Castle Explorer Reviews

A real treat for fans of board games! Even more of a treat if one of those board games that you're a fan of, is DungeonQuest. /wink

so so clone of dungeon quest board game, but somehow sucks the fun out of it, the random number gen seems appalling , had a torch blow out and in 12 turns it didnt roll for me to relight it, now i understand its luck, but that just seems broken, especially when cpu players 9 times out of 10 were getting good rolls, refunded for now, may buy again if cheaper or given more polish

The fun is in the dying. Die you will. With thousands in gold and a mere step away from the exit or done in by the vampire chasing you-you will die. From dragonfire or traps or even slipping off a plank over a chasm:you will die.Rotating rooms,traps,pits.locked doors,trapped doors and even clear corridors await you. Venture forth and die in the dungeon. A few lucky ones will escape with treasures-a very few. Could you be one? Will you be a legend in the beerhalls or the butt of jokes-did you hear about Dragonspoor with his arms full of treasure trapped in the rotating room against the castle wall helpless while the dragonfie came for him? Yes,the fun is in the dying-unless you don't. then the fun is in the retelling of your adventures. A dlc has arrived. More adventurers to train. More rings to use and creatures to battle. Once more into the castle to test your luck and challenge the dragon. The game is definitely rng focus but strategy options exists. Try it and risk getting hooked. Plus it now has trading cards. Thank you Ice Dragon. Time to go chase down those new achievements.

It's unfortunate that I have to give this game a thumbs down. I love Dungeon Quest. This is very similar however with the victory conditions it makes it very difficult to win. So if you do not like rogue like games that are about a 10% chance to win, you will not like this one. I found buying the expansions made it more difficult. There are some events that will wipe you out unfairly in one turn like a pit, a creature you have to fight with your fists with unfair odds to hit etc. However after saying all this the game can still be fun just trying to see if you can actually make it. Have not done it yet though. I'll likely pop in here and there to see if I can give it a shot, but this game does not have my full attention in any way. Update- I finally got the key and got to the escape castle point. It asked me if I was sure I wanted to escape castle. I said yes and I died. ???? Was that not what I was supposed to do? I'm sorry but that's enough for me lol.

This is based on the board game Dungeon Quest. If RNG is not something you like then this may not be for you. The random tile flipping can bite you, but this is part of the game, and some characters have abilities to mitigate this and other random elements of the game. Just seeing how far you can get into (and hopefully out of) the dungeon makes it interesting. Different end states (which you can choose at the start) also makes each play different. The DLC's add more rings, more characters, more cards, more events, monster bounties, more loot, more NPC - more of everything - to make each run through a fun time.

A cute little digital board game that pays tribute to some of the forgotten classics of yesteryear. If you like board games where you get to choose from a cast of heroes with different strengths and weaknesses, but you want the added feature of brutal difficulty that makes every turn tense and potentially lethal, well... it's that. The rules are simple enough that the game practically teaches itself, the basics can be easily mastered in the first 20 minutes of play. You enter a room, draw a card, pray it's not a big stabby ogre that wants to hurt you, and spin some wheels against your stats when the situation calls for it. Turns rarely last more than 2 minutes and are often just around 15 seconds, so the pacing is good. Production value is middling, it certainly lacks polish in places but succeeds in setting the mood and conveys gameplay information fairly well. It's about right for it's price tag imho, although that is of course highly subjective. No bugs or glitches from what I've seen so far.

It's not Dungeonquest. Not even slightly. It's completely different to Dungeonquest. Comparing this game to Dugeonquest is simply futile, as they are nothing alike in anyway. 10/10, would fall down a bottomless pit again.

