Ex-Plorer

A rogue-lite game with puzzle elements: build your very own drone and instruct it to navigate a series of procedurally-generated levels while collecting resources, avoiding peculiar threats and managing your battery levels.

Each drone is able to equip 3 scanners: visual, thermal and audio. Each of these provides a different view of the level, which is particularly useful when it comes down to detecting threats, as some of them might be invisible to certain scanners.

Additionally, each drone has a chassis as its core: this is the main component that determines the values of the main 2 stats of a drone: resilience and battery. Resilience is a measure of the drone's structure integrity, while Battery is a measure of how much energy the drone has to use during an expedition. If either stats reaches 0 during an expedition, you will lose your drone, as well as all of the upgrades equipped to it as well as anything it carried.

In order to gather resources, you must first reach a tile that contains an object, perform an Analysis and then pick up the item. When retrieving a drone from ane expedition, all items in its inventory will be converted to the game's currency: scrap. This can be used to purchase the aforementioned scanners/chassis or perform upgrades.

The control scheme is quite straightforward: press keys from 1 to 5 to select different dialogue options and use the mouse to look around the environment.

Various accessibility options are available and can be accessed through the Options menu, available from the Main menu.