ROM Hollow

The manual was never included. You boot a cartridge that has forgotten how it works. You are the save file, and you want out. There are no instructions. The manual has exactly one entry, and it says 001. PLAY. The other 49 are recovered by playing, out of order. Every one is a real rule of the game, one you were already subject to whether you knew it or not. A player with twenty entries can see the gaps in the numbering, and the gaps are the point. A roguelite that remembers what you learned, not what you earned Each run takes you through five of ten sectors, each ending in a boss. You pick up Forms that change how you move and Chips that change how you play. Then you die, the cartridge resets, and you go again. There is no experience, no currency and no permanent stat upgrade. The only thing that survives...