Deathtrap Dungeon Trilogy

Worth the low price. I am old enough that I bought these books when they were released on paper. On release. So old. However, at less than a block of A4 printer paper today these are great value no matter the price of nostalgia. However, however ... the novelty factor started to diminish with each 'book'. Deathtrap Dungeon is great fun. Well done top down CRPG with just enough challenges and cute artwork that I laughed, cried and snorted my way through with a smile on my face. That smile slowly fell away with Trial of Champions which had events so brutal I questioned the madness of the developers. Then I remembered the damned book was the same ... so I apologise to the developers for my cursing of their pointy little wizard beards. Having sneaked through THAT horror show, with one life remaining, I started the last 'book' Forest of Armies of Rock Monsters and Darkness ... or something. I never finished this one as compared to Deathtrap it was a bathroom bottle of meh. Anyway, I got 5 hours of fun for less than a heavily discounted £5, relived the fun horror of that pissant wizard in Trials and will never look at a rope in quite the same way. (I think it was under £2 on…

https://youtu.be/hrW552yKdEc Providing the closest version to the original table top games, the experience is still overly raw with generally frustrating sluggish design and intended delays.

Deathtrap Dungeon and Trial of Champions are great. However, Armies of Death is pretty broken. In fact, this game hates you. As you wander around the map you can pick up curses and injuries at random without any chance of a saving roll and these can really mess things up for you. Furthermore, when you get to the end game you face one terrific combat after the other without any chance of healing. This rapidly becomes pretty soul destroying.

Far better presentation of the classic books! Love the top-down Diablo style. You can tell they loved making this!

I recommend it, but note that there is an assortment of minor bugs still present. However, you should be able to finish without it interrupting you enjoyment. The title is worth it even if it only had the first book, Deathtrap Dungeon, which makes the other two books a nice bonus. The books are not 100% the same as in the paperback versions. Naturally, with the transition to a more graphical presentation some adjustments to the narrative and encounter design are to be expected. For me this is a bonus as between this, Fighting Fantasy Classics and other adaptions, there are now multiple ways to enjoy these books.

Avoid unless you are a masochist.