The Living Dungeon

I never used to be that much of a fan of turn-based strategy games, but in the last few years I've found myself getting quite heavily into a handful: Space Hulk, Space Hulk: Ascension, Warhammer Quest, and just these past few days, a surprising little gem called Skyhill. Now, anyone who's in any way, shape or form a thinking entity knows that games are a bit of a subjective thing, and sometimes you just dig something, and other times you just don't. I really, really dug the aforementioned games - just check out my playing hours on each if you need proof - but I just couldn't get into this one, I'm afraid. It's kinda complicated, kinda confusing, but more importantly than that - 'cause both of those things can be overcome, with time and patience - it's actually kinda BLAND. Never mind the dynamic-looking trailer. Sure, the graphics are generally nice enough, but on the whole the gameplay still feels a tad "clunky", the story and associated artwork in the cut scenes is "clunki...

If you have a high tolerance to frustration then you can pretty much ignore this review. There's some bad art and some cringe-worthy voice acting but otherwise it's an interesting game where the Dungeon is a player in the game and it can change and add enemies to suit itself. However if endless clicking on confirmation dialogs whilst you replay the same level - hoping to not get screwed by the random number generator - is not your thing you might want to read on. First let's look at what should been obviously left out. Seriously, stuff that's been added to the game that makes it worse. Confirmations for everything. Why does the game world disappear to be replaced by a (terribly drawn) picture of the character whose turn is about to start? Why must I confirm that their turn is about to start? Many, many party based RPGs and squad based games have come and gone without the need to acknowledge the start of every single party member's turn. Similarly for confimations of the end of...

This could be fun. This has great basic ideas. But then you get to play it and it just is such a slow interface. Each turn you have to reposition the camera as the system does not remember your camera position. Each turn is giving you a pause screen. And that is per character. AI calculations for such a small board should not even be noticeable yet they take time and slow down the game flow. This could be great and if you do not mind a very slow pace it might be for you. It wasn't for me and I can not recommend it as is.

I had to change my review. First I wanted to say THIS DEV TEAM IS AWESOME!!!!.. I had some slight technical issues with the game and I felt the pricing was to high. I got a message from one of the devs by the name of zenorf, he explained to me a bit more on how the camera worked in the game. The game is no longer over priced. It use to be 19.99 now it's only 12.99, I think that's a great price for this game. When I play the game in Tavern mode there is some blur on the lower part of the screen which makes it hard to view your pieces and the game dice, I was told by zenorf he would look into a toggle for it, so we can turn it off or on. The camera controls gave me some problems at first, but that was do to my lack of understand all the controls for it, zenorf explained to me that a simple middle mouse click on my character zooms in on them, allowing me to move around the board much better. Zooming in on your character also makes the blur far less of a hassle. I highly recommend this ...

I recommend this game with reservations. It has some very cool things going for it. First off, if you are a fan of board games (like me) then this definitely scratches that particular itch, most of the time. There are a handful of levels in the story mode that are distinctively puzzles - that is to say, you don't really roll the dice or draw cards but rather attempt to play the dice and cards that you are are prescribed in the correct (and only correct) order to succeed the only way possible. These levels, for me, are the weakest part of the game. Yes, there is satisfaction from figuring out the solution - and you will have to figure it out, the game isn't big enough to be able to find any walkthroughs for - but the frustration begins to set in quickly when you realize that you want to play a tabletop board game, not a puzzle. Also, the RNG is often unfair. Now, let me clarify that I LOVE randomness in games. My favorite board games are Ameritrash style (Camp Grizzly, Fortune and Gl...

The game is a mix of dungeon twister, heroquest and maybe spacehulk I like it. It is mostly a puzzle game in story mode but the local MP is good with various combos available. E.g. one player as DM against the rest; 2p deathmatch with an AI DM I recommend getting it during this summer sale

I played this with my family before but now I have it myself. Graphics are nice but I prefer tavern mode to dungeon mode since it looks and feels more like a board game. The single player game is very hard, but I really like playing with my brother.

HARDWARE: Windows 10, i5 3570, GTX 1070. No crashes, good framerate. A clever concept, a series of room puzzles in a clockwork dungeon setting, in which you spend your limited abilities to move, defeat monsters and bypass traps; choose poorly and you die. There is some randomness, but success mostly depends on your learning how to properly use your abilities without wasting moves. The game has a light story wrapper to guide you through the various levels, and a good, solid tutorial to teach you how to play. Voiceovers are a little weak; you can tell it's non-Brits attempting British accents, but overall the production values are good.

Sorry not a great game I understand that the people giving good reviews might be friends with devs or just die hard fans, but this is not a great game save your money and move on. Please work on your game and update it to get a better honest review instead of lying to people.

Fun, unique game that requires strategy with a dungeon format. The customer service is what seperates this game from others IMO. I had an issue and wrote on steam forums and within a couple hours a developer replied and messaged me on how to fix it. It was a great feeling that someone cared enough about my gameplay to help me endlessly. Thank you!