Fun game. I wish I had thought of it. Just finished Nightmare mode. My 9 year old daughter beat it on easy. What a gem! I'm glad I saw it on Splattercat.
Hello devs, this is a really cool looking game, its aesthetics and mechanics look pretty fun, looks kind of short too but I still wanna play it, Is there any Steam release date planned?
Cheers! We do plan on releasing this game on Steam before the end of the year but no precise date as of yet. But if you purchase it here you will get a Steam key when it does get on there!
I do am eager to buy this one, but I have a problem with the payment, I don't have an international credit card and since I'm from Brazil it's quite complicated to pay itch.io with R$(brazillian real), Steam on the other hand accepts any cash already making the conversion, still, don't worry cause I'll have this one in my pixel art collection on the realease :3
That's very curious, can you see a 'data.sgr' file in the game's folder? If not, you need to download the game again I think, that file needs to be there. Oh also you do need to extract the zip file's contents into a new folder before launching the game in there, you can't launch the game directly from the zip file, maybe that's your issue?
Otherwise, maybe try moving the game's folder to another location and launch it from there? Please let us know if any of these things work.
We need to figure out how to make antiviruses trust our games but in the meantime you'll have to let your antivirus know the executable is safe yourself. FWIW we're not putting malwares in our games, that would be a pretty bad business practice.
You have a gem here but its definitely unpolished. I beat all the different difficulty levels and even played around on the endless mode and I only bought this roughly 8 hours ago. $6.00 for 8 hours of gameplay is a bit of a letdown. What this game really needs is some rougelite elements imo. Make it so when you get the three orbs the wratch teleports to another area and give a run-permanent powerup. Make hard and nightmare a lot harder but throw in achievement locked permanent upgrades so we need to grind a bit to get strong enough to face them. Love the game but I was left seriously needing more.
Nah, I'm just an anthropomorphized space squid trolling random comment sections to mess with humans and observe their responses. The galactic zygomats appreciate your contribution to science.
I was sucked into Wratch's Den by the Dungeon Keeper-inspired graphics, but found a totally different game when I fired it up. Not disappointed at all; it's a fantastic experience. Fans of nitty-gritty tactical games (like me) will love it.
While obviously inspired by Dungeon Keeper, it's a totally different game. It's not a builder at all, it's actually a time-based tactical game. And it's loads of fun. 4 difficulty settings and an endless loop survival mode give this game pretty good mileage. Could use a little more love - some balance tweaking in particular - but it's in very good shape as-is.
Punkcake keep knocking it out of the park with their games. The Wratch's Den is a casual dungeon keeper like game. I played it as part of the itch.io vault:
Hi, amazing game :D I have one question. If I buy this game on itch.io, will I receive a free steam key once it comes out there or will I have to buy it again?
This game is awesome. The game sessions are short, but you have to actually think a lot in them. There is a lot of strategies to learn as you play over and over again!
Great fun! I really love how this is the ultimate base builder for those of us who HATE building sims. I really like how the addition of each room is auto-located for me, so I not only need to choose what cool new room to add but if I'm okay with where Wratch wants to put it as there could be a case that I'd really like to add Room X but as I'm not cool on where Wratch wants to place it, I'll need to go with Room Y. Even the workers aren't freely making hallways as much as uncovering passages that already exist
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Fun game. I wish I had thought of it. Just finished Nightmare mode. My 9 year old daughter beat it on easy. What a gem! I'm glad I saw it on Splattercat.
Splattercat has enabled my bad spending habits soooooo much over time lol. I hope he gets commission for the amount of selling he effortlessly does.
Bugs/Gripes post-patch 1.1 so far:
-No save function
-All anvil improvement for a unit is reset when a unit is trained
-Random anvil upgrades
-No surefire way to choose from all the classes from the school, retrain, or sacrifice units to get a certain class within the current spawn limit
-Units sacrificed on the dark altar do not vacate the spawn pool, and may not be replaced
-Worldwide unit upgrades don't apply to units that spawn after the upgrade purchase
Lastly, I want to say thanks to the developers for this is a fantastically fun game! It's downright scary how much time disappears when I play it.
Excellent, but absolutely NEEDS a savegame function of some sort...
And make sure to do it for both gamemodes!
Hello devs, this is a really cool looking game, its aesthetics and mechanics look pretty fun, looks kind of short too but I still wanna play it, Is there any Steam release date planned?
