AI Roguelite

Revised Encounters Bars: There are now end-state bars vs status effect bars. AI is encouraged to output 0 end-state bars for pure combat. End-state bars use pure win/lose guidance to avoid contradicting the story when hitting a terminal…

Preset fix Fixed UC Berkeley preset which had unintentionally stripped out all references of Judo, and added easter egg ability/perk combo for osoto gari Gameplay Improved logic for picking required item/ability in Specialized mode Improved…

Silent NPCs issue: Edited default narrative rules to slightly improve chances of NPCs responding with dialogue when appropriate. This fix is not foolproof. If the issue persists, please file a bug report. Fixed bug in multiplayer where…

Scenario Editor Overhauls Improved Customization Vastly enhanced customization for world “presets” aka scenarios, including the ability to generate/regenerate images for each entity, as well as pre-populate entities, locations and regions…

Visual Enhancements Added animated change effect for HP bars, player/world status bars, and encounter status bars, which makes it far easier to visually see the direction and amount of change that occurred per turn. Added zoom upon hover…

Sentiment Increased sentiment min/max to -100 and +100 to fix issue where characters would become your best friend or worst enemy too fast. Increased delta range to -10 and +10 to give AI more freedom in how fast sentiment changes. Map…

4 Followers Added capability for 4 followers. The number of followers whose descriptions are included in context will depend on your configurable scenario context limits, though the game will try to prioritize the most important characters…

Perk trees Each playable character gets 3 class-based passive perk trees. Spend points to unlock perks, then pick which ones should be active in context at any given time (limit can be configured in scenario context options). Access the…

Added two AI Roguelite “Nostalgia” builds as free DLCs. These have a special place in my heart because they were made back when LLMs and image generators were budding technologies which barely worked and weren’t controversial. Since ChatGPT…

Enhanced character details Additional character details such as personality, background, and relationship to current character will be generated if a character has been mentioned enough times in the story. This will be presented as a…

I am currently having issues with one of my service providers. I believe I've already resolved model quality issues for all requests except Unified mode. For unified, I'm using a backup model which performs about as well as the preferred…

Improved TTS All users across all tiers can now enjoy vastly improved TTS logic: LLM-generated script: Uses an LLM to generate which voice says what, which is vastly superior to naive algorithmic matching based on punctuation. TTS options…

Model refresh Updated Sapphire text gen to a significantly better and faster model for question-answering and Specialized mode story generation. Some users in some languages may experience quality issues with the story generator. In this…

Spawn entities Added spawn entity, spawn item, and spawn new location on map. This is more convenient than console commands. This is on by default for Adventure and Roguelite settings. Added options for spawning entities in grid mode Minor…

Unified game master mode Background: Under the original system (now known as “Specialized”), each task would be broken down into a separate prompt and handled individually. There was a separate prompt for plausibility, item usage…

Slightly improved grid mode generation model May take on average 1 minute to generate a new grid. Please report an issue if the grid generation takes longer than 2.5 minutes. Increased grid mode and panoramic rate limits for Sapphire…

Reduced over-triggering of AI-picked used items/abilities in open-ended mode Fixed bug where custom narrative flavor input sometimes wouldn’t be displayed Fixed a number of issues with i18n (non-English) scenarios incorrectly generating…

Time tracking Calendar Calendar info and start date will be generated at the start of each new scenario. They can be configured in the new game calendar tab. The standard Gregorian calendar will be used in most cases, but some fantasy…

Dynamic quests Added an all-new quest type called Dynamic quests, intended to solve the common user complaint that the quest would railroad the story. The old version is now called “Story arc” quests. tl;dr: In story arc quests, the quest…

UI changes Increased focus on story image: The top-right area now displays the most recent story turn image. In my opinion, this makes the game feel more immersive. If you prefer the old way of displaying the location image here, disable…

