Remove NPCs?

[aspartame]

I really don't like playing with NPCs. Is there no way to disable them?

[chairmankao]

Activate the Pumice Crystal to the left of the entrance to the dungeon. I think so long it's down, it will stay down until you raise it up. When in the down position (like it's been hammered into the ground), no NPCs will show up.

If you haven't got the Pumice Crystal, I think you just need to play some more until it is "built".

[aspartame]

Thanks. I unlocked it.

I don't understand why it's progress-gated. Most people are either going to like playing with NPCs or not. Why force people in the latter group to play with them when they don't want to, even for a few runs?

Even worse, it's not made clear that the option even *exists* until you unlock it. If I had bought the game through Steam, I probably would have refunded it before that point.

[Silverbird]

It takes like 3 games before he starts building it, and another 2 after.
Not really hard gated, although if that's your only reason to give up on the game then I can't see why you wouldn't have refunded it anyways...

[aspartame]

NPCs make a huge difference in the gameplay. It's not a matter of "giving up"; I just don't enjoy playing with NPCs.

As I said, it's not apparent that you *can* disable NPCs until after you unlock the ability. Since you can't refund a game through Steam after more than 2 hours of gameplay, it's not unlikely that someone might refund it before unlocking the pumice crystal.

I googled around before making this post, and I couldn't find a single result even hinting that disabling NPCs was possible.