Purgatory Dungeoneer

A charming and unusual turn-based RPG. A single round of the game is very quick (5 battles), and surface mechanics are easy to understand for anyone who's played anything in the genre. The actual game is much deeper, however. There over 400 characters comprised of around 28 races, each of which have racial adjustments to stats, and over 100 classes, and class skills are heavily built around building up buffs and debuffs to stats. There are also several hundred weapons, all of which also can buff and alter stats. Finding and tuning a party of 5 adventurers that have nice synergies of bonuses, abilities, and buffs is a form of exploration, and is really neat. The story involves an exploration of various reasons why someone would become a fantasy adventurer, both good and bad. If you've seen any of the developer's work and were looking for a title to try, this is probably the easiest to get into.

Perfect balance of session size and depth that's rare to find in turn-based RPGs.

It's so intriguing. The concept around a home for adventurers, and helping them work through things and remember parts of their past lives is something I haven't seen before. I feel like the minimalist style is a good choice for something like this. The game doesn't hold your hand too much and lets you figure things out on your own which is a nice bonus. It takes place in a strange and unique world where the common fantasy races don't exist (there are a couple like gnoll but not a lot) and the variety of jobs/classes is enormous. Also big bonus for being able to have a slime in my party!

This is a fun dungeon crawler with stats for days for those that care, yet is streamlined enough for a quick 5 battle run with whichever random assortment of adventurers strike your fancy (personally, I pick characters for their names and sprite moreso than any real strategic reason). This means you can spend 10-15 minutes and do a single run! The game feels tuned with enough slack that you can let a lot of the complexity just fly over your head if you want, but then again, I suppose I haven't spent a lot of time in it, so I would assume stats and character/skill synergies start to become much more important further in. The simplicity of the graphics, and the awesome battle theme raise this game's presentation, and it's been a compelling little crawler to spend a free 10 minutes on. The battles are a real vibe thanks to that music, and the focus on buffs/debuffs is fun.

我本以为这是一款主打小队BD的肉鸽类RPG，但实际玩过后发现和我想象的有点不一样。 首先，这不是肉鸽。每一次进迷宫，其实都只有5间房。 房里除了总共的5个敌人以外什么别的都没有，而每一间房过后的没有奖励只有惩罚。 养成方面也是永久的，事实上也都是在迷宫外养成的。 在BD方面，玩家要从成吨的职业和成吨的种族里选出合适的搭配，然后再用这些角色组成队伍。 看起来是主打BD的RPG没错吧？但实际上并不能自己捏角色，而是要从成吨的已经存在的角色中选取合适的带进迷宫。 养成上似乎只有升级（我进度只玩了一点点），而且升级其实只看过了几级的迷宫，比如过了3级的迷宫队伍中所有不到3级的角色就都能升到3级，超过3级的角色则不会有任何变化。 因此系统上游戏其实是鼓励玩家多练不同角色的。 技能方面，由于是RM游戏，并没有很复杂的机制，大部分都是各种属性值的BUFF和DEBUFF，少数有一些怪东西。 不过数量真的是相当庞大。 最后，我终于理解到，这款游戏其实是一款哲学味很重的剧情（？）向游戏。就像游戏简介里的那种文字风格。 玩家的公会里来的，全都是退休的老冒险者，他们每个人都有自己的故事，有自己退役的原因，甚至有自己的心理阴影。 而玩家要做的是，让他们能在这炼狱迷宫中，作为一名冒险者度过最后的日子。 很有点怪的游戏，但是值得一玩。 最后，音乐很棒！

It's a game that takes a bit to grow on you. Personally not my thing as somebody with horrible choice paralysis (which is why I recommend the dev's other game, It's Six Random Characters, since it gives choices for you), but if you're insane about party building and min-maxing, this is fun to play around.

Not as cool as it looks, gameplay is boring and character management is tedious.

Works perfectly on the steam deck with default controls It is a solid RPG with a wealth of stats and equipment to explore. Want to party up with a Gnoll Cheerleader who buffs your party as a slime guard defends your party of post-mortem adventurers? These are all options. The graphics are basic, but the soundtrack solid and I feel like simple graphics are not a blockade to a good game, when the return is hundreds upon hundreds of race-class combinations and abilities. It's a neat little game for a cheap price, if you like turn based RPG's, it's worth a spin.

there are SO many classes. obviously a labor of love!! well done o7

there is a LOT going on here