Exdrago Elements vs Carmine Gauge

Exdrago Elements is an offline arcade roguelike. Your dragon walks on its own, one tile at a time, down through chambers it has never seen. You choose the turns, and you choose what it grows into. SIX ELEMENTS, ONE RING Ember, Frost, Storm, Stone, Venom, Arcane. Every limb you graft belongs to one of them, and so does every creature waiting in the dark. They answer each other in a circle. Ember melts Frost, Frost grounds Storm, Storm shatters Stone, Stone smothers Venom, Venom corrodes Arcane, Arcane snuffs Ember. Whichever element your coil leans on strikes 3 harder against the one it beats, and takes 1 more from the one that beats it. A mark on each creature shows where you stand, so you can walk around a fight you would lose. GROW THE COIL Reach the gate and it offers three limbs. Rime Talons add 3 strike and frost over on contact. An Ember Sac adds 4 and carries three points of vitality, so it burns out early. Basalt Plating adds 2 guard and nine points of scale. A Far Eye pushes the dark back one more tile. Seven links is the limit. After that, every graft replaces something you chose earlier. SWEEP OR RUN The gate takes you down whether you fight or not. Slip past every creature and you reach the next floor with your scales intact and your pockets empty. Kill the last one in a chamber and the sweep pays a bounty that climbs with depth. THE FORGE Embers outlive the run. Between descents you spend them on a tougher maw, a heavier strike, thicker hide, or a spare maw that relights once when the first one goes out. Rank up a single elemental limb and it arrives stronger the next time the gate offers it. SIGHT Your dragon sees one tile in every direction. The rest of the board is memory. Stack Far Eyes to push that boundary out, or walk into whatever the dark was holding. The exit lights up across the whole chamber once the last creature falls. Go down, and bring something back.

Cordelia Vane inherits a bankrupt railway company: a cold roundhouse, one surviving Wren locomotive, and a strongroom with 240 Gilt Marks in it. Relay the velvet and brass line through the Ashvale valley, township by township, across twelve stops on a hand drawn chart. The ground sets the price. Moor is cheap, mire is not, a freshet wants a viaduct and a fell wants a bore driven through it. Before you tunnel, three sightings through the theodolite let you read five columns of rock and put the portal through the shallowest one, which takes forty percent off the bill. Signal boxes behave the way a real lever frame does, so pulling one lever throws its neighbours with it, and reaching the pattern a route wants inside par takes some thought. A working set clean earns more for as long as it stands. Five marques run the line, from the little 0-4-0 Wren up to the 4-8-4 Behemoth, and you name every one of them yourself. Work an engine and its boiler settles into a character: quicker steam, a wider firebox, truer bearings. Work it too hard and it starts arriving late. There are six stalls in the roundhouse, so the choice matters. Timber pays six a carriage and letters pay eighteen, while a hamlet that grows into a city pays sixty percent over base. Six chapters of company minutes open as you build, with Tobias Rook down in the roundhouse, Mrs Verity Quill on the telegraph, and Lord Aldous Greyholm putting an offer in front of you that is worth reading twice. Your workings keep running for up to eight hours while the app is closed, fourteen once the yard is lit, and a morning newspaper is waiting when you come back. No ads, no purchases, no account, no connection required.