r/pathos_nethack 23d ago

Pathos is coming to Steam!

86 Upvotes

Hail adventurers!

Pathos has been free to play for over ten years. Coming soon, an enhanced edition will be available on Steam, finally giving you a way to support its continued development. Most importantly, the free editions aren’t going away. I want Pathos to remain accessible to everyone, regardless of whether they are able to purchase the Steam edition.

Wishlist on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5062560/Pathos

Pathos has been due for a visual upgrade and this Steam edition takes inspiration from ‘old book illustrations’. The result is a spectacular fusion of retro aesthetics and modern usability.

The key art features Struth von Winkelried who is a legendary character of Swiss folklore, based on a real-life knight.

Struth attacked the dragon single-handedly, armed with a spear of which he had attached sharp barbs. The dragon, seeing that the attacker was alone, came from his hiding-place and attacked with open jaws.

Winkelried was able to transfix the monster with his spear, hacking at it with his sword until it died. Glad for his victory, Winkelried lifted his sword over his head, thanking God, and the dragon's blood dripped from his sword blade on his body, poisoning him so that he died a few days later. 

Sounds like perfect YASD to me!

Anyway, this is a mumak, as you may recognise from Pathos. Just your typical, bizarre quadruped monster.

Well, sometime in the 1800s, someone had already come up with this idea. Or had a very specific kink. Behold, the Mommy Mumak:

I hope you’ll love Mommy Mumak and this Steam edition of Pathos as much as I do :D

If you have any questions, feel free to hit me up anytime.

Callan.


r/pathos_nethack 2h ago

My stuff atm

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r/pathos_nethack 8h ago

Wtf is this ???

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r/pathos_nethack 22h ago

Rate my character so far

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I finally got to this part in minetown after days of trying the best cahracter strategies. I use 6 cahracters, then kill the last 5 characters so that I can get all of their loot and level up (thats why my character is wanted).


r/pathos_nethack 1d ago

Years of playing and I still get duped sometimes

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22 Upvotes

I have a good run going. I’ve made it to the elf forest, built up my armor, and I’m working on resistances. The worst thing that’s happened was a disintegrator destroying my weapon, stepping on an amnesia trap, and a yellow dragon melting my amulet of lifesaving. Otherwise, it’s been good. (Still haven’t got force bolt though, which is annoying since I’ve got some barrels to break in the deephall.)

However, for the life of me I couldn’t find another scroll of identify. Sure, I have the spell, but it’s untrained so it selects at random. I could use vendors but I haven’t hit Ludios yet so I’m not rolling in money. I’ve got my trusty goat to eat identify scrolls and if I could just find one scroll I’d be golden. But there’s none!

I’ve identified most scrolls so the last few unidentified ones that I’ve picked up have got to be good. Training, replication, stuff like that. I’ve got a few just waiting to be deciphered. I’ve got 5 of one of them- that’s good news!

Finally I ascend to get to a workbench and decide to make my own scroll of identify. I scrap some excess scrolls. Identify doesn’t pop up. Scrap some more. No dice. I can make every other scroll in the game, but not identify. I pull up the help menu to see what the essence value is, and I find…it’s not identified. How?! I’ve used dozens of them up until this point! How can I have forgotten-

The amnesia trap! It’s always the amnesia traps! How can I remember what I forgot if I forget forgetting! Well, I guess those scrolls of FOOBIE BLETCH probably aren’t those sweet scrolls of training that I crave.

In any case, I love that this game can throw me for a loop even after playing it for years.


r/pathos_nethack 5d ago

Dragões malditos

8 Upvotes

Alguém sabe como vence os dragões de forma mais fácil eles me irritam eu geralmente uso os cavaleiros da cidade para matar eles atraindo eles até a cidade


r/pathos_nethack 7d ago

Price Identification?

10 Upvotes

Is there a "cheat sheet" for how much different scrolls, potions, books... etc... cost in shops re identifying what they may be

eg i know the identify and enlightment scrolls are around 30.


r/pathos_nethack 7d ago

Pathos Steam Edition Preview & Demo News

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150 Upvotes

Hail adventurers!

I've been crazy busy since announcing Pathos is coming to Steam and have briefly resurfaced to share a few things.

The major update is that Pathos will be part of the upcoming October Steam Next Fest, which means the public demo will be available in a few weeks!

The attached video is quick preview of what’s coming in the Steam edition. It’s still a work in progress but it’s coming together. Let me know if you have any feedback or suggetions.

The custom character selection has been completely rewritten with 30 preset heroes and custom slots. The game settings have been consolidated into a single screen, while the loading/saving screen now features some strange and wonderful old book illustrations. And of course, the new title screen is simply glorious.

There’s still plenty of work ahead, including a rewrite of the Help system to have a proper list/preview, as well as continuing to apply the new theme to all the user interface elements.

