The Fall of the Dungeon Guardians - Enhanced Edition

At lvl 4 now, nice game!

Good game, gets repetitive, 3.5 out of 5 stars

good

I'm not a huge fan of dungeon-crawlers, but I saw a video of this one and it won me over. The realtime-with-pause-at-will combat convinced me to try it. You can take as much time as you want to set up your strategy, change it if you're not satisfied, then let it go and pause whenever you want to change it all again if you're not happy. For dummies like me, that's a dream scenario. I can actually "get (reasonably) gud" without having to replay battles over and over. Combine that with the walkthrough available here on Steam (because I'm not good at finding all the secrets either), and this is essentially as good as an old-school dungeon crawler can get. I'm also learning how these games work better in general so I can go back after I finish and try tackling one of the ones that did me in before again. A big thumbs up.

Love the RTWP idea for a dungeon crawler, and the movable camera. Dev cares about this game -- only thing missing is enthusiastic dungeon makers to use the editor.

SHORT REVIEW The Fall of the Dungeon Guardians is an extremely competent grid based dungeon-crawler. It inevitably gets compared to Legend of Grimrock but the games are actually different in several respects. PLOT: The plot (which is never a strong point of dungeon crawlers) is exactly as you would expect it to find it, i.e. pretty weak. Its certainly not the worst offender in this area but its not the best either. COMBAT: The combat system is "real-time with pauses". Most abilities operate on cool-down timers, so it's up to you to rotate through them. The thing I don't like is that the party composition is very much forced upon you by the game and is Tank, Healer and 2 DPS characters with very little opportunity to play anything different. There is a wide range of difficulty setting to suit all abilities and you can change the difficulty at any time, even in the middle of a combat. GRAPHICS & SOUND: The graphics and sound are very good. The graphics are nice although a couple of the monsters could have done with a little more work and the sound is more than adequate for the game. This is also a 10 year old game at the time of writing, it certainly doesn't look that old but it is an “Enhanced Edition” so may have been upgraded at some point since launch. REPLAY VALUE: Limited which is about par for the course for this type of game. I often say you should play through twice. The first play through being “blind” and the second play through using a guide to try and find the secrets you missed the first time round. With this there aren't a lot of secret areas and once you find the 2nd map on a level it shows you areas you have yet to explore so there is no need for the second play through. ISSUES AND BUGS: The game runs “straight out of the box” and appears to be bug free. ACHIEVEMENTS AND TRADING CARDS: Full integration with the Steam platform. VALUE FOR MONEY: A bit difficult to give a detailed answer but I would probably put this in the “wait for a discount in a sale” category. It's about 10 years old at the time of writing and comes round at 60-70% off in sales. I also bought this as part of a “Grid Based Dungeon Crawling Bundle” on Stream which is a pretty good offer if dungeon crawlers are your thing. LONG REVIEW The game inevitably gets compared to Legend of Grimrock. This is actually a very unfortunate comparison. Okay, both games are Grid Based Dungeon Crawlers but that is where the similarity ends! This uses a “real time with pause” combat system where you cycle through abilities with cool-down timers, there is absolute no aspect of the “Square Dance” style of combat common in Legend of Grimrock and many other similar games. The other main difference is in puzzles and hidden areas. Puzzles are generally limited to one “puzzle room” on each level which are optional areas and not necessary to finish the game. The game has relatively few hidden areas and the presence any areas you haven't explored is revealed when you find the 2nd map on each level. I don't know what it would look like at lower settings but it is relativity light on resources and even on my 9 year old PC defaults to the highest settings which are a Resolution of 3840 x 2160 and Graphics Quality “Fantastic”. The one thing they could have done and wouldn't have been a big job is to voice the characters, its probability only a couple of hundred lines at most. As I have said above this can be bought as part of a “Grid Based Dungeon Crawling Bundle” on Stream. This is worth taking a look at if dungeon crawlers are your thing. If you already have some of the games in the bundle it can be pretty cheap as a “complete your collection” purchase. Its also nice that you buy it once and get the whole game. There are no devious cash grabs where parts of the game are locked behind additional purchases and no other DLC either.

Sehr unterhaltsam. Reaktionsschnelle Steuerung. Sauberes Design. Die erzwungenen Rollen gefallen mir nicht wirklich, aber ich verstehe die Designentscheidung. Man kann sie zum Glück auch ignorieren, was ich schätze. Das Tutorial ist mir ein bisschen zu lang. Ich würde es gerne überspringen können. Ich würde mir wünschen, dass die anderen Gruppenmitglieder selbstständiger wären. Wenn man jemanden in die Heilrolle steckt, sollte er zumindest teilweise effektiv heilen können. Ich mag es nicht, die ganze Zeit eine Einmischung zu sein, aber ich weiß, dass das der Stil ist. Macht den Spaß aber trotzdem nicht weniger.