Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked

Excellent turn based game with good stroy / D&D narrative feel.

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Great game! Mostly played on SteamDeck and as multiplayer, and I had a lot of fun with. Hope they will add more campaigns in the future,

A simplified-rules version of D&D in a virtual setting. It is cross-platform compitable and the VR version is probably the most enjoyable version as you can run it in mixed VR or full VR. Gameplay is easy to learn (the basic controls & navigation), complicated to master (buffs and debuffs from spells and environmental hazards), and keeps you on your toes since you roll dice getting a random result for most actions. Storylines run through the campaigns so you can take your time (especially in solo play). Most multiplayer games are filled with people who have already played through the campaigns, so they will usually want you to skip the plot reveals and get right into the combat again. Completing each major battle unlocks a different special weapon for the class you used, making replayability desirable as these weapons will upgrade up to two more times when you complete that battle again (making them stronger).

So I tried this out for the first time in VR on my new Steam Frame and I have to say... this is authentically one of the coolest things I've ever experienced. I'm not even sure how good the D&D is... but to be honest, I am not a real rules "purist" so I'm happy with whatever game they set up here as far as rules and rolls go. It's got all the basic tropes, and it has at present three authored campaigns. There are some single scenarios also that are locked, and I don't know if those are replays of base game scenarios or something new, but it's pretty cool to see. I can just imagine the DLC options for this game. The bones are all here. New characters? New classses? Entire new campaigns? I think there's a huge open horizon for this game. But the VR experience is sublime. You can grab and move the world, zoom in all the way to an almost personal level, zoom out and get a wide view... everything looks great, the music is great, the voice acting has been great... Dragging and dropping cards on enemies is slightly offputting at first, as you kind of have to drag the battlefield a bit but once you get used to it, I found it really pretty simple. And you can always zoom out and …

One of the best dungeon crawlers ever made, not to mention one of the best games ever , on PC, or VR, it is just an absolutely fantastic game.