Ruzar – The Life Stone
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Ruzar – The Life Stone is a dungeon crawler RPG game in which you play an adventurer who needs to discover the powerful Life Stone. Do you have the skills to survive in the deadliest dungeons of the Mountain of Ruz and recover the legendary artefact?Key Features:
- Explore the Mountains of Ruz to discover the Life Stone through the numerous dungeons, hidden secrets and deadly creatures.
- Customize your character with more than 50+ skills and spells.
- Storage Chamber that help store your items
- Binding Stones to help you travel between the different levels
- Fire Camp to help you survive in the dungeons
- Buy, sell your items or grind creatures to find loots.
- Accomplish quests to uncover the mystery of Ruz.
- A nice twist to the classic dungeon crawling game with one single character you can customize and evolve up to the level 50.
Steam User 3
Playable and standard dungeon-crawler that hits all the checkmarks but doesn’t stand out.
You start by creating the character you want to play. Instead of choosing a specific class, such as warrior or mage, you can be whatever you want by investing a significant amount of points in seven stats. If you choose regular difficulty, you can't go wrong because the game provides you with enough equipment to beat the game with any character, and leveling up grants you fresh stat points. The difficulty options solely influence enemy damage and health.
When you level up five times, you unlock a skill three, which allows you to select class-specific enhancements. To keep things simple, you should go with melee fighter. Thief or mage are too restricted with either money, because you have to buy arrows, and mana.
The gameplay is classic first-person dungeon crawling. This means you'll largely be walking through tight tunnels and maze-like scenarios. The map is separated into grids, which you can explore step by step. Because the camera is not free, you can only turn left or right using two buttons. You can utilize the free camera by pressing the right mouse button, however it only allows you to view around corners briefly. It's more of an extra function, as I rarely utilized it.
Left-clicking is used to interact with the environment and attack enemies. Because the game is "boring" with objects because you travel across plain walls and floors, the majority of items can be spotted right away. There are levers to unlock doors, dazzling loot lying around or from killed enemies, and occasional hidden secret in the surroundings, such as clickable small stones in walls.
Movement and attacking occur in real time, so you don't need to use the pause button to make an enemy make its move. However, enemies have a delay when performing their action, allowing you to duck out of their way. Unless you're locked in a corner, you can quickly navigate around an enemy and attack it before it can turn. Since the game allows quick save and load, most situations can be avoided.
Better weapons are obtained from a merchant near the beginning of the game. He also gives you quests. If you find magic stones, you can avoid some of the retracing by teleporting to all unlocked stones. You'll want to do this to sell items you don't need and because there is a weight limit. You can carry more, but your speed slows to a crawl.
The game is made up of several floors. Although you begin outside and progress deeper into the dungeon, you may always return up because the game does not lock you out of content. The map expands as you explore, indicating exits, teleport crystals, and even allowing you to write your own comments.
Floors are covered in pressure tiles, which could open something or set off a trap. It is possible to sacrifice an insignificant item and lay it on a tile to render it harmless. More important doors require keys, which can be obtained on specific enemies or in the environment. Health and mana do not recover on their own, so you need to look for campsites where you can wait a few moments to fully heal.
A single playthrough will reward you with just a handful of achievements. The majority can only be obtained by re-playing the game again and again with new game plus mode.
Steam User 1
I'd say this was a good starter blobber if it wasn't relatively easy to softlock yourself. The interface is also stiff, and probably an easier entrypoint into the genre is Grimrock.
That said, despite having low enemy variety, very vanilla combat, repetitive environments, fairly standard puzzles, and some weird design decisions (high miss chances on attacks, bonkers poison damage regardless of spirit attribute, needing fire arrows or a fire spell to pass an early checkpoint in a game that kind of expects you to just be a fighter), the fundamentals are pretty solid.
If you have a medium tolerance for frustration and you're not a completionist (the quests are tedious backtracks,) and if you specifically want to try a blander blobber, this is not a bad pick. I think it shows a lot of potential, and I'd love to see what the developer works on next.
If you want to start with something more feature-rich, you may want to check out Grimrock first.
Steam User 1
Definitely a lot of fun if you're into these types of games. When creating your character, do not neglect endurance. At character creation, I put all my points in Luck so I could get more loot. However, I had to make several trips back to the main camp with the shop to sort my inventory because I couldn't carry very much. No regrets though. I saved a lot of money in the end, and I got a lot of useful stuff. Also, make sure you have your audio up to listen for vital sound cues to investigate. Lastly, you will hate spiders, like, really hate spiders.
Steam User 1
The single character format works so much better for real time first person dungeon crawlers. I enjoyed this one from start to finish except for maybe a couple of puzzles which required precise timing and reflexes. Also the enemies pose no threat at all since they are super slow to turn and attack so unless your character is heavily weighted down or you are just not paying attention and get cornered combat is a breeze. Definitely worth a purchase on a sale if you like these type of dungeon crawlers. Game is on the short side (took me about 13 hours but most people finish in under 10) but opens up new game + mode once done.