A downloadable game

Mongrelmen is an ascii roguelike-inspired real-time strategy/town builder. 


The focus of the game is a complex AI system and the interactions between various factions, hostile or otherwise. You control a tribe of mongrelmen who start with nothing in the savage wilderness huddled around a totem from which they spawned. 

Various threats like humans, kobolds, orcs, the undead and wolves lurk nearby, and soon more dangerous enemies (or powerful allies) begin to arrive and pose a real threat to the safety of your group. 


Gather resources, build a camp, defend your base and go on raids while doing your best to keep your tribe alive!


The game is coded in python with help from libtcod. Player input is almost entirely by mouse with the use of a few hot-keys. Use space bar to pause and hold right-click to move the map around and left-click to select and interact with units. If you are allocating collection jobs then you can hold down left-click and move the mouse to bulk select tasks. Use the rally hot-key when you've selected a unit and the rest of your tribe will follow their lead! 

StatusIn development
Rating
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Authorpatjw
GenreSimulation, Survival
Tags2D, ascii, City Builder, Fantasy, Procedural Generation, Roguelike, Sandbox

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mongrelmen220918.zip 5 MB

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windows thought opening this game was a "threath to my computer" and didnt allow to open it so that's pretty sad :c

it seems like a fun game

Sorry, I didn't see this comment until too late. The reason for that is that the game is a packaged python script which is also apparently the way that some malicious people spread viruses and the like. I can tell you with certainty that the game is safe, but I'm just some guy on the internet so you might not believe me... I'm not sure that there's more that I can do about that without rewriting everything in another language.

boowoomp

This is excellent!

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Hopefully you have fun with it! It's taken a backseat for the moment because I'm working on my other project, The Red Prison but there will probably be further development in the future!

Might you make it installable in the itch.io desktop client for now?

Wow. Looks great. How can I play it on my linux? 

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Really interesting. I was trying to do something similar in python with no success. Got me inspired.

Me too, just javascript.

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So, like ASCII rim world?

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that’s pretty much it!

Ascii rim world is basically rim world's predecessor, Dwarf Fortress.

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looks like dwarf fortress witch sucks cause i hate dwarf fortress and refuse to play

What? I know it's confusing, but it's free, so why not try it?

(Plus it's depth will become much more of a bonus the more you play.)