Dark Quest 2

Great 10-15 minute D&D adventures! challenging, but casual at the same time.. Highly recommend.

A significant improvement over the first game. Dark Quest 2 offers more variety, more possibilities and a more interesting gameplay loop, while also providing a longer experience. The game requires more thought and decision-making without becoming overly complicated. It is still a relatively small game, but there is much more depth here than in the first one. 100% steam achievements Time : 38.7H Completion Difficulty : 4/10 Playthroughs : 1-2 depending the approach Missables : None Notable requirements : Complete the game in hardcore and accumulate 100 000 gold.

Being a huge enthusiast of board game dungeon crawlers like Talisman, HeroQuest and such I tried looking for similar games on Steam and came up with the Dark Quest series. Given it was already on sale, I decided to give Dark Quest 2 a go. It's a nice little HeroQuest clone that is pretty much exactly what I was looking for. You start out with a single hero and then on subsequent runs you recruit other characters to come with you to complete a campaign comprising of a couple dozen maps until you eventually get to the end. Each map is a small dungeon maze with rooms and corridors and everything is turn based including movement just like a board game. There aren't too many stats to worry about, nor any of the more advanced systems of modern RPGs. Everything here is kept as simple as possible, in the spirit of board games of the olden age. This is a game which evokes memories of simpler times, doesn't take hours to play and is very easy to master. The gameplay boils down to clearing a dungeon, defeating the enemies and grabbing all the loot you can find. There is a moderate difficulty to each dungeon, but you may grind them as many times as you want by replaying the same map over an…

Dark Quest 2 is the best of all the dark quest games. The others a clunky and rather dull. 2 is at least somewhat tactical and well worth the cost. I'd probably skip the rest.

Dark Quest 2 is a turn-based dungeon crawler that openly embraces the spirit of classic tabletop fantasy adventures while presenting them through a charming board game-inspired format. Developed and published by Brain Seal Ltd, the game acts as both a tribute to old-school strategy RPGs and a streamlined dungeon-crawling experience focused on tactical combat, exploration, and party management. Rather than attempting to modernize the genre with overwhelming complexity or cinematic presentation, Dark Quest 2 builds its identity around simplicity, nostalgia, and strategic encounters that feel heavily inspired by traditional pen-and-paper campaigns. The game immediately establishes its tabletop influence through its presentation. Characters move across environments that resemble handcrafted board game maps filled with miniature-style figures, dice-inspired mechanics, traps, treasure chests, and dungeon layouts that feel physically assembled rather than digitally generated. This visual direction gives the adventure a unique personality that separates it from more conventional fantasy RPGs. The entire experience feels like participating in a living tabletop campaign guided by an unseen …

A short turn-based game for the weekend. Q: Would I recommend? A: Yes. [+] 1) A little bit of Warcraft-like styling 2) Short 3) Each hero for different situation [-] 1) Short 2) Bugged Some progression-compromising bugs. Fortunately, a restart of the map helps, but you need to play it all over again... 3) Forced reruns to collect abilities in order to progress Conclusion: 7/10