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My journal looks like the scribbles of a madman.

If you like this game I also highly recommend Lorelei and the Laser Eyes. Not a roguelike, but an amazing recent puzzle game about uncovering mysteries in a mystery house.

That one broke my brain a little too much. This was the proper amount of thinking for me.
 
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It's an absolutely incredible game.
@Kat and I chatted about it a bit in the Whatcha Playing thread.

I don't have much more to add beyond what is said - but there's absolutely a ton of stuff to do after hitting the credits, more stuff unlocks, there's a plethora of puzzles still to solve (seriously the number of these puzzles and the intricacy is insane), and there's new game modes that you can unlock too.

I'm on Day 35(?) on my main slot which has been going for a bit post-credits. I have a second slot because of Dare mode. I originally said there's no way I'll go for the Platinum on this one, but because I'm a bit of a sadist, I just might - I got four trophies down so far.
 
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Honestly I haven't played it much since I last posted. It's frustrating to know I want certain rooms in the same run but I have no way to make it happen. Or even when I manage to do that, I almost immediately run out of possible ways to go, even if I prioritize rooms with more doors. Like for key card doors, I've never once had the breaker box + security room + a key card door all in the same run, even with the two rooms drafted very early. So yeah, I know I can do that to get more unlocked doors, but it somehow makes it so I can't get a high enough rank for it to matter.
 
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Honestly I haven't played it much since I last posted. It's frustrating to know I want certain rooms in the same run but I have no way to make it happen. Or even when I manage to do that, I almost immediately run out of possible ways to go, even if I prioritize rooms with more doors. Like for key card doors, I've never once had the breaker box + security room + a key card door all in the same run, even with the two rooms drafted very early. So yeah, I know I can do that to get more unlocked doors, but it somehow makes it so I can't get a high enough rank for it to matter.
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whereas i feel i get the spoilered thing here at will
 
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Or even when I manage to do that, I almost immediately run out of possible ways to go, even if I prioritize rooms with more doors.
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So this gets more into general game mechanics but one of my biggest learnings was realizing that priorizing all the doors is a bad idea. While it may seem counterintuitive, use dead-end rooms early and often. A lot of them are useful but more than that, they get removed from the pool, leaving more multidoor rooms available at higher rank, where you may not be able to open all the doors. Avoid a web of interlocking rooms. My successful runs always see me running 10+ dead-end rooms.
 
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So this gets more into general game mechanics but one of my biggest learnings was realizing that priorizing all the doors is a bad idea. While it may seem counterintuitive, use dead-end rooms early and often. A lot of them are useful but more than that, they get removed from the pool, leaving more multidoor rooms available at higher rank, where you may not be able to open all the doors. Avoid a web of interlocking rooms. My successful runs always see me running 10+ dead-end rooms.
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This is excellent advice. I hadn't put together that they could only be drafted once so they'd quit popping up.
 
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I've gotten back into this and have had a lot more luck by taking your advice to draft rooms to get them out of the drafting pool. I'm still not able to get most of the room combos I want (including the one I mentioned in a spoiler previously), but I've found other things to discover and puzzles to work on, so it hasn't been too discouraging. I'm particularly enjoying the wall art puzzle.

What do you all think about the dartboard puzzle? Was it difficult to figure out the rules without hints beyond what's on the dartboard? I feel like it was one of the easier puzzles in the game, but my IRL friends apparently had to resort to googling it.
 
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And after 60+ hours I just learned you can sprint.
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Hahaha, I learned about it by commenting to my friend that I wished I could run, and she said you can! It's not a button I ever would've thought to try.

I've discovered a lot of interesting things since my last post. I'm also going to withdraw my complaint about the note taking. It is annoying to have to take screenshots of everything, but generally writing out what I want to note helps me figure things out.

There are moments that are such a rush! Like trying a key on a dozen doors without success and suddenly having it work after you've given up on it. Or when I did a lab experiment which was "when you draft a bedroom, add three aquariums to the drafting pool". Since an aquarium is a bedroom, I was unable to resist building six in a row. It wasn't particularly helpful, but it was plenty amusing.

I've been trying to get a boiler room for twenty days now, which is annoying and frustrating because I'm pretty sure I need it to make progress at this point and there's not much I can do about it, but at least there's other interesting stuff to keep me entertained.
 
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So the lack of a Boiler Room shouldn't negate your overall progress as there's multiple ways to do just about everything, though it is needed for a few specific things I've discovered at this point.

That said, if you're seeking out a Boiler Room specifically - without giving things away, I'll say there's multiple ways to make them significantly more likely to appear. One of which practically guarantees it.
 
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