CHAKO
Survive enemy swarms in this isometric Action-Roguelite blending bullet-heaven combat with tabletop RPG mechanics. Auto-attack through procedural dungeons, roll d20s in event nodes, and gather loot to upgrade your spells and gear at the base. Dominate the leaderboards!
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Forge Your Power: Core Stats
Surviving the procedurally generated dungeons requires more than just positioning. You must carefully craft your build by upgrading your core attributes. Here is a glimpse into how you can shape your character's combat style:
Melee Damage: Determines the base damage of your oto attacks.
Melee Damage Mul.: Acts as a multiplier that increases your overall melee damage.
Armor Pen.: Deals extra damage specifically to enemies that have armor.
Intelligence: Increases the damage dealt by your spells. For example, 21 Intelligence means your spell damage is increased by 21%.
Defence: Reduces incoming damage by a percentage. A Defence value of 15 reduces all incoming damage by 15%.
Thorns: Reflects incoming damage back to the attacker based on the Thorns value.
Master the Elements: Spell Status Effects
Unlocking and upgrading your 16 different spells will allow you to inflict devastating status effects on enemy swarms. Understanding how these elements interact is key to dominating the leaderboards:
Bleeding: Inflicts damage over time that completely bypasses enemy armor. Normal enemies lose 2% of their maximum health per tick. Main bosses are more resilient, losing only 0.5% of their maximum health per tick. Each application lasts for 4 seconds, ticking twice every second.
Burning: Engulfs the enemy in flames for 2 seconds. Deals damage twice per second, where each tick inflicts damage equal to 10% of the spell's initial impact damage. Applying a stronger burn will safely overwrite a weaker one to maximize your damage output.
Frozen: Completely halts enemy movement and actions by stopping their animation. If the enemy is already Wet, the base freeze duration is extended by an additional 1 second. Once thawed, enemies gain a temporary immunity to being frozen again for 8 seconds.
Wet: Drenches the enemy, reducing their movement speed by 50%. If a previously frozen enemy becomes Wet, their current freeze duration is extended by 1 second instead of being slowed.
Toxic: Poisons the enemy, dealing damage rapidly every 0.4 seconds. Applying Toxic multiple times adds up and increases the stack count. Each additional stack increases the base damage of the poison tick by 50%.
Shock: Electrifies the enemy, making them highly vulnerable to your next attack. The next instance of damage they take is amplified by 20%. Taking this amplified damage instantly consumes and removes the shock effect.
Channel the Auras: Hub Enhancements
By defeating the Main Bosses across different regions, you will unlock mysterious NPCs in your Hub. Offering them gold and specific flowers gathered from dungeons grants you powerful Aura Buffs for your next run. You can equip up to three Auras simultaneously (one of each color), allowing for game-changing synergies:
Green Auras (The Tracker)
Gold Fever: Sustain yourself through wealth. Restore 2% health when collecting gold, and 5% health when opening chests.
Ambush: Strike first, strike hard. You deal 50% bonus damage to enemies that are at maximum health.
Execution: Become the ultimate reaper. Instantly execute any non-boss enemy whose health drops below 15%.
Red Auras (The Warlord)
Boss Slayer: Even the odds. Automatically reduces the maximum health of Main Bosses by 25% the moment they spawn.
Berserkir: Turn your pain into power. Your overall damage output increases proportionally to your missing health percentage.
Life Steal: Feast on your enemies. Heal yourself for 15% of the damage you deal during combat.
Purple Auras (The Arcanist)
Sadism: Capitalize on their suffering. Deal a massive 35% extra damage to any enemy currently afflicted by a status effect (such as Bleeding, Burning, or Frozen).
Multicast: Overwhelm the battlefield. Every spell you cast has a 20% chance to instantly trigger a second time at no cost.
Second Wind: Defy death itself. If your health reaches 0, you instantly resurrect with 50% of your maximum health.
Survive the Dream Traps: Run-Specific Powers
Venture into the perilous Dream Trap nodes where you must survive a timed onslaught of enemies. Emerge victorious, and you will summon a Dream Trap Stone, offering you a choice of powerful, run-specific buffs. You can upgrade each of these unique effects up to Level 3 to maximize your combat potential:
Midas: Your damage scales with the amount of gold you are carrying, granting a 1% damage increase for every 250 gold coins collected. The maximum damage bonus cap increases at each level, allowing up to a 15%, 25%, or 40% damage boost.
Bloodlust: Grants a 15%, 20%, or 25% chance to significantly boost your movement speed by 20%, 30%, or 45% upon triggering.
Perfectionist: Rewards flawless gameplay by granting 15%, 20%, or 30% bonus damage and 25%, 35%, or 40% Armor Penetration as long as you maintain maximum health.
