Description of App
Astonischika is a turn-based pixel role-playing game with a roguelite loop. Build a party from bold classes, climb a branching map and fight turn by turn against monsters, elites and bosses.
Every run is different: you choose your path across battles, rest sites, treasure, merchants and minigames. When your party falls, the city remains your permanent home — your heroes, their gold and their gear grow from run to run.
FEATURES
• Build your party from a range of classes — warrior, mage, cleric, rogue, archer and more
• Turn-based battles with skills, spells, elements and status effects
• Branching map: battle, elite, boss, rest, treasure and merchant
• Level-ups, attribute points, equipment and learnable spells
• Minigames: shell game, dice, memory, coin flip and more
• A permanent city hub — your progress stays after every run
• Endless scaling for long-term motivation
• 22 languages, music and sound effects
GREAT FOR
Quick battle rounds in between, or long dungeon sessions.
Comments
Nice game
I just started playing this game and, so far, I will say that I like it.
I will continue playing some more and enjoy.
Game looks fun,but has some issues.
Gave this one a try.
I'm liking the music and there are some interesting character classes, though I do wish things had better descriptions. However, in accessibility terms there are still a few issues.
First, it's not always speaking what enemies do on their turns, sometimes its cut off by the announcement of "round one" or whatever, and I don't believe there's a combat log.
It would really help to know what enemies are doing.
second, I seem to be missing something with the map.
It starts off and things are labelled battle, row one of nine, elite row one of nine, etc, and a bit in there's row two of nine and so on.
However, after I completed the first battle, instead of going on to row 2 of nine, I have to choose the second thing in row one of nine, which seems a bit odd, indeed the map seems pretty straight with little choice from what I can gather, though I do believe you can go back to the town after any fight and spend gold on weapons etc.
Last, and this is a niggle for me, but I do wish there were character sex options, I really don't like everything being called a "they", the grammer just seems plane wrong, and rather than letting me "identify", with the characters, it just makes the game feel more alien and actually makes it harder to imagine what my characters are like; something again not helped by the complete lack of descriptions here.
The game does look fun in terms of progressing through dungeons and fighting tactical combat, but particularly the speech for enemy attacks issue really needs looking at.
character names
it is not hard to guess their genders from their names, even cave men can
and yeah voiceover cuts itself but thankfully I can check my hero's hps after my enimies turns, and thankfully they're only 3 instead of 10 lol so it takes no time^^
and vo tells me if they have any effects on them like stunned, slowed down etc
and I dont think it is a bug
Sometimes any number has more than one fights
sometimes you have to choose chest or this or this at a number
9 is always the boss fight
for example sometimes you should choose eather to rest or to open a treasure chest
and the "elite" gives you much more gold and exp so I dont think its a bug
character names and such
regarding character names, that's exactly my point.
Yes, a character with a name like "lana", or "Tamsin", definitely sounds female, which is why: "take their turn", feels weird to me, it should be "take his turn", or "take her turn", or if you don't want to deal with the issue at all, just "Lana's turn", or "tamsin's turn."
it's not a deal breaker but it does jangle my nurves.
A more serious problem is the lack of battle info.
Yes, you can look at characters to see what's been done to them, what hp has lost etc, but that's imho not a great way of planning battles, and is something access wise that needs to be fixed, both for the sake of planning, and just for plane atmosphere.
After all, it sounds much more intimidating if the enemy does "frost nova", or some other nasty named attack, than just you suddenly see the affects on your party.
this is also something mentioned in the description which I'm afraid doesn't seem to be working, so its something I hope gets fixed soon, either with vo announcing what happens each turn, or just with a combat log we can read.