Bebshoru Lodbuka

Bebshoru Lodbuka is a turn-based combat game in which you fight demons through 30 levels of hell, facing a guardian demon in each level on the way to the deepest caverns. There, the supreme darkness of Trekim Gogzokk awaits in the final fight.

Combat and cards

You and your enemies have skills including Strength, Destruction instinct, Protection, Witchery, Psychic Power, Intelligence and Consciousness. You fight with cards, called tokens in the game, which you buy in the Marketplace and cast during combat. Around 500 tokens are available, including swords, hammers, potions, talismans, drinks, food and special hammer attacks. Each level you pass gives you more coins.

Tokens can affect your own or your enemy’s skills, needs and other properties. Their effects may be immediate or last for a set time or number of combat turns, allowing you to combine moves into a longer-term strategy. Some tokens let you make several additional moves during your turn without automatically passing it to your opponent. Some can be used only by a wizard, while others require you to be a demon, animal or spirit.

Needs and transformations

You must manage Hunger, Thirst, Mood and Clothing to keep them from reducing your energy. Mental Strength also needs to stay high enough to prevent you from falling asleep; food, potions and spells can help. You can progress through five evolutionary levels—Human, Apprentice, Warrior, Master and Demigod—or acquire advanced robotic bodies. Special spells and potions can temporarily transform you into a demon, animal or spirit.

Marketplace items have different properties: some, such as a hammer, have limited uses, while raw beef expires and can cause illness if eaten after it goes bad. Rotten meat can also infect your teeth, enabling special attacks with infected bites.

Turns and difficulty

You have two minutes to play each turn before it passes automatically to your enemy, though you can pass earlier without making a move. You can pause to plan, except on Hell, the hardest of five difficulty levels, where the timer never stops. Higher difficulty requires stronger combat strategies, while easier levels allow for more relaxed play.

Death is permanent. You can save your avatar at any time, separately from your current game, and use it to start another game without losing its development.

The Game Master

You can enable the Game Master, an entity who offers advice and favors but may also punish you when angry. Offerings can please him, while sacrifices can appease his anger. You can ask him for gifts, and he may set timed challenges: completing one earns you a prize, while failing to meet it risks making him angry. He shows his emotions toward you when he chooses.