Ode to the Forest

Rise and venture forth, purify the forest from evil and return the Seed of Life to mother nature.🌱

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About 🌿

Ode to the Forest is a roguelite adventure that focuses on traversing a procedurally generated forest, battling machines on your quest to restore Mother Nature to her former glory. The catch is that in this unique world, you can only shoot your weapons in the sunlight, adding an extra layer of challenge and strategy to your encounters. Along your journey, you'll also encounter various items, mysterious shrines and NPC's that will help or hinder you on your journey.

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💚This is a student-made game, so thank you for giving it a look, we really appreciate it!💚

Abilities 🍃

Throughout the game, you can acquire ‘abilities’, items that are either upgrades (boost player stats), downgrades (decrease player stats) or change gameplay.

All abilities and their descriptions can be found in the almanac in the Home room and will slowly unlock as they are discovered. You can use the “unlock all abilities” cheat to view all abilities immediately but note that this will break the progression of the game somewhat.

Cheats ☘️

The cheat menu is available from within the pause menu (esc key)

The cheat menu is hidden by default but can be opened with ` (Backtick). All cheats are implemented as buttons / dropdowns that can be selected and employ error handling. Invincibility can be toggled, and you can cheat seeds and abilities.

Please note that cheats break the natural progression of the game and may also result in unexpected bugs.

General Tips For Gameplay 🌻

Many of these (& more) are mentioned as tips / NPC dialogue throughout the game, but for ease of reference:

• Common seeds = brown, Rare seeds = blue, Legendary seeds = yellow.
• The dungeon is semi-linear, meaning easier rooms are generally closer to the start of the dungeon, and the closer towards the boss you get, the harder the rooms become.
• Harder rooms, and the Boss, are not meant to be defeated without growing seeds in the home room (and buying abilities from the Trader / Oracle also helps)
• After you have discovered an ability for the first time (via Shrine of Risk and Trader), if the Trader ever sells it again, the question mark will become the ability’s icon. This helps you avoid buying downgrades from him (note: the “unlock all abilities” cheat immediately reveals everything).
• The dungeon becomes more difficult after you plant and grow your first rare or legendary seed. The Portal will spawn further from the start when this happens.
• You can discover the Vase (extra seed plot in the garden) after planting 3 seeds and having at least one of those seeds be a rare or legendary – you will then be able to buy it from the Trader on your next venture into the forest.
• The Oracle will appear in the home room after you have unlocked the Vase and have at least 40 essence at home. Only then may you access her abilities (these are not visible in the almanac for this reason).
• The Shrine of Youth will require you to tribute 40 essence total to it. This can be done over multiple ventures into the forest – it will persist.