Posted on: August 1, 2025

jdavis52

Games: 2 Reviews: 1

Oldie but a Goodie

Played this as a kid and remembered having a blast. Its a Diablo clone and it has some jank but having a whole team of samurai and watching them slowly turn into a armored fighting core is always fun. Don't set your expectations too high but if all you want is a game with some fun campy goodness that you can complete in a weekend give it a shot!

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Posted on: December 30, 2022

evild4ve

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Games: 183 Reviews: 21

Works on Ubuntu 22.04+wine+PlayOnLinux

I have an original cd copy but it didn't seem to install properly - this version worked perfectly on wine 6.0.3 inside PlayOnLinux 4.3.4. LAN multiplayer requires directplay to be installed via winetricks. People often compare this to Diablo - iirc it came out a couple of years later. It's a very false comparison. Although ToD has the same control system, inventory management, and loot - it's about setting up a group of 7 characters: you can use up to 4 at once, of whom you only control 1. Where Diablo was one long DPS-check, ToD is about choosing effective combinations of characters, builds, equipment, elemental damage types, formation, and the tactics and orders individually given to the 3 AI team members. Characters rotate out of the team when they are knocked out, so the tactics have to change on the fly. It's a flawed game: a true playthrough has a finite amount of loot and monsters that are (on average) only just sufficient to beat the last boss. But they softened this by (i) letting you farm in the multiplayer mode, and (ii) enemies don't heal (or don't heal much) between multiple attempts (iii) hardly any penalty for dying. So a bit like Path of Exile if you get stuck you can overcome any obstacle with repeated suicide runs. The pleasure of the game is when the team encounters a difficult situation (e.g. an early one is simply some skeleton archers on a roof) and you beat it by switching to the right formation and squad composition (e.g. Mantis formation with Leader switching to bow + Mage + Ninja + Archer). Another flaw is the maps and enemy placement aren't random - or at least are less random than Diablo. It's still worth a play. And it deserves a remake. I can imagine it as a squad-based Souls-like.

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Posted on: June 9, 2020

bkaminski2

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Games: 316 Reviews: 1

Great clone with a few flaws

Excellent setting and mood, helped by the music. The only downside is the micromanagement - you have to manage 7 characters, all their equipment, balance them with the others, I think I spent like 1/4 of the game in menus.

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Posted on: April 7, 2020

hellbobz

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Games: 104 Reviews: 3

A feast for fans of Japan and Diablo

I've had a soft spot for this game ever since it came out. I know it's a Diablo knockoff situated in Japan but that's what makes it different for me as I've never liked the original Diablo. To me this one is so much better and much more interesting.

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Posted on: October 16, 2024

SamD

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Games: 40 Reviews: 3

great mindless fun

wonderfully simple point and click fun, like playing a souped up phone game. Perfect mental wallpaper to switch off with at the end of a working day.

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