Mobile Roguelike RPG ‘Ananias’ Hits Steam Greenlight

Lead Programmer Santiago Zapata of Slashware Interactive announced that their mobile roguelike RPG Ananias began a Steam Greenlight campaign April 8.

began a Steam Greenlight campaign April 8. Currently, the game is downloadable as a free-to-play experience on both web-browsers and the Google Play store. PC, Mac, and Linux support will become available according to the Steam Greenlight page, pending a successful voting campaign.

Ananias is a dungeon crawler where players explore a vast complex of ruins filled with monstrous creatures and powerful artifacts. Similar to other roguelike experiences, gamers will encounter a newly arranged dungeon upon each playthrough. While six character classes are developed, only four are available for the free versions, the Alchemist, Arcane, Paladin, and Hunter. The remaining two characters, The Slayer and Barbarian, are only attainable through the Fellowship Edition available on the Google Play store for $2.99

40 different monsters with distinct abilities attempt to thwart players on their journey to the lowest level of the dungeon. Some may even be charmed by powerful magic, and can even unlock additional abilities as they follow gamers along on their quest.

Slashware Interactive has included several of the aspects they believe are key to a roguelike RPG experience, such as turn-based combat, random level generation, and long term item strategy. An online mode also enables competition between friends as they compete against each other in leaderboard statistics. Complex commands and movement have been designed to be streamlined and seamless, which the studio hopes decreases gameplay monotony.

Additional character class descriptions can be found on the official website, along with the free browser-based version of Ananias . Slashware Interactive hopes interested players will decide to support the Steam Greenlight campaign.