I am interested in this game but

[Big Dog]

I am curious what the players of it enjoy about it.

Could some people please provide some reasons why they enjoy this game.

Thanks.

[GreenOwlHead]

Good question.

Path of Achra... it is simplistic, yet profound and thoughtful gameplay.

Input is rather simplistic like move keys, stand still and handful amount of active skill keys from religion. but a lot of skills, items and prestige classes interconnect with triggers (e.g. On Step, On Attack, On Prayer). Comparing to highly complicated games, Path of Achra relatively have compact, cohesive explanations that I can understand what items/skill/prayer does easily.

along with that, you do not farm in-game currency for having better start. but more of planning what kind of build that you gonna do, based on culture, class and religion (at start). Thus, it is more of trying/finding out various builds. Thankfully, it is more of "easy to learn, hard to master", yet "hard to master" is for when you beat already and play harder difficulty with screwing around other builds. Lastly, overall the game pace is fast and streamlined, comparing to other turn based/roguelikes. Even if the run is failed, it is easier to "restart new run" than raging quit by "I have to do all these dragging turn based combats".

You can try Demo. But the demo is old version and it is too luck based. current version is well polished, less luck driven.

that's all I can say.

[GreenOwlHead]

One more thing. about active skill keys (Prayer) and Religion... they also function as Second Wind if you have full Prayer (Divine Intervention). Thus, you can play high risk, high reward builds like berserker easily, while it could be too risky to try on certain rogue like (in my experience, Cave of Qud). at same time, there is some moment during gameplay as "do I have to use prayer for hurting enemies/healing myself? Should I preserve it for Divine Intervention. or How can I sustain it easily while spamming it?" .

[AJM76_]

Originally posted by Big Dog:

I am curious what the players of it enjoy about it.

Could some people please provide some reasons why they enjoy this game.

Thanks.

Isn't that what user reviews do?

[BadCub]

As GreenOwlHead said: Build variety. The skill trees in the game are interesting because they can be very powerful, and because it has representation of skills that I don't see in many other games. When it comes to skill classes, you have: Martial, fire, lightning, frost, poison, death, life, astral, psionics, and blood. You are capped at three skill classes, and to seven skills, but even then, you can do a lot.
Each class has cool stuff that you can toy around with, with general overlap and synergies between classes. For examples of 'cool stuff', astral allows you to teleport around the battlefield, hit enemies without even moving, and, it makes me feel like a mobile artillery battery. Lightning is mostly about the blitz: Literal lightning war focused around movement, but even then, you can use a few things from the tree that does not focus around movement. Then, there are, as GreenOwlHead said before, prestige classes that add more to your build. For example, there is a dedicated necromancer class that lets you pump out skeletons, and another class, called a pain cleric, that revolves around damaging your summons so that you can damage you enemies.
I can write more, but to sum things up: Awesome, interesting build variety, and what I said was just scratching the surface!

[Cosmic Muse]

All the above but I also enjoy the achievement hunting because each "win with x" achievement also unlocks a lore blurb. The dev has done a really good job of crafting a strange and mysterious world that feels straight out of pulp fiction... the genre not the movie. It's fun going back to read the lore on the particular prestige you completed the game with.

[GunofBrixton]

Originally posted by Big Dog:

I am curious what the players of it enjoy about it.

Could some people please provide some reasons why they enjoy this game.

Thanks.

Autism.

[Someone]

We can play this with one arm.

[Energist]

This game is weird as hell.

The theme feels Middle Eastern. I have no idea what anything means.

Couldn't tell you the story.

Couldn't explain to you what the stats mean, how they work or interact.

What I can tell you is the pixel effects are very cool. It manages to engage me with its vibrant colors and fairly hands off playstyle. It is quite casual in the sense that it almost plays itself.

It feels like a cross between an Autobattler and an Indian Musical.

I like it.

[AlternateEnding]

good video game

[amadeusFUZZ]

to me, this game feels like diablo if it remained a turnbased game. it is a fast paced classic roguelike with cool itemization, a large variety of viable builds, and neat metaprogression. the writing and art style are the icing on the cake. a lot of games in this genre dont have much graphics at all.

[Gienah Corvi]

If you're looking at the Path of Achra forum, you're either playing it or you're dust in the wind.

Don't be forgotten in the breeze, OP.

[Digishade]

It's the fun of Diablo and the imaginative experimentation of Dominions, without the autistic irritation of Dominions or the lack of originality of modern DIablo. Plus, it's funny, alarmingly challenging and infinitely replayable.
Getting killed by a boss after you kill him is some ♥♥♥♥, though. lmao

[---------]

Its the fun of making builds, leveling, absolutely tearing though enemies- all condensed into something that skips out on the tedium of other games that have those features. I mean you can play this game with one hand while watching YouTube if you really wanted to.

Even beyond the game-play this game has a nice art-style, and oh boy its lore is amazing- exactly the sort of fantasy world I love. Strange magic, bizarre locales, interesting peoples.

[500KG]

I'm only here to fulfill my obligation to the merchants guild, that being said..

I played one round and thought 'what the ♥♥♥♥ is ♥♥♥♥?' but then overnight I kept thinking about different skill/combo/item combinations. It's wild and kinda fun.

[MintiM]

It hits the similar dopamine circuits that vampire survivors did but you actually have (or can...) use your brain here and the build variety is far far greater. Plus you literally have to press two buttons.

I only had 2 playthroughs so far (1 win), but I'm having a blast. The sound design really helps it, it's really fun when you find synergies/increase your power and watch&hear everything get melted, but it's not entirely brain off so you can still strategise.

It's a bit like DCSS if it was more fun and most of the tedium was removed from it.