Demon's Rise - War for the Deep

The game is fun but you can't position your party the way you need. to. When using special abilities, the characters often target the wrong direction. Game play needs to be improved.

I played through on normal. I didn't lose a single encounter, the gold flowed in the parties abilities were just too easy to compliment each other, especially the AP geyser the stone dwarf makes. I had so much gold that I'd just go to the shop, fully equip all 6 characters - the game mechanics are pretty simple. The graphics are rudimentary, the AI is very basic, the story is almost non-existant. the encounters are very small areas, its highly repetitive. TLDR : Too easy.

Is this game in a league with games like Baldur's Gate III, Pathfinder Kingmaker, Divinity II....No. Is it fun? Yes. Intuitive. Varied. Simple. No need to get bogged down in something else, just a straightforward game. Fun to play! Cheap! Get it!

It cost four dollars and its 20 hours of fun. Yes, it's too easy. But you can up the difficulty, and its fun to mess around with the different abilities and combinations.

Playdough-like graphics, torpid gameplay, and an interface that only an asset-flipper could love; Demon's Rise should have never left the mobile platform.

Believe it or not, "Demon's Rise - War for the Deep" is not an asset flip. While the game is made primarily out of other people's assets, with placeholder/stock assets and engine elements all taken from asset stores, the developer credited the people who created those assets, which means this isn't the usual attempt to pass of someone else's work as their own. However, while we understandably must call out and warn gamers about the unethical behaviour behind plagiarism and asset flipping, there's the other main reason we hate asset flips (even if this isn't exactly one). It's because they're awful if you try to take them seriously as a game. This is because, and it should be no surprise, when "developers" can't work out how to create their own professional game assets, or lack the budget to hire staff who can, it turns out they're also not really capable or competent at any of the other parts of game development either. And that results in awful games. Games like "Demon's Rise - War for the Deep". "Demon's Rise - War for the Deep" is a Nintendo Switch game, not a PC game. It's not a great port and suffers from a few technical defects from the handheld gaming centric design. What is it, then, in terms of being a game? This collection of other people's assets is like an RPG adventure game if you remove the "adventure" component completely... a bunch of canned turn based tactical encounters that you fight through with your own party or with one of a handful of premade parties if you want to get straight into the "action". And it's boring. There's a little bit of window dressing, but not much, then you're straight into a hex based TBS with no real motivation to play it. There is a welcome depth to the RPG system, a lot of classes and stats and gear, which is nice, but it's not backed up by a rich enough narrative or quality technical execution (because it's a Nintendo Switch game). From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. There's no option to change the resolution and no useful graphics tweaks. There's no way to ensure this is running at the native resolution of your display. There's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. The game assets are fairly mediocre/low quality which fits with the idea they weren't developed by the game creator... they look like they're "just reasonable enough" to go on sale as part of an asset pack. The issue of asset flipping aside, ultimately the quality of these assets is low and low quality always makes for a less than optimal gaming experience. The controls can't be customised, which will be an annoyance for many, but it can also render the game unplayable for differently-abled gamers, left handed gamers or gamers using AZERTY or other international keyboard layouts. These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game. So, should you buy this game? Is this one of the best of the 110,000+ games on Steam? "Demon's Rise - War for the Deep" has the completely unrealistic cash grab price of around $7 USD, it's not worth it given the defects and shortcomings with the product, especially considering the sheer number of completely free, much higher quality games on Steam. For comparison, the $7 asking price for this game could get you games like "Lethal Company", "The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt" or "Kingdom Come Deliverance". Quality, professionally made games like those are frequently on sale cheaper than this.

Un petit prix pour un excellent jeu de tactique au tour par tour! Un groupe de 6 aventuriers choisis parmi 30 avec chacun des caractéristiques et des pouvoirs différents. Une campagne progressive de 6 donjons comportant entre 5 et 9 salles chaque et 50 salles supplémentaires qui permettent d'accumuler de l'expérience, de l'or et des loots en plus. Le jeu est en anglais mais assez facile à comprendre (je ne suis pas très doué dans la langue de Shakespeare)! Une rejouabilité importante en variant les choix des héros et le niveau de difficulté. Plus on avance dans le jeu, plus il devient intéressant avec des scénarios et des sites de combats de plus en plus complexes. Je le conseille fortement aux amateurs de combats tactiques.