SanctuaryRPG – SpawnFirst https://www.spawnfirst.com Fully Immersed Fri, 04 Apr 2014 04:42:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 SanctuaryRPG, the ‘Dark Souls’ of ASCII games https://www.spawnfirst.com/articles/sanctuaryrpg-dark-souls-ascii-games/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sanctuaryrpg-dark-souls-ascii-games Mon, 10 Mar 2014 12:33:32 +0000 http://www.spawnfirst.com/?post_type=it_articles&p=16220 It’s hard to remember the last time that I played an ASCII RPG, let alone saw one that I was excited about. But here is SantuaryRPG from Black Shell Games, in all its ASCII-art glory. With an animated opening cutscene and matching 8-bit music throughout the game, it’s hard not to fall in love with if […]

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]]> It’s hard to remember the last time that I played an ASCII RPG, let alone saw one that I was excited about. But here is SantuaryRPG from Black Shell Games, in all its ASCII-art glory. With an animated opening cutscene and matching 8-bit music throughout the game, it’s hard not to fall in love with if you are a fan of the once-dead genre.


SanctuaryRPG is bringing ASCII back in force with a mixture of roguelike and RPG elements and a large dash of Dark Souls-esque to boot.

My first few hours with the game left me aw-struck with the level of detail that had to go into designing all of the text-character based interfaces and cutscenes. All of it is really well done.

One annoyance I saw with the game is the structure of the battle scene. In general, I like the layout, but I sort of expected my health meter and stats to be on the top, after all I am the one playing the game, not the enemy that I am battling. Neverthless, after adjusting myself to look where I needed to, I was having a blast, although in my first playthrough, I died at the first boss. Perhaps I should have spent more time leveling up in the grass. Sounds like Pokémon right?


Anyhow, I’ve only had time to attempt the Classic game mode, where you cannot respawn. When you die, you die, there is also a Casual game mode, where dying will allow you to respawn, but with a 12% penalty for doing so. There is also the Survival mode, which looks to be an arena mode where you constantly face a new enemy.

While deep RPGs take a while to crawl all the way through, I do not imagine myself getting bored with this game anytime soon. I even leave it on the menus just to listen to the music as I write.

Screw graphics, you can find me on my laptop playing SanctuaryRPG.

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]]> SanctuaryRPG, the Popular ASCII-Art RPG Hits Greenlight https://www.spawnfirst.com/news/sanctuaryrpg-popular-ascii-art-rpg-hits-greenlight/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sanctuaryrpg-popular-ascii-art-rpg-hits-greenlight Tue, 25 Feb 2014 21:54:41 +0000 http://www.spawnfirst.com/?post_type=it_news&p=15547 SanctuaryRPG, a free-to-play ASCII-art RPG from Black Shell Games and the self proclaimed “most ambitious ASCII-RPG of 2014” has just been put up on Steam’s Greenlight service for user voting. If you are a fan of this game or similar ones, be sure to give it a thumbs up. Currently, the game is in beta, but seems […]

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]]> SanctuaryRPG, a free-to-play ASCII-art RPG from Black Shell Games and the self proclaimed “most ambitious ASCII-RPG of 2014” has just been put up on Steam’s Greenlight service for user voting. If you are a fan of this game or similar ones, be sure to give it a thumbs up.


Currently, the game is in beta, but seems to be fully functional and has been receiving some great reviews from outlets such as Twinfinite and 8-BitCentral. We will also have our own review going up soon.

You don’t see many ASCII games anymore, but it’s nice to see a fresh take on an older style of gaming, drawing from both roguelikes and older J-RPGs. It even features chiptune music!

You can check out the teaser trailer below if you are interested.


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