Naheulbeuk's Dungeon Master Reviews

great base game. needs a few dlcs to be better

---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don't look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS The art style is adorable. ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't The gameplay itself is good. Its a colony sim at heart. ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Incredible ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ Horrible The voice acting is wonderful ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grand Parents ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☑ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Soulslike ---{ Grind }--- ☑ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if you care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☑ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life There is, from my experience, a meager amount of story. The most I got out of it is what they explain in the trailer. You become a steward in the dungeon of a wizard, who wants you to make his dungeon a wonderous place for adventurers to explore. That is basically the story. ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☑ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond As a simulation game, it can be a game of 30 minutes up to many, many, many hours. ---{ Bugs }--- ☑ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs If I experienced any bugs in my just under 8 hours of gameplay, I do not remember them. ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☐ Worth the price ☑ If it's on sale ☐ If you have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money Unfortionately this game falls short on too many places to warrent the current €25 without a sale going on. ---{ # / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☑ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10 ---{ Final thoughts }--- While I want to like this game, the new player experience is just not what I would want from a game like this. My first playthrough got ruined the moment I realised that enemies do not just come from the front door but also from balconies. In a later game where I unlocked extra floors, they suddenly showed up from upstairs which got me frustrated as my plans for defence had been dodged once again. I rather have them throw stronger enemies at me where I have to improve upon my defences rather than from all angles but that might just be me. Another bit is where the needs and demands come in. The game does not tell much in terms of needs before the minions just flatout quit on you, and usually in the most horrible moment, just before you get raided.

So much potential, but there are some bugs. A bug that makes your minions unhappy despite the availability of everything they need. They seem to be stuck in the Tavern until too unhappy and leave the dungeon.

Just getting started, but it's already easy to tell this is a very casual dungeon builder. There is no rush to do things, but there is strategy and depth to it. The pacing is slow but the way it's done it just fits the vibe. You can spend a lot of time decorating and optimizing but over all it's just a nice relaxing builder game. In some way's it reminds me of the first "Dungeons" where you build/decorate and attract heroes but the object isn't to lure them in and harvest their souls. It's to build an attractive dungeon that they wan't to come and hang out and spend money in your tavern and empty their sacks of gold willingly. You do have to defend and think about the layout, but over all it's sorta like playing a "sim" dungeon, verse any sort of tower defense like dungeon keeper. Over all it's just a nice relaxing builder with a quirky theme and a nice change of pace if building dungeons is appealing give it a try. The best part is you are supporting a little indy company that made a fantastic RPG called Dungeons of Naheulbuek. This was a really cool use of assets and a fun concept so kudo's to them for thinking outside the box.

If there was a "meh" review setting, that's where I'd be here. At full price, it'd be a solid thumbs down because there just isn't enough meat to keep this game going long term. On one hand, I like that ratings like prestige, happiness and other environmental factors affect your minions. The voice-overs are top notch and dungeon construction itself is effortless. Beyond that, actual active game play is pretty substandard and despite appearances, there is very little strategic depth here. First, It feels like you're duplicating most of your facilities on every floor and you can tell an external exit is purposely generated *on every floor* to make up for the lack of game play depth. It's like the dev realized that yeah, they don't have much here so lets make an opening on every floor so you have to defend them all in parallel, which leads to the aforementioned duplication of facilities. Then you realize you will have to dedicate entire floors to storage, intel, your tavern, etc; things that contribute little to any game excitement. This isn't like your DnD or Isekai dungeons where there's only one way in or out for adventures. Apparently, adventurers can climb multiple stories to get to the most unlikely entrance, becoming an annoyance regardless of how advanced you are. It's a lazy contrivance that can be solved by an even lazier solution: Small training rooms at every entrance. Create dungeon floor gap at the entrance, place a chicken alarm and build the training room after that. Since guards naturally congregate at training rooms, you will always have a quick reaction force on call when the chicken alerts. Honestly, this is a game that could have immensely benefited from workshop mods. Instead, it's stunted by its own lack of foresight and the small box it forces players into. I'd return it if I could, but Steam sale at best.

This game is a little gem! I bought it as I love the old Dungeon Keeper games and thought this would be a fun little knock off but it's so much more. I love it's style and game play, it's flow and story has me hooked. It's uncommon for me to sit and play a game for so many hours at a time. 5/5 Cracking game!

Lots of promise and a cute premise. However, even at half price this feels overpriced for the amount of gameplay it offers. The mid-game gets very dull.