Fury of Dracula: Digital Edition Reviews

This game is great for one reason above all -- the actual boardgame fury of dracula is a terror to set up, play, and interpret the rules... This game automates and animates the process so everything is not only easier, it looks cooler. Fans of the boardgame or people who found the physical boardgame intimidating (like me) will like it just for that reason alone, but it's merits don't stop there. The game is fun as the hunters and even more fun as dracula and provides a great PvP or co-op experience (or both!) with your friends. Trying to deduce where dracula has been and where he is going is terrific fun and a job well done feels very rewarding. Sending the hunters on a wild goosechase is equally rewarding as dracula as you go from eluding to punishing your hunter enemies. The downside? Better camera controls would have been nice but that is a really small issue overall. The real flaw in the game is that the AI for Dracula isn't really that smart it seems -- which is unfortunate, because the game really shines it's best when dracula is pulling all the strings and calling out all the shots masterfully. So an experienced player doing Dracula is going to be more rewarding than the clumsy AI Dracula that if your team is smart, can corner and beat up in the first 10 rounds of the game. Overall though, It's a great game for the price, and if you love co-op as much as I do, it probably has a place in your library. Recommended.

This game is busted, especially the multiplayer. Multiple game-breaking glitches ruined our ability to get any playthroughs done.

How does a group of people screw up such a wonderful board game. I could get around the poor art and graphics if the UI and other aspects were somewhere close to usable. TL:DR Don't waste money on this, play it on Tabletop Simulator or better yet buy the real board game. No way to click and drag the game board around, you have to click a button in the top right corner to zoom. Then in zoomed mode you can only move the map around by clicking on the cities. Need to see the other side of the region to plan your move, you have to zoom out and then zoom back in and click another city. For a hidden movement game, looking and exploring the map is vital to figuring out where Dracula is. The map has no way of providing the names of the regions. They are simple missing, guess we don't need them here. There is also no option to turn on the city names, you have to mouse over any city you want to see the name of. Maybe this would be easier if you grew up in Europe as you would probably know all the cities, but I know at best the major ones. While I will not be playing this any more, I can see the problem if you ever wanted to play co-op with others. Communication is key and not displaying the region and having such a janky way of seeing the names of the cities would make comms painfully slow. Card selection is bizarre. I still don't know how it works. You draw a card and then it has two boxes, one says Choices and the other says Selected. Well if you click on the card it to goes to selected and the only button that comes up says Discard. I'm sure if I played more I would figure it out, but why. It should be obvious 100% on how to choose your cards. Why can't I just click and drag cards, characters and the map around? The graphics are so poor, like they just took digital photos of the board game and passed them through a filter that made them look cheap. Doesn't look like they used bump-mapping or any kind of 3d effects. I don't know if they even have 2d effects. The flavor boarders when you have to select something are distracting and looked like they were made in paint. Animations, if you could call them that are mostly just a sprite or gif being dragged across the board. The character pictures have an animation that makes it look like everyone has autism where they all rock back and forth. (Nothing against peeps that have the condition.) I simply cant wrap my head around the art design. They could have kept the original art but made it so much better. Even in my brief play I can tell the character AI is bad, simply bad. There is one character that has the ability to check an entire region to see if Dracula is there. Do the NPCs try and coordinate to take advantage of that, no. Even though that is one of the strongest abilities the hunters have, especially in the early game. Another NPC burnt cards for no reason, cards that would have come in handy later. I only played for half an hour and could tell that this was going to be bad. I'm sure that it would super easy to game-the-system if you were to put in a minimal amount of time into this version of the game. Honestly, this is a step back from Nomad's release of Talisman: Digital Edition and they made that back in 2012. For a developer to not improve in art, action, or AI in a decade is sad.