Hieroglyphika

This game suffers from a horribly slow enemy turn. You move one tile, then the enemy takes 3-5 seconds per enemy to move. With multiple enemies, it can take what seems like 20-30 seconds of waiting for moving one tile. It's a waste of your time. I'm a traditional roguelike player and have never seen such a poorly implemented AI animation/movement sequence. The game looks beautiful, has some interesting language mechanics. It's a shame the slow AI turns make it not worth the wait.

Although I LOVE the idea of this game, I simply cannot stand how slow turns progress. Once you move, EVERY SINGLE ENEMY moves singularly, and slowly for that matter. This problem is so prevalent that I could not continue playing this game. In these regards, I cannot recommend this game.

I can confirm what others said. The game is turn-based and the turns take quite long with no option to speed things up. The entire game is controlled by mouse. If you like to play with keyboard or gamepad: Nope, not working. The "no text" gimmick is kinda interesting, since you have to figure out yourself what the stats and symbols mean, but the fun is killed quickly when the game pace is extremely slow. Also, the music is mediocre at best.

It's good! It is quite good actually. Unlike the other popular rougelikes, you cannot sit idle and farm like crazy in this game. You have an urgency to get to the end of the level before long or bad things happen to you, which I enjoy. I have not played too much at this point but from what I have seen, the weapon/armor sets are exactly the same in every playthrough. This is not a bad thing however, as the game presents you with a lot of items with drastically different effects. And the ability to change items/weapons/armors at will once you get them, creates an amazing utility that doesn't exist anywhere else. While I believe the game can be further improved with the addition of randomness to the enemy spawn and other small fine tunings, the game at this point is fully fleshed out and complete. As for the price, I think 9 dollars is more than fair for this game. It offers numerous replayability options and probably over 50 hours of gameplay before being any kind of bored. Which bet...

This is a quite clever and enjoyable game that I see as a slow-paced puzzle rogue-like (turn-based, procedural levels, random loot, permadeath). The premise: you walk from left to right, killing things, avoiding traps and looting other things until you go down the stairs at the far right and the difficulty ramps up. Everything happens in turns, order is determined by a speed stat that mainly depends on your equipped gear, and traps give a tell before they go off. The puzzle aspects start to come in to play when you find loot and try to figure out 'what does it do actually?' All aspects of your gear are visualized as pictograms and while you get all information about its effects, you have to figure out what these pictograms mean in the first place (which isn't that hard if you experiment a bit when you find something new to you). Examples: a new dress may restrict your movement to the 4 cardinal directions instead of the usual 8, but boost your speed and defence and further increase y...

[b]Hieroglyphika[/b] is a fun, new Egyptian themed, [i]Turn Based[/i], [i]Roguelike[/i] with old school sensibilities. With no item descriptions to guide you and no text in the UI, your first couple of runs will just be figuring out what you can and can't do. Your next few runs will be trying to figure out the various pieces of clothing and equipment that you'll find strewn around the pyramid and why those nasty big critters start chasing you [spoiler]for taking to long[/spoiler]. Then finally you'll be making the most of what you have learnt to try and push deeper into the underground to inevitably die at the hands of a newly encountered enemy type. It's this learning process that will either keep you playing for the first 2 hours or put you off of the game. I personally loved it and am now slowly chasing the achievements for each new floor I manage to accomplish. **the game has had some updates since my initial review adding more enemy types (some quite annoying) that I feel have alt...

There are some mechanics spoilers, and I haven't blacked them out, so if you don't want to see them, don't read any further. I want to like this game, but it's too slow for the pay off. Being a roguelike game, there are obviously frustrating moments, like getting to level four only to discover that apparently some enemies can blast you against the wall at nearly full health and insta kill you. Well, FTL and Don't Starve have those moments too, but at least they don't seem as slow as this game. I don't have a problem with turn based games--original XCOM is one of my favorie games, and some of those turns can be quite long. The problem here is, that it just isn't as fun for me. This isn't really objective, as some reviewers don't mind it. What I really find frustrating is that when you loot sarcophagi it can take you a full turn to equip the item, unless it's the first item. For example, if you loot a shield and you didn't have one before, it's automatically equipped. If you alr...

Too slow due to each and every enemy on the screen moving in turn before you can take your next action. Cmon! Seriously? I'm not an impatient person, but when you can easily imagine this being better, more convenient to our time, and quite simply a better game with a simple change in the code.... Not playable right now for me.

this game is made for the tablet, it's terrible to play on the PC.

Had the normal retail been only $3 I might've been able to recommend but unfortunately there is no sense of progress in this game, since nothing carries over from play to play, and the content/gameplay is only slightly more advanced than a freebee like Minesweeper. The game also suffers embarrasingly from 'Little Man Syndrome' where in it tries to overcompensate it's shortcomings by attempting to offer a 'hardcore' challenge. That challenge (however) fails leaving the impression that playtesters (if any) just got a lucky draw during thier randomization. More or less the game relies a lot on luck; how generous the level drawn for you is from the start. A bit of Casino Slots mixed with an OS complimentary game; neither asking for $12 I'd suggest waiting for Hieroglyphica to turn up in a bundle or a holiday sale for $3 or less.