DUNGEON ENCOUNTERS

★★★★★ Absolutely incredible stripping of a "dungeon crawler" to its barest essentials. Looks and feels like it was made in an Excel spreadsheet, because it pretty much was! What set dressing remains is pleasantly economical and fun. Great stuff. [b]Best party member:[/b] Sir Cat, with a bullet [b]Most comically evil bit of design:[/b] Getting robbed and going into debt

Genius minimalist dungeon crawler, I played on the switch when it came out and had a great time

Don't touch me you filthy casual.

This is genuinely the worst game I've ever seen made by a AAA game studio, but I love it. There's no environment. There's no story. There's no characters. There's just you bashing your head against very rough game design. If getting frustrated makes you more determined, this game is for you. Otherwise, you're probably gonna uninstall it the second a party member gets petrified and you have to just kick them out of the party because you're still an hour from unlocking the mechanic to cure it, and I can't blame you for that.

got to 4 person party to lvl8, descended to tower lvl 6, thought ill go back up to 5 and heal, wtfpwned by 2 wizards2gargoyle and bear that are 3 levels below me, killed my whole party. uninstalled. like darkest dungeon... play this one if you don't like having fun playing an interesting game. The point is for you to feel crappy about losing characters and then its a unholy pita to get them back into your party. Not worth it even on sale. Not really an exploration game because the whole map is open to you, so there is no need to map anything out. some good ideas here but the balance is off. Too easy to have characters walled off by debilitating status effects.

Dungeon Encounters is a game for sickos who want numbers go up and checkbox everything. I am a sicko and if you are reading this it probably means you're also a sicko and should play more towercore games (I can recommend "Just one more floor, trust me bro" for a similar vibe) Contrary to what it seems, this game is very forgiving and you are never really in a position of loss unless you did something willfully stupid. Read the text of everything you see (not like there's much text anyway) and mind the hexadecimal numbers on the encounters, anyone can do it!

This is a fun dungeon crawler that makes you think as the system is more about equipment than levels, and learning what the codes mean versus blindly jumping no them.

This is a final fantasy hot take on Wizardry and it's good if you like to grind in the dungeons. It's weird and tedious but different and a time suck. Get it on sale chump

Simple, interesting, and [b]hardcore[/b].

This one is hard to figure out... its set up like a procedural roguelike.. meaning you are gonna die.. but the method is just so unrewarding. There are encounters that you'll only find out upon stumbling on them that you will not win (and you can't run).