Not making any progress

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Hi,

I'm 15 hours in and now i feel like i'm barely making any progress with my runs. It has become just pure rng to make any meaningfull progress.

I realy feel like the game purposefully screws you over, like when you have lots of key's but no key card it will put in keycard doors. Or when you take the outside room that swaps the gems cost for steps you and up with 20 gem's but 0 bedrooms. Same for the upgrade disks i only found 3 in 15 hours and they all gave me pretty bad stuff, had a run where i found 2 but didn't get a single PC to use them before i got stuck.

It realy starting to get frustrating, not sure how you guys feel about the game and if i'm just realy unlucky with the rng or if there's a pattern with the game doing it on purpose.

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Originally posted by PersonalC0ffee:

I feel like a lot of the complaints about the RNG "holding them hostage", which it does to SOME degree (but people are being sarcastic about it), can be mitigated by better drafting strategies, which only comes from failed runs and experience but also better use of what is given in the moment. Learning how to use the items, resources, tools, perma unlocks, your own knowledge, and your picks to your advantages.

Not every run is going to be a banger. Welcome to how rougelites work. You every play Binding of Issac? You don't always win and you don't always make progress, that's part of the genre.

I honerstly don't understand what you mean by better drafting strategy. Like avoid dead ends and try taking rooms with multiple doors so you can recover from a bad draft but in the end it's all RNG.

Just now got a run, opened both side of the antechamber and both side i didn't get a connecting room. Didn't find a single reroll dice during the run. And on the same run got boilerroom but not able to connect lab or any vents to it. Now my run ends with 84 steps left, 8 keys, 11 gold and 1 gem. Didn't get a single thing out of this run and it's been like that for the past 5-6 runs which each can take 30+ mins.

I get what you say, but the big differecne for me with other roguelites is that the gameplay of this game in itself is "poor". Isaac even if you have a bad run the gameplay is enjoyable same for Hades and all the other roguelites.

In this game if you're aren't getting any progress, solving puzzles/mysteries or finging new ones, than it's just a walking sim until you finally make some progress.