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Kaan Serin

I've always thought the Pokemon Nuzlocke formula would make a great standalone roguelike - now an indie dev's made almost exactly that and it's off to a flying start on Steam

Screenshot from Aethermancer, showing a pixelated little wizard standing before a magical glowy gate from a top-down view.

Elements from a widely popular, fanmade Pokemon challenge have infiltrated a standalone indie game that's off to a flying start on Steam.

Game Freak's loveable RPGs aren't quite as difficult for life long fans as they were three decades ago, when some of us were but younglings and some of us weren't even alive. So the community's come up with multiple self-imposed challenges over the generations.

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