Dungeons of Aether

I went into this not knowing much about it, and it completely blew me away. The narrative, the characters, the writing... all of them really stood out and elevated what was already a fun and fresh RPG. I played on Hard and got the deathless achievement, so for what it's worth I think it's really well-balanced, too.. I'm a big fan of MtG drafting, and the dice drafting is obviously a lot smaller-scale than that, but I think there's *just* enough variance and strategy in it that it keeps the game feeling interesting. I had some fun builds with each of the characters, too: - Fleet did Snipe spam with stamina dice synergies. - Slade alternated between Slash if I needed stamina or Steal otherwise, and lots of free dice for evasion. - Hamir had this awesome oneshot build that aimed to Quake and recoup 3 stamina using the Poison Gem (which is super duper strong). - Artemis aimed to greed on 1HP for her kit's synergies, and just keep chaining hits to get value out of Break. I wanted to give a particular shout-out to how well-explained everything is! The UI is really clean, it's got lots of little helpful elements like icons if you're not hitting stat breakpoints, and absolutely everything is available for you to check and examine before you make any decisions. I especially liked the limited inventory system, too! Six slots is just enough where you care what you have and need to make interesting decisions. I liked the variety of equipment - same deal with the three slots, it promotes experimentation and just enough room to be able to run support equipment when you need to. The bank helps for cases where you find good gear for one character while playing as another, and similarly, I felt it had juuuust enough space to give you options without it being too strong. It's all so tight! The music is stellar, obviously, and an underrated thing I liked is how the game builds out the lore of the world of Aether! It ties in really nicely to Rivals 1, which is obviously intentional, but I think it's very well-executed, It was a really cool experience, especially the last few hours where it firmly hits its stride. Honestly I think this game is slept on! It's well worth playing.

Very short and repeatitive. I wouldn't call it a Roguelite. In the demo we are introduced to different moves but throughout the game they're all the same. We do get to play different characters. We get different maps with different mechanics, I beat the game (my first game!) first try on HARD, the only time I died was due to map damage... The game doesn't really change from demo, just a bit more of the story. Disappointing.

Although i recommend this game, in my view is only decent, line a 6/5 score, iniatially the game and concept are pretty fun, but it gets old very fast, since you don't progress anything, enemy variety is pretty barebone, and the items are pretty repetitive. its a fun game but maybe for only 3/4 hours. I didn't check on the dungeons but if the main campaign i would see pretty much everything i can imagine the dungeon would be the same

Great game! Very slick art, simple but unique and clever mechanics, challenging, decent variety among the characters. Short and sweet. Definitely recommend!

Very tactical combat with a dungeon crawling backdrop. Has some nice story elements if you're interested in the Aether lore too.

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Masterpiece, perfect if you like the characters of Rivals of Aether 1/2