Pokémon Inkwell

Gohan's Tips
Oct 21
2 min read

Author: Unfolding.

PROGRESS: Current Version: 1.03: 20/10/2025

It is a complete, experimental, and endlessly replayable ROM hack that blends a story-driven mystery with the strategic depth of a roguelike. Created by the legendary DizzyEgg (creator of pokeemerald-expansion) and veteran storyteller Unfolding, this game is a massive departure from a traditional Pokémon experience. Delve into an endlessly replayable, randomized gauntlet where your goal is to unveil a compelling mystery. Choose from multiple characters, each with their own unique synergies, and navigate a world that shifts between charming and deeply unsettling. With a one-of-a-kind scaling and experience system, randomized items, upgrades, enemies, and even floor layouts, no two runs are ever the same. This is a true puzzle box of a game, designed to make you think hard and uncover the elaborate trail of breadcrumbs that lead to the truth.

🛑Features:

➡️An Endlessly Replayable Roguelike Gauntlet: The game is a "roguelike," a type of game where you face a series of randomized challenges. If you fail, you start over, but with new knowledge and potentially permanent upgrades for your next run.

➡️Story-Driven Mystery: Unlike most roguelikes, this game has a deep and compelling mystery at its core. The story unfolds as you progress, with an elaborate trail of "breadcrumbs" to piece together.

➡️Completely Randomized World: Every run is unique. The game features DizzyEgg's custom system that randomizes items, permanent and per-run upgrades, enemies, and even the floor layouts of the dungeon.

➡️Multiple Playable Characters: Choose from a roster of different playable characters, each designed with unique synergies that affect how they interact and perform in a run.

➡️Unique Scaling & Experience System: The game features a one-of-a-kind, drastically overhauled system for scaling and gaining experience, created by DizzyEgg specifically for this project.

➡️Deeply Reactive World: The game is filled with meticulous character interaction scripts that account for a huge number of different scenarios, making the world feel alive and responsive to your choices.

➡️Unique Atmosphere & Tone: Experience a unique setting that constantly meanders between a "cutesy" and a "foreboding" and unsettling atmosphere.

➡️A Bite-Sized, Complete Experience: This is a finished game jam entry, meaning you can play the full, intended experience from start to finish.

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