Once upon a Dungeon

"Once upon a Dungeon" is a mobile app that's been dumped on Steam as if it was a real PC game (it's not)... it's a cash grab from greedy mobile devs. The game is an unabashed ripoff of the open source Hack/Rogue games with a badly done retro pixel/MSPaint tileset. Gameplay is nearly identical to Hack/Rogue but with a dumbed down interface and shallower gameplay to accomodate the mobile phone gamer peasants this game was designed and intended for. From a technical perspective, as a mobile app, this doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. The artwork here is terrible, it's a blend of old retro pixel "art" used as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics, and some of the most amateurish MS-Paint style drawings I've ever hurt my eyes on. It's unclear if this is due to lack of budget to arrange someone who can do graphics properly, or lack of talent, regardless, the overall visual quality of the game is extremely low as a result of these decisions. While there are options to change the resolution for the mobile app, all this does is scale up the simplistic 2D art assets used to make the mobile app, which makes little or no difference to th…

Plays like the classic roguelikes but feels simple. I did not get very deep into the game to explore crafting and enchanting. I would only recommend this to someone new to the genre or someone wanting a cheap, accessible game with fairly simple tactics. For other reviews, check out my blog where I review cheap Steam games: https://davesgamesandreviews.blogspot.com/

This was nice- it's an unassuming, fun little game and I really enjoyed it. No greater breakdown than that; just a fun little game, well worth the money.

A decent little game for the price. True the graphics arn't brilliant but one good thing is that you can see the gear ( which is varied ) that you wear on your charachter (even down to your necklace ), and who doesn't like that. There's a classless progression system which I actually found quite pleasing, and upgrade options for your gear which work quite well. The dungeons themselves are a bit bland, but they do have secret walls hiding rooms with tougher monsters and better treasure. As well as rooms that have to be opened with seals ( which you assemble ) and keys that you find in the dungeons, which makes the dungeons themselves more interesting. There's also Statues of gods which when awakened with the right offering will often reward you with a decent item. There's different difficulty options, I personally played on Easy meleeing my way through, but on the final levels I did find myself looking through my spell options ( you find scrolls in your adventures which can be hotbarred and used indefinately depending on mana ) as the bosses did get somewhat tougher. On exiting then restarting the game it will repopulate all the levels, you just have to be aware that if you half c…

If you play roguelikes this is a must try. Ok so the graphics aren't the best I would have loved it if he went pixel art but honestly the graphics are fine when you start playing. The game is amazing such a well done roguelike. For the price I cannot see why any roguelike player would pass on this. Underrated gem.

its too simple and easy, gets to a point you cant die, just collect/craft/ sell/ I ended up running in straight throw anything with my health not going down just killing evrything in sight. Needs to be harder