The Black Pool
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The Black Pool has taken you to a remote and unknown galactic system. Make your way across a number of diverse and randomized worlds to try and make it back home.
Throughout your journey, you will learn to master supernatural elemental abilities. Carefully select powers from a large pool of possibilities, complimenting existing abilities and those of your friends. Strategically upgrade these abilities to maximize your potential. There are thousands of possibilities, can you become powerful enough to face what lies ahead?
The Black Pool is a 3d action roguelike to be played solo or preferably with up to 3 of your friends. Each attempt to make it back home will take you through a gauntlet of different worlds. You will discover different elements, abilities, and upgrades. Striking visuals, an electrifying soundtrack, and high pace / skilled action will plunge you into each attempt to battle your way out.
THE JOURNEY HOME
In each attempt to return home, you will traverse across a random sequence of highly diverse worlds. Throughout the journey, you will unlock supernatural abilities from randomly selected sets of elements, and upgrade these selected abilities from a set of randomly offered options. This procedural sequence of worlds and offerings of abilities and upgrades yields a highly replayable roguelike sequence. Each playthrough presents a randomized set of choices that ensures that every session is completely unique. Committing to decisions and improvising an effective build is core to the game.
IMPROVE WITH EACH ATTEMPT
With each attempt you will learn how enemies behave and what their weaknesses are. You will learn how each of these supernatural abilities work and synergistic ways to use abilities together. In addition, you unlock enhancements that are permanent and persist across playthrough attempts.
BRING A FRIEND
While you can try and make it on your own, it may be more fun to bring a friend or three. The Black Pool has been designed to maximize the cooperative multiplayer experience. Many of the abilities contain game mechanics that deliver fun and rewarding interactions between players. Redirect friendly attacks, amplify team spells, coordinate stuns and team buffs, create barriers, and much more. In The Black Pool, co-op play can be much more than simply playing the same game together— you are rewarded for actually working together to be successful.
游戏讨论
Steam User 3
作为肉鸽后期爽度还是不够，技能类型选择太少，怪物重合度太高，boss战做的不错，想玩单一的属性不太现实，成长极限太低了，也限制了后期的爽感，玩肉鸽不就是为了越打越爽吗。
Steam User 0
《The Black Pool》简评
游戏类型
经典传统机制，肉鸽构筑体系，3D动作射击游戏。
游戏玩法
一个大区域内包含三个空间（房间），最后一个房间Boss战斗，每通过一个房间，随机抽取一项新的能力或者增幅。
构筑体系
行动方面——普通的快速攻击、普通的区域攻击、强攻、跳跃、冲刺、集结；
元素方面——火焰、闪电、大地、冰、风、光、辐射、虚空等；
每一次战斗，各项行动可以各自选择一个技能，选中后便不能再更换，之后再次选择便是对于元素属性的提升内容。游戏构筑体系，8大元素、88种能力与增幅升级、18种可升级的设备能力，包括了行动和元素之间元素属性、行动和行动之间操作组合、元素和元素之间的元素反应等。
地图世界
绯红之野世界、破碎陨石坑世界、熔岩之柱世界、黑曜石世界、冰岛世界、天空之地世界、幽暗世界、锯齿山峰世界、玛格努斯世界等。
能否联机
可以，最多支持四人联机，并且根据游戏以元素为核心的构筑体系以及元素反应机制，多人联机对战的战斗体验，应该是是胜过单人的。
剧情故事
超能力和科幻并存的世界观，类似于主神空间的“黑池”将玩家带到了一个未知的世界，玩家需要通过对超能力的选择和掌控，在各具特色的不同世界中穿梭旅行，击败一个接一个科幻感极强的敌人，最终找到回家的道路。
美术风格
科幻感十足，3D建模也还不错。
游戏不足
游戏目前还有不少缺陷，只能说很有潜力、有待挖掘更多内容。
（1）BUG问题：分辨率更换后无变化或者鼠标对准判定出错；游戏有闪退现象，闪退后不能续关接着来，只能重新开始打（商店页面提到的“恢复机制”，是没有触发的）。
（2）游戏构筑体系，可以选择的技能太少，选中后固定不变，无法中途根据随机内容进行变更，一局游戏的角色成长路线过于死板固定。
（3）游戏中提及有55种敌人（包括11种独特的多阶段BOSS遭遇战），但是实际上所面对的敌人感觉重复度特别高。
（4）游戏的引导薄弱，包括一开始刚进入到游戏，玩家从“黑池”中出来后，需要前往战斗世界，需要自己找路，路程还不短；以及各种战斗所需要的按键操作、行动说明等，也完全没有。
（5）光暗问题，部分地图的色调偏暗系，科技十足的敌人也是暗色皮肤，在这些地图中不是很能够看清楚环境和敌人。
（6）游戏射击手感不错，但是瞄准准星太小了，看不清，敌人高频率移动，很难找到准星瞄准。
综合评价
基础框架已经搭建完毕，但是细节不够完善；综合质量制作尚可，但是游戏部分瑕疵影响体验；构筑体系要素丰富，但是角色成长路线很固定死板；战斗射击手感和视觉特效不错，但是瞄准不太方便；美术风格科技感十足，但是部分场景实现暗淡难以看清。游戏潜力挺好、未来可期，但是需要打磨完善、不断优化。
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Steam User 2
潜力很大的游戏，但怪物种类不够多，可以加入甲虫，克苏鲁之类的怪物，元素也不够多样，局外成长种类也不多，局内成长太固定了，希望作者可以改进一下
Steam User 0
很帅