Encounters Encounters are a complete replacement for the combat system, which hadn’t changed much since March 2022. They also solve a long-standing issue where combat was assumed to be lethal and you’d feel forced to kill your Judo sparring…

2D grid mode When visiting a new place, you now have the option of initializing it as a 2D grid. Sprites All entities in a grid will have associated sprites. Please note background removal for sprites currently only works on default image…

Worlds/Universes Added support for the concept of multiple worlds aka zones and multiple universes. The location event check will take this into account. A "world" refers to a map, and could be the size of a city or planet depending on your…

There's an outage in the image generation service for AI Roguelite Image Gen (affecting free and paid tiers). A mitigation has been pushed to temporarily switch to a different model until the issue is fixed.

Immersive Level Scaling The original leveling system was designed as an infinite dungeon crawl to encourage exploration during a pre-ChatGPT era where LLMs couldn’t write very well. The new system, dubbed Immersive level scaling, replaces…

MainAdded a new plausibility system dubbed "Enhanced plausibility evaluation". It's stricter and can trigger for things that aren't physically impossible but seem overpowered or unreasonable. If this gives you issues due to AI quirks…

Character classes Each preset now gets 8 pregenerated character classes by default. You can pick your class or regenerate the class choices on the left side of the new game view. Classes can be saved/customized in presets. The AI is…

The default free image generation option (Wombo) is currently experiencing an outage. The issue has been ongoing for about 36-48 hours. According to their Discord, the service is down for all users, even including regular Wombo users. There…

Plausibility V2 Months ago I discovered a problem while playing my game. I would do most actions, especially during combat, with little to no thought. I would use “grow crops” to fight a bear knowing that the outcome was entirely dependent…

Start game without quest In the new game view, you now have the option of starting the game without having the quest tracked and without the initial quest plot hook. The two new options are non-quest story intro, and no intro at all. If…

NPC description auto-update tweaks Increased frequency of NPC description update or turn history summarization to help with coherence Tweaked summarization prompts to prioritize important changes over trivial events Tweaked prompts to…

Video gen fixes Added button and UI to display information about the generated video Added ability to regenerate a video Improved reliability of high-cost video generation Improved soundtrack and lyrics/voiceover logic Improved audio…

Procedural AI-generated videos When you complete an epic (5-task) quest, a video will start generating in the background. You’ll get a notification when it’s done generating, and it will be viewable in the quest log. Note: In order to be…

Factions When starting a new game or a new universe, several factions will be generated. This is an optional feature that can be disabled by unchecking the checkbox. There are also 6 new faction-related Steam achievements. Factions can be…

Fast Travel In the map view, you can pick an item, ability, static object, or follower to use as a travel enhancement. If the AI deems it reasonable, they/it will be used to extend your travel radius (from the 3 categories of small…

Under "OpenAI/Oobabooga API" option, added the option to specify an API key and a model, if the server requires it. This means you can use it for OpenRouter, OpenAI, and other services which use the OpenAI API format and require an API key.…

Reinstated the "portal to another universe" feature, which was reworked to be compatible with Locations V2. You get a portal token for each completed main quest (up to a maximum of 3). You can spend a token to create a portal via the static…

A service outage is causing the Default Sapphire-tier model to take 10x longer than usual. There's no ETA on the fix, but I'm guessing it will be fixed within a day. As a temporary workaround, you can select "Creative" or "Fastest" as the…

More logical TTS detection Previously, all quotes were assumed to be spoken by the current NPC. Now, extra logic exists to detect whether it was spoken by the player, and also take the player's gender into account when determining the TTS…

Side quest overhaul Reimplemented appearance of side quests while tracking a quest. Side quests will also be categorized as short or epic. Short side quests are a new type of quest which only have 1 task. Short side quests can be failed…

Multi-language support AI Roguelite now officially supports 25 languages in addition to English. Choose your language from the Options menu or use the language selector in the Steam properties. If the two conflict, the game overrides the…