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Ring of Pain play as fast or slow as you like in this challenging, turn-based roguelike. Just be careful where you tread - You may find yourself ambushed, or worse...
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About Ring of Pain
About this game
Delve into randomly generated ring dungeons where encounters come to you!
Observe and plan your route. Will you go for the loot or backstab a creeping horror? As you scavenge, fight and sneak to new encounters, the ring reacts to your actions.
Play as fast or slow as you like in this challenging, turn-based roguelike. Just be careful where you tread - You may find yourself ambushed, or worse...
See the outcome of your choices so you can focus on decisions.
Creatures broadcast their actions in a hostile environment, ready to erupt. Will you flee or find a way to use the dungeon against itself?
Positioning is key to survival. You can be quickly overwhelmed...
Observe the Ring and strategise.
Learn, adapt, or face demise.
Mimics offer you a choice for a price. Take what you can hold and build a combination of gear with passive powers.
Maybe you’ll be quick and evasive, with an acid soaked blade. Or maybe you’ll be a brute force juggernaut, or a fireborn damage sink with an affinity for explosions.
Buy your way to power or adapt with what you scavenge in these unforgiving depths.
Deep in the Ring of Pain you will discover new paths into the unknown. Places with new friends, powerful loot, and cryptic rhyming lore.
Find pleasant reprieve and howling terrors best left undisturbed.
The brave may be rewarded for their risk... or crushed by their ambition.
In darkness, careful where you tread.
What was unknown now fills with dread.
- 16 Core path dungeons plus 2 branching endings to test your final build.
- 2 Hard mode items to unlock for those who thrive on pain.
- A Daily Dungeon mode to unlock with 25+ puzzling modifiers.
- 25+ Special dungeons to detour through, filled with loot and strange encounters.
- 4 Environment regions with their own flavour of terror.
- 180+ items to unlock and combine in a 15 slot inventory.
- 40+ Creatures to learn and adapt to. Some friendly, some fierce...
- Responsive turn-based mechanics so you can play swiftly or strategically.
- Cryptic, poetic lore delivered in bite sized rhymes.
- A raw graphic art style inspired by Aphantasia.
- Cute frog friends.
- Pain and suffering.
Shadows cast a truth to see,
In darkness you can visit me.
Game Details
- Platform:
- steam
- Release Date:
- October 15, 2020
- Developers:
- Simon Boxer
Twice Different
- Publisher:
- Humble Games
- Rating:
- Supported Languages:
- English
- Link:
- Play Styles:
- Turn-Based
Singleplayer
- Features:
- Steam Achievements
Full controller support
Steam Trading Cards
Steam Cloud
Steam Leaderboards
Singleplayer
Product Requirements
Minimum:
- OS: Windows 8/10
- Processor: 2 GHz
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: OpenGL 2.0 compatible with 512 MB RAM
- Storage: 1 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Compatible with Windows 7, unless using an NVidia graphics card. Compatible NVidia drivers are only available on more recent OS.
Product Requirements
Minimum:
- OS: OSX 10.9 - 10.14
- Processor: 2 Ghz
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: OpenGL 2.0 compatible with 512 MB RAM
- Storage: 1 GB available space
- Additional Notes: For M1 chip Macs, add "-force-glcore" to launch options if you can't see text in buttons.
Ring of Pain Statistics
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0% of players played this game for >= 80 Hours!
0% of players played this game for >= 80 Hours!
Difficulty Statistics
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Just Right
15.38%
Tough
76.92%
Unforgiving
7.69%
Don't Ragequit! 76.92% of players consider this game to be Tough
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Tried It
26.67%
Played It
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Halfway
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Beat It
33.33%
Conquered It
6.67%
Completionist! 6.67% of players have Conquered It
Ring of Pain User Reviews
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Matej
Ring of Pain is a linear survival card game with 16+ levels.
