A downloadable game

BorgRL is a roguelike that's built around drones and resource management.  The player can have extraction drones (miners, scavengers) and combat drones.  Extraction drones capture resources, which the player can use to assimilate enemy combat drones, heal drones, upgrade drones, and morph combat drones (into other drones).  In the final sector, the player must defeat the boss and its waves of combat drones.

Runs on Linux and requires the ncurses library.

Animated GIF: https://imgur.com/eHpn2U1

Download at https://github.com/mtimjones/BorgRL

Instructions:

Right-click in the local map to move the Borg, or use the arrow keys to move the Borg.
Left-click a drone (inventory or map) and right-click to move (or right-click an object on the map).

Basic Commands

'p' - Tactical Pause/Unpause.
' ' - Single step.
'?' - help
'l' - Map legend
'X' - Surrender.
Actions:

Left-click a drone in the inventory window:
'h' - heal the drone (using resources).
'r' - recycle the drone (for resources).
Left-click a friendly drone in the inventory window:
'd' - dock the drone into the Borg.
Press 'D' to dock all undocked combat drones.

Left-click on an object in the map:

'i' - contextual information.
Left-click an enemy drone in the map window:
'a' - assimilate (probabilistic).
Left-click a combat drone in the inventory window:

press 's' to morph into a scavenger drone.
press 'm' to morph into a miner drone.
press 'j' to morph into a javelin drone.
Operations:
Left-click a scavenger drone in the inventory window (or map) and right-click a wreck to scavenge.
Left-click a miner drone in the inventory window (or map) and right-click a planet to mine.
Left-click a friendly drone in the inventory window (or map) and right-click the academy to upgrade.
Left-click a combat drone in the inventory window (or map) and right-click an enemy to attack.


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