Library of Endless Souls
A downloadable game for Windows and macOS
You are the librarian of the Library of Endless Souls, an infernal library controlled by an unspeakable beast whose books house the last moments of tormented lives. Alone for centuries you cared for the books of this cursed place until one day new books stopped coming.
What will you discover in the library? Will you read a book and enter the life of the tormented soul?
A retro dungeon crawler with many characters to play, secrets to discover and worlds to explore.
INSTRUCTIONS
You can click on your portrait to see your inventory. You can scroll through the items in your backpack if there are more than 4.
Post Jam Bugfixes and Quality of Life
- Norwegian (and other locales) support: Game was unplayable in a small number of machine locales including Norwegian.
- Teleport: Sometimes players would lose the teleport spell or it wouldn't work.
- Stuck in a building: Sometimes players would get stuck inside buildings
- Chests already opened: Sometimes revisiting buildings or caves in new books the chests would already be open.
- Holy Platemail: Originally could not be equipped.
- Scrollbar added to character sheet: Many people couldn't figure out how to scroll through their inventory
- Player is told how to click on character portrait: Despite this being in the itch.io page instructions many players couldn't figure it out
- Endless Corridor platforms removed: There were some small platforms sticking out in the Endless Corridor. Many players couldn't figure out how to teleport across the corridor because they tried teleporting from these platforms which does not work. The platforms were confusing and useless and have been removed.
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Install instructions
Windows download. Unzip the .zip (extract all) and double-click LibraryOfEndlessSouls.exe. You may need to click "more info" and "run anyway".
MAC USERS READ THIS
To run this on a Mac you must first launch Terminal (Command+Space, then type "Terminal"), and then into Terminal you type these two commands:
cd ~/Downloads xattr -c LibraryOfEndlessSouls.app
Then you can launch the game by double-clicking on the icon in your Downloads folder. After you do this you can move it to a different folder you you'd like. Note these instructions will also work for most MacOS games on Itch.
Comments
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Nice game! I’ve beaten it in 2007 turns and found the most recent version to be stable and enjoyable, zero bugs encountered, great job!
Very awesome, I’m glad you like it!
The Mac version seems not to new working
You have to run the program "Terminal", then inside Terminal type these commands:
Then you can run the game and it will work.
BUG:
Killing the Minotaur with the "Flaming Hands" spell prevents the book from ending.
Oh wow, you killed the minotaur but didn't leave the book? That's an unexpected bug. I guess the only thing to do here is load the game (it autosaves right before entering the book). Thanks for playing and reporting the bug, I'll see if I can figure that one out.
I think I found a bug. I played the game up until getting the teleport spell. Then I saved it and quit. I was able to load the game, but I could no longer see "cast" as an option to access my spells.
The good news is that the inventory does work as you described, and I was able to scroll down.
Oh, one more thing, I played as "Oreth the Paladin" I think ... and I found Holy Plate armor, but it was missing an equip button.
Also, after my first book journey, other character could not open blue chests, only green ones. I figure this is intended as each person seems to have special gifts, but I don't think the reasoning behind it came across so it felt buggish.
Thank you for the feedback. Sounds like you found most of the big bugs. Teleport, broken blue chests, and Holy Plate were all bugged. I've uploaded a new version that has these bugs fixed.
Enjoy, and thank you for playing!
I guess I'm a bug magnet. Maybe that explains why my own games are full of them too! :)
Any chance there could ever be a Mac OS version? Game looks amazing.
Yes. I'll build a MacOS version as soon as the voting period is over.
Oh wow, I can’t wait to try it out! Thanks for getting back to me.
Good news, I just uploaded a MacOS version. It has post game jam bug fixes in it. No major new content, just fixing the really broken stuff. Cheers.
Great, thanks for letting me know! I will try it as soon as I get a chance. Thanks again!