Shroom and Gloom
A downloadable deckbuilder for Windows and macOS
Shroom and Gloom is a first-person, roguelike deckbuilder that brings you mobs of monstrous mushrooms and mountains of mega-combos!
Grab your cards to hack, slash and roast your way through hand drawn dungeons of fungal foes! Build devastating decks, and grow cards into massive abominations as you fight your way into the heart of The Gloom!
Double-decker Deckbuilding!
Build 2 distinct decks! Use the combat deck to survive fierce battles! Use the explore deck to navigate dungeons, modify your cards, or unlock new weapons and abilities!
Eye-ball melting art!
Hand-drawn art and animations collide with rich 3D spaces, bringing you into a surreal world of mushrooms and madness!
Infinite growth and monstrous mega-combos!
Shroom and Gloom offers unique ways for players to grow and modify their cards infinitely. Grow low level starting cards into over-powered attacks, or modify rare cards into game-breaking super-weapons!
Less blocking, more eating!
Why block your enemies when you could eat them instead! Shroom and Gloom features a bounty of ways for you to season, skewer or roast your foes, then eat them to restore lost health. Better yet, throw your roasted enemies into a pot, and cook up some game-changing soups!
This is an early prototype, exploring the potential for Shroom and Gloom to be a full game!
Our dream version of this game features hundreds of cards, deep metaprogression and scores of unique enemies, spread across a dense network of caves and tunnels to explore! This prototype offers a taste of what that experience could be.
We've shot for the stars with what we tried to cram into this prototype over 3 months of development, and we're really proud of what we pulled off. That said, please note that this is a prototype. Expect rough edges and some jank. Keep in mind this is all a work in progress.
We're trying to maintain a list of known bugs, jank and issues. Please check it out before reporting any problems you may encounter while playing the prototype. Please report issues via our Discord if you're inclined to join us there.
We desperately want to create a full Shroom and Gloom game, and we want you to be part of that quest!
If you like what we're doing, here's how you can help!
* Download this prototype, murder some mushrooms, leave us a comment.
* Share the prototype with other awesome people!
* Come hang out with us on the Team Lazerbeam Discord!
* Join the Team Lazerbeam mailer!
* Spread the Shroomy gospel far and wide!
Our eternal thanks to Free Lives for funding the development of this prototype.
Thank you to the Free Lives and Team Lazerbeam Discord communities for their enthusiasm and support! And most of all, thank you for playing!
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THE GAME IS AMAZING-
But I found a bug that if an enemy escapes, joins a boss, then both of them can summon reinforcements, causing multiple units to spawn in same space.
this is actually crazy I played this game literally years ago, look at it now. 6 stars
maybe a fov slider and better hover info detection for doors pls.
Hi! i discovered this game thanks to "Thelonegamer" an Italian Youtuber, i like the game watching it from him ^^ i will try it
I beated the final boss (Gloom) using a Max health + lots of Healing Edibles and upgrading always the same weapon, one that upgrades it's damage after killing an enemy, i liked it a lot ^^
While it starts very suddenly, the gameplay is rather intuitive and easy to learn without instructions. I was confused on how the currency worked as I did not even notice there being any before finding the shop keeper guy and finding that I was broke. I assume there will be more card variations and mechanics as the game progresses, but I enjoyed everything gameplay wise so far.
I love the aesthetic of the game and I'm still wondering how you managed to create such a clear 3d first person perspective with hand drawn images. I did notice a few graphical bugs in the OSX Silicon version:
1) Text on cards would occasionally be covered by a black square around each character that made it difficult to read. This is probably a transparency depth issue as it would fix itself depending on the camera angle
2) When the pause menu is open some UI buttons in main game would still respond to mouse inputs. This leads to several misclicks when trying to access settings.
3) The fade screen is overlayed on top of the settings menu which can make it unreadable if the game is paused between transitions.
