Dungeon Limbus
Rogue-lite port from Nintendo Switch, that gets better the longer you play it.
My only complaint is you cannot return to a previous floor from your saved game.
– Real player with 21.1 hrs in game
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This was a hard one to rate. Some of the fundamentals are really good here. Enemies have different ways of moving and reacting to the player, which is nice. Gear drops seem decent enough. Graphics are pleasing and music and sound effects are passable.
Yet…if there’s magic, I had yet to find it after getting to the dessert section. Perhaps it unlocks, as every time you get to town you pull a few cards that let you do things like cook or upgrade if you have the gold. Maybe you unlock magic later? Regardless, there do not appear to be classes, and combat does not vary on repeated deaths.
– Real player with 1.0 hrs in game
Labyrinth of the Witch
Labyrinth of the Witch is a simple roguelite/dungeon explorer game originally for Android/iOS that was ported to PC. This paid version has all of the characters that you would’ve needed to purchase, and has no microtransactions or other mobile shenanigans.
Positives:
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Simple and easy to learn. The “Puzzle Dungeons” are a fun and interesting way to learn all of the mechanics of the game.
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Cute and colourful pixel art
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Addicting gameplay
Negatives:
- Repetitive music. What little music is here is decent, but gets repetitive really fast. I ended up muting it after half an hour.
– Real player with 3.6 hrs in game
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Labyrinth of the Witch is a simplified dungeon crawler like DragonFangZ with a cute art style. It removes the frustrating aspects while keeping the randomness and challenge! 7/10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TnnEhV-4_o
– Real player with 2.3 hrs in game
Whiskers & Tail
Fun Little game, but I wish they would have put more time into the sound design. I had to turn off the music after a little bit and the button press sounds were a little jarring but overall I enjoyed it. I like the story that ties all the levels together so it’s not just a series of puzzles. I would recommend.
– Real player with 0.7 hrs in game
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Alchemic Dungeons DX
Last week I bought the original Alchemic Dungeons on 3DS. Then just yesterday I found out this came out and bought it immediately. It is challenging and fair. Every time I died it was because I screwed up and didn’t use the right tactic. I love this game and I plan on playing it many many hours.
– Real player with 91.2 hrs in game
Criminally underrated game.
While it looks simple and generic and starts very easy, the final 3 dungeons offer a good challenge. While it seems like a relatively generic roguelike, the crafting system does add a lot of depth to resource management, and while it looks simplistic it will keep you on your toes. I also think the UI is reallly good and easy to sue when you get used to it .
It also has a lot of distinct classes (8 initially with a secret one to)
– Real player with 77.7 hrs in game
Cardful Planning
A fun puzzle game with a dash of metroidvania. It might not be the longest game ever made but it sure is fun. A speed run and least deaths mode also add to the replay value if you want to challenge yourself or others buy topping the leaderboards.
– Real player with 3.3 hrs in game
Enjoy your puzzle platformers, check out Cardful Planning! Feels like it’s missing some culmination levels at the end but the dev’s looking into adding those. In the meantime, there’s already 50+ challenging levels and three game modes to get the most out of them.
Cardful Planning is an exciting little puzzle platformer that features four key abilities, 50+ levels, and three game modes that really add to replayability. Challenging and cleverly designed
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– Real player with 2.8 hrs in game
Lord Ambermaze
Lord Ambermaze keeps the time from moving to remain an eternal ruler of this world. However, there’s one thing that can stop him - the legendary Sword of Motion. Zeyn, a young hero, has obtained this sword and embarked on a long and arduous journey to save the world and free the princess held captive by the evil Lord.
Time keeps moving with the hero. Strength and cunning will be the greatest assets to overcome the challenges awaiting the hero. The victory will not be possible without a well-executed plan. Time will be your best ally and your worst enemy.
You have to explore five dungeon floors of Lord Ambermaze castle. Fight many monsters and bosses using a set of skills applicable in various combat situations. Each room is a battle arena. When the hero moves across the field, the enemies also move. The battle takes place step by step.
