Rough Souls: Adventures

🎒 Adventure Mode – Explore, Interact, Progress
In Adventure Mode, you freely roam a handcrafted world filled with interactive elements and hidden areas. You can:
Pick up, throw, and eat items

Jump and climb across the environment

Tame and ride animals like the Saiga Antelope

Navigate ships and reach new locations

Talk to NPCs to receive quests

Key locations include:
A quest-giving NPC near the start

A parkour section with falling barrels

A port area where you can buy your own ship after earning gold

A mini-challenge zone with taming and exploration opportunities

💀 Souls Mode – One Boss, Classic Challenge
There is one Souls-style boss encounter in the game, accessible early on via a quest from an NPC. This mode features:
A single, challenging boss

Emphasis on dodging, learning patterns, and punishing mistakes

A standalone experience inspired by soulslike mechanics

⚔️ Rough Mode – Precision Combat Arena
Accessible from the port area, Rough Mode is a directional 1v1 combat arena where you fight powerful mini-bosses using a custom mouse-driven parry and attack system.
Change attack and parry direction with your mouse

Fight enemies with unique abilities

Earn gold by defeating Rough bosses

Buy your ship after winning and collecting enough gold

🧭 Final Act – Sail, Survive, Escape
After purchasing your ship, you’ll sail into an ice basin, where you’re attacked by three marine monsters: a giant snake, kraken, and anglerfish. You must:
Collect explosives

Survive multi-enemy encounters

Escape the frozen trap

This leads to a descent into a glowing underground crystal city, where you face five additional Rough bosses. Once they’re defeated, a dragon captures you, marking the end of the game (until future updates).
Features
3 distinct game modes: Adventure, Souls, and Rough

Directional combat system with mouse-driven attack/parry mechanics

Short but varied gameplay (1.5–2 hours of content)

Parkour sections, exploration, naval travel, and animal taming

Built entirely in the Godot Engine by a solo developer