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Grissallia<p>August 23, 2023 - Day 235 - NewPlay Review<br>Total NewPlays: 255</p><p>Game: Desktop Dungeons: Rewind</p><p>Platform: Steam<br>Release Date: Apr 19, 2023<br>Library Date: Apr 19, 2023<br>Unplayed: 126d (4m4d)<br>Playtime: 23m</p><p>Desktop Dungeons: Rewind is Desktop Dungeons Enhanced Edition in 3D.</p><p>Literally.</p><p>Gone are the pixel-art bitmaps, replaced by glorious detailed 3D artwork.</p><p>The gameplay is (at least at this point) identical.</p><p>Like, last night I played through the first map multiple times before I understood it and beat it.</p><p>Tonight, exactly the same map, with the same mobs, and the same drops, but all in 3D.</p><p>So: Desktop Dungeons: Rewind is an isometric 3D roguelike dungeon crawler puzzle game.</p><p>Where last night it was a great example of a game where the gameplay overcomes my dislike of pixel-art games, now the fun gameplay is also pretty.</p><p>Still a pretty standard dungeon crawler. Explore the dungeon, attack mobs. </p><p>However, each square you uncover goes towards refilling your health and mana. You need to explore the fog of war to find mobs, but if you clear the fog of war and then try and kill the mobs, you're gonna have a bad time.</p><p>I cleared the first level with exactly the same strategy I used last night, still hooked. The only reason I didn't keep playing was that it ran into my actual work shift.</p><p>Between dungeons there's some resource management and basic city-building going on, but the game is designed to be played in short chunks. No change, just prettier city-building, in 3D!</p><p>In a shocking and surprising turn of events, Desktop Dungeons: Rewind is:</p><p>4: Good</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/DesktopDungeons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DesktopDungeons</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Isometric" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Isometric</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/DungeonCrawler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DungeonCrawler</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Puzzle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Puzzle</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/3D" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>3D</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/MastodonGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastodonGaming</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaming</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Project365ONG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Project365ONG</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Project365" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Project365</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/NewPlay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewPlay</span></a></p>
Grissallia<p>August 22, 2023 - Day 234 - NewPlay Review<br>Total NewPlays: 254</p><p>Game: Desktop Dungeons Enhanced Edition</p><p>Platform: Steam<br>Release Date: Apr 19, 2023<br>Library Date: Apr 18, 2023<br>Unplayed: 126d (4m4d)<br>Playtime: 32m</p><p>Desktop Dungeons Enhanced Edition is an updated version of Desktop Dungeons (Nov 7, 2013). I'm not exactly sure what makes it "Enhanced", but it was given away free earlier in the year, and if you owned this, you got the sequel "Desktop Dungeons: Rewind" for free, which seemed like a deal that was too good to be true.</p><p>Desktop Dungeons is a top-down bitmap pixel-art roguelike dungeon crawler puzzle game.</p><p>It's also a great example of a game where the gameplay overcomes my dislike of pixel-art games.</p><p>In one sense, it's a pretty standard dungeon crawler. Explore the dungeon, attack mobs. </p><p>However, each square you uncover goes towards refilling your health and mana. You need to explore the fog of war to find mobs, but if you clear the fog of war and then try and kill the mobs, you're gonna have a bad time.</p><p>It took me a few goes to get through the first level, but by the time I did, I was hooked. </p><p>Between dungeons there's some resource management and basic city-building going on, but the game is designed to be played in short chunks.</p><p>Desktop Dungeons Enhanced Edition is:</p><p>4: Good</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/DesktopDungeons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DesktopDungeons</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/TopDown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TopDown</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/DungeonCrawler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DungeonCrawler</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Puzzle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Puzzle</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/PixelArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PixelArt</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/MastodonGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastodonGaming</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaming</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Project365ONG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Project365ONG</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Project365" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Project365</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/NewPlay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewPlay</span></a></p>
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