Shattered Pixel Dungeon

Regarding mining gold, were you trying to use the pickaxe on a wall outside of the quest area? The quest mechanics have changed and now the pickaxe only works there.

As for the final boss, defeating it won’t cause anything to happen automatically, but a passage should have opened up behind it.

Honestly it’s hard to pick a specific thing that’s different between Shattered and the original Pixel Dungeon, there are fewer things that are similar at this point! Almost everything is different gameplay-wise aside from the very core gameplay loop, but if you’d like a little summary of the biggest visual changes I did write a blog post about that semi-recently: https://shatteredpixel.com/blog/ten-years-of-shattered-pixel-dungeon.html

I didn’t include an Android version here because I wasn’t planning to offer a paid version of it like I can with the desktop version. I wasn’t aware that itch is accessible in china whereas github is not though. I’ll consider adding an Android version here in the future.

I’m afraid not, those purchases are tied to Google Play’s payment system. The closest equivalent would be purchasing a paid copy of the here, or on Steam or GOG.

Afraid there is no Steam key included here, if you want to play the game on Steam then purchase it on Steam. Sorry about double paying, but it’s like any other game over multiple platforms.

Save progress is saved under your user app data folder, not where the game is downloaded. You should be able to update without any changes to your save data.

Then you might want to try the desktop and the new version. It feels quite a bit different to play with keyboard/controller and mouse. Aside from balancing changes there were bunch of new features added over time like trinkets and the duelist class recently. 

https://antifandom.com/pixeldungeon/wiki/Shattered_Pixel_Dungeon/1.X (2021-2023: new traps, spells and rings; spectral necromancer, alchemy rework, divine inspiration gets you more talent points, metamorphosis gets you talents of other classes, crystal key [see-through doors and chests], gas room, firewall room, laser room, reintroduction of sacrifice room, seeded runs, daily runs, more badges, ascension curse, scores for exploration, bosses and quests; score multiplier for ascension and challenges; lore pages)

https://antifandom.com/pixeldungeon/wiki/Shattered_Pixel_Dungeon/2.X (2023-2024: duelist class, blacksmith quest on subfloor with new enemies, trinkets, alchemy rework )

I’m afraid I don’t have a W11 machine to test with currently, does any sort of error message appear?

I can’t say what might be causing the cursor to disappear in particular, but it’s likely some mix of the new record function and the custom mouse cursor that Shattered uses. You might consider seeing if there’s an ‘enable mouse cursor’ recording setting, or using more well-tested recording software, such as OBS.

Shattered has triggered false positives on antivirus software before. It should clear up in a few days after they correct the error in their virus definitions.

I appreciate the desire for something like this, but adding meta progression would change the genre of the game. Shattered is a traditional roguelike (lots of folks call games like Rogue Legacy roguelites), and one of the points of that genre is that each run is independent from the others. You have the exact same potential to win on your first run as you do on your 100th.

Shattered does also have a .jar version available on github, which will run on x86 windows if you download an x86 version of java. https://github.com/00-Evan/shattered-pixel-dungeon/releases

The game is open source so probably some modifications with that functionality do exist, but I have no intention of putting cheats into the main game. The closes you could get to that is seeded runs, which would let you find certain items every time if you get the right seed.