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Stylish pixel art graphics
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Various enemies that require a special approach to defeat
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Challenging bosses
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Combat will require strength and tactical acumen alike
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Dungeons full of antique artifacts waiting to be explored
Nasty Rogue
Hello game dev!
You’ve made a pretty fun game, honestly I would recommend it, though right now I feel maybe the price is a bit too high for what you get, though achievement hunting and trying all 3 classes definitely pads the play time a bit.
With that said though, your Hardcore Achievement seems to be bugged right now, I heard from someone it only works on slot one? I made my first character on slot one, normal difficulty, and made my second, a rogue, on the second slot hardcore mode, got to the very end and no achievement?
– Real player with 11.7 hrs in game
I think this game has a huge future!
I saw the game on one stream, decided to download a pirate and watch the game, after playing 6 hours passed completely, then decided to go to steam and see if the game is developing and was very pleasantly surprised to learn that it’s just an alpha!As a result, I bought the game in steam, and re-passed on the expert at 100%
and I’m going to re-try the game on hardcore after adding a character slot!
Pluses:
1 nice voxel graphics
2 good sound
3 interesting but still unfinished combat system (Dark souls + Trove)
– Real player with 7.8 hrs in game
Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate
Intro: I want to preface this by saying that I don’t think Shiren is a fair game, or that this is an amazing port of Shiren.
However as a roguelike enthusiast I personally enjoy this game a lot. And I think that this is fairly competent port. It has borderless windowed mode with the ability to resize to whatever you want or need and has multiple control options (no rebinding outside of using Steam’s controller configurator though). There’s also some hidden controls so you might want to just press keys to see what they do, for example the game doesn’t tell you that the C key can be used for quick scouting a room without needing to go through the menu.
– Real player with 92.6 hrs in game
Shiren is not a roguelike, it’s a grinding game
I had heard good things about the serie of games “Shiren the Wanderer” in the past, and I’ve always been a fan of roguelikes, so when this newest instalment was ported on Steam, I thought it would be a good idea to try it out, and get my first taste of this “roguelike serie”.
Unfortunately, it soon became clear that the game is not at all what it says on the box.
Shiren is not a roguelike
A run of Shiren makes you starts at level 1 and you’re tasked with climbing up a randomly generated dungeon (the titular Tower of Fortune). It is played turn-by-turn, so you’re supposed to think before you act, in order to escape the various traps and monsters that you’re gonna meet, using your wits and your inventory. If you’re not good enough, you will die, be ejected from the tower, and lose everything, thus being forced to start again from the very beginning. This description, at first, would indeed seems to fit the mold of a roguelike, so very much something I would enjoy playing.
– Real player with 37.9 hrs in game
Smart Moves 2
I loved the visuals, for a puzzle game, there sure was a lot! (over 30 levels!)
I’m not proud to say that I was stuck in the flower one, though. That one was pretty difficult to understand.
– Real player with 2.6 hrs in game
The Spiral Labyrinth
This is a pretty good Mystery Dungeon game. If you liked Shiren and want more, this is it. A warning though: it’s a difficult game with a 99 floors long dungeon and no pre-identified items other than swords/shields.
– Real player with 1.9 hrs in game
It’s definitely good for a new game, but I don’t think it’s worth buying if you’re looking for the hours of fun, learning and experimenting that most older roguelikes have. But if you like playing games while they’re still being actively updated, definitely try this one out.
- Controls are simple, but that’s partly due to having no classes or customization, so the starting parts are boring, consisting only of trying out unidentified items and spamming melee attack in corridors. I thought that was because alternative options pop up really quickly, but every wand and book I found did absolutely nothing in combat (plus they weren’t identified on use), and I could not find a ranged weapon either. Only a flail to increase my melee damage. Admittedly I have a soft spot for games that let me start out as a magic user.. And customize my appearance..
– Real player with 0.5 hrs in game