Posted on: May 12, 2023

Leonard03

Gry: 342 Opinie: 9

A somewhat flawed spin on the DD Formula

I was a bit hesitant about the game after I first came across it on a twitch stream. It looked like a quick attempt to invert the Darkest Dungeon setting without the fantastic graphics. That was not a fair estimation. Yes, this is a spin on the Darkest Dungeon system of combat. And, yes, it doesn't have the wonderful graphics that DD has (or the brilliant narration, or the lovely soundtrack). But, BUT, it does manage to stand on its own feet. Once I saw the graphics on my actual monitor rather than my phone screen I realized they were actually quite decent. I like the painterly style, and the animations were acceptable. The combat system is interesting, and pushes the DD style in different directions. You have two avenues of attack; health, and sanity. Building parties that attack one or the other (or even both) is a fun little challenge. There's a solid selection of different unit types, each of which can work in different ways depending on the upgrades chosen. I have only played one playthrough. It took me just short of 20 hours. I did it on the second difficulty "More Pain". I'm not a tactical genius by any means, but I'm familiar with the genre and this difficulty was too easy. Well, mostly too easy. I had 2 teams that could pretty much demolish any enemy parties. Except the final boss of the final floor. The final boss is an absolutely brutal, borderline unfair fight that chewed through all my existing soliders and through several additional freshly created teams until I finally figured out a composition that could defeat it. All that to say, if you're considering this game, I'm pretty sure you've got enough experiece in the genre to punch of the difficulty a bit. Personally, I'm not overly inclined to another run just now. Maybe in the far far future. I'm confident that many other players would get much more gameplay from this game than me though. 4/7 - Not just a Darkest Dungeon clone, keep an open mind and give it a spin

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Posted on: January 31, 2021

BumblePower

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Gry: 51 Opinie: 12

Amazingly Addictive

Complex tactics, deep RPG elements, satisfying visual and sound design. Add a few more dungeon levels and this would be my one game to have on a desert island.

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Posted on: January 4, 2022

Krozok

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Gry: 107 Opinie: 1

Not as Good as Darkest Dungeon

While this game is fine on it's own, when compared to the other big title with this kind of gameplay, it falls short not by a significant margin, but a noticeable. The biggest example of this "noticeable margin" is the difference in the minion character in each game. In Darkest Dungeon, characters generally have two different builds you can take them with their abilities alone. The Highwayman character can be used as an up close damage dealer or a range crowd control and sniper. These abilities are focused on either the front end or the back end, and you can change your character build by swapping abilities outside of a dungeon. You can only have four abilities active on each character, and there is no "ultimate" ability. In Iratus, characters do have differing styles, but these are minute alterations that change the specifics, and do not majorly impact the role the character has. The Werewolf will always be an up close high damage brawler. There are characters that emulate Darkest Dungeon, but the fact is that overall they are quite set in what they are. There are other things, but I don't want to write an essay. Overall Iratus is an alright game, but to be honest it just makes me want to play Darkest Dungeon. Props to the devs and good luck with their next project.

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Posted on: June 21, 2024

Flor4

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Gry: 48 Opinie: 5

Worth it and not (depends)

Did I get into it and for 2 days during work I was burning to play it? And when I finished work I played till past midnight on both occasions? Yes. Addictive. Funny and witty narrator. Really worth it for the 3.89british pounds I paid for it (on 84% discount in June 2024)! A thousand times would make this choice. The game hooks you in, and I have some characters to unlock so I am still somewhat excited about that so I will return to continue to play it. My feel is that the fights become repetitive and there is a bit of a grind to unlock the next character and then you are forced to use your talent points so you can then use a spell, to unlock another character... And then you have to finish the game on the hard difficulty (which would be no easy task) to unlock 3 characters... (that is really the carrot at the end of the stick...) I think for up to 10 dollars it is well worth it: good mechanics, keeps you entertained. Good graphics. Witty comments form the narrator.

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Posted on: April 30, 2020

nspennato95

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Gry: 299 Opinie: 1

Good, but with room for improvement.

Comparisons to Darkest Dungeon were going to inevitable considering how blatant an homage this is. The good news is that Iratus does enough right that it isn't immediately rendered obsolete by the game that preceded it. Combat is the same 4 v 4 position based affair as Darkest Dungeon, where the abilities a unit can use differ depending on where in the lineup they are. It's got the same kind of joys to it. The units all have fun designs and learning how they work and interact with one another remains satisfying. One minion seems largely useless at first as all of its abilities come with a buff to the enemy squad, until you notice a number of other unit's abilities deal bonus damage against buffed enemies, or that her ultimate ability removes all buffs from the enemies and applies a substantial buff to your team. All of that stuff works well. Some gripes. -Going back to your base after every fight is a nice idea, but kills any sense of pacing or tension. -The stress mechanics feel lackluster, essentially serving as a second health bar that might debuff or buff an enemy but isn't guaranteed to kill them unlike the standard health bar. -Unlocking and creating new minions should be one of the highlights in a game about necromancy, but can feel like a chore. There are some exceptions, but for the most part they unlock through arbitrary challenges like doing X damage to your own units. After they're unlocked they can be made infinitely so long as you have the appropriate parts, with better parts only adding additional stat points to use up front. Some correlation between the enemies killed and the parts dropped might've been nice, parts from an archer giving a bonus to accuracy or something, maybe force players to decided to pursue tougher fights for better parts, IDK. It's a good game, one I'd recommend (don't let the three stars fool you). I just can't shake the feeling there's a better game somewhere in here.

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