Phantom Step: Mastering your dash temporarily increases your Evasion chance by a massive 35%, 45%, or 60%.
Mirage: Summons 2, 3, or 4 protective illusions that completely block incoming damage, with the recharge cooldown reducing from 12, to 9, to 6 seconds.
Stone Stance: Standing perfectly still transforms you into an immovable object, granting a massive Thorns multiplier of 4x, 5.5x, or 8x to reflect damage back to attackers.
Discharge: Focuses your energy to guarantee a devastating Critical Strike every 4, 3, or 2 seconds.
King Slayer: Show your dominance over the Main Bosses; defeating one instantly grants you 2, 3, or 4 level-ups.
Fortune's Favor: Amplifies the effectiveness of your level-up stat reward cards by 10%, 15%, or 25%.
A Roll of the Dice: Event Encounters
Your journey is not just about combat; it also involves 30 unique, narrative-driven encounters found within Event nodes. In these unpredictable scenarios, your choices are heavily inspired by classic tabletop RPG mechanics:
Risk vs. Reward: While some options offer a safe and guaranteed outcome, others carry significant risks. Risky choices are clearly marked with yellow text, displaying the Difficulty Class (DC) you need to beat and the specific character stat being tested.
Roll the d20: Selecting a risky option triggers a 20-sided dice roll to determine your fate.
Stat Modifiers: Your character's build directly influences your luck. Depending on the current value of the tested stat, modifiers are calculated and applied to your final dice roll. A high stat value can grant you positive bonuses like +1, +2, or +3, while neglecting a stat can result in dangerous penalties like -1, -2, or -3.
Face the Consequences: If your final score meets or exceeds the required DC, you succeed and claim powerful rewards. However, failing the roll can lead to severe penalties that might ruin your run.
The Toll of the Dungeon: Deadly Afflictions
Not all stats make you stronger. As you delve deeper into the procedurally generated dungeons and experiment with alchemy, you must carefully manage two deadly negative attributes that can quickly end your run:
Poison Amount: Toxins accumulate in your body as you consume mixed potions at the Hub or suffer through hazardous encounters. As your Poison level rises, it severely restricts your movement speed and reduces your maximum health pool.
Corruption: A measure of the dark influence taking over your soul. You must tread carefully: reaching 35 Corruption reduces the number of cards shown upon leveling up by 1, and reaching 75 Corruption reduces it by 1 more. If your Corruption level ever reaches 100, your character dies instantly.
Turn the Tide: Battlefield Orbs
Amidst the chaos of the arena, you will randomly find powerful orbs that can instantly turn the tide of battle. Use them strategically to survive the swarms:
Healing Orb: Restores 35 health points or 25 armor points depending on your character's current needs. It will only be consumed if your health or armor is currently below their maximum limits.
Magnet Orb: Activates a magnetic effect that lasts for 10 seconds.
Empower Orb: Grants a powerful empowerment status to your character that lasts for 9 seconds. While active, your base movement speed is increased by 15%, your attack range is completely doubled, your melee damage receives a massive 50% multiplier boost, and your Intelligence stat is increased by 50%.
Magma Orb: Instantly deals a massive 999 damage to any enemy caught within a 3-unit radius.
Tornado Orb: Summons a localized tempest with a 4-unit radius that lasts for 3 seconds. It continuously pushes enemies outward by applying force that scales with their mass.
Fade Orb: Collecting this mysterious orb triggers a specialized interface panel. Forcing a high-stakes decision, you must choose one of three cards that manipulate your future level-up options, but every advantage comes at a severe cost.
Feeling Lucky? The Power of the Luck Stat:
In the game, your Luck stat directly influences the quality of the stat cards you discover. By equipping specific items that boost your Luck, you significantly increase your chances of rolling higher-tier cards.
Common: Standard Stats (+0% Bonus)
Rare: +10% Bonus Stats
Epic: +20% Bonus Stats
Legendary: +30% Bonus Stats
Dominate the Leaderboards: Score & Multipliers
Every run is an opportunity to prove your mastery and climb the global leaderboards. Your final score isn't just about surviving; it's about how you survive:
The Kill Streak Multiplier: True skill is rewarded. For every 10 enemies you defeat consecutively without taking physical health damage, your score multiplier increases. Keep your streak alive to turn standard encounters into massive point yields! (Note: Taking damage to your Armor does not break your streak).
Time is of the Essence: Speed is highly rewarded. At the end of a victorious run, you receive a massive Time Bonus based on how fast you cleared the dungeon. However, be warned: every single second you spend hesitating or exploring deducts a significant penalty from this potential bonus.
Ready to Enter the Dungeons?
The wait is almost over. Play the free demo on August 28th, and carry your progress directly into the full global launch on October 28th.