Skeleseller (alpha - v0.5)

Overview

Skeleseller is a laid-back idle game set in a vibrant fantasy world. You're a skeleton shopkeep who hires adventurers to collect loot for you after your untimely demise. Send adventurers into battle, sell what they find, and build up your town!

This is an early alpha with only about 90-120 minutes of gameplay. The game will probably launch mid-2025.

How to play

You can use the mouse for everything.

• Hire adventurers and send them into battle to collect loot.
• Loot will be automatically sold by you and the adventurers.
• Use money to upgrade the town.

Controls:

• Scroll wheel: zoom in/out
• WASD / arrow keys: move camera
• P: opens the Town Perks (if you've built the Town Hall)
• B: opens the Buildings menu
• M: opens the Battle Map
• T: open skill tree
  • You can right-click a skill to remove skill points for free
• +: zoom in
• -: zoom out

Feedback

Please provide your feedback here. Keep in mind that this isn't the final version of the game.

Major version history

• January 20th, 2025: v0.5.1. Fixed the most pressing issues
  • Sprites should no longer "bleed" extra pixels on their borders.
  • You can no longer repeat elite battles without buying a specific perk.
  • Fixed an issue where NPCs would get stuck on certain item displays.
• January 17th, 2025: checkpoint #5. Changes since checkpoint #4 (specific patch notes removed since they cluttered this page):
  • Revamped quests and player skills
  • • Quests are now offered at the Tavern, not at shops.
    • Quests no longer give you "skelle points"; all of those benefits are now in the Town Hall and cost gold rather than points.
    • Quests also no longer upgrade your shops; that is also done through spending gold at the shop itself.
    • Quests instead give you permanent stat boosts for all of your adventurers.
  • Revamped the Enchanter. It used to let you disenchant items for buffs in battle. It now lets you cast spells that affect your town.
  • Revamped how you start a battle. It used to be a somewhat basic list of locations you could go to, and now there's a fully fledged battle map with much more information (and ease of use!).
  • Revamped adventurer levels. You used to pay money to level them up individually. Now, defeating elite monsters for the first time will level all of them up at once.
  • Added the Garbage Slime, a cute companion who'll eat items in exchange for gold.
    
  • Added a hint system for if you're struggling to defeat elite monsters.
  • UI
    • Dialogs are now in the same spot on the screen instead of being affected by the camera.
    • Consolidated any actions you can take onto the main menu. You used to have to look around the town for signs or hunt through sub-menus to figure out which actions you could take.
    • Added auto-saving.
  • General improvements: more animations, sounds, polish, added a second music track, etc. There was a lot of focus put on the new-player experience to bring clarity to what's happening in the game.
• November 22nd, 2024: checkpoint #4.
• September 27th, 2024: checkpoint #3.
• July 26th, 2024: checkpoint #2.
• May 17th, 2024: checkpoint #1.

Credits

See here.