Dragon Ruins

Pros: +reasonably good controller support which is much appreciated. +it's a DRPG! +I like the title and portrait art a lot +I like the 3D view despite the minimalist nature. It reminds me of the AD&D Tarmin game on the Intellivision Cons: -Automatic combat. I don't feel like I'm doing anything. Little info about classes. There's a cleric and priest for example. What's the difference? I took one of them and didn't see any evidence during the auto combat (which proceeds very quickly and there's no way to adjust the speed) that any healing was happening. Ultimately, I just don't like the lack of agency here. -You can't see enemies in the first person view and apparently nothing but walls and doors appear in this view. It kind of kills the excitement of exploration when you can't even see anything. So instead, enemies appear when you're on the same square as them. This makes them like a random encounter more or less, but you can retreat if you think you're outmatched and that enemy stays in that spot... but there's nothing on the interface or map to indicate that an enemy is sitting in that spot. You just have to remember. It's a very, very odd design choice. Maybe this is how some ancient game I'm unaware of worked and the author is paying homage. -There's a CRT filter and it can't be disabled or modified/adjusted in the game's interface. The upside is that it's a decent one and not too hard on the eyes, but I always disable these when I can and usually don't play the game when I can't... which is where I basically am now since I'm not enjoying myself anyway.

YouTubeでプレイ動画を見かけてめちゃくちゃ気になったので、久しぶりにsteamに帰ってきた。 2時間ほどでクリアできるとのことで、ホントか？と思いつつプレイしたらちょうど2時間でホントにクリアできてびっくり。 ダンジョンRPGをやりたくて、なんか面白いのないかなーと色々と探してみたり、プレイ動画を見たりはするけど、なんだかんだで腰が重いし時間も無いしで手を出さず、欲求だけが溜まっていっていた中年にジャストフィットすぎる作品だった。 めちゃくちゃシンプルで余計なこと考えずに楽しめて、ダンジョンRPG成分だけを充分に摂取できたので、また欲求不満になってきたら続編もやってみようと思う。

good microgame for tired people if u like dungeon crawling

Super simple environment design with gritty pixel art portraits and plenty of depth and complexity layered over simple monochrome dungeon mazes. While I really love the concept, but after about an hour of gameplay I actually found myself getting a little nauseous. I get car sick at the mere mention of a car, so that's probably a "me" issue more than an issue with how the game plays. I'm definitely recommending 'coz if I had better inner-ear structure I would play the hell out of this one.

Acho que esse jogo pode ser uma boa entrada para o gênero de dungeon crawler, já que possui todas as mecânicas simplificadas e não é difícil. É curtinho e fica bem barato em promoção.

Continuing to navigate the dungeon while combat unfolds in the background is a neat idea. The art is also pretty evocative. Game you can complete pretty quick.

A game that is so simple, rudimentary and streamlined that it's perfectly pointless. You have a party of four. Each character is just a picture attached to four stats - HP, Attack, Defense and Speed. There is not skills, no planning, no stats, no bestiary, no specific equipment (just generic which you can abstractly upgrade, improving those stats in turn). Combat auto-happens - there is no involvement, no strategy nor tactics. The gameplay consists of constant backtracking for healing and resurrection, management of gold (loot) flow into upgrades (you can level up and upgrade equipment. Do the former first, if you cannot afford it, do the latter). Your objective is to paint the map with the "explored" color - the monsters do not respawn. It's a perfect game for a bot to play - or after a stroke, if you can barely move your fingers and have only vague notion of who and where you are. It would have been and absolute banger in 1985. Otherwise, in 2026, if you are sane and cognizant, your time is much better spent on more involved titles.