When comparing Catacomb Kids vs Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, the Slant community recommends Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup for most people. In the question“What are the best roguelikes/roguelites on PC?” Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup is ranked 8th while Catacomb Kids is ranked 63rd. The most important reason people chose Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup is:
There are a few different classes available at character creation, each one has it's own abilities that are different from the others. Creating one is quite simple, which makes for a fast way to get into the game and start playing.
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Pros
Pro Simple, but nice pixel graphics.
Good animations, good pixel resolution, effects with physics here and there.
Pro Enviroment cues matter
Basic example: The player can knock over a cauldron of fire on an enemy that's below the same player (affected by real physics, not pre-made animations)
Pro A LOT of content for you to discover
At the beginning one won't know what to do, but as one plays, the player will discover a lot of mechanics, surprises, etc.
Pro Movement super fluid. It's as good as Dishonored movement mechanics, could be even better!
The movement its really satisfactory. It wont let down.
Pro Game feels alive
With a wide variety of enemies, even when the player is not in a room. The player can notice sometimes how they fight with each other, how they activate traps, etc.
Pro Hard as hell
Being a rouge like, expect to die and retry a lot. Some people love it, some people will find it frustrating.
Pro Simple character creation with different classes
There are a few different classes available at character creation, each one has it's own abilities that are different from the others. Creating one is quite simple, which makes for a fast way to get into the game and start playing.
Pro Gold Standard for roguelikes
The controls and replayability have been refined over the years. Whether the player chooses to play with Tiles (graphics) or console (ASCII) the game works well even when choosing online or offline play. Either way there is just enough interface to play the game.
Cons
Con Slow developement
It's being developed by one guy. Updates come slow. But he streams every week to show you he is working.
twitch.tv/fourbitfriday
Con Being hard as hell can come frustrating some times
One can be doing perfectly fine in a run, and then it's possible that with one mistake can end the run in less that a second.
Con It has some bugs here and there
There are screenshots of people encountering bugs, RUN ending bugs. This reviewer haven't really encountered any of them. The only game-breaking bug he found it's a really specific bug.
But yeah, you can expect in most of your runs will be bug free.
Con Have to fiddle with controls
Being that the game uses an emulated keyboard on screen it works best on tablet, though is not really the preferred method (but is the only one) since it takes up screen space.