[DEV] SLORP — my 3D horde survival roguelike is now in open early access on Android. Free, no sign-up, just install and die.

A few weeks ago I recruited a handful of closed testers here. Their feedback built most of what's in this update a tutorial, skeleton archers whose arrows you can actually sidestep, necromancers that buff the horde around them, and about thirty other fixes. It's now in open early access: anyone can install it, no DMs, no tester list.

SLORP is a 3D horde survival roguelike. Hundreds of skeletons, one of you. Your weapons fire themselves your whole job is where to run. A run fits in a bus ride. You are supposed to die; the gold is permanent and the shop makes every next run stronger.

What I think makes it worth your storage:

• 11 characters that actually change the game. Bonehead crits for absurd numbers and can never wear armor. Cluckulon is a chicken… fast, lethal, made of paper. Slorp gains max HP off every kill and bleeds 1% of it per second.
• 15 weapons, all of which evolve if you pair them with the right passive. A boomerang stops coming back and starts ricocheting off the scenery.
• 5 maps that fight back! dust storms that cut vision to meters, waterspouts that throw you skyward, streets that dead-end when the horde doesn't.
• Enemies telegraph honestly. Archers draw for six-tenths of a second before loosing; a sidestep is a clean miss. Necromancers don't fight you at all they make things that do. Kill them first.
• A daily challenge same seed for every phone on the planet, derived from the date. No account, no server.
• Everything is generated on your phone. No downloads, no asset packs, 12 MB. Lore fragments hidden across the maps if you're the type who stands still and reads gravestones.
• Balance isn't vibes: I simulate full careers thousands of bot runs per change and tune off the numbers. When the archers I added gutted the win rate, the data caught it and they got re-tuned before you ever saw them. I seriously thousands of bot runs playing the game to make it as balanced as possible and I would love some feedback as I don't think I nailed it yet.

Honesty section, because you'd ask anyway: it's free; there are optional rewarded ads (revive, double gold always your call) and full-screen ads capped at one per 7 minutes, never in your first 3 runs. The AGAIN button is never behind an ad and never will be. IAP is gems and remove-ads, nothing pay-to-win.

What I want from you: tell me what confused you in your first five minutes, which character feels broken (either direction have to unlock them have fun), and anything that made you want to quit. I ship fixes daily but for the early access I am thinking weekly so I can spend time making impactful changes unless you guys find something bad that being said closed-tester feedback has driven basically every patch so far.

📱 Install: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pocketslop.slorp