@venturerer

A retro match-3 roguelike where every board decides if you live… or die.

In most roguelikes, you press attack.
In @venturerer, you match it.

You are @. Descend a shifting ASCII dungeon. Bump enemies to fight. Swap tiles to survive. Greed kills, healing is scarce, and one bad board can end you.

🔥 Key Features

• Retro CRT vibe — flicker, glow, scanlines
• Match-3 combat — ♠ Attack • ◆ Defense • ★ Magic • ♥ Heal • ♣ Skill
• Procedural floors — each run is different
• Endless Descent — descend forever (press E on the title screen)
• Retire — bank your run as RETIRED (press R anytime)
• Chaos Orb — reroll the combat board mid-fight (costs 20 MP)
• Score table — track floor, kills, gold, and how you died

🎮 Controls

• Move: WASD / Arrow Keys
• Fight: Bump enemies
• Combat: Arrow Keys = cursor, Enter/Space = select & swap
• Pause: P or Esc
• Hints: Start OFF — toggle with H (or in Pause)
• Music: M
• Retire: R

🧪 Status

Playable prototype. Core loop is in: dungeon crawl → match-3 combat → loot/shopping → descend. Expect balancing and polish updates.

Being dead is easy. It is the living who have it hard.