While my roguelike (www.mysteriouscastle.com) is entirely about tactical confrontation, the framework is set for non-violence. How? By removing all rewards for killing things. If you give XP for killing, then you punish non-violence. Now I’m in the midst of setting up fun systems to replace the challenge of combat. Right now I’ve got sneaking and pick-pocketing.

The bottom line is that programming combat is easy. Programming other systems requires you to think outside the box.

It’s not much combat. More like Hacking and using softwares to get inside the corporation’s servers.

There is still a lot of combat, sadly, (zombie apocalypse and all) but experience gain is linked to keeping your character in good spirits, and survival linked to looting. It’s a running away from combat and hiding and barricading yourself in to avoid combat style roguelike. As far as I can tell (I die before I get terribly far) there’s no reason you’d want to get in a fight with anything.