We can either move left or right, sometimes teleport to a different position, pass cards, try to sneak past enemies or attack them. There are plenty of stat cards, healthy potions, random rewards, chests and various strong enemies. New levels have stronger enemies and ultimately lead into a boss battle.
Each run is unique as we build our deck of cards, increase our stats and gain some special abilities. The game also offers daily challenges that have special rules. Cards look very distinctive, move positions in the ring, they can transform, explode or evolve.
There is a symbol above them what action they will do next and below, there are stats. We will unlock new cards every time we discover them in the treasures or at the traders, there are also various exits. Similar to Slay the Spire.
It is very subtle and mostly focuses on sound effects. It's possible to finish it from start to boss ending in an hour but as a newcomer there will be some unexplored parts and getting used to game mechanics takes a while. Moreover, we need to play carefully, build up for the finale with the best possible card combinations.
Difficulty
Hard. Tricky. It is different from game to game, some can last almost till the end without struggle, some end up being too short because the placement of enemy cards makes it painful to stay in the level.
It's an interesting spin to card games, giving players freedom of choice, forcing them to make well thought-out decisions when overwhelmed by strong opponents.
I've only been half successful as I have unlocked the majority of items but only beat one of the bosses.
It's got great replay value and despite not offering direct progression, it feels rewarding after a long run.
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sillythings
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Ring of Pain is brilliant.
It scratches a similar itch for me as Fidel Dungeon Rescue does, in the sense that it takes the familiar format of a dungeon crawler, but executes it in an original way. The result has a strategy-focused, puzzle-esque feel to it, all while retaining a very fast game pace that makes it excellent for quickly hopping into the game when you want to take a break.
Combine this with one of the most unique visual aesthetics I've seen in indie games (and that says a lot, because creativity abounds endlessly in this scene) that's creepy and colorful at once, and you have an absolute banger of a game that's also continually being updated by the developers, for whom this clearly is a passion project with a lot of love put into it.
I'll admit that the writing or lore is kinda passing me by. It feels cryptic to the point where I'm not sure I'd get it even if I looked up some elaborate explanation on a wiki or on YouTube. But! It's still interesting, because what little dialogue you'll find scattered about is written in an intriguing way. And hey, the main focus of the game are the mechanics. And as I've mentioned before, those are brilliant.
Go buy Ring of Pain.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Are you ready for a challenge? 15% of GameFAQs users said the difficulty is Just Right. 85% of GameFAQs users said Ring of Pain is Tough or Unforgiving.
According to ACB, Ring of Pain is suitable for players aged 6 and above.
Yes, Ring of Pain is Steam Deck Verified.
- This game shows Steam Deck controller icons
- This game's default graphics configuration performs well on Steam Deck
- All functionality is accessible when using the default controller configuration
- In-game interface text is legible on Steam Deck
Minimum:
- OS: Windows 8/10
- Processor: 2 GHz
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: OpenGL 2.0 compatible with 512 MB RAM
- Storage: 1 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Compatible with Windows 7, unless using an NVidia graphics card. Compatible NVidia drivers are only available on more recent OS.
Minimum:
- OS: OSX 10.9 - 10.14
- Processor: 2 Ghz
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: OpenGL 2.0 compatible with 512 MB RAM
- Storage: 1 GB available space
- Additional Notes: For M1 chip Macs, add "-force-glcore" to launch options if you can't see text in buttons.
The average playtime for GameFAQs users is 12 hours. 73% of users played Ring of Pain for over 12 hours.
Ring of Pain was released on October 15, 2020
Yes, Ring of Pain supports MacOS.
Ring of Pain is published by Humble Games
Ring of Pain was developed by Simon Boxer and Twice Different
Fanatical users tagged Ring of Pain as Dungeon Crawler, Card Game, Roguelite, and Roguelike
Yes, Fanatical users tagged Ring of Pain as Dungeon Crawler
Yes, Fanatical users tagged Ring of Pain as Card Game
Yes, Fanatical users tagged Ring of Pain as Roguelite
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