Dungeons of Freeport

Cool concept, but the game is basically vaporware. If you've watched the trailer you've experienced 90% of the content and dialogue. There are about 5 weapons and 3 enemies in the entire game. "Deep crafting systems" is just dagger and healing potion. In hindsight the other reviews seem AI generated -- this would make a great gamejam entry, it's absolutely not a full-release title.

Very barebones. It feels like the one play per day limit is only there so it takes longer for you to realize it's so shallow.

Unfortunately, an interesting gameplay loop belies a very shallow roguelike. The game has a lot of potential but honestly feels unfinished. Finding traps and secrets is simply a question of "do you have light?," dungeons don't have much variety to them, the crafting system is kind of neat but has significant holes in it. For example, if you find a bow in this game, you should sell it immediately, as there is no way to craft arrows and no one in town sells them, and arrows as loot in the dungeon are rare enough to be practically useless. This isn't the case for crossbow bolts or sling bullets. Also, your actions in a dungeon are extremely limited. Attack, move (in four directions), ranged attack, open chests, craft healing potions (the only kind of potions). No throwing, no wands or other consumables, and the "stealth" (which doesn't really work) involves stopping and pausing every other round. Very disappointing considering the initial fun I had with it, and the skeleton of a fun roguelike underneath a game with very little meat.

A fun little bite sized trad roguelike. There's exploration, persistent upgrades between sessions, and rudimentary crafting. A good coffee break game.

Dungeons of Freeport is really brilliant; I fell in love with the graphics shown in the trailer (the UI and the town just looked really cute, and that a lot of heart went into both) and was rewarded with the actual game matching my expectations: the town is very cute, I love how the signs pop up with cute little graphics, I love how you can interact with all the townspeople and see them go about their routines, I love how there are just a bunch of extraneous details; and the gameplay too: it plays very well on a controller (my hands are fried for keyboards), has a very streamlined roguelike experience that feels like a mix of classic rogue with the junk-loot of extraction games, and the dungeons often (so far) boil down to: "getting into melee range likely means you just die in one hit without OK items, so use ranged combat until you run out of ammo and then either scram or risk melee"; the 1/run day is satisfying even if a delve gets completely botched. The only complaint is that I'm starting to feel, fairly early on, that I might be scratching the limits of content currently; I still haven't bought my house, though, but it mostly seems that the bestiary isn't too big nor the full…

A cute retro roguelike with a town to explore and things to learn along the way. I really like the (kinda) one dungeon per day feel to it, and the use of DOS text mode graphics. Also death isn't permanent...