies in online co-op.
Divine Boons: Earn godly favors that modify runs, adding strategic depth and replay-ability.
Secondary Realms: Explore optional areas like dokkaebi shops or challenge floors, balancing risk and reward.
Unlockable Towers: Discover new towers with unique mechanics, such as elemental hazards or altered physics.
Randomized Loot: Collect weapons, armor, and artifacts with unique modifiers to customize your build.
Steam Achievements: Unlock progress, challenge, and collection-based achievements to showcase your mastery.
Free Expansions: Enjoy new characters, floors, and towers through free post-launch updates, with no microtransactions.
AI
This game uses AI for rapid prototyping, all AI assets should be replaced upon launch. Please report any missed assets on our discord.
Development Goals
Base single player game loop
Controller support
Knowledge tab
Discovery and Unlock systems
Post game data collection and display
Optional area system
Shop system (in game currency)
Tower mechanics
Floor, Artifact, Enemy, Tower variations
Coop
Steam Coop
Replacement of AI prototype resources