Desktop Dungeons: Rewind

Ugly and hard to read UI. Cheap 3D graphics instead of well made 2D graphics. What happened to the easy to read and simplistic UI of the original game?!

TLDR; A fun game ruined by having to calculate every single action if you want to have a hope of clearing a level and earning any real rewards. I'd like to love it, however it just takes too much thought process to enjoy it much. Even on the normal difficulty levels you need to be extremely careful doing anything as almost everything you do either adds or subtracts resources which you need around 90% or more of used appropriately to be able to pass the level. On NORMAL. You can litterally waste hours of work due to one misclick or improper action. Add to this that the maps are randomised so you might find that one spell you really need sitting next to you or never find it at all. The game forces you to target enemies above your level just to get enough xp to be possible to win. You need to calculate almost everything, and the meta progression doesn't do a lot to make the game easier for you. This is not an RPG, this is just a puzzle game in disguise.

Fun like the others, but not in a "play on a regular basis" sort of way. Get it only if you play it like grandma plays solitare.

Great game. Not much else to say.

I picked this game up on discount, and initially I thought it was fun and clever, but it swiftly became nearly impossible to progress. As someone who has never played its predecessor before, I was expecting it to ease you into the game. But you get a tutorial and then the difficulty makes it so difficult to progress. You have to take different characters into the adventures, and in a game like this usually you'd toil away, dying and retrying, while building up your town to make things a bit easier. But if you lose the adventure in this game you come back with nothing, or even less if you spent money on preparations to make it easier. So you can't really upgrade things if you aren't winning an adventure. Add to that that it's basically luck whether you find useful abilities, or indeed how quickly you find them. Each square you open up to look, you get health and mana, but you need that health later on, so if you can't find your skills quickly, you are set up to fail unless you are extremely good at it. I am not that good. I tried to improve by watching youtube videos on people playing it and then retrying myself, but I'm really tired and frustrated by just losing a…

Desktop Dungeons hasn't changed - it's still brilliant, and will make you feel like a complete idiot when you finish the tutorial. It's possible you might bounce off the writing (it is, however, entirely skippable), but "finger-crossbows" absolutely destroyed me and made me think I didn't want to miss a single line this game had to offer. Hearing bong noises outside the elves' village and fratbros screaming outside the warrior's guild are also two very good memories.