Dragon Ruins II Steam Charts & Stats

A fun game if you like grinding.

I'm far too old and tired for Wizardry and stuff like Etrian Odyssey. I really dig the art style and how smoothly it plays.

This game is great and reinvigorated my enjoyment of the genre! calling this game 'cozy' feels wrong but it is a very comfortable rpg experience. it's probably the most blissful and friction-less way to grind in the dungeons. The auto-combat is cool and there's nothing like it (okay dragon ruins 1 doesn't count)

Ever wanted to play a Wizardry-style Dungeon Crawler, but find the genre too punishing? Then this is the game for you. It's a chill game that streamlines the mechanics of an RPG without just making the game stupidly easy.

Great dungeon crawler. Takes everything that was great about the first one and improves on it in every way.

Sequel to a minimalist dungeon crawler, which is this time much longer and more complex than the first game (which took me approx. 2 hours to fully finish, this took me 15). There´s 16 dungeons to choose from (15 regular + 1 bonus at the end), new characters and expanded game mechanics - e.g. a band attack that can be performed by filing up a damage received bar, characters can be upgraded in a form of special skills. Sprites again come from a graphics library by Torio, which is okay, but some sprites are drawn in anime style that mixes quite badly with the rest. In terms of music, there are multiple tracks, all of them again excellent of course. Towards the end of the game the difficulty gets up quite a bit. As a veteran Wizadry player I like that, but the rest be warned, that some extra grinding, money saving and strategy will be required if you want to beat the final bosses. My biggest complain is, that after a certain time the gameplay will get monotonous due to the necessity to replay dungeons in order to fully finish them (each dungeon has a certain number of quests that you must finish if you want to fully complete it). There´s also one minor thing - I noticed a weird camera tilting after turning . It´s like the party it on boat or something....

Reminiscent of Wizardry where you're just grinding out xp and gold to take on the next level. The auto-combat is an interesting way to abstract combat and keep things moving. Everything is a little sluggish, it takes awhile to max out your power gauge (the one way to interact in combat). Getting money for later upgrades takes a ton of repetition. There's no indication of what weapons are going to be worth keeping around. All the classes are interchangeable, though at higher levels some just seem a little better. Despite the wrinkles, the graphics, music and visual style makes this a chill experience. It looks like I'm coming up on 12 hours at the time of this review and I'm fairly sure I've done basically everything. I don't think there's an end per se, but end missions will start repeating themselves.

game's alright, I like the art style and the idea behind it, I just wish the dungeon exploration was varied, my experience more or less felt like running around samey dungeons with barely anything to interact with in them, it could really stand to have more things to interact with, buying Dragon Ruins II is kinda like an investment for the next dragon ruins because the project as is, is very barebones but i'd for sure play a 3rd one with more content.