Dicey Dungeons

It's relatively fun for the first few games because you're experiencing the variety of characters for the first time, and they all feel very distinct. But after that, it quickly becomes repetitive and boring. A lot of enemies reuse the same attacks and you often end up sticking to the same strategy because most of the "different" moves are just bad Genuinely an ass game. 2/1

Игра замечательная. Рисовка приятная, музыка отличная, геймплей увлекательный и ооочень разнообразный, за счет уникальных правил в почти каждом забеге

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I have really wanted to like this game, but as far as deck building rogue-likes go it sort of just end up feeling more lacking in a couple of things. Firstly lets go over the good: The game has a lot of character and charm, that much I cannot deny as while it does choose to be more comedic about its approach it is very upbeat and whimsical. The music and art are quite good, and plays well into the charm above. The class gimmicks are enjoyable, I do think every class plays different in ways I do find quite fun and is interesting enough to make them feel different. Now my main gripe: I find it difficult to enjoy this game casually, at least when trying to do the episodes. You collect tools, upgrade them, and fight various monsters, if you try to sort of play this with the intention to relax on low energy and not spend too much time thinking you may end up picking a couple tools, use them for every monster, and in that case the game becomes sort of rng hell because you hope you get the dice you need, while also dealing with the enemies gimmicks and debuffs. On the other side of the spectrum I also dont enjoy this game as a mental challenge, because if I keep a list of the monsters open to know their tools before I fight them, swap my tools out to counter said monster, it ends up feeling too easy and becomes dull. Now i will say I did get this game during its sale, which for the price I paid during the sale I don't mind, I generally have a mental calculation on how much time I wanna spend on a game per dollar I paid for it and for the sale it passed that. However for full price? I'm not saying you *wont* get your money worth, but there are other deck builders on the market, who while granted are a bit more expensive than this game, but end up giving you far far more hours of replay ability than this does. TLDR; it may mainly be a me thing, but casually the game feels way too rng heavy and gets frustrating, yet unchallenging if you do spend that extra bit of energy to play it with strategy and focus.

In the past, I spent a good chunk of time going through and beating all the scenarios for the base game before uninstalling it. Since then, a few DLC packs came out, so I wanted to return to the game and see what was new. Underneath that interest, though, was a feeling of hesitation, even dread. Why? Well, it turns out this game never made me feel especially satisfied in the first place. Dicey Dungeons is a weird hybrid of a game, mixing dice-based puzzles with RNG-based builds (ala Slay the Spire). What this means is that every level is a self-contained puzzle that you need to solve. There are specific rules in place for you to work out, and typically there's one "optimal" answer that the player is meant to find. These answers are typically obvious, but actually getting them to work can feel like... well, work. While certain elements of a level are consistent, like the rules specific to that level and starting equipment, what you pick up along the way and the specific enemies you encounter are randomized to some degree. This means that you can run into unfortunate situations where you are forced into a loss state. Many will decry this as a "skill issue", but this stands out because the game either feels overly easy or punishing at any point in time. Most runs either felt like I was destined to win and it was only a matter of trudging through the level, or you reach a point where surviving feels hopeless and you know you've lost before it happens. In a handful of cases, the opponent I was fighting happened to roll perfectly and crush me because of their insane luck, which can feel just as bad. But that's the other thing; outside of rules that modify dice rolls, you are at the whim of whether or not you roll in ways that satisfy your engine. This often encourages players to build broad sets of skills that will allow you to have consistency, unless the scenario guarantees particular rolls. But that randomness coupled with the aforementioned RNG of the levels can work together to make situations feel frustrating. There are some highlights within; each character has a final level in which starting equipment is variable and the rules of the level build gradually as you fight through each stage. This highlights some of the better elements of the game, with players being able to freely customize their builds based on the character they are playing and explore the space of the character. But you have to fight through at least 4 of the other levels assigned to that character to reach that point, and by then you're often sick of playing that character. Overall, this game never made me feel good; either I was annoyed by my bad luck or impatient to get to the end of the level so I can grind through the next. I think there's a lot of silliness and charm contained within, but it's weighed down by the gameplay that left me feeling hollow rather than excited to continue.

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