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A snail bit a chunk out of my finger.

I constantly forget these motherfuckers have teeth.

They wha? O_o

Note to self: invent a salt-spraying gun. Those bastards can fight back.

So there is this free game where you crash a spaceship into a planet and you have to build things to survive and eventually escape.

Sounds like Notrium to me.

Actually, vehicles in the Civ stage were affected by what you put on them. They could be fast, or heavily armored, or whatever.

Note that DarkSpore is also technically a Spore game, but it's not included in the complete pack (it's also 75% off tho).

I already played the... um, full demo until I got bored. I might get it still if the community is any good and we can all share our own dick shaped buildings and vehicles.

DarkSpore doesn't have as much customization, IIRC. I mean, yes you can give the critters different weapons and stuff, but you cannot make your own creature from scratch to fight with.

Welcome back! Let's continue the adventures of Hopson.



Hopson quickly slays a diggle and cheers into the air. He just leveled up!



This is the skill tome, where we go to make a selection for new abilities. By overwhelming popular demand, I choose the rocket-punch. I'm sure it will serve us well!



Thanks to increasing Hopson's clockwork skill, he also learns a new recipe. We don't have any of these things yet, so don't get excited.



As Hopson steps through a doorway, he is hit by a curse! This is the Easy Target curse, which lowers dodge ability by 15 points. It only goes away if he gets hit once.
The culprit is that garden gnome over there. While physically weak, these guys can teleport around the dungeon, drain mana, and cast debuff spells. More of a nuisance than anything else, unless they have backup. Hopson goes berserk and the gnome collapses in a pile chunky chunks.

But what's this?



It's a shrine to Inconsequentia, the Goddess of Sidequests! Hopson quickly stops to offer a prayer.



We'll keep an eye open for these things as we travel through the dungeon. Moving on.

Remember when I mentioned how terrible gnomes were without backup?
Yeah. If there's one thing that makes DoD stand out from some other rougelikes, it's the sheer number of enemies that you can face at any time. This is actually a fairly small group.



A quick bit of slaughter (and a dose of Diggle Flu) later, we're good.



Well, this is strange. Zombys don't usually start showing up until a little further down. These guys are fairly tough and deal putrefaction damage, a difficult type to defend against. I think it's time to test the rocket fist.



It's really hard to get a decent screenshot of these things
On the plus side, it deals a massive amount of damage and stuns the zomby. Easy to finish off.



In a small alcove, Hopson finds his first crossbow. It is also an artifact! Hopson equips it, but doesn't have any bolts (aside from the highly valuable squid bolts) to shoot with yet.



Oh hey, it's a batty. Aside from being a little hard to hit, these aren't very difficult. The only tricky thing about them is that they can fly, which means they aren't affected by traps and can move across bodies of water.
And what's that over there?




What the heck is a deth doing here?! Like the zomby, these don't start showing up until farther down. I think we have another candidate for rocket punching.



Hopson is starting to look a little ragged, and now comes an Evil Magic Potato. These guys can fly just like battys, but can also launch magic missiles from range and deal asphyxiating damage up close. Thankfully, Hopson goes berserk and dices it in two hits.



Another new foe. These common cave ravens are a bit of a joke; they're just hard to hit. Hopson takes no damage from it.



This...thing. These can be a genuine pain; large amounts of physical resistance and they hit hard as well. ROCKET PUNCH!



And with that, Hopson reaches level 3! Time to choose a new ability!

Infinite Alligator Syndrome: Resident Evil spin-off. A horrible virus is mutating everyone into giant alligators! The horror!

Holy Handgun Spies: As a member of the Inquisition, infiltrate vampire dens and heretic cults before wiping them out.

Interstellar Ninja Mania: iOS game. Leap and bound between planets as the most awesome ninja ever.

Combat Moon Carnage: Battlefield 3 mod that takes place on the moon and it's colonies.

Rockin' Octopus Odyssey: As Ia the Octopus, your mission is to prove your cephalopodic superiority through the power of RAWK.

I honestly don't care about gender, they both have exactly the same stats anyway