Eugor

Eugor is a 2015 js13kGames entry from Markus Fisch (whose Soyuz 404 we reviewed positively this same cycle), built around a clever premise: you've already beaten the dungeon's final boss, and the whole game is the walk back out. It's a "reversed" roguelike in the most literal sense, and the pitch is charming even before you touch it.

Controls (8.0). This is the reason to write the game up at all. The README claims one finger moves you, two fingers together makes you fight, and that is exactly what we found when we tested it directly. We dispatched a genuine two-point touch event through CDP — not a description taken on faith — and watched the game's own player.fighting flag flip to true the instant the second finger landed, then confirmed a nearby monster was fully cleared from the scene after a few seconds of sustained two-finger contact. Movement by single-finger drag worked cleanly and repeatably in the same test pass. This is a real, deliberately touch-native control scheme, and it's rare to find one built this precisely in a 13-kilobyte game from a decade-old competition.

Visuals and scope (6.0 / 6.5 gameplay). Here's where it falls short. On both a real 390px phone viewport and a 1280px desktop viewport, the actual playable dungeon — player, monster, sword, exit — renders as a small pixel cluster inside a much larger canvas mostly filled with a repeating decorative wall texture. That's by design (the developer's own promotional screenshot is a modest 400×250), not a layout bug — there's no overflow, nothing is unreachable, innerWidth and scrollWidth match exactly on both devices. But it does mean the moment-to-moment experience feels sparse: you're watching a small diorama in a large green field rather than filling the screen with dungeon. The loop itself — drag toward the next threat, hold two fingers down until it's gone, keep walking — doesn't develop much beyond that single beat.

Value and originality (6.0 / 7.0). As a js13k artifact, thirteen kilobytes buys you a neat premise and one well-executed gesture; it doesn't buy you room variety, difficulty curve, or much reason to play it twice. The "reversed roguelike" hook is original enough to be worth the ten minutes it takes to see all of it, but ten minutes is also about all it has.

We want to be fair to what's genuinely good here: the two-finger fight gesture is not a gimmick, and a lot of the touch-control disasters we test never even attempt something this specific. But a good control scheme wrapped around a very short, visually sparse walk isn't quite enough to clear the bar for a general recommendation. Worth a look for anyone curious how old js13k games handled multi-touch; not the game we'd unprompted-send to a friend.