Paradise Trail

Few are foolish enough to leave the protective walls of the Citadel, the last city of man. But you are foolish, and it's your time.

The world beyond is unsafe. Ruled by monsters, death, and defeat. Yet hope remains, grown by dreams of a Paradise, far from the Citadel’s walls. Will you lead your caravan to Paradise or to defeat?

Paradise Trail is a dungeon crawler where you upgrade your party's personality alongside their stats.

Prepare for your pilgrimage. Here's what to expect:

• Use alchemy to craft new gear from salvaged essence, or fuse essence into equipment to customize skills and fine-tune your build
• Level up your party's personality - give your characters personality traits that define how they react to non-combat events
• Tactical turn-based encounters with unique initiative-based combat
• Randomized dungeons and monsters

Behind the scenes
I wanted to make a game that could surprise me, even though I created it.

Most of the content is procedurally generated. Each dungeon tile is placed algorithmically. The map in the editor is blank, and is redrawn by a script when you enter a new room. For the algorithm fans, the monster parties, including their skills and strategies, are generated using a graph-traversal algorithm.

The game was started about 10 years ago. It's technically endless, but once you're about 6 hours in, the monsters become too difficulty, even for a highly optimized party. If you make it that far, and can still take down bosses, consider it a victory.