Way back in the 1980s a little game called Rogue landed on PCs. For whatever reason, some 30 years later developers are creating their own roguelikes en masse. The Nightmare Cooperative is the latest of these and follows genre trappings with its own unique twists. Did you think normal dungeon crawlers were difficult? Well, this game takes that difficulty one step further by turning each dungeon raid into a strategic puzzle.
Games Reviewer has listed the top 15 Android role-playing games of 2014. We included games from different genres of RPG including Japanese, Western, Fantasy, Choices, Action, Sandbox, Tactical, and Rogue-like.
Hardcore Droid - Scottish developers Lucky Frame are on a mission, as their website states, “to encourage creativity through technology”. Their latest effort, a puzzle-heavy roguelike called Nightmare Cooperative, fulfills this promise by pushing the player’s strategic faculties to the brink, while soothing away maze-induced insanity with its impressive artistry and wry wit. The premise is, rather than a heroic tale of derring-do, a hilariously dour political snarl grimly recalling the burdens of real-world citizenship. A medieval Village Council has emptied its coffers on monuments to its own members, so it calls on all its knights, archers, mages and other able-bodied residents to do a little “fundraising”. This means scouring the corners of a series of deadly mazes to gather as much gold as possible without being killed by pitchfork-wielding guards, poisonous critters, and other atrocities.
The Nightmare Cooperative is the latest roguelike to grace the Android, but unlike the countless others making their way through the Play Store, this one offers a bit of a twist on the well-known permadeath mechanic.