I would also recommend making some HUD elements more noticeable as the icons in the corner feel very small and inconsiderable in design.
i really want to try play the game but I'm running into an issue where i cant access the download page, the one after the donation page if anyone can help id appreciate
Hi.
Sorry to hear you're struggling. Are you able to download other games on itch?
yeah at the time everything else still worked just not this it did fix its self this morning
The art style and the design of the cards reminds me of the game Inscryption.
Liked!
thanks!!
Liked!
I seriously hope this sees a full release on Steam or something. This concept is INCREDIBLE
Hey, uh... I don't know if it was something I was doing wrong, but I literally had to find a Youtuber in the comments, because the pack at the beginning never spawned the key I needed to open the very first door. I quit the game and reloaded and finally got it, but that could be a glaring issue.
I've figured out after stubbornly trying my way through... The key would land in my deck, and I have absolutely no idea or way of getting it into my hand. UI and where/how to use stuff is a little unintuitive, though I can tell that's part of some of the gameplay. However, it would be nice if there was just some more little tutorializing, even if it's subtle.
Anyways, haven't even played yet and I am HYPED as hell. The concept, aesthetic, and UI already seem absolutely sick!! If I remember, will edit comment to reflect experiences, but I understand this is a game in development still, so I'm just excited to wait patiently till I can throw money at you. :)
Thank you!!
Ah, the key is a random draw as with the other cards. You can just use Bash to open the door instead, then use Rest to recover the damage. Enjoy! =)
:) Impressive. dope atmosphere, outstanding art style and hypnotic sound.
Finally, after many hours of crawling through strange tunnels, dying and trying again I defeated the last boss and obtained the Key. All the way to the Gloom!
Reminds me of the souls series but with a deck of cards. I want more...
edit: Cool update, few new cards and awesome ... (no spoiler). Good job, thanks! Keep developing it
This game is great (gameplay is great, beautiful artstyle, nice music/sounds) I truly believe it could be a big indie hit if you find a good publisher!
Big congrats to the team! Keep it up!
(Just one thing I didn't get: How do you use the "come back to life card"? Is it automatic and I didn't notice it activated? Because I did pick it up during some of my runs and never understood when I could use it)
It Is Automatic, And Sometimes You Can miss it! (It Only Heals You To Half Health So It's Hard to Notice if you have low health.)
Ohh yeah I must have not notice it! Maybe a sound effect and/or the card appearing on the screen when used would be nice.
Thank you for the answer!
Thanks for checking in. Great to hear you're enjoying the game.
Confirming that we are well aware that the resurrection on Lazarus is currently very underwhelming and unclear. We're currently working on improving higher priority aspects of the game, but Lazarus will totally get some love when the time is right!
I don't know why but after the first battle when chest appears i didn't get any cards and my game softlocks. I really wanted to play that game but i don't know how to fix it.
Does this happen every time? What version of the game are you on?
Every time, even when I reset the game an I am on version 0.4.30
I think i know why this is happenning, my computer is weak and the game sometimes crashes because of that and maybe game code breaks for the same reason. I'm sorry if I wrote something wrong but I'm not really good at English.
twinkies and growing confidence :)
Great combo!
Twinkies, Five Billion Scavenge, And Growing Confidence :)
Great game, great atmosphere, FPP immersion and munchy leitmotif.
Mechanic suggestion: It is fairly easily possible for one-card infinite combo (0 energy cost+draw-a-card while having a low card number), which overtrivialises the strategy . Maybe allow playing a given card only once per turn? Star Realms employed similar mechanism in deck building.
Good luck with everything!
Please make so I can walk with mouse scroll so I can play with mouse alone.
Except of this minor inconvenience this "early prototype" is great, artstyle is beautiful, gameplay is engaging, what's missing is story, bit more variety and balance. Although it has it charm and to beat the game, you actually has to break it a little.
Would buy.
Interesting game! I found an infinite loop which you should probably disable: a small exploration deck with Twinkie Box and Scavenge allows you to Scavenge as many times as you want.
