Despot's Game: Dystopian Battle Simulator

Whats the game? its a roguelike dungeon crawler in which you arm your fighters and make them autobattle the rooms inhabitants. Is there more to it? Yes, in almost every room, you'll need to buy more fighters, equip them, select the best combinatios possible, upgrade skills and keep your squad fed. There are also events and side quests which make you or brake you. Other than the normal run, theres challenges and scoreboards. My thoughts: There were so many elements i could have liked and didnt that im not even gonna go into detail, what im gonna do is leave you with my perspective_ The game is competently made, and its premise is "a problem to solve", but its just not fun to solve it.

100%

A fun tactical auto battler mixed into dungeon crawl. It has a lot of references pop culture and weird humor but is pretty fun.

Tiny Build is a publisher I always keep an eye out for and follow because they always have unique and fun games. Despot’s Dystopian Battle Simulator is enough fun title. It’s a kind of auto battler where you select your fighters each with their own unique abilities and weapons and take on levels. You don’t exactly control them and let them do their own thing. There is strategy in choosing the right fighter, but they all seemed pretty balanced as far as abilities and power. So I guess it’s more of just trying what you like. The pixel graphics are really well done and the enemies are also well designed. It’s a fun game to jump in and jump out or to really hunker down. Lots of content to play through and it’s a roguelike so it feels different each time. Challenging at times, but not to where it doesn’t feel fair. Runs really well on Steam Deck and even better on PC. I definitely recommend this title and almost anything tiny build puts out really.

worth your time fine sir

If Steam had a sideways thumb button I'd choose that. This game is a 6/10 realistically. Gameplay: gets stale fast, most of my hours are from achievement hunting which is becoming exhausting, especially the 100 pvp wins because you have to get an hour and a half of pve per 4 pvp rounds half of which you wont win because of bad rng or just having a non meta comp. Vibes: the games cringe in a good way, I enjoyed the humor and the easter eggs for my first couple play throughs, the music is alright, it doesn't get annoying to listen to like many other synth soundtracks. The art style is consistent, albeit nothing to put on the fridge. Overall get the game if its on sale for like $5, its worth doing a few runs so you can do all the quirky lil quests and have a few chuckles.

Fun game