Posted on: February 23, 2025
gcDragonWarrior
Verified ownerGames: 196 Reviews: 4
Book of Demons
Excellent Action RPG It is more fun than I thought it would be!
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Book of Demons
Description
Book of Demons is a Hack & Slash Deck-building hybrid in which YOU decide the length of quests. Wield magic cards instead of weapons and slay the armies of darkness in the dungeons below the Old Cathedral. Save the terror-stricken Paperverse from the clutches of the Archdemon himself!
Procedurally Generated Dungeons
Roguelike Mode for fans of extreme challenge
70+ different types of monsters, with different traits and custom mechanics
Twitch and Mixer integration
Monthly and all-time Leaderboards, 200+ Achievements
Book of Demons is the first installment of Return 2 Games - a series of original mid-core titles, inspired by the early golden days of PC gaming.
Cards and Deckbuilding
It’s not a card game, but items, spells, and skills are all expressed as cards. The strategy lies in adapting your hand to each situation. Cards can be upgraded with runes and you can find many variants with diverse bonuses. Legendaries are the most epic but hard to acquire.
Tailored sessions with Flexiscope
Book of Demons respects your time. It features the Flexiscope engine which allows you to divide the game into sessions of any size. It even learns your pace of gaming and predicts the time to complete the next session.
Unique Mechanics
Simplified movement and fight mechanics is where Book of Demons differs the most from other hack & slash games. There is often not enough time to click-remove all of the obstacles such as monster shields, enemy spells, poison, or knocked cards, so timing, card selection and order of execution are critical.
Hack & Slash in the world of Paperverse
Book of Demons takes place in Paperverse, a world that exists entirely inside a pop-up book.
It’s a tale of good and evil about saving the world from the ultimate devilry. Sounds familiar? Inspired by the dark and gloomy atmosphere of the first Diablo game, Book of Demons is part tribute part parody of hack & slash classics.
Comfort of Gameplay
Many Book of Demons features were designed with gameplay comfort in mind. Points of interest are marked at the top of the screen and get revealed once you get closer. Your character leaves footprints, which can be used to track your way back or notice paths already visited without opening the map.
Challenging Endgame
On average it takes about 10 hours to complete the campaign with a single class, but maxing out a character and mastering all of the higher Freeplay difficulty levels and Quests takes much longer. The Roguelike mode offers another level of challenge with permadeath, restricted healing and even more obstacles to overcome.
Popular achievements
Trek
Unlock medium flexiscope game size
common
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55.3%
Voyage
Unlock big flexiscope game size
common
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35.54%
Adept Bone Collector
Defeat 10 Skeletons
common
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83.61%
Master Bone Collector
Defeat 100 Skeletons
common
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56.03%
Adept Exterminator
Defeat 10 Spiders
common
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34.6%
Master Exterminator
Defeat 100 Spiders
common
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30.5%
Adept Ghostbuster
Defeat 10 Ghosts
common
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30.93%
Adept Survivor
Defeat 10 Zombies
common
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70.53%
Master Survivor
Defeat 100 Zombies
common
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50.85%
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Critics reviews
PC Invasion
3.5/5 stars
Delightful, fun, quirky -- Book of Demons keeps you entertained as it provides a unique take on what Diablo and the ARPG genre provides. Unfortunately, it also becomes repetitive and aimless towards the end.
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80/100
I’ve touched on the art style, but it really is gorgeous and unique, with paper outlines and great visuals. This, combined with the Flexisphere, which understands the limitations of modern gamers’ time better than any game I’ve seen, and with its streamlined mechanics and entertaining deck-building system, Book of Demons is definitely worth checking out.
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85/100
Book of Demons introduces a unique card-based skill system and a sense of humor to the stuck-in-its-ways ARPG genre. It has plenty of tricks in its dungeon to keep you on your toes, but gives you ample ways to form your own strategy. With three distinct classes and an endlessly replayable quest, you can get lost in Book of Demons' papercut dungeon for quite a while.
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Posted on: May 4, 2025
333guns
Verified ownerGames: 208 Reviews: 1
Book of demons
Diablo in book form pretty fun
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Posted on: November 30, 2024
KamaBlackbird
Verified ownerGames: 224 Reviews: 2
Some nice idea, stolid execution
I know all isometric procedurally generated dungeon crawlers owe something to Diablo in one way or another, but there's saying the quiet part loud and then there's screaming it into people's ears. Too unsubtle to be an homage, played too straight to be a parody. But let's talk about the gameplay. There are some interesting ideas in there, but they're all held back by amateurish notions of what constitutes a difficulty curve. More health/layers of defense on enemies does NOT mean higher difficulty, it just means every floor taking longer to clear. By the latter half of the third act I was plinking away at one damage sponge after another; no matter how much I upgraded attacks and leveled up, I never felt more powerful. And I was playing on the lowest difficulty setting! The final boss was like swimming through tar, aggravated by the fact I was playing a Rogue, which means even one enemy getting too close disabled half of your skills. I didn't feel hyped at defeating the boss, I was relieved that I was finally done. This was a terrible experience even for a fan of the genre. I never want to play this game again.
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Posted on: March 29, 2024
Oresko1
Verified ownerGames: 175 Reviews: 5
Worst version of Diablo 1
Seriously? We walking on a fixed path? Clicking on mobs from distance as warrior? I would rather go back to Diablo 1, than playing this game.
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Posted on: August 31, 2024
Danglebert
Verified ownerGames: 809 Reviews: 24
I don't get it...
...why not play Diablo 1 instead?
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