Dragon Ruins II: Aftermath

I really liked 1 and two and I wanna like this but the exhaustion mechanic is really putting me off [spoiler] Swap out the exhausted guys and try and elapse time but the only way to do that is in dungeons and there's no button for just resting or waiting it off so you fight in the dungeons and the swapped in guys get exhausted before the other ones are recovered and its just too much effort for the game thats supposed to be a low effort dungeon crawler it should be simpler and faster to manage like paying a priest or something to fix it or a Big Rest button that elapses time [/spoiler]

Do you remember liking Wizardry but now you have a meaningful life outside of punishing hardcore dungeon crawling? This may be for you. A really nice incremental improvement on the previous Dragon Ruins games.

I've played for a couple hours and reached the B dungeons. Overall the pace of the game, with one exception, is pretty good. Each dungeon tier gets more challenging and complex but also comes with better equipment and items to find. The one exception that I found was that the first dungeon was exceptionally brutal for a first dungeon. Compared to the rest of the dungeons of that tier (D) the monsters hit way harder than they should be and even fighting just 1 encounter (after going to town) would send you back to town to heal. It was tedious and kind of a slog of trying to get a good run to the boss without any encounters in between. Luckily the other dungeons don't exhibit that behavior and are much more fair and balanced. I like the upgrade system, which allows you to still purchase upgrades to items, but also favors that you exchange your items for new ones when you do find them, allowing for progression even if you are unable to find new items for your characters. The normalization of leveling up is a bit unfortunate (10 or 5 hp per level, etc.) but it can serve as a good way to balance the game maybe. The new skills are pretty cool, but I'm not a fan of the new way to 'heal' between fights, which requires you to use your ultimate to heal, but even with a couple characters with the skill, the healing feel anemic. There's interesting 'bounty' encounters for later in the game which you can find early on in dungeons. They provide a lot of gold on killing them but also require a higher level party which invites you to go back to dungeons as a higher level to kill them. There's a good variety of quests and each quest expands your roster with new heroes to work with. There's an 'exhaustion' mechanic which I don't really engage with, every so often when your characters are downed, they'll get exhausted and have to go back to town to rest (out of your party) and I've only had to switch out characters once for that, so I don't know how much of an affect that it has on the game. Overall I've enjoyed this, if you like Dragon Ruins 2, you'll probably like this one too!

I love this game. It is simple but really fun.

Super chill and fun game

Fun Dungeon crawler game. Try it !

More Dragon Ruins 2 (which is a good thing). Improved loot. More classes. More dungeons. Recruitment system + better reasons to switch out party members. Banger music still. Bounty hunting. If you liked Dragon Ruins 2 this is more of that with enough changes to feel fresh although immensely familiar. If you are wanting something completely different, this is not it. If you want more of the systems you already like with improvements and slight changes to switch things up, very much worth it.

I am so tired. Thank God we have Dragon Ruins! I am extremely busy but I always have time for dungeon crawling.....or rather I'm extremely busy dungeon crawling.