{"id":831,"date":"2026-09-01T12:00:31","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T12:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/?p=831"},"modified":"2026-09-01T12:00:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T12:00:31","slug":"this-new-roguelike-wants-to-make-its-difficulty-more-welcoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/?p=831","title":{"rendered":"This New Roguelike Wants To Make Its Difficulty More Welcoming"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Murals<\/a> might look like a stylish take on the\u00a0Hades roguelike formula at first glance, but Disney Illusion Island developer Dlala Studios isn’t aiming to copy Supermassive’s homework. Instead, the studio is looking to put its own spin on the genre<\/a>, as it fuses dark fairy tales and hews closer to the action-first approach of modern-day Doom and Diablo. One other big difference in Murals is that it’ll offer a customizable approach to difficulty, as Dlala Studios says it wants to prioritize player fun over punishing runs–unless you’re into that kind of thing.<\/p>\n

“There are difficulty selectors,\u00a0and\u00a0you can kind of tweak some of the individual settings,” Dlala CEO, Aj Grand-Scrutton, said to GameSpot.\u00a0“We’ve kind of got some of the high-level ones you’d imagine: enemy damage, enemy health.\u00a0We’ve also got stuff that affects the player’s health.\u00a0Something that [design director]\u00a0Grant Allen\u00a0was really keen on in Disney\u00a0Illusion Island, we tried to make it as welcoming as possible.<\/p>\n

“And whilst this is obviously a slightly\u00a0more core genre,\u00a0we tried to do the same here. When we’re building, we don’t care about player deaths.\u00a0Our goal isn’t to kill the player; it’s to make sure they have fun. We try to make it as customizable as we can so everyone can get through. Even if you’re a button-masher, that’s a legitimate tactic in our rules.”<\/p>\n

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