Rough Souls

🎒 Adventure Mode – Explore, Interact, Progress

In Adventure Mode, you freely roam a handcrafted world filled with interactive elements and hidden areas. You can:

• Pick up, throw, and eat items

• Jump and climb across the environment

• Tame and ride animals like the Saiga Antelope

• Navigate ships and reach new locations

• Talk to NPCs to receive quests

Key locations include:

• A quest-giving NPC near the start

• A parkour section with falling barrels

• A port area where you can buy your own ship after earning gold

• A mini-challenge zone with taming and exploration opportunities

💀 Souls Mode – One Boss, Classic Challenge

There is one Souls-style boss encounter in the game, accessible early on via a quest from an NPC. This mode features:

• A single, challenging boss

• Emphasis on dodging, learning patterns, and punishing mistakes

• A standalone experience inspired by soulslike mechanics

⚔️ Rough Mode – Precision Combat Arena

Accessible from the port area, Rough Mode is a directional 1v1 combat arena where you fight powerful mini-bosses using a custom mouse-driven parry and attack system.

• Change attack and parry direction with your mouse

• Fight enemies with unique abilities

• Earn gold by defeating Rough bosses

• Buy your ship after winning and collecting enough gold

🧭 Final Act – Sail, Survive, Escape

After purchasing your ship, you’ll sail into an ice basin, where you’re attacked by three marine monsters: a giant snake, kraken, and anglerfish. You must:

• Collect explosives

• Survive multi-enemy encounters

• Escape the frozen trap

This leads to a descent into a glowing underground crystal city, where you face five additional Rough bosses. Once they’re defeated, a dragon captures you, marking the end of the game (until future updates).

Features

• 3 distinct game modes: Adventure, Souls, and Rough

• Directional combat system with mouse-driven attack/parry mechanics

• Short but varied gameplay (1.5–2 hours of content)

• Parkour sections, exploration, naval travel, and animal taming

• Built entirely in the Godot Engine by a solo developer