Minecraft Dungeons is a fun if flawed, accessible ARPG often to be considered a baby's first Diablo. It's a content rich, simplistic and fun game that's an easy recommendation to almost anyone but does have a fair few annoying quirks that hold it back.
Firstly, I wouldn't consider myself a big Minecraft fan, I've played it fairly extensively but not for years and since it's somewhat pivoted into being a game for kids I haven't really been back. Whilst I did play dungeons years ago it was at launch and briefly, really I only found myself returning as I'm a massive ARPG fan and I wanted to play something different, the cheap sale price was tantalising, the reviews good and gameplay seemed like simplistic fun, well the rest if history and I can safely say this is an easy recommendation but won't be winning any ARPG awards.
Gameplay is a simplistic affair, you pick a level from the world map, fight through hordes of enemies through a Minecraft themed biome and collect gear, it is literally as simple as that. There are no classes but you make builds depending on the perks of your armour, weapons and items. Leveling up gains a point to upgrade said perks and the loop is a constant swapping of gear in a simple level goes up difficulty goes up gameplay loop.
There is a story.
Really my two biggest gripes are the Levels taking a millennium to complete and the scaling difficulty getting absurd by the end game. Once you start hitting apocalypse tiers you essentially can you just get oneshot out of nowhere which can make the game feel incredibly unfair, and with the ridiculous amount of time these levels take it can be frustrating, belive my I played launch POE 2, I've seen some long levels in my ARPG but Minecraft dungeons can be very long especially with the slow walk speed.
So whilst I could complain about the simplistic gameplay or how this is just diablo 3's greater rifts the game, I won't. This is an incredible easy pick up and play game that'll give you something to do if between seasons, plus it's great if you have kids and you want to get them addicted to arpgs as soon as possible.
