Dungeon Defenders

Suddenly, out of nowhere, this game has been pumping out a bunch of random DLCs. It's hard to figure out what's going on here. The game was amazing, half a lifetime ago. Then they had a bunch of flops. Dungeon Defenders II, flopped. Then they made several spinoff games that all seemed to flop. Now it seems like they're trying to cash in on nostalgia and get people to buy a slew of DLC. I can't find any articles or news posts explaining what's going on, what the developers are trying to do, or what their plans are for the future. With so many sketchy and shady rug-pullers and scams entering the gaming market... I sincerely don't trust whatever is going on behind the scenes with this game.

So I'm not exactly saying the recent cosmetic DLC has an AI picture used to promote it... Buuuuut the style doesn't match any previous pictures used for the game, uses a very common anime style, and it looks like the picture was made first, then the skin created from that picture... Also like, anime catgirl skin? Really? Trendy/Chromatic was not content with leaving this game as the completed product it was, and just had to squeeze some more money out of it after flop after flop of the recent games. This was one of my favourite games, but it can no longer be entirely separated from what the company has now become, and this just solidifies it. I can no longer recommend the original Dungeon Defenders without thinking "Hmmm, but what about this obvious flaw that has been jammed into an otherwise enjoyable game, that at the time of creation, was way ahead of the times." Which doesn't even include the recent new characters added that have completely changed how the game is played, rather than just keeping those characters in the other games where they fit in better. I loved when the company was opening up to the community and letting them keep it updated, adding new official content and community maps for free (moonbase). But that was so incredibly short-lived and I've steadily been becoming less of a fan as time went on. I still think this is the best in the series, but it's been tarred by constant bad additions and a clear rejection of the community that still very much keep this game alive.

Developer Chromatic Games is in love with dark patterns and enshittification to sell DLC/MTX. They're modifying the game to extract money from players with artificial difficulty and P2W interactions. Dungeon Defenders 1 is the only game that has good-will but even then they're ruining it more and more because all their other reiterations have flopped because once again, they're too greedy trying to milk the player into spending money or grinding forever. Treat yourself with respect and don't support this developer. Their customer support is terrible, late game scaling is a mess, and you yourself as a person don't need to play something that will overtime get even more and more P2W/DLC heavy.

One of the best tower defense games ever made, still holds up versus others and devs have started working on it again after failing 3 times to beat the classic will always come back to this masterpiece 18/10

Scammers! Advertised support rug-pulled, no refunds. Now pushes downgrading to anti-libre Windows. After multiple failed sequels, now they're scamming. This is no longer the game you remembered.

Played it when i was a kid,sucked, now revisiting and still pretty difficult but definitely better than i used to be, props to the devs

Look I dont want to be the guy who uses Steam reviews to ♥♥♥♥ on DLC but ig I am now. I love this game, but adding a five dollar DLC for a single skin, really sucks and I hope this isn't going to be a theme to make up several failed franchise projects. I was really excited about content updates with new characters and love what the community developers are generally doing. Idk whose idea the dlc skin was, but it's sucky and exascerbated by its pricepoint

they removed steam family share :(

[h1]Broken[/h1] What in the vibe coding tarnation did you do in the last patch? It's broken as hell! Fix it. Summons shooting in the ground at no enemies Wyverns looping in the middle of nowhere [h1]Edit[/h1] They fixed it in a matter of hours!

The game won't let you get achivements unless you're online but online doesn't work. Or at least the private server option doesn't work. Still any game that forces you to be online for any reason is a bad game. Shame too I loved this game growing up and was excited to play it again.