I really dig what I'm seeing here but definitely needs some balance passes. Game feels great when things come together but I find you really need to get a powerful combo or three going very quickly in order to have much of a chance of getting anywhere.
I am super into the game though, it is waaaay up my alley. Very excited to see where things go with it!
Softlocks me in a black screen before the game starts sometimes. (I have to shut down my computer BC it doesn't let me close the tab manually.)
Thanks for letting us know. Please could you check the version of the game you're running? We were aware of some issues like this in the first versions of the prototype, but it was resolved many versions ago.
By the look of it, it seems to be 0.4.30. (That's the number on the file, so-)
I downloaded the game just today and the winodws release is giving me an error telling me Unity.DLL isnt in the files and the game won't run. Is this just some sort of error? Or is it missing from the ZIP file
Not sure - we're not aware of any other users having this issue. Maybe a problem with how you're unzipping the file? Or maybe the download was interrupted?
I'm glad you updated this and plan to turn it into a full game! A couple nitpicks:
-You have cards with multiple (limited) uses but also consume. As it stands, the number of uses is totally meaningless.
-Wormwood doesn't work at all. You get normal toothpicks no matter what.
-There are sometimes weird graphical glitches where a card selection object will pop up, but no cards will be available. Possibly this has something to do with more than one other card selection object gets created at the same time?-
-Multiple stacked Seasoning debuffs don't seem to proc properly on enemy deaths. You get an inconsistent amount of Toasties - sometimes 1, sometimes 2, occasionally the correct number.
Anyway: I look forward to seeing updates and I plan to buy this game on 1.0 release!
This is by far one of the coolest games I've ever played! The mechanics are really solid and I found a lot of joy in discovering what each of the cards did without the game "hand holding" me the whole time. Thanks for such amazing experience!I hope you don't mind by I did a Let's Play of your ge and can't wait to stream it with my community. 😄
Thanks so much for the great feedback, and for making this Let's Play. Stoked to watch it!
Nice game, artstyle W, but I found bugs for infinite max hp gain and throwing power-ups on cards. I can throw videos if necessary.
Hi! Thanks for the comment, and letting us know about those issues. We're aware that it's possible to find lots of infinite loops in explore phases. We'll have to update some of the cards to prevent this in the future, but please enjoy those infinites while they're still possible!
the rotting bone passive appear to be broken it does not replace the bones like it's supposed to.
Not sure what this means - did you leave this comment on the right game? What is the "rotting bone passive"? What does it mean to "replace the bones"?
the replenish passive that that turn the bone attack from the passive that creates bones when you use food card into bone attack that applies the vulnerable. the i think its called rotted wood or something.
:)
I had Growing Confidence, and the last card in my deck was Box of Twinkies, which meant I was in a loop of gaining max health with no end. God mode unlocked.
Nice! There are currently some wild infinites to be found in Explore mode!
Love this game with passion, the artstyle is incredible!!!
Thank you so much! So god to hear that!
I love the vision and direction of this game, and I am really excited to see where this goes. Such a great premise, it's a lot of fun!!
Thank you! This kind of encouraging feedback means so much to us!
Is it the intent as you walk towards a transitionary door that you can't walk backward after a certain point before you actually cross the threshold? I've experienced this a few times - had a draw card benefit for opening locks so the need to backpedal to the pedestals was there most of the run, had to kind of trick the camera to see the X on the pedestal to place the card (soup kitchen for example).
Yeah, this is how things currently work. Could be something we could improve on in the future, but as a tiny team with very little time to make this prototype we've had to chose our battles when looking at which sides of the game to focus on.
This is such a fun deckbuilder! Really enjoying it. I did encounter a pretty severe bug in my last run. This happened after using the Practice Dummy to upgrade the Hug Attack (which has the accompanying PMA card) then the Frog Pick to forget a Roast card. In the next fight, the deck seemed to suffer an 'off by one' database error: all my Toasties appeared as stacked PMAs instead, and wouldn't leave my hand. The PMAs would sometimes reduce by one after the dodge was activated, but any action that would have resulted in a Toasty increased the number of PMAs again. The effect of the multiple PMAs didn't stack. Also notable: the Roast card 'forgotten' by the Frog Pick reappeared. (It was definitely the same Roast card, all the others in that deck had been upgraded.) I hope this is helpful, and I'm happy to answer any questions. Thanks for a fun game!
