Chronicon

Chronicon

Chronicon is an open-source pixel art RPG game with roguelite elements. It features procedurally generated levels, loot, quests, and character customization options in a fantasy setting.
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Chronicon: Open-Source Pixel Art RPG Game

An open-source pixel art RPG game with roguelite elements, featuring procedurally generated levels, loot, quests, and character customization options in a fantasy setting.

What is Chronicon?

Chronicon is an open-source, pixel art role-playing game with roguelite elements developed by Luca Eberhart. It features procedural generation for levels, loot, quests, and other content to provide a unique experience during each playthrough.

The game is presented with a top-down perspective, with retro-style pixel art visuals. The player controls a customizable character and explores randomly generated dungeons and environments, battling monsters and collecting loot along the way. As the player levels up their character, they can allocate points into various stats and skills to create unique builds and playstyles.

Key features of Chronicon include:

  • Randomly generated levels, monsters, loot, quests and events - increases replayability
  • Offline singleplayer focused
  • Character customization with unlockable classes and skills
  • Local multiplayer support
  • Hundreds of items and equipment to discover
  • Retro pixel art style visuals
  • Accessibility options like colorblind mode

With its generosity towards players and variety of content, Chronicon aims to capture the best aspects of action RPGs and roguelites to provide an addictive gameplay loop focused on dungeon crawling, character building and loot collection.

Chronicon Features

Features

  1. Procedurally generated levels
  2. Loot system
  3. Quests
  4. Character customization
  5. Pixel art graphics
  6. Roguelite gameplay elements

Pricing

  • Open Source

Pros

Free and open source

Tons of content due to procedural generation

High replayability

Retro pixel art style

In-depth character customization

Cons

Can feel repetitive due to procedural generation

Graphics may not appeal to some players

Steep learning curve

Limited story and lore


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