Posted on: June 16, 2023
3m1lAtGog
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Some boardgames are best at a table...
...especially the ones that feature a lot of trading, deal-making, and role-playing. On the other hand, there's a lot of boardgames which you play to score clever combos, make brilliant plays and see your points go up, up, UP! Chambers of Devious Design is the latter - it's got interacting mechanics and it thrives on numbers, which would be slightly tedious to crunch in a pen-and-paper form. I don't like when a strategic board game slows down due to calculations required. I even use a tally counter for Kingdomino ;) Halfway into the campaign, it's been a pleasant romp, presenting multiple game modes and victory conditions. The characters are a bit silly, but that's OK. A game can last from a few minutes up to ~half an hour. The "Custom Game" format seems to let you play with up to 4 humans (or AIs added into the mix, your choice) - nice for an alternative to a physical boardgame, while still seating at the same table and talking. Solo mode is also present, and you can either set some conditions, or choose "Zen". I'd say it's not the most strategically-heavy game ever, and the luck of the draw can totes play into your options in a given turn. On the other hand, if you use the abilities and perks to your advantage, you can deal with the input randomness and rearrange the board quite a bit. Performance was fine on an integrated-graphics AMD CPU (on highest resolution available in settings - 25x16, if I recall correctly), no bugs encountered (neither game-crashing nor just pesky), the UI was readable. The music is inoffensive, there's no real voice acting (it definitely shows that this is a work of a single developer - but the few graphics are chosen well), and I wish there was an easier way to drag the map around with mouse (but the WASD is...fine, I guess I'm just spoiled). Overall: does what it's supposed to do, works fine, provides hours of entertainment for the price of a movie theather ticket. Good job, Redbeak - I support these kinds of indie games :)
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