Dragon Lair Depths
Atomheart Game Studio · 2024 · Strategy, Board Game, Turn-Based Tactics, Roguelite, Choices Matter
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About Dragon Lair Depths
Build and upgrade your own hero team. On the 9x9 board, use limited action points in each round, manipulate heroes with different abilities, play coordination, guard earth vein, and destroy enemies.
Game highlights:
1. Racial heroes of various elemental powers:
2. Unexpected reactions between elements/terrains:
3. High difficulty strategy battle:
4. Mild rogue experience:
Game highlights:
1. Racial heroes of various elemental powers:
- Nagas: Control the use of flames to ignite the enemy.
- Elf: Powerful recovery, and generate spirit grass traps to control enemies
- Water: can summon the water grid that reduces the enemy's movement
- Rock: use rocks to control the enemy's progress, and fight cattle across mountains
- Thunderclan: Summons thunderclouds that deal damage every turn
- Stay tuned
2. Unexpected reactions between elements/terrains:
- Ignite the grass, all connected grass will catch fire
- Grasslands affected by lightning will also catch fire
- Water grid can conduct electricity
3. High difficulty strategy battle:
- Victory: Destroy all enemies
- Failure: All our heroes are dead, or all earth vein are destroyed
- Enemy Intention: Each enemy will display the behavior intention of the next round, and the enemy will only perform one behavior in each round of movement/attack/skill
- Action Points: Action Points shared by all our heroes, reset and refreshed every round
- Going into battle/Going out of battle: Heroes can spend action points to go out of battle to avoid damage, and go into battle to any grid in our area
4. Mild rogue experience:
- Replay value: every round is a new experience, no outside development
- Random events: several random events
- build: Dozens of relics with different abilities can be obtained, equipped with heroes to produce various chemical reactions
- Permanent death: When a hero dies, a point of HP will be deducted from the upper limit. If the upper limit is 0, the hero will die permanently
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
✦ AI summary
Players appreciate this turn-based tactical roguelike as an interesting indie project worth trying, with mechanics inspired by Into the Breach. However, the game is criticized for weak game design decisions and falling short of the quality expected given its price point relative to similar titles, with concerns about limited starting options and overall depth.
It's kinda sad to be first review of game in English, especially negative, especially for small abstract indie, but some things must be adressed. Into the Breach is not ideal tactic game by any means, but it's quite old, popular, got variety in mechanics, graphics of enemies and locations. It also takes best from small fields and abilities to push/pull enemies and abuse surroundings for your goal. Why I mention Into the Breach? Because obviously this game is quite similar in mechanics, at least tries to be so. It's cost is two thirds of Into the Breach in my region, so I waited for at least two thirds of quality of it to be good game. Even third of quality could have been fine. Sadly, there are many game design decisions which make this project feel very weak. - You start with two heroes, instead of three in ItB. It makes early game quite boring and lacking synergies. Getting third and fourth takes time... and each still got only ONE ability. You can't combine stuff for synergy. - Each unit got progression limited by six upgrades, last are quite expensive, while not being that cool. You also got one slot for relic on each unit. Some relics are interesting, yeah, but when all my …4 found this helpful
Turn based rogue lite ,deserves to try 5 Min Gameplay : https://youtu.be/WrIrD7yQ_7o2 found this helpful
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