Infinite Adventures®

So, if you like Etrian Odyssey, you will most likely enjoy Infinite Adventures, it is very much cut from the same cloth. It takes the plot a while to get going, but I was pretty engaged when it did get started, and the dungeon crawling itself left me with no complaints. Music was fine, and in fact I quite liked the theme for the Dark Expanse. You can increase and decrease your encounter rate in a menu at will while in a dungeon, and on the lower two difficulties you can even turn off random encounters entirely. Obviously you'll need to fight to level up, but it's a useful safety if you get in over your head and need to leave. But, there's a couple minor issues, and a little plot detail, that I want to bring up so you know. Class balance is, to use a technical term, wack. This isn't really a big deal, there's enough flexibility and nothing seemed completely useless, but there were certainly a few classes way out ahead of the rest. My party was Stormseeker, Ronin, Shinobi, Archaeologist, Mendicant, and Soul Caller. There are some polish issues at play. The game has a number of minor bugs - interface occasionally going a little dumb (like the minimap showing up in the pause menu over other elements), sound cues misfiring, I once ended up with negative Focus on a character, which isn't supposed to happen, and had other occasional resource wonkiness, but nothing irreparable. The text is broadly okay but could probably do with an editing pass. The voices are mixed. Some are pretty good, some are "eh". There were a couple I generally didn't like at all, but nothing unbearable. Now, the plot detail I mentioned: Your 'main' character has amnesia, the Standard RPG Malady. In the past, and it does come up, they had a lover, and you don't get any choice in who that was. This is a small thing, but since the Traveler initially appears to be the "blank slate stand-in", it may come as a surprise. Also, as they are plot-relevant, they cannot leave your party; make sure you pick a class you'll always want around. There is one character I wish I could have saved, but that's life (or death, I guess) Overall though these issues weren't too severe, amd if these devs make another dungeon crawler, I'm in.

Sehr lustiger Dungeon-Crawler, haufenweise unterschiedliche Möglichkeiten wie man seine Party bauen will. Leider ist die Vertonung (spiele auf Englisch) mehr so lala.

Great dungeon crawler based on old-school RPGs with many Quality o Life improvement Higly recommended for newish players and hardcore crawler fans alike

The game is fun, and has a good selection of characters to build. Unfortunately I have found it freezes a lot, and now when I try to upgrade my character to B class it just freezes even after restart and reload. Frustrating.

It's a good game for this specific dungeon crawling genre. It does most things well, but it doesn't provide that much diversity when it comes to classes as some others, since it doesn't allow you to mix classes. The gear isn't really exciting either, I haven't gotten any weapons or armor (other than some accessories) that have any special effects. That being said, the combat works well, and that's good, because there's thousands of fights waiting for you, since the game's pretty huge!

Quick review: Infinite Adventures is the best dungeon crawler on Steam and one of the best Dungeon Crawlers I've played since Wizardry 4 Gaiden and Labyrinth of Refrain. More details: Infinite Adventures (IA) does so much right, its few flaws seem more like minor inconveniences than anything else. This is the rare RPG and dungeon crawler that actually respects the player's time. Creating and experimenting with characters is easy and fun, not a chore, because it allows you to respec them cheaply and easily. Playing with different party configurations is quick and fun for the same reasons: want to try something new? Go for it. Character and party deaths aren't particularly punishing at normal difficulty, so there's no harm in finding out for yourself whether you can live without that healer in your party. Sick of endless combat and feeling like exploration is more fun? Great, because IA lets you turn encounter rates up and down, making dungeon crawling more of an adventures than a chore. Spent a bunch of time with the encounter rate turned off? No big deal. IA lets you turn the rate up to 2x the normal amount so you can catch up on all that experience you missed. Have you made it half way through the game and realized you want to create an entirely different character because the one you have is under-powered. Don't fret! Catching up with a new character is actually fun and quick because you can either respec or create a new character and get them up to speed fast. IA also has way more interesting characters and systems than most games in this style. Instead of having variations on wizards and warriors, IA actually tries innovate with different MP and ability systems, plus it adds in party abilities/summons, an easy-to-understand equipment scheme, and status effects that actually matter for combat. The story is fine and the presentation is a mixture of extremely entertaining and corny, but the game mechanics and FUN this game offers shine so brightly, you'll soon find yourself endeared to the artwork and voice acting, which varies in quality but is ultimately secondary to the very smart design of the game as a whole. Can't recommend this one enough to dungeon crawlers looking to get their Etrian Odyssey or JP Wizardry fix. IA is among the very best hidden gems you'll find on Steam. [played on Steam Deck, where this game absolutely shined]