Monsters' Den: Godfall

Monsters' Den: Godfall offers a comforting loop of party-based tactical combat, dungeon clearing, and loot hoarding. Managing your band of mercenaries and optimizing their gear builds scratches that classic turn-based RPG itch nicely. On the flip side, the actual dungeon runs drag on far too long, and repetitive enemy encounters can turn clearing a map into a chore. The presentation is undeniably dated, and the world-building does not do much to keep you invested in the overarching plot. It is a decent, unpretentious tactical fix for strategy fans, provided you catch it on a discount.

Quality dungeon crawler, great value for money.

Great Game... As a person that prefers RPG's - This game hits the spot. While I would not consider this a Full Fledged RPG - it mixes both Tactical and RPG together in a good way. :) However, I have experienced random crashes after long play times. Seems like this problem is not just related to me... but others as well.

Enjoyable and nostalgic party management dungeon crawler.

A decent dungeon crawler but gets really tedious over time - I couldn't finish it, but it's not bad for price to gameplay time ratios. You could easily have half the battles and still have an extremely long campaign. However, you get you use custom PNGs for your characters which is really cute and adorable.

Score: 3/5 A poorly executed dungeon crawler in an interesting setting. Big world. A lot of quests and characters and items. But it's mostly repetitive content, probably procedurally generated quests and temporary locations. Writing is alright. Couldn't carry. Audio/SFX/music is okay. Art style/direction is okay. JRPG style. Grind for better scaling gear, hope you get good RNG and the rare/epic/legendary drops fit one of your unit's builds. I think it's infinite scaling on some things, but the talent trees limit your effectiveness. Particularly enemy HP. 50%+ enemies had strong defenses against either physical or magical damage, something like a 50-75% reduction. Thankfully enemy damage didn't scale very quickly. Balance issues and RNG often trumping skill. Some stats don't do enough. Some builds are significantly better than others. Enemies can have 6 units, you get 4 with up to 2 temporary with summons or a quest-related NPC. If you get a bad turn where too many enemies target the same unit, you're going to death spiral. There are way too many locked chests requiring much more limited resources to unlock, and only some of them have a moderate-or-more amount of loot.