Keep the good work :D
Cheers! We do plan on releasing this game on Steam before the end of the year but no precise date as of yet. But if you purchase it here you will get a Steam key when it does get on there!
I do am eager to buy this one, but I have a problem with the payment, I don't have an international credit card and since I'm from Brazil it's quite complicated to pay itch.io with R$(brazillian real), Steam on the other hand accepts any cash already making the conversion, still, don't worry cause I'll have this one in my pixel art collection on the realease :3
This reply was all I needed to buy the game here. Looking forward to that Steam key in the future and to playing this in the time being! Thanks!
When trying to execute the game, it does not work, the log has this error message:
'Could not open 'map.bnk'. No such file or directory'
Any recommendation on how to fix it?
That's very curious, can you see a 'data.sgr' file in the game's folder? If not, you need to download the game again I think, that file needs to be there. Oh also you do need to extract the zip file's contents into a new folder before launching the game in there, you can't launch the game directly from the zip file, maybe that's your issue?
Otherwise, maybe try moving the game's folder to another location and launch it from there? Please let us know if any of these things work.
I extracted everything, and try several folders, the data.sgr is there, in the log you can see 'Opened dat 'data.sgr'. with 28 blocks.'
The only 2 errors are the map.bnk not found and The Discord API could not initialized.
Can you please send the complete log at trasevol.dog@gmail.com? we'll solve this over mail if that's ok. :)
My antivirus says it is infected with malware.....
We need to figure out how to make antiviruses trust our games but in the meantime you'll have to let your antivirus know the executable is safe yourself. FWIW we're not putting malwares in our games, that would be a pretty bad business practice.
You have a gem here but its definitely unpolished. I beat all the different difficulty levels and even played around on the endless mode and I only bought this roughly 8 hours ago. $6.00 for 8 hours of gameplay is a bit of a letdown. What this game really needs is some rougelite elements imo. Make it so when you get the three orbs the wratch teleports to another area and give a run-permanent powerup. Make hard and nightmare a lot harder but throw in achievement locked permanent upgrades so we need to grind a bit to get strong enough to face them. Love the game but I was left seriously needing more.
this can't be a serious comment, right?
Nah, I'm just an anthropomorphized space squid trolling random comment sections to mess with humans and observe their responses. The galactic zygomats appreciate your contribution to science.
Chill dude, wtf?
This looks really cool. Any chance for a linux version?
Yes! We'll be trying to make it happen before the end of the year!
Seconded on Linux version! This is a gem already. Thank you!
I was sucked into Wratch's Den by the Dungeon Keeper-inspired graphics, but found a totally different game when I fired it up. Not disappointed at all; it's a fantastic experience. Fans of nitty-gritty tactical games (like me) will love it.
While obviously inspired by Dungeon Keeper, it's a totally different game. It's not a builder at all, it's actually a time-based tactical game. And it's loads of fun. 4 difficulty settings and an endless loop survival mode give this game pretty good mileage. Could use a little more love - some balance tweaking in particular - but it's in very good shape as-is.
Punkcake keep knocking it out of the park with their games. The Wratch's Den is a casual dungeon keeper like game. I played it as part of the itch.io vault:
Amazing game! Would love a save option for "Expansion" mode!
How do I fire arrows for ranged attack with my archer?
ranged minions attack automatically when they are aligned with enemies and you use turns with another minion.
Saving for it!
Hi, amazing game :D
I have one question. If I buy this game on itch.io, will I receive a free steam key once it comes out there or will I have to buy it again?
Yes if you buy it here you will get a Steam key when the game gets on there. Same thing if you get the game through our Patreon subscription. :)
Just watched Nookrium play this on youtube and it was fantastic! I will be picking this up next time I have time to play something. Great work, guys!
This game is awesome. The game sessions are short, but you have to actually think a lot in them. There is a lot of strategies to learn as you play over and over again!
10/10, would build my own dungeon again.
I really love this so far. I think I'm really bad at it? But it's too fun to be put down by how much I let down the Wratch.
Great fun! I really love how this is the ultimate base builder for those of us who HATE building sims. I really like how the addition of each room is auto-located for me, so I not only need to choose what cool new room to add but if I'm okay with where Wratch wants to put it as there could be a case that I'd really like to add Room X but as I'm not cool on where Wratch wants to place it, I'll need to go with Room Y. Even the workers aren't freely making hallways as much as uncovering passages that already exist