roguelike game concept notes r1

2d roguelike with turn-based combat:



plot:
  you inject nanites designed to fight a type of blood cancer, but a design flaw
    in those nanites result in a gray goo that ends up surviving long after,
    somewhat ironically becoming more of a cancer than the real thing ever was.

  the only cure is to find the last known universal constructor
    (located inside a derelict research moon base)

  there, you have access to medbays that can partially reverse the damage caused
   by the artificial illness, but it cannot be perfectly halted without missing
   out on essential things, like valuable loot or even encounters. this means
   that you need to balance treating the disease and actually progressing



modular cybernetics:
  found equipment increases in failure chance with every use,
    as the parts are presumably very, very old (as in hundreds of years).

  there's some very good equipment, but instead of spontaneous failure,
    the result is a catastrophic one, with a variety of consequences.

  perhaps equipment needs recharging of some sort, and the failure condition
    is only met when recharging rather than from direct use, making it a gamble
    whether to continually use the same equipment after it is spent,
    or to try and find more, for which success isn't guaranteed.

  a specific class of upgrades relate to psionics, which are powerful but
    gradually make you go insane, while also having more acute side effects

  for example:
    synaptic shock:
      this induces a targetted partial seizure, which significantly lowers an
      enemy's chances of landing a hit, while also raising crit. strike chance
    time perception:
      gives an extra turn, but with a high chance of
      the enemy getting that extra turn instead
    discombobulate (lol):
      confuses the enemy, lowering evasion and chance of using stronger attacks
      however, this has a chance of causing the player to 'hallucinate' which
      could mean different things depending on how it's implemented

  loss of sanity can be slowed but not reversed



enemies:
  sentient fungi
  mutated worms
  homunculi or some other weird genetics experiments
  security drones
  miscellaneous anomalies
  lvl 1 slimes lol
  accidents of psionics experiments



2 music tracks: one that plays normally, and another one
  that is layered on top of it during combat, kinda like ftl

also, limb loss maybe?