Dungeon Redemption
- September 4, 2022
- ZeroneGames
Get on SteamDungeon Redemption is an Indie turn-based tactical roguelike where you command adventurers on journeys into the deep of dungeons. Master survival puzzles, and dive into ever-changing maps to guard the holy contracts! The gameplay is challenging enough to satisfy the strategy lovers.
PC
Windows
Reviews
- The game features an addictive gameplay loop with a simple yet deep tactical system that encourages strategic thinking.
- It offers a variety of weapons and abilities that can be combined for unique strategies, enhancing the overall experience.
- As a free-to-play title, it provides a worthwhile experience for fans of turn-based strategy games, despite its unfinished state.
- The game suffers from significant balance issues, with steep difficulty spikes that can make early levels frustrating and unwinnable.
- Visuals are often drab and poorly designed, making it difficult to see important elements on the battlefield due to a lack of contrast and clarity.
- The camera controls are problematic, with a locked angle that hinders gameplay and makes it hard to assess the battlefield effectively.
- gameplay6 mentions
- 50 % positive mentions
- 17 % neutral mentions
- 33 % negative mentions
The gameplay is characterized by an elegant design that is simple yet deep and addictive, featuring complex mechanics such as pushing enemies and strategic positioning. However, it suffers from repetitive elements due to similar map layouts and enemy types, which detracts from the overall experience. While the challenging nature encourages repeated play, the game requires balancing and quality-of-life improvements to enhance variety and fix issues with level generation.
“The elegant design is simple and playable, with gameplay that has depth and possesses an addictive quality.”
“The combination of pushing enemies into other enemies, using environmental barriers, causing them to fall into pits, positioning their attacks on other enemies, taking sacrificial damage, and blocking the next inbound wave makes for some complex, yet engaging gameplay.”
“In a strange way, the short game loop and challenging nature of the gameplay had me returning to play it beyond what it should have.”
“Repetitive gameplay caused by using similar map layouts and the same environmental and enemy types.”
“What is essentially a demo needs a lot of balancing, some quality of life improvements, and a small number of changes to vary gameplay enough and fix its run/level generation.”
- story3 mentions
- 67 % positive mentions
- -67 % neutral mentions
- 100 % negative mentions
The game's story is revealed through a storybook that unlocks as players win battles, providing a written narrative that delves into the backstory of characters and the game world. However, some users have noted balance issues, with certain missions being unwinnable, which can detract from the overall experience.
“The storybook to unlock: winning battles reveals the backstory of characters and the game through a written narrative.”
“The storybook to unlock: winning battles reveals the backstory of characters and the game through a written narrative.”
“The storybook to unlock reveals the backstory of characters and the game through written narrative, but it feels disjointed and lacks depth.”
“There are balance issues; some missions are unwinnable, which detracts from the overall narrative experience.”
“The story is presented through a storybook format, but it often feels tedious and fails to engage the player.”
- graphics3 mentions
- 67 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 33 % negative mentions
The graphics received mixed reviews, with some users noting that the game ran poorly despite its low graphical quality, while others appreciated the visuals as quite good. Overall, the graphics seem to be a point of contention among players.
“The graphics are quite good; the music is okay.”
“+visuals”
“Ran weirdly terribly for how low the graphics quality is.”
- music2 mentions
- 50 % positive mentions
- 50 % neutral mentions
- 0 % negative mentions
The music in the game is generally considered acceptable, though it may not stand out as a highlight compared to other elements like graphics.
