Dungeon Defenders II
I tried. I really, really tried.
Ever since I bought this game in 2014, I continued to throw my time and genuine effort at it, hoping to get at the very least a decent sequel to DD1. I even ignored the very clear warning sign that was the release of DD Eternity (DD1 was abandoned to hackers, then repacked and…sold again under a new name, wham, bam, profit). Today, with the game about ready to leave yet another developement stage, instead of having hope and tons of fun playing the game, I am disgusted and bitterly dissapointed.
– Real player with 1862.6 hrs in game
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Don’t bother with Dungeon Defenders 2 or Trendy Entertainment. Their incessant greed has instilled levels of disgust in me that I scarcely could previously fathom.
For a bit of background, allow me to preface this by telling you that I hold no nostalgia for the original Dungeon Defenders. This is a combination of their lack of security leading to rampant hackers and my disdain for the original character styles. I played this game a bit when it first came out, and dropped in now and again to see how it was doing. My tenure here became permanent with the Terraria crossover content, and I’ve remained fairly steady to the game since. I’ve done some Mastery, climbed up Onslaught, and dabbled in Ancient Power Resets. I’ve seen a lot of what there is to see, and let me tell you, originally, the allure was the cartoony, bright graphics and enjoyable combat. However, beneath this veneer of vibrant paint lies a decrepit, hollow experience designed to consume your wallet.
– Real player with 1216.2 hrs in game
Greed
Greed — is the key to success.
Greed is an asymmetrical multiplayer free-to-play experience. One of the players assumes the role of the Dungeon Master trying to stage a rebellion against the god of Greed. The three other players do their best to undermine him by capturing his treasure chambers. Will the Adventurers fulfill their contract with the greedy god, or will the Dungeon Master succeed in his efforts to overthrow his employer? The outcome is in your hands.
The Dungeon Master controls its domain through an RTS-style interface with an ability of direct third person control over his troops.
The Adventurers operate in a Third Person Action mode, relying on combat prowess and teamwork to achieve supremacy.
Both sides strive to take control over the dungeon by capturing as many rooms as possible or by destroying the enemy base.
Key features
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Asymmetrical gameplay. — An RTS/Action showdown packed in a single game!
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Griefing is fine! — You love to ruin someone else’s game, don’t you? Greed provides many means of messing up with the others! But remember: your victims enjoy the same opportunities…
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Procedural generation. — A new game — a new dungeon! Reinvent your strategy every time you connect to a session.
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Are you greedy as well? — Fear not, for the game is free to play! Call your friends and join the quest for wealth at the price of $0.00!
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Those who Came
I enjoyed playing this game with friends, the idea it’s really cool. I really liked the different kinds of powers each player has to use to advance through the maps.
Sometimes we didn’t know how to advance because in some of the missions there isn’t a clear path to follow.
In overall, the game has a lot of potential and I am looking forward to new updates.
– Real player with 3.4 hrs in game
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Developed and published by ROLLDBOX GAMES, Those Who Came is an Early Access game which in its current state cannot be recommended. its claims to be an RPG but reality it plays as platformer with puzzle elements.
Whilst I commend and support the concept of a cooperative non-combat-based game its implementation leaves much to be desired, before I continue I will disclose I received the key for free after been approached by ROLLDBOX GAMES.
I actually declined the key initially due to the games multiplayer focus and my own limited schedule causing me to be uncertain if I could film a feedback video but after receiving a key regardless and then four further email reminders when I didn’t use the key I finally found time to experiment with the games Early Access.
– Real player with 1.0 hrs in game
Dungeon Defenders
Updated Review
After more than 6,000 hours in this game the day has come to quit Dungeon Defenders. Easy to imagine that I’ve given a recommendation before. Unfortunately recent updates made by the Community Development Team (CDT) ruined the game - at least for me.
To my knowledge the CDT has been introduced to fix bugs, adding quality-of-life changes such as new content. Instead they also change core mechanics of the game such as RNG, towers and enemies. Things we were used for long 5 years are getting changed out of the sudden because certain individuals within the CDT are enforcing their changes more or less.
– Real player with 6262.2 hrs in game
This game, despite being old, as stood the test of time. It’s a wonderful game from my childhood that still fun to play whenever I jump back onto it. It’s never a dull moment in this game, and will always hold a place in my hearts. That doesn’t mean I don’t know the bad stuff about it, because loving a game doesn’t mean you see only the good parts, but you know what the flaws are and you either love them or are able to look past them. Lets go naming some shall we?
Pros:
The combination of RPG elements with Tower defence is smooth and feels natural.
– Real player with 2998.9 hrs in game
Gobs of Glory
Gobs of Glory - A multiplayer combat RPG true to the 5E SRD ruleset!
Outwit your opponents in tactical turn-based arena combat. As you win battles your character will gain riches and experience which can be used to level up and buy powerful magical items. At the end of each arena season characters at the top of the leaderboards will be richly rewarded!
Features online multiplayer PvP combat as well as solo & co-op modes. Play as a team to develop complex tactics that you can take back to the tabletop for even more Glory!
For Windows, Mac, Linux and iOS.
SpellForce 3: Fallen God
TLDR: Overall this was a great pick up and really nails both the RPG and RTS elements to it. The story can be immersive the music is incredible and I can’t wait to try out the other games and the co-op element as well. The puzzles are well thought out and engaging which is really refreshing and unexpected for this type of game.
Background:
I came into Spellforce 3: Fallen God with literally no previous experience from the franchise, I thought this was a new standalone game coming out and the story looked interesting so I picked it up. I would like to clarify this is a Standalone DLC for Spellforce 3. After playing I will be picking up the original and the other standalone DLC as well.
