Lucid Dream the 4 Layers of your Labyrinth; Each one gets progressively more difficult and is meant to test your knowledge of the games mechanics. Collect/duplicate items, find powerful weapons, and use gear to conquer your Labyrinth.
-- Explore Your Labyrinth --
A round of Oneiro takes place within the player's mental Labyrinth; and within the Labyrinth, there's several Layers. Each Layer is procedurally generated with enemies, treasures, pots, living walls, weapons, and more.Destructible environments; Break walls to discover hidden chests, or to cave in the ceiling onto an enemy. Break the ceilings for quick entry into the labyrinth from above.Keep an eye out for strange markings on the floor; land will sometimes be pitfalls and collapse below the player resulting in certain death.
Wield a variety of weapons: Fists, Swords, Karambits, Hammers, and Spears. Which fits your playstyle the most?Weapons come in 2 sub-variants, 1-handed weapons and 2-handed weapons. This is an important difference which may not seem significant at first, but the one-handed weapons allow you to use consumable gear like Life Potions while attacking.
Discover and duplicate items to gain new abilities, and improve existing ones.Items are stackable; if you have the Magical Lamp which grants you one midair jump, use Duplicators to make copies of the item and gain 10 midair jumps.
Gear is one-time-use equipment, normally acquired through breaking pots and defeating certain enemies. granting powerful stat increases, or imbuements to the player. They can however have unique effects such as the Contained Energy, which teleports the player upon drinking it.Gear is often a game changer; use the grapple hook to travel a great distance in a short time; use the duplicator to create copies of items; use multiple Power Capsules to significantly boost your attack for a short time.
Oneiro aims to reward knowledge, creativity, and skill equally; the more you play, the more patterns you'll realize and the more you'll benefit, ergo the further you'll advance in the Labyrinth.
Your creativity will be allowed to shine multiple times due to the wide array of options you'll have any given moment. Perhaps instead of facing an enemy, you'll use Throwing Knives to destroy a nearby wall, and cause the Labyrinth's ceiling to collapse on the enemy. Or maybe you'll use your Sledgehammer to hit a nearby torch off the wall and fling it towards the enemy in an attempt to ignite them from a safe distance.
-- Rogue Genre Aspects --
Due to the oversaturation and confusion behind the rogue genre...Oneiro is a game that features permadeath, procedural generation, and no meta-progression (ie. permanent upgrades). All the upgrades you find are limited to that run, and that run only.
There is a certain difficulty to this, as the only thing that separates new players and experienced is their knowledge and creativity regarding Oneiro's mechanics.
-- Version 1.2 Features --
50+ equipment/gear to discover and stack20 different weapons4 Layers of the Labyrinth to conquer15 Music tracks that you can listen to here on Bandcamp
-- Contact & Support --
Status | Released |
Platforms | HTML5 |
Rating | Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars (6 total ratings) |
Author | Carson K. |
Genre | Platformer |
Made with | PICO-8 |
Tags | 2D, Demake, Metroidvania, PICO-8 |