Life pool?

[2Rad]

How do I replenish my life pool?

[Santadriver]

There are a few chaos generators scattered around Fahrul. Destroying them gives you the option to -1 chaos, -1 scourge or +1life.

There‘s also a game at the dark carnival called the wheel of death where you can also gain lives for the life pool.

And I‘m not 100% sure.. but I thought there was a rare random accuring event (often they are marked with a yellow questionmark) where you can also gail a live. Don’t know what it was called..

If your party members have been dead for some time the Queen will reveal a chaos generator for you.

[2Rad]

Is that seriously it? This game is really poorly balanced at the moment.

[Santadriver]

It's not poorly balanced. On the contrary, I'd say. The devs did a splendid job in making the game rogue like. Your decisions have to be on point in order to succeed. If you rush something, fight when your party is not ready, you'll lose. There are some ways to recover from bad decision-making - that is, if you don't mess up completely.

Your characters aren't meant to die often during the adventure. In fact, I tend to never letting them die, since revivng them always comes with an extra effort.

If that's not doable for you, consider playing on easy where you're already starting with a big life pool.

[2Rad]

Even at the lowest difficulty, the entire game is a statistically insurmountible uphill battle where either you get TPKd in an ambush early on, or you spend the whole rest of the game scrambling to revive dead team members while the world ends around you, with no hope of recovery because the monsters are all two levels higher than you and there's multiple scourges you don't have the resources to fight against.

I.e. not fun despite the game's many redeeming qualities.

It's like Risk of Rain but with a skill ceiling because of the luck mechanic.

[Santadriver]

I don’t know how long you‘ve played FtK. It can be a tough game and certainly comes with a lerning curve. You won’t beat it on your first try. Some people like that, some don’t.
There are some guidelines and tips that might help you in your adventures.

[Santadriver]

I'd be happy enough to show you my way of appoaching the game if you liked.