Thanks so much for passing this along to us. We've added this to our known issues and are working on trying to replicate this issue so we can resolve it.
Encountered a bug in which the Rations card (+2 energy, draw a card) is consistently only providing 1 energy. This is true whether I am at 2/3 energy or 1/3 energy (I thought maybe in exploration you can't exceed 3 but I don't think that's the case in other interactions)
Hi. This isn't a bug; rations has a cost of 1 energy, so using it will increase your current energy by 1.
Oh Duh! omg I have hundreds of hours into deckbuilders and I missed this....sorry!
Haha, it's easy to miss!
We did play around with making Rations +1 energy for 0 cost, but rather went with it having some cost, forcing you to be mindful about when you play it!
Firstly, just wanna clarify I love this game.
Secondly:
I have just experienced a run killing bug. In the end of the 2nd chamber, I chose to enter the Toad chamber to forget a card. While there, and before I entered the goop in the middle, I placed a Toad Shrine down, the game pulled me to the shrine (as intended), but also activated the goop toad. This caused the entire hand of potential cards I could choose to be forgotten to all be deleted, and I just had to select "No Thanks" on both shrines with 0 options to forget any cards.
After this, my explore deck did not generate me a hand, however those cards were not forgotten. I approached the next battle with 3 cards left in my deck.
Wanted to give a heads up!
Hi! Glad you're enjoying the game - great to hear.
Thanks for letting us know about this bug. Could you check what version of the game you're on? This issue sounds like something that was resolved quite a few versions ago.
Im on the halloween patch I believe? l installed the most recent patch last Thursday.
They could be an issue with installation but I'm pretty confident I'm on the latest patch.
Thanks.
BTW, the version number is in the file name, or can be seen in the bottom left of the screne if you pause the game.
This game is amazing, looking forward to the full game
Thank you for playing, and for the encouraging feedback!
Haha! Thanks for the soul!
Just finished the game on the latest patch! Nice work! A few notes:
Thanks again for an excellent game!
Love this game, have been playing since launch.
Can we get a key press to play a highlighted card? I just ended an infinite toothpick run because I hit the spacebar accidentally, and click-draging a stack of eighty toothpicks is a bit tedious. Would be nice to be able to hover over a stack of cards and spam a key to play them! If that already exists, maybe a tutorial should be on your radar!
i am a new fan now. i really like games which use cards in their mechanics and making a build in first run has already been fun!! also the artstyle is soooo cool i like monsters' desing too!!
Wow, this was so much fun! I can't wait for the full game - so much amazing art and such a fun twist on a deckbuilding roguelike in this little demo. I wrote a little blurb about it for an article: https://www.dailycal.org/arts/video-games/small-studios-big-scares-free-indie-ho..
This rocks. Can't wait to buy the full game when it comes out!
Thank you so much! So encouraging to hear that!
We're on the cusp of dropping an update to the prototype, so please keep an eye on the project!
This is really fun! I loved the art and concept. Building the two decks that support each other is a nice twist.
One issue, the training dummy can be played over itself on the same camp pedestal. The way the ui overlaps the dummy makes me think that's a bug. I haven't checked if that's possible with other camp cards.
A couple things that aren't bugs but might not be intended design either:
If your hand and discard pile are empty then any card that gives you draw can draw itself. If that card happens to cost zero you can just play it forever.
It's also possible to make a semi-infinite loop out of combat. A few cards that shuffle your deck and a few cards that give you mana can let you play your whole deck several times before you get a bad draw. On the other hand, that's pretty hard to set up and feels like a fun reward for making a strong deck.
Really great prototype! I'll be excited to see how it develops.