Dungeon Rankers

[code][url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/32732116-IndieGems/]Follow our curator page: IndieGems if you like and want to see more reviews like this one.[/url][/code] Dungeon Rankers is a small roguelike RPG with turn-based battles that pits you against 98 other AI opponents each round in an all-out battle royal and dungeon-crawling game. Each dungeon has 8 floors, with a red flag at the final floor that if you capture, you win that particular dungeon crawl. Otherwise, you have to try to survive as long as possible against all of these opponents, who are entirely hostile to you and to each other. If you rank within the top ten survivors, you earn a predesignated number of points, you also earn bonuses by slaying 10 or more Rankers that round, or getting the Winner’s Flag on the final floor, but the flag only appears when you are the only survivor. Each floor is not particularly large, but you need to avoid or fight mobs and other Rankers in order to progress. The dungeon floors have random spawning of loot that you see on the floor, along with a map you can collect as well as a candle light each floor. The candle lights up the area around you so you can see better, wherea…

At the time of writing this review the game has not been officially released yet so my recommendation may be tempered by the price of the game. The premise is unique! At least I'm not aware of any other roguelike that does this (although there are a LOT of 7DRLs so who knows). It's basically BATTLE ROYALE ROGUELIKE. Haha, yeah, everything is battle royalez these days, muh kittenz. You and 98 AI players battle to the death in procedurally-generated dungeons. There are weapons and items liberally sprinklerized throughout the dungeon. At first the game seems overly-simple: the graphics are really low res, there's no mouse pointer at all- all menu stuff is done with keyboard/gamepad, the field of view is simply limited by what fits on the screen and there's sprites everywhere. Some of these sprites are AI opponents, some are wandering monsters while the rest are weapons, spellbooks, shields, armour, items etc. Movement is strictly 4 way and you have a rest key to skip a turn and get hp back. There's no rest until healed feature so you hold the button down at your own peril. It's not too bad though because time is limited before the ravagers enter the dungeon - super hard dudes who w…

Really nice little roguelike game. The objective is to kill or outlast 98 other NPC players, with a quest item being available beyond that, if you want to get some extra bonus points. There's nothing complex about it, not too many different items and no classes, but you are able to heavily configure the type of character you are based upon the items you find and which ones you decide to use. Sometimes the RNG will screw you - you'll pop up on a new level and be surrounded by monsters that you can't handle. But each game is so fast, you won't get the sensation that you've been cheated out of anything. Each playthrough is no more than about 10 minutes and Dungeon Rankers is turn based, so it adds up to a very light game that doesn't require a big time investment or 100% of your attention. Its a similar sort of game to Desktop Dungeons in that respect, except that I like this better. I've also yet to find a bug. Most games that are $5 or below are complete garbage. But this one is very good. I highly recommend it.

Fun!

i played 1 hour for each dollar ($) i paid

I found Dungeon Rankers to be a rather interesting experience. I found some mechanics to feel slightly unbalanced (magic for example) and the game to sometimes feel a bit RNG dependent with your chances of getting further heavily coinciding with what you find or kill. Still, it is an intriguing idea with a lot of fun elements to it. Initially the player has access to just one type of gamemode which pits him up against several AI opponents - all vying to be the sole remaining ranker at the end of the game. In this mode you attempt to slay your fellow 'rankers' while you avoid getting killed, and advancing to the bottom floor where you'll duke it out with the last rankers to win. There is also another gamemode which is more cooperative - having you work will fellow rankers in an attempt to nab some 'ravager' eggs - ravagers being fun little enemies that you'll hope to never meet as they are essentially this games version of a hunger clock. They work similarly to the Rebel Fleet in FTL for example where they will chase you down if you let them catch up to you. This game is a fairly cheap pick up but I'll note that I might recommend checking it out when it goes on sale - even if it…