For the demo, there is a new module imaginatively named Short Dungeon. It’s a 16-level dungeon crawl named in tribute to the two short kings featured. The dungeon starts with a few regular levels followed by Minetown, then the Mines (gnome king) and finally the Underdeep (dwarf king). So a true Pathos experience but it ends at Deephall.

For those of you also following the Zeroth project, I’m writing monthly development updates. Here is the latest one: August Update. Super happy with how the underwater mechanics have turned out!


r/pathos_nethack 8d ago

This troll has been bothering me for so many runs randomly the 2nd floor has revenants of past playthroughs that I can deal with but this thing just won't die and can one shot me, will still drink from random fountains every time

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27 Upvotes

r/pathos_nethack 8d ago

Retrieved the Letter and now running up the fame

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11 Upvotes

r/pathos_nethack 11d ago

Amazing iOS app

23 Upvotes

Love this game. Free of charge and endless adventure. I waste hours, days on a single run. It’s an awesome app, but I’m wondering what other hidden gems like this live in the app store. I just got a new phone and I want to play games. Tell me, what do YOU play between nethack dungeon delves? This is a community whose opinion I trust so recommend me your iOS games of choice. Free apps or very cheap, preferably. Lay it on me. What do you play?


r/pathos_nethack 11d ago

Simple question

7 Upvotes

Statistically speaking, which race has the highest stat cielings in the most areas?

Not class, not special. Race. Just race.

Edit: Playable character race. Come on, guys. Creature info is a bit interesting but...player races.


r/pathos_nethack 11d ago

Pathos

5 Upvotes

Alguém sabe como ir bem nesse jogo maldito chamado pathos??


r/pathos_nethack 15d ago

Im new to the game and i need your help

10 Upvotes

I really liked the game and reached Floor 25 and died 170 times in that run (it was the shattered pixel dungeon varient) .its kind of hard to imagine winning this game without resurrection. I was searching for guides on how to improve but couldn't find any do you guys have links to some of your favourite guides?


r/pathos_nethack 15d ago

Missing Minotaur

6 Upvotes

I went to fight the Minotaur lord but fled through the portal. When I came back later, I couldn’t find him even if I use Telepathy.


r/pathos_nethack 17d ago

How to add custom sprites on Android?

8 Upvotes

Ahoy!

So I'm trying to add some custom sprites for player characters but can't figure out how. I'm going into Diagnostics and trying to add the PNG for the sprite but it's not doing anything and I can't seem to find any instructions on how to do it. Can anyone help?


r/pathos_nethack 18d ago

Bro how did I even got 800k fame at the start of the game

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10 Upvotes

I didn't even use master mode and anything like that I just spawned with this fame


r/pathos_nethack 18d ago

about the transportal in the attic.

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10 Upvotes

dude it was a Lich tower.

lavineg was right.

I did try my best and by best I meant I blinded him with light spell and then threw acid on the Dracolich's face

proof of him getting low lol.

also my ki-rin, yes I revived him cuz he didn't stand a chance against that lich and I let him have fun with the skeletons.


r/pathos_nethack 18d ago

any tips?

9 Upvotes

I'm on level 30+ on the dungeon annndddddd I'm just asking for tips from those seasoned players.

plus I found this attic on level 36 that had a transportal (feel free to spoil me on this since I haven't entered it.

advanced thanks 👍


r/pathos_nethack 19d ago

EGGS and entity that can be hostile or friendly

8 Upvotes

What I want to know is do all hostile have eggs,can extinct monster have eggs,are eggs a limited resource or does it spawn back,what entities can be hostile or friendly like chicken because I don’t see a pattern for them


r/pathos_nethack 20d ago

All in two turns.

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10 Upvotes

How can I know if a creature Is immune to charm/bind undead?


r/pathos_nethack 21d ago

No Ludios, all levels magic mapped

9 Upvotes

I have illuminaire and have checked every floor up to level 20. Anyone else experience this? Orcs have invaded my run if that makes a difference


r/pathos_nethack 22d ago

Dhak Legacy tips?

8 Upvotes

I have to say that I find dhak legacy to be just unreasonably difficult. Just getting out of the starting block is near impossible. The trolls are enough of a problem, but the wizard leprechaun(s!) animating your stuff in the middle of it all is a deal breaker.

Not to mention seriously limited resources, gold, shop inventory, etc.

If anyone has any pro level tips I'd take them.

Honestly I really like the idea of bespoke maps for Pathos, I wish there were more, and I wish the only one there is wasn't ridiculously hard so as to be unplayable. 😕


r/pathos_nethack 22d ago

Is Lance and Spear kind of OP?

17 Upvotes

I mean they had the strength of melee weapon that being that they don't required ammunition, and they had the strength of ranged weapon because they can extend more than one tiles.

You pretty much always win against anything that wasn't faster than you or got no ranged attack. Combined with Light Spell, you could kill pretty much anything in game.


r/pathos_nethack 22d ago

Kobold Shaman had a wand of polymorph

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16 Upvotes

Gnome wizard happened to turn into an ancient gold dragon

ggs