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Source of Madness is a side-scrolling dark action roguelite set in a twisted Lovecraftian inspired world powered by procedural generation and AI machine learning. Take on the role of a new Acolyte as they embark on a nightmarish odyssey.
Source of Madness is a roguelite, lovecraftian and action game
developed by Carry Castle
and published by Thunderful Publishing.
Released on May 11th 2022 is available on Windows, Steam Deck and Steam Machine
in 12 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Russian, Thai and Turkish.
It has received 1,413 reviews of which 975 were positive and 438 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.7 out of 10. 😐
The game is currently priced at 2.99€ on Steam with a 85% discount, but you can find it for 0.53€ on K4G.
The Steam community has classified Source of Madness into these genres:
Roguelite
Lovecraftian
Action
Metroidvania
Dark
Souls-like
Dark Fantasy
Magic
2D
Atmospheric
Fantasy
Action RPG
Mystery
Action Roguelike
Action-Adventure
Combat
Procedural Generation
Singleplayer
Physics
2D Platformer
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Windows
- OS *: Windows 7+
- Processor: Intel i5+
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia 450 GTS / Radeon HD 5750 or better
- Storage: 500 MB available space
- Additional Notes: DirectX 9.1+ or OpenGL 3.2+
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Foreword: Not AI slop (at least not in the modern sense) This is an older creative use of early generative AI before the slop craze of more recent years, using some generated patterned cutouts to play into the game's narrative themes of eldritch horror, just as early diffusion models produced manmade horrors that were absolutely maddening and eye-straining to look at. What the game has always needed was more polish, especially for its control inputs. Was definitely an interesting art experiment.
Of course it's experimental and weird, but that's probably what caught your attention, as it did mine. I moved on from it though because people were saying it's AI slop. But then it's on 85% discount and I was like surely there is something worth it at that price, so looked again and found this info from the dev, which says it all really; "Soooo okay, this is NOT AI slop, this was made way before AI art became a big thing. There are a few cutscenes that were made with an old Diffusion model and later animated with another system. This game was made with love between mainly the years 2018-2021. I do regret adding the diffusion cutscenes especially with the stigma anything neural network based comes with these days. But the game is mainly made with hand drawn art that was later treated with an algorithm that I find ethical called deep style transfer which basically redrew our own art in the style of a source texture that we photographed or made ourselves. Personally I am proud of the world building I made in this game and it has a very unique physics based world and procedural enemies. As for fun, I think it could be better but a lot of people have enjoyed and loved it. I am trying to perfect fun in my new game Midnight Horde that is not using any of that stuff at all this time. I think it is more than worth it, if it sticks with you it is at least 10-12 hours of unique worlds."
Having just completed all 3 acts of the game, I'd say I enjoyed it quite a bit- enough to want more content added in the future as a DLC. The music and the art is very immersive to the story and the gameplay, and does justice to the sort of emotionally-fueled hack-and-slash I was looking for when I bought it. There are a handful of cutscenes (each a few seconds long) that are old-style diffusion made to give a dream-like image of the current realm your character is going to be in, which I also liked. The story seems fairly minimal and there aren't any new dialogues with the characters in the starting area upon completion of the game, which I found disappointing. And after winning, a bit of the drive to head out into the 2 available areas (technically 3 areas but one is only available through the first) is gone. But that's really the only downside I could draw to the game. The higher difficulties have more items and the monsters get more abilities, which is kind of nice at least. Looking forward to any new content for this game.
⊰═🕀═⊱≼ The madness of beautiful monotony ≽⊰═🕀═⊱ 🜂 Positive 🜄 ☉ A great atmosphere, as even critics of this game point out ... ☉ Great visuals ... ☉ Cool spells ... ☉ Interesting procedural generation with monsters ... 🜁 Negative 🜃 ☽ The gameplay is quite monotonous here, despite all the variety of classes and spells, it plays pretty much the same ... ☽ A slightly insufficient number of levels ... ⊰💧⊱═𒍟═⊰🩸⊱ 7/12 ⊰🩸⊱═𒍟═⊰💧⊱
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Frequently Asked Questions
Source of Madness is currently priced at 2.99€ on Steam.
Yes, Source of Madness is currently available at a 85% discount. You can purchase it for 2.99€ on Steam.
Yes, Source of Madness received 975 positive votes out of a total of 1,413 achieving a rating of 6.69.
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Source of Madness was developed by Carry Castle and published by Thunderful Publishing.
Yes, Source of Madness is playable and fully supported on Windows.
No, Source of Madness is not playable on MacOS.
No, Source of Madness is not playable on Linux.
Yes, Source of Madness is playable and fully supported on Steam Deck.
Yes, Source of Madness is playable and fully supported on Steam Machine.
No, Source of Madness does not support VR.
Source of Madness offers both single-player and multi-player modes.
Source of Madness offers both Co-op and PvP modes.
Yes, there is a DLC available for Source of Madness. Explore additional content available for Source of Madness on Steam.
No, Source of Madness does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Yes, Source of Madness supports Remote Play Together. Discover more about Steam Remote Play.
Yes, Source of Madness is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Game modes
Multiplayer
Features
Online players
1
Developer
Carry Castle
Publisher
Thunderful Publishing
Release
11 May 2022
Platforms
Remote Play
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