– Real player with 45.3 hrs in game
We all know why you are here. Tired of all the mediocre writing in other games? Fallen God contains more of the excellent writing and world building you’ve encountered and loved in Spellforce 3 and Soul Harvest. If you haven’t already: go play those titles first. This series punches well above its weight.
As before there’s equal parts RTS and RPG, but this time with trolls in the main lead. Grimlore succeeds in giving these trolls humanlike emotions. It’s far from savage grumping, although they still crush their enemies with their sticks too. And they crush hard. So what are the differences? There’s some crafting involved (trolls can’t wield human weapons), but it’s really not that pronounced. There’s not that much loot to begin with; Grimlore wisely decided to focus on other gameplay elements. The trolls are certainly sturdier than the human protagonists and consequently the game feels easier, especially in the RTS part. Perhaps this was due to playing Fallen God coop (which works great btw!), because most RTS missions could be accomplished by just rushing the opposing base. Is this a problem? I don’t know. Most importantly, we had fun! But Spellforce veterans might want to push the difficulty slider up a notch. On a technical note: the egregious long loading screens are finally gone!
– Real player with 42.5 hrs in game
Red Solstice 2: Survivors
A few things about Red Solstice 2:
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Red Solstice is one of those games where having a group of people in voice chat with whom you regularly play makes it significantly better.
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I found the unlock progression-rate to be rather slow, yet far from the worst. If you’ve ever played Vermintide 2, it’s noticeably faster than that, but still a bit of a grind. Though, take this with a grain of salt, as I dislike all time-accumulated or points-accumulated unlock-gating in games that do not have a tycoon-like feedback element to them.
– Real player with 861.3 hrs in game
I’ve gotten some play time out of this and enjoyed it for the most part, so I’ll give it a thumbs up, especially for its price tag.
If you’re fine with lots of bugs, some balance issues and weird descriptions with new content releases which are fixed between a week to a month later, then this is a pretty solid game. It’d be an awesome game if it wasn’t constantly tripping over itself with every content release.
Singleplayer is serviceable with bots if you build them and use them right. There are a lot of “wrong” builds which will make playing singleplayer with bots miserable until the “right” builds are discovered. Every game mode can also be played online coop with friends or strangers, which tends to make the experience more interesting.
– Real player with 367.5 hrs in game
SpellForce 3: Versus Edition
The idea of the Spellforce 3: Versus Edition is to give people the opportunity to try out the game, its mechanics and check out the in-game design, before spending money for either the campaigns or the PvP package.
If you don’t own any of the games, you will be randomly assigned one of the races from the Spellforce 3: Burning Blood base game: Elves, Humans or Orcs. Whether you like how the devs handled this or not, depends on you, but given the fact that it is a free version and the purpose it serves, it is totally fine in my opinion.
– Real player with 1049.8 hrs in game
Hello, I’ve seen a lot of conflicts between players and developers in discord channels, the player pool is extremely low but anyway the chat conflicts and random bans of people who are not “devs friends” makes the 90% of time in conflicts all the time.
How is that possible in a very small comunnity?
Game crashes, bugs, exploits, extremely unbalanced races problems?
A lot of bugs and crashes have been notified for months and never have been an answer or fix, the only answer is “this is a small company, so our resources are limited”.
– Real player with 313.3 hrs in game
TRPG Workshop
Driven by their intense zeal for making an easier-to-use and more user-friendly online TRPG platform providing players more freedom, these veteran gamers develop TRPG Workshop. It is deemed as a comprehensive TRPG auxiliary platform that gives players a great degree of freedom. This means that TRPG Workshop almost contains all the functions needed for TRPG games and renders a visible and simple solution.
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Interactive Visualnovel-like gameplay brings more engaging game experience
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Act as GM, Player or Spectator
The GM and Players in a single room have different abilities and rights including visible methods to throw a dice or switch the background – all for your convenience!
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Check visible profiles in game anytime
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In-game map editor
Share maps via Steam Workshop or other ways. On a map, there exists the Fog of War blocking your vision, little Tokens representing your characters, and even different accidents that may take place to change the world.
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Replay your game when it ends!
Every game in TRPGWORKSHOP will be recorded. Any choice you have made and any throwing of dice will remain unchanged. Logs are replayable and shareable.
Rulebooks are supported. Share them with friends or on Steam Workshop!
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Share and re-create
Steam Workshop will be fully available for TRPG Workshop. Backgrounds, character illustrations, map, map resources, scenario mods and even rulebooks or character cards are all free to customize and share on Steam Workshop at will.
Powerful resource manager is also supported for TRPG Workshop. Just one click to sort out your creations as easy as blowing off dust.
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Future
Apart from various built-in resource packages for the platform, we are engaging in developing many convenient functions including QuickNote, voice-to-text log or even illustration production and facial capture for Live2D visual characters.
Rising Constellation
Rising Constellation is an awesome game which is mixing strategy and role play at a perfect level.
It offers many distinct gameplay based on factions and its agents mechanics - however, remind it’s strongly depends on team play!
Indead, this game is part of those who are perfectly designed to work in cooperation with your mates, but definitely not alone.
Use Siderians and rule your teamates, just because you’ll get the economy power - or perhaps you’ll prefer bite everyone using large fleets lead by Navarques.
– Real player with 933.3 hrs in game
Rising Constellation is 4x RST game still in developpment.
Created from a small team of Swiss developper, I was a player of thier first MMO RTS 4x game: Asylamba.
I see RC (Rising Constellation) like an MMO RTS 4x game based on Agents (Navarques – Ereased – Sidérians).
I really enjoy the game for is background story (lore can be added by players participation) , B&W graphic style and is MMO possibility !
There is now 1 mod to play : fast flash 2H gamemode , this is quite small with 1 or to 2 games per week with a small cummunity.
– Real player with 837.1 hrs in game