Nemo Dungeon

The game has a fair share of positive reviews. I understand why. There's nothing *wrong* with it. It wouldn't make you angry to play it. But that's about as far as you can go for this game, and you'll notice that only one reviewer I've found managed to play for longer than an hour. If my son made this when he was 7 years old, I might be proud of him. I'd even show it off to the other parents and say "Look what my son can do!" It screams "Baby's First Unity Project". And by that standard, yeah, it's pretty neat. But aside from that, what possible reason could you have to spend 5 dollars on this game? Buy yourself a burger. There is nothing this game has to offer in terms of innovation, creativity, interest. Stock art assets backed up with stock bgm and sound effects that barely fit what's happening on the screen. The game design is dreadfully boring and there's not a lot of thought put into it. Want an example? One of the "awesome items" you can get from a room is an attack boost. This attack boost increases your damage... by 5%. 5%??? Really? That means your attacks go from dealing 25 to 26 damage. Put this into perspective. The first couple of enemies you fight have 80-100ish health. That means if you somehow, by some stroke of fantastic luck, manage to get SEVEN attack boosts in a row, it still doesn't have a practical effect on how many hits it takes to kill something. That is so mindblowingly dull. I can't imagine a single person in the world, in any game, under any occasion, that would be excited to get a 5% damage boost. And all the other items are similarly useless or operating under conditions of poor design. Seriously. Don't get this game. If it's given to you for free, don't play it. I seriously hope your time is more valuable than this.

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Played during the free weekend. This is a nice little bullet hell rogue-like dungeon crawler, nothing overly complex, no story, no great graphics, no long load times, just pick up and play. I only played on Easy difficulty (I suck at bullet hell), and that was a fun casual experience for a few hours. There's nothing really *special* about it, but I found myself picking it up again and again for one more round, until I finally beat the final (fourth) boss. Didn't encounter any bugs, was a very smooth experience, easy enough to figure out how to play and how to get better. Played with controller, worked well.

Straight off the bat, the game feels quite smooth with controls and animations. It's a room-to-room clearing game, with a short play through and 100% achievement time; it feels like it would be a good entry level game for someone who's looking to get the basics of learning a controller down. Unfortunately, it feels like the game should have more to offer at the current price of about $5 as many other less pricey games have much more to offer than 4 repetitious levels of game play and no story. Recommended if on sale or bundled for the achievement hunters out there.

'심플함' 이 게임을 처음 봤을 때 느낀 점이다. 상점에서 보였던 인플레이 영상만을 봤을 때는 모바일 게임처럼 느껴졌었다. 하지만 직접 플레이를 해보니 모바일 게임과는 상반된, 컨트롤 요소가 가미된 심플한 디자인의 게임이었다. 키보드로도 플레이해보고 패드로도 플레이해봤지만, 패드로 플레이할 때가 좀 더 재미있게 느껴졌다. (참고로 필자는 일반적으로 게임 플레이 시 패드 플레이보다는 키보드+마우스 플레이를 훨씬 더 선호함) 조작과 그래픽 부분에서는 재밌게 플레이할 수 있었던 반면, 몇 가지 아쉬운 점들도 존재했다. 1. 메인화면에서의 조작이 좀 불편하다. 일반적으로는 패드 B버튼이 뒤로 가는 버튼인데, 설정 화면에서는 B키로는 홈 화면으로 갈 수 없고 오직 홈 버튼을 눌러야만 홈 화면으로 갈 수 있다. 이 점은 추후 개발자분이 이용자분들의 피드백을 받으면서 꾸준히 개선하실 거라고 생각한다. 2. 단계 레벨이 없다. 맨 처음 게임을 접했을 때는 앵그리 버드나 다른 게임들처럼 단계를 클리어하면 다음 레벨로 넘어가는 레벨 클리어 게임인 줄 알았다. 하지만 보스를 얼마만큼 깨든지 간에 한 번 죽어버리거나 게임 종료 후 다시 게임을 플레이하면 초록색의 태초마을에서 다시 시작하게 된다. 이 점을 개발자분이 의도하신건 지는 잘 모르겠지만, 레벨 시스템이 없으니 뭔가 더 클리어 할 욕심이 생기지 않는다. 앵그리 버드처럼 레벨을 클리어할 때마다(보스 클리어) 다음 단계로 넘어가는, 그리고 캐릭터 선택 후 단계를 선택할 수 있는 선택지가 제공되면 좋겠다. 이 게임은 방향 조작키에 스킬 4종류를 사용하는 키, 그리고 방 한 곳을 클리어할 때 나오는 아이템을 습득하는 키 총 9개의 키로 구성되어 있다. 캐릭터에서 볼 수 있듯이, 디자인뿐만 아니라 조작감도 심플한 아기자기한 게임이다. 하지만 그 내용을 확인해보면 탄막피하기 게임처럼 슈팅게임을 하고 있다는 착각을 하게 만든다. 현대 기술의 발전으로 더 사실적인 그래픽만을 쫒다가 지쳐버린 게이머들이라면 이런 아기자기한 게임을 플레이하면서 조그마한 휴식 시간을 갖는건 어떨까 생각해본다.

Short, has a feeling of being a school project. Not worth the time and money spent yet overall is somewhat decent. Can't recommend as it is.

I got this game as part of one of those Christmas bundles. I tried it for just 15 minutes, and that was enough to give it a positive vote. The game is pretty simple: wander around "rooms," killing every enemy there, and avoiding being killed yourself. When you clear a room, you may get power-ups, weapons, enhanced stats, etc. When you clear all the rooms, you can challenge the boss. There is a timer for each map, and the game rewards unused time. The game controls are very intuitive, so it is almost perfect as a casual game.

2/10 its a game. you get what you see, bugs and all will be hiding this in my library and forgetting i own

Cute and pretty like classic 2D Zelda games, but boring so it wasn't my type. It ran nicely on my decade old, updated 64-bit W7 HPE SP1 PC. :) Also, why can't I change my direction keys instead of using its default W, A, S, and D keys? :(

Nemo Dungeon is a short and simple dungeon rogue-lite game. The controls feels really clean and precise. The mobs and hero classes have some variety as well. As someone said, this game indeed feels like a school project, but it was definitely well made. Recommended for people who want to have some mindless fun.