Also, the gold the first adventurer brought home remains, and you can use that to build up your guild hall like so: It took me a few hirelings to realize that bats (which can sap life) are not a choice enemy in the beginning.īut all is not lost - when one dies, another immediately takes their place. Sadly, poor Mervin didn’t get very far before he met his end. You then send your hired hands out into dungeons. I mean… you can do it better, right? This includes building up a guild hall of various rooms, and hiring adventurers to do your dirty work for you. So, the story begins as you decide to break away from the official Guild to make your own.
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I knew I was in for a quirky ride with this game from the get-go, and it didn’t disappoint. These tavern songs are woven between scenarios, usually on a loading screen, and are often quite amusing. The first thing I noticed was the cute, hand drawn art style and the fun tavern-song music. This does a good job of describing the game at a high level, but I want to go a little deeper into it than that. Using cards drawn from your Guild decks you lay down rooms, monsters, traps and of course loot! Guild of Dungeoneering is a turn-based dungeon crawler with a twist: instead of controlling the hero you build the dungeon around him. The game’s Steam page describes itself as this:
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But it’s easy to look past that because it’s just so darn charming. Actually, the whole game is a set of inter-working systems. I really wanted to put more time into it before I wrote a post about it, but I feel like I have enough of the gist of all the major ideas and systems in the game. I think I picked this up in a bundle somewhere, but it looked interesting, so I gave it a try. I started this month with this game – Guild of Dungeoneering. One of my goals for this month is to get back to trying one new Steam game from my backlog each week.