Ring of Pain
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About the Game
Delve into randomly generated ring dungeons where encounters come to you!
Observe and plan your route. Will you go for the loot or backstab a creeping horror? As you scavenge, fight and sneak to new encounters, the ring reacts to your actions.
Play as fast or slow as you like in this challenging, turn-based roguelike. Just be careful where you tread – You may find yourself ambushed, or worse…
See the outcome of your choices so you can focus on decisions.
Creatures broadcast their actions in a hostile environment, ready to erupt. Will you flee or find a way to use the dungeon against itself?
Positioning is key to survival. You can be quickly overwhelmed…
Observe the Ring and strategise.
Learn, adapt, or face demise.
Mimics offer you a choice for a price. Take what you can hold and build a combination of gear with passive powers.
Maybe you’ll be quick and evasive, with an acid soaked blade. Or maybe you’ll be a brute force juggernaut, or a fireborn damage sink with an affinity for explosions.
Buy your way to power or adapt with what you scavenge in these unforgiving depths.
Deep in the Ring of Pain you will discover new paths into the unknown. Places with new friends, powerful loot, and cryptic rhyming lore.
Find pleasant reprieve and howling terrors best left undisturbed.
The brave may be rewarded for their risk… or crushed by their ambition.
In darkness, careful where you tread.
What was unknown now fills with dread.
Ring of Pain launches Oct 15th with these features and more:
- 16 Core path dungeons plus 2 branching endings to test your final build.
- Medium and Hard modes to unlock for those who thrive on pain.
- A Daily Dungeon mode to unlock with 40+ puzzling modifiers.
- 25+ Special dungeons to detour through, filled with loot and strange encounters.
- 4 Environment regions with their own flavour of terror.
- 280+ items to unlock and combine in a 15 slot inventory.
- 50+ Creatures to learn and adapt to. Some friendly, some fierce…
- Responsive turn-based mechanics so you can play swiftly or strategically.
- Cryptic, poetic lore delivered in bite sized rhymes.
- A raw graphic art style inspired by Aphantasia.
- Cute frog friends.
- Pain and suffering.
Shadows cast a truth to see,
In darkness you can visit me.
Game Discussion
Steam User 7
This game hurts. The title is accurate. You're the one in pain.
I normally don't like games where I can lose purely on RNG but going into this game knowing it's a core feature helped a lot. More importantly, once you start learning the game, it's very satisfying to learn how to fight back against the RNG. There are few runs that I'm not making it deep into the dungeon now.
But the game is hard. The game is frustrating. You need to want to enjoy that.
Also it's creepy as hell. I love the aesthetic.
The game is definitely a unique experience. If you're expecting a roguelike-deckbuilder, you're in the wrong place. This game is a turn-based roguelike dungeon crawler with everything represented as cards.
Overall I enjoyed playing the game, but I think I'm having trouble describing it more than the previous paragraph. I truly feel like this is one of those games you should look up game play videos online first to really get a feel rather than reading a text review.
Steam User 5
Exceptional deckbuilder roguelike, extremely underrated. Tons of build variety and angles to play, though you can be a little at the mercy of starting items, but beating the game once does give the option of choosing a starting item. Every roguelike fan has that one niche example they'll yell at their friends to play, and this is mine.
Every single person I've recommended this to so far has loved it. Trust me. This is the next one you wanna try.
Steam User 5
Great game. Someone(s) complained about randomness, that however good you are, still you have to be lucky with the drops to finish a run, exploding creatures exploding on you, etc. Well, that is part of it, I just accepted it and enjoy the game, can play for many hours in one go.
Steam User 4
It's hard to describe Ring of Pain accurately without just asking someone to watch some gameplay of it. I found this card-based roguelike to be a great snappy game to quickly drop into. Even if a run would usually only last around 30 minutes, I would struggle to resist the temptation of 'just one more run'. Most of the gameplay here is a mix of making calculated decisions and inventory management. Which sounds terribly boring but Ring of Pain has been wonderfully ballanced and the variety from run to run can be huge!
Score: 8.5 / 10
Pros:
-The game's art style is unique.
-The UI will give you a detailed representation of what would happen for every choice you make. Very few things are a surprise in Ring of Pain.
-Build variation is huge and the achievements do a great job of pushing you to try new and challenging builds.
-The best items in this game really are very powerful and can do all kinds of wild things to empower you.
-Great game for the Steamdeck and other handhelds.
Cons:
-While the UI does usually do a good job of telling what will happen next, it sometimes can't keep up with some of the crazier builds in the game. These instances can lead to some disappointing deaths.
-One or two of the hardest achievements in the game might be a little over-tuned.
Steam User 3
The game definitely could be way better balanced, but the base mechanics are definitely good enough to give the game some replayability.
Steam User 3
Ring of Pain is an intriguing and unique roguelike card game with a dark, yet captivating atmosphere. Every run feels different thanks to its randomization and the variety of enemies and items. The tactical decisions you make with each card flip keep you on your toes, and the balance between risk and reward adds depth to every playthrough.
If you're into fun, strategy-based games with a twist of unpredictability, or just looking for something to play after Slay the Spire, this game is definitely worth diving into!
Steam User 3
It's really challenging but I find it fun.
If you don't enjoy challenging games & having to start over, Ring of Pain is probably not the right game for you. It is really hard but also balanced. Unlocking new items and discovering synergies is always quite enjoyable!