Well, other people weren't kidding about this board game simulation - of a game I only vaguely remember playing when I was a wee squirt, with a somewhat different title (Dungeonquest)! - being highly "RNG"-oriented...       My first game: I reached an impasse less than halfway through my twenty allocated turns...because a room I entered rotated, spat me out at an entrance other than the one I came in by...then proceeded to give me a dead-end shortly thereafter. So literally, I could only wander between three tiles, back and forth, and never progress further toward the centre of the board/castle that was my goal.       No dragon's treasure for me!       Next game: I chose a slightly different character - more of a super-strong, less-agile barbarian, as opposed to the more balanced warrior I chose the first time - and got a good bit further...before progressing so far in the "wrong" direction, through absolutely no fault of my own, that there was no chance I would reach the middle in time. Also: my health was so darned low by then that I could die from the tiniest trap or weakest enemy...and sure enough, I [i]did[/i] die at the hands of a sneak-attacking troll, [i]but[/i]...the dragon had awakened already anyway, so the best I could hope for was escaping the castle with my measly [i]life[/i] intact, so again...       No dragon's treasure for me!       Third game: I chose an archer/ranger type character...and not only did the tiles turn in my favour, granting me the smoothest of routes to the dragon's lair...but almost every room along the way was empty or with a my-fault-if-it-frigs-up choice to be freely made (e.g. do I wish to search the crypt, or simply leave it be? I think I'll err on the safe side just so I can see if I reach the middle, thanks)! Even the infrequent traps weren't getting to have their ways with me. Sure enough, I finally made it to the dragon's lair...and escaped with 6700 points in gold before being slaughtered on the way out by a skeleton (but the mere fact I made it to the middle sounds like a victory to me, so...that'll do, pig...that'll do)!       It's a very, very easy game to learn, and there are a fair few characters and three difficulty/mission modes with the basic game...so it's not too shabby in that regard (if a tad overpriced)! But [i]do[/i] keep in mind it's a game only bested by Snakes and Ladders in the "almost complete lack of strategy" department. Chess this assuredly ain't...       That said: you can of course "play the odds" and not push your luck too often, if you've been having good luck so far...and also, the random "rolls" - really wheel spins - are [i]somewhat[/i] timeable to go in your favour...though luck still plays a definite part! Oh, and it also does a slightly cool thing where it "replays" the game you've just enacted, in case you wish to have your nose rubbed in your failure even further...       An alright little time-passer, but it's hard to rant and rave about unless you enjoy having relatively little agency over the fate of your character. The three abovementioned games - each of them well under thirty minutes! - were quite enough for me for the time being, but perhaps I'll return in time, should I crave an especially "casual" game with minimal demands on my brainpower, reflexes and hand-eye coordination! (And there's always "card-farming"! Oh, and I probably forgot to mention that it's mostly intended for multiplayer gaming, even though I only did the single-player thing. Clearly, there may be a [i]bit[/i] more longevity if you play this with friends, and the whole "gathering as much treasure as possible" goal takes on a bit more meaning as well; hence why I merely tried to make it to the middle, grab a bit of loot, and hightail it outta there!) Verdict: 6.5/10. (PS I guess there might also be some longevity in trying to 100% the Achievements...of which I only garnered a lucky 13%! And all you have to do to get them seems to be...to experience every tiny bit of misfortune the game can conceivably throw at you! Sounds like fun, eh?) (PPS If you enjoyed this review, feel free to check out my two Curator pages: http://store.steampowered.com/curator/9284586-ReviewsJustfortheHELLofit/ http://store.steampowered.com/curator/10868048-Truly-Horrible-Horror-Games/?appid=398210 Cheers!)

You have no non-trivial choices to make as a player, other than your choice of character. There's nothing here but watching what the RNG does to you. Also, no progression of any kind, unlike many similar boardgames. Great sound and the controls are obvious, but they forgot the gameplay. There are many better choices on Steam.

Just fired this up and BAM, highly recommended. This is a digital version (more or less) of Dungeon Quest. WARNING! If you do not like insta death games that are reliant on RNG, then stay away. If you are okay with that and love games like the old Rogue, then you will most likely love this game. I'd recommend playing it with friends as it's great to laugh when the dice don't go their way. :D Great adaptation of a board game that my family loves.