Defend the Rook

Decent tile turn based roguelike. Although it has 'rook' in the game, unfortunately nothing chess related. Fairly straight forward premise with no story. Defend the rook with 3 characters that you can upgrade every round with permanent upgrades you can choose with progression. Decent strategic roguelike that has obtainable achievements if you're looking for perfect achievements. Good, but not memorable. 7/10

I played this game a total of 50 hours or more as I played to it first on the switch. At the time, I had to stop as I was facing major bugs : game was crashing always at the same moment during a run. I tried several time but no way to keep playing. On computer it's different. The game will crash but randomly and you can relaunch and go further. But should a game crash that often ? NO ! There are also bugs for people who, like me prefer to play with a controller : suddenly the controller won't work anymore and you have to keep playing with the mouse. No reason and next launch (game not just the run) it will work again. Great game, great concept, pretty repeatitive as every goblins game but this one has too many issues to be recommanded.

Oyun mantık olarak güzel, hem karakter geliştiriyoruz hemde tower defense oyunu gibi kule koyabiliyoruz. Tabi bütün bölümler neredeyse aynı gibi olduğundan bir kaç oyundan sonra aynı şeyleri tekrar tekrar yapmak baya bir sıkıyor. Karakter ve kule geliştirmeleri ise her oyunda tekrar tekrar yapıldığı için bir proggress hissi de vermiyor malesef oyunu tavsiye etmiyorum :(

In my opinion, this game is a really fun, roguelike twist on games like Fire Emblem or Pokemon Conquest—and as someone who enjoys that sort of game very much, this is kind of an addicting breath of fresh air. Reading some of the other reviews, I do agree that it *can* lack depth, and it doesn't really seem like there is much replay value, once you finish the laid out storyline. However, as someone who has maxed and played through Pokemon Conquest quite the number of times, this doesn't really bother me. Having to create tactics from the gimmicky rng is kind of the most addicting part of it for me, and the fact that it changes up and makes you adapt is really a big selling point of mine, idk. It's...definitely hard, but rougelikes should be hard, in my opinion. It makes getting to the end far more worth it. tl;dr: I would get this game, but probably on sale. I don't think I would have bought it for $18, but it does scratch that particular niche itch that I find myself enjoying. If more story/levels were added to the game, I'd probably recommend it with far more fervor. Given that it's several years old now, though, I don't really believe it'll ever happen. So, again, buy on sale! :D

Lacks a bit of variety but still a fun game overall !

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