Relics of the Demon

Dracula's body was split into five different parts after his defeat seven years ago, and the hero must recover these and bring them to the ruins of Dracula's castle. There, he must invoke Dracula and defeat him for good. 

A traditional, top-down, turn-based roguelike, with fixed overworld and procedurally generated dungeons. It's a retelling of the classic Castlevania 2 for the NES, in a format heavily inspired by ADoM.

Roam the countryside traveling between the towns, finding clues to complete your quest, and the mansions, where the relics of Dracula can be found.

Backstory

1698: It has been seven years since Dracula was vanquished.

Simon visits his family's resting grounds; an illness affects his soul and body since his last encounter with Dracula. He suddenly feels someone's presence, and turns to see a young woman standing within the mist. She tells him that a curse was placed upon him by Dracula during their last battle, and that he does not have long to live.  The curse can be undone if he resurrects Dracula himself.

Dracula's body was split into five different parts after his defeat seven years ago, and Simon must recover these and bring them to the ruins of Dracula's castle. There, he must invoke Dracula and defeat him for good. 

Development History

Originally made for 7DRL 2024. The current web playable version is a patched version conserving most of the original scope except it includes graphics.

The original 7DRL submission can be played here, the last version before the graphics addition can be found here.

In December 2004, the game was renamed from "CvRL2" to "Relics of the Demon"

Credits

• Illustrations: Sirena, Vitor Ximenez
• Sound Effects: WoodsyTee, QuietGecko
• Music: QuietGecko, Jorge Fuentes
• Produced by: Slashie

7DRL Challenge Manifest

This game was built on top of the SpelunkyRL codebase, from where it acquired the core 80x25 characters display support, and generic actions and scene loading.

A sequence of patched versions were released afterwards with the intent of improving the player experience while keeping the original 7DRL scope:

• Version 0.0.2, released on March 20, 2024, addressing some gameplay bugs as described here
• Version 0.0.3, released later the same day, on March 20, 2024, addressing some gameplay bugs as described here
• Version 0.0.4, released on March 23, 2024, addressing some gameplay bugs as described here
• Version 0.0.5, released on March 26, 2024, addressing some gameplay bugs.
• Version 0.0.6, released on April 4, 2024, adding a graphics display.
  
• Version 0.0.7, released on April 20, 2024, balance fixes and minor visual improvements.