I got the game lured by the graphics & the song in the trailer. Even now I catch myself thinking: “It’s the best thing in the game”—and that’s not good news. The game’s mechanic is simple and easy to grasp, but it misses the main purpose of any dungeon crawl: getting your character to level up and face more and more powerful monsters in the endless quest for treasures. The dungeons are limited in various ways: you might be able to only kill three monsters, spend there a certain amount of turns or collect certain loot. So if you’re dreaming of ADOM-like experience of endless dungeons and mowing your way through countless enemies until you die… well, dream on. Fighting the monsters is a card game, and your deck depends on your character’s class and the equipment you loot. It’s very entertaining and a lot of fun. Too bad that whenever you enter a dungeon, you start from scratch… It definitely misses the fun and satisfaction of slowly building a perfect deck while exploring a dungeon. Don't get used to the characters. They die a lot. And I do mean: A LOT. Mostly because of random card draws. On top of that, when you place the dungeon tiles and monsters, you don’t control which way you go and sometimes the character heads exactly the "wrong" direction, randomly traveling 1 or 2 tiles (if there’s a monster or a treasure, it's 1, but if the room is empty, it might be 1 or 2). So what kept me going back to the game? The music (the songs are fun enough, though they do get a bit repetitive), the graphics, and the light game play. I played it when I needed a break, but part of me wished I could build my own, complex dungeons, fill them with monsters and treasures, and then embark on hours-long quest to defeat them all. Oh well, instead I got some work done, so that’s good, right? If you’re in the mood for something fun and light (and relatively short) get it, but otherwise I’d reconsider. Sure, I enjoyed it when I played it—but it’s not a game I’m ever going to come back to.
