Shattered Pixel Dungeon is open source software under the GPLv3 License, and is based on the freely available source code of Pixel Dungeon! The game is available in multiple languages thanks to support from the community via Transifex. All credits are given in the game's about section from the main menu, or in the languages tab of the settings menu.
I've played this game for free for years on my mobile devices. Hundreds of hours. I've tried so many other mobile roguelikes and nothing even comes close. No adds, difficult but fair, feature rich, frequent updates. The original creator (Watabou) made something special, but this is the definitive version. I still always come back to this game whenever I'm traveling even after all these years.
There are some games that are just perfect for what they are; this is one of them.
I have played this game since the original
Pixel Dungeon first hit the market over 12ish years ago, and it has remained a favorite. I like it so much that I purchased it here on gog after playing it from the Git-Hub repository,
1) The monsters are both simple and varied enough to pose a challenge with out making the game feel like a slog.
2) The traps are both rare enough and consequential enough to justify their relative rarity.
3) The way the game plays is very intuitive.
4) The bosses each have their own mechanics that you should play around, yet all but one can be brute-forced if you should choose.
5) The game handles "Unlocks" very well, aside from classes all they do is save the player time searching up things on the wiki.
6) The tutorial is very well integrated into both the gameplay and the lore.
7) The game is very stable.
8) The game is getting a slow drip-feed of quality improvements and additional content every few months.
If a well polished and well balanced turn-based
rouge-like is your cup of coffee, this is the game for you.
You'll need some resilience because dead means dead. 8-)
And that's just one of the aspects of this game I love. Nice opponents, sometimes pesty hard to kill. Learn to use what you have in your inventory, especially these seeds are very useful.
