“We want to put the adventure first, and really try to double down on the sense of narrative and accomplishing this thing,” stated creator Joris Dormans. “That’s one of the things that I really love about roguelikes: If you pull off a win, it really is your win. It’s not just the hoops that we set up for you to jump through. It’s your story. And that story becomes so much more interesting if there are actually narrative choices in there, with consequences, with a history that you’ve built up with the world. What I hope is that when players beat the game for the first time… I almost want them to feel sorrow for having to leave that world behind, because they are invested in it. I don’t know if we can pull that off, but that’s a design target for me.” You can learn more in a story by PC Gamer here.
