IVAN (Iter Vehemens ad Necem) is now available for free on Linux via Steam.

The game is a NetHack-inspired roguelike with permadeath, a body part system and freely changeable materials for weapons and armor.

Fellow adventurer, turn back while you can! For here begins the roguelike Iter Vehemens ad Necem, a Violent Road to Death. If you choose to travel along it, you will dive into countless exciting adventures to gain items of great magic, attain powerful equipment made of mysterious materials, bathe in the blessings of mighty gods and recruit loyal allies of various shapes and sizes. Unfortunately, along the way you will also often be dangerously injured, poisoned, catch numerous diseases, lose several limbs and transform into manifold different kinds of pitiful creatures in the darkest depths of hostile dungeons. And, at the end of the road, you are bound to perish in a most gruesome and painful way.

Don’t say we didn’t warn you.

IVAN can be classified as a “hacklike” - a roguelike heavily borrowing from NetHack. […] While most hacklikes have non-permadeath modes, the developers of IVAN swore to never discard permadeath.

Body part system: All body parts in IVAN have separate armors and separate hit points. After you’ve found your first good weapons, you will be able to reduce some monsters to helpless torsos by mutilating them frivolously!

Material and equipment system: The material of a longsword can be anything at all. If you have been lucky enough to get a scroll of change material, you will be able to turn your ‘iron longsword’ to a ‘mithril longsword’, but also to a ‘bread longsword’.

FREE SOFTWARE FOREVER!

Source: Steam