1. You get lost in an ancient egyptian pyramid buried deep under the sand of the desert and full of traps and monstrous beings.
2. Fight your way through dangerous corridors down to the deeper levels of the pyramid in a turn-based fashion.
3. Open sarcophagi or kill enemies and you will find loot.
4. Find novel solutions to odd combinations of random events.
5. Hieroglyphika is a roguelike game completely without text but with pictograms.
6. Push your enemies into bottomless pits.
7. Defend yourself with ancient shields.
8. Cast the spells of the dead.
9. Or strike them down with enchanted weapons.
10. Figure out the mechanics and rules on your own.
11. There is no hand-holding of any kind.