Braving the mountain in this roguelike game
Welcome to Insurmountable, an adventure roguelike game where you will be braving the mountains in a game with permadeath that requires some slower more careful, tactful playing.
Starting off you will only have a tent with 3 uses for the whole mountain, a grappling hook to help with climbing, a flask of tea for I think it was sanity, also some food for some energy to help out.
The bars at the bottom are Sanity (purple bar), Warmth (orange bar), Energy (yellowish bar) and Oxygen (green bar). These need to be watched and maintained, especially when getting lower and deciding if it is worth going for a certain event tile..
You will start off right down the bottom and very far to reach the top of the mountain, so the best bet is to start with some event quest tiles, this will give you different scenarios generally with gifts/items and sometimes could be something negatively affecting your run, but in this first scenario you see me receive a bottle of oxygen as a gift.
Other events on tiles can be something like the next one which has me digging through animal guts, looking for the potential undigested herbs to take with you on the mountain adventure, the experience is nice though and crucial to getting skills which can greatly enhance your ability to succeed.
You will come across cave tiles which are excellent tiles to be on when it is night time. This generally gives you an extra option to go for if you would like, otherwise you lie down and fall asleep for either a short or a long time, depending how much time you need or prefer and the energy you need as well. I would recommend going for these if your energy is looking to be going under half with that trek to the tile, then you will regain the energy and be on your way.
Now what starts to really get tough and will be on future trips is the fact you get harsher weather conditions and the steeper climbs, which require more energy and time, which causes you to be affected with a higher chance of injury as well.
If I was to follow some routes after clicking a tile, I would end up lacking a lot of energy like if I were to go for a certain event tile. So I instead, will end up going another way to get different events while keeping my energy right up high for a lot longer as something more beneficial for me to do as an action.
I get the sifting through an animal for herbs on this one which I do anyway, but then level up and get the -18% energy cost on all terrain so I can do more for longer!
Sometimes you will come across events with different choices to take like in this cave, when I can use a flashlight or climb down or if I have a torch, I can use that instead. In this instance I used the flashlight which I have and this leads to more experience plus a handy grapping hook, for getting up the mountain easier.
I use exactly that due to the upcoming steep climbing to be completed and making things easier on myself, my energy and because I already had it spare so why not use one of them?
As you near closer and closer to the top you start getting excited while having nerves because there is a death zone up higher.. this is meant to make it harder and affect you more, so you definitely want to have the supplies on hand and get ready to use them. Skills will assist to a small extent along with any items gathered, but I would hate to see how a run ends because of lack of extra items.
Upon reaching the top of the summit for the mountain, you get a boost to your stats and the experience due to what comes next. Now you have to reach the next spot and make it back down which of course can have just as much danger or complications, especially while you are tired from making your way up so ensure you have used the tent, as needed!
I was actually surprised that I liked Insurmountable, being a mountain climbing game but I thought it was worth a try as you can never truly be sure, until you try yourself. Plan is to keep playing more to unlock other characters and items which when saved, will give me better variety and choices for the future mountain runs.
With more game time you will find yourself upgrading into specific area at first like energy reduction due to the amount of movement you will be needing to perform, to get enough events completed so you will pass more and more mountains.
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