>>15887038
>Is it a roguelite or just a Gauntlet-ish game?
Bit of both with a twist.
You and up to 3 more schmucks start as humans in a dungeon. First step: kill each other until only one remains, usually takes 5 seconds. That's how you decide who goes first as Human.
After this point, the Human player is playing a gauntlet-ish roguelike, battling monsters, evading traps, getting gold and loot to upgrade himself in shops as he levels up.
Every other player instead plays as a Ghost that can summon monsters to try and kill the Human or even control the traps too. If nothing else, you can gather Ectoplasm and summon slimes to stall.
Any Ghost that manages to kill the Human takes his place and the game continues onwards.
The objective is to reach lvl10 and cross a portal to defeat the boss of the dungeon, of which there are a few for variety purposes. Ghosts can control parts of the Boss.
If you're not lvl10, you'll have to go down a level after finding stairs and keep leveling while everyone else tries to kill you.
If the boss is undefeated for 3 times (and it can be different players attempting it) the Human loses and every Ghost wins.
The genious part of the game comes when you go down the stairs. For every level as a Human that a player gets, everyone else gets Wrath, with is a currency you spend to upgrade the monsters you summon. So the stronger the Human gets, the harder the next level becomes. There's an inverse mechanic where doing damage as a Ghost gives you bonus gold if you become Human.
So basically, the longer a game goes, the more fucked up monsters show up but the more beafy the hero becomes. There's a lot of goal keeper syndrome since it never feels fair for anyone, the monsters being too easy to cheese and fuck the hero, but the hero can end up 2-shotting strong monsters too.
There's also some different gods you can pick at the start that decide what monsters you can summon as a ghost and a passive bonus or starting item you get. Or you can worship Glub and only summon the shittiest creature possible while being half retarded as human. Or you can "defy" the gods instead, giving you several penalties instead if you want a chalenge or handicap.
It's great fun with friends but don't take the game too seriously because it's a very, very tense experience the whole playthrough. It makes for some great laughs as long as you accept that you're gonna die to stupid shit all the type and one of your pals is gonna laugh at his recently adquired humanity because he kept spamming shitty slime bubbles towards you and one hit while you were at 1 HP.
It's okay, just make sure to possess a Dragon Statue and fuck his shit up the floor.