Radula

Radula is a grid-based, turn-based roguelike inspired by games like Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, Brogue, and Caves of Qud.

You are not a hero in armor. You are a slug.

You crawl through the shedding layers, glands, scars, and marrow channels of a vast dying body, feeding on what you kill and reshaping yourself through unstable mutation. Your slime is more than a trail: it is shelter, weapon, route, trap, and memory. Every fight is about position. Every corpse is a choice. Every mutation pushes you closer to power and collapse.

This early alpha already includes:

• Turn-based grid movement and bump combat
• Slime trails with multiple secretion types
• Corpse consumption and mutation choice
• Multiple slug species with different starting bodies
• Instability as a risk/reward system
• Procedural floors with biome variation
• A growing enemy roster with system-specific counters
• ASCII presentation with a classic roguelike feel

Radula is designed around difficult runs, strange builds, and the joy of adapting to a body that is always becoming something else.

This is an early alpha build.
Expect:

• rough balance
• placeholder and in-progress systems
• missing sound/visual polish
• bugs
• abrupt difficulty spikes

If you play it, feedback is genuinely wanted. This is my first game that is anywhere near playable and had a lot of fun putting MVP together. 

Current Development Roadmap:

• Expanding the roster of playable slug species
• Adding more mutations and more extreme build combinations
• Deepening biome-specific mechanics and floor identity
• Introducing more systemic enemies and encounter variety
• Growing the shrine, corpse, and instability systems
• Improving combat readability, UI, and overall polish
• Building out progression, unlocks, and long-term replayability

Controls

• Move: Arrow keys / WASD
• Diagonal: Q E Z C
• Wait: Space
• Consume: X
• Interact: G
• Cycle Slime: V
• Mutation Ledger: M
• Pause: Esc
• Descend: Shift + .