Tunics! is a roguelike-like adventure game based of the look and mechanics of The legend of Zelda – A link to the past for SNES.

It's a tier-based action RPG where the player progresses through randomly generated and increasingly difficult dungeons.

It's made for the Solarus game engine. See more at https://solarus-games.org..

Story

Hyrule is at peace, princess Zelda is safe, there are no supervillains running amok but our hero has found himself in the unfortunate situation of having fallen down a hole and now he needs to get out. The only way out is through the dungeons.

Concept and gameplay

Starting with basically nothing the player progresses through several tiers of dungeons with increasing difficulty. Each tier will present new challenges and the player will need to use familiar skills and items from Zelda games, acquired through the quest to progress.

Each new tier is randomly generated and each play-through will fell unique. For each dungeon, the following elements will be random, some purely computationally, others from a vast database of components:

• Dungeon layout
• Dungeon treasure and obstacles
• Room size and shape
• Room content
• Graphic tileset design
• Graphic tileset palette
• Music
• Enemies

The game uses permadeath, meaning the player will have to start over on dying.

A full playthrough will last about 30-40 minutes but the player can choose to continue beyond the final tier. Things will get increasingly hard but there may be rewards in the deeper dungeons.

Tunics! will give you a new, unique Zelda adventure whenever you want it.

Download

The packages below contain the Solarus engine and the Tunics! game files. Just unzip and play by running the Solarus application.

At the moment we are only supplying complete packages for Windows. Tunics! releases can still be downloaded and run on other systems from our project repository but the game engine needs to be downloaded and installed from https://solarus-games.org

Releases

Controls

Controls work fairly intutitive with configured game controllers. Keyboard controls are as follows.

Game

Menu

Misc

Development

Development and design of the game is headed by Mattias Päivärinta and Jan Sandström, and with considerable contributions from Thomas Kwarnmark.

We forsee no furhter development of this game but have instead started a project to try to build on the idea in a completely new game with our own assets built with gamemaker studio.where to pickup up when we feel like it. If you want follow us on this join our discord: https://discord.gg/NMtwbyVN and check out the new repository at https://github.com/Legofarmen/tunics-gms.

Acknowledgement and credits

• To Christopho for the Solarus game engine and the extensive documentation and community surrounding it, for the quest data assets in zsdx, and in the alttp resource pack. Oh, and thank you for the mention in PC Gamer.
• To Wrightmat from whose zbom project we got some additional quest data assets.
• To Neil Richardson for the Lua CRC32 implementation
• To Steven Johnson for the Lua MWC implementation.
• To Emmanuel Oga for the Lua HSL-to-RGB implementation.
• To Nintendo for the original Legend of Zelda - A link to the past, and other Zelda games, which have inspired and entertained us for many years.

Media

License and legal

Tunics! consists in part of materials under various free and open-source and public licenses, and in part of unlicensed materials, mostly from Zelda games, under fair use. See license.txt for details.

The content of this site is licenced under CC BY-SA 4.0.