3 people found this review helpful
Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 5.7 hrs on record (0.2 hrs at review time)
Posted: 12 Aug, 2020 @ 12:21pm
Updated: 19 Aug, 2020 @ 5:24pm

TL;DR This game is a mix of Noita and Rogue Legacy, very fun if you're on a budget :)

I feel like I got off on the wrong foot with this game. Originally, the game didn't work at all for me which led me to leaving a negative review (Initial Review can be found below) and also refunding the game. The developer then got back to me within a few hours of my review telling me that he had updated the game.

All excited I decided to purchase the game again and give it a second try. All the issues I had previously mentioned, were gone. I played a couple of games and had a lot of fun. The enemies were neat, the room layouts looked fairly unique and the particle effects were really good. I played a total of 5 runs (Including the tutorial).

Made it to the boss on 4 of those attempts and noticed that the bosses were quite buff. There is also a Boss strength bar that lowers the more rooms you clear which I thought was a really great system to have implemented. Even with the bar depleted, the bosses still destroyed me in no time. The 2 bosses that I encountered that were a pain in the butt were the Spider boss and the Grim Reaper boss.

Though the game felt a tiny bit unbalanced, I had a blast playing it and will definitely come back to it and follow its progress.

All in all Dungeon Throne actually offers:
  • Great visuals
  • Unique abilities
  • Challenging bosses
  • Good soundtrack
After re-reviewing it, I feel like the price is more than fair and worth a buy.



Initial Review:

TL;DR Game doesn't work :(

I'm willing to accept help for the issues I encountered and change my review.

This game reminded me of Noita which I have played and thoroughly enjoyed so I was looking forward to this game. Upon launching the game, I was greeted with a language selection screen where the only options were spanish or english, so I went for english. I then checked out the settings, adjusted the audio and tried to finetune my controls but found out that you can't even do that. When trying to change your button layout, it just resets to the original button.

I just decided to leave it the way it was, tried to start a new game and was, again, greeted with the same language selection screen. I didn't think much of it and just reselected english. After that, the game brought me back to the menu, I tried starting a game a few more times and the same thing happened. I figured that it may have been a glitch and decided to close and relaunch the game. I followed the same procedure as before with no luck. Repeated the same steps with slight tweaks and nothing worked.

I finally gave up and ended my session of Dungeon Throne before it even began.

All in all Dungeon Throne offers:
  • Settings in english or spanish
  • Pretty okay music
  • Settings in english or spanish again
  • Controls you can't change
  • A cool font
I had pretty high hopes for this game but at its current state I cannot recommend it for this price.
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Developer response:
IceBlocker  [developer] Posted: 12 Aug, 2020 @ 4:36pm
Hello Malley,

I'm working on the error and just made an update to fix it.
The version with the fix would be 1.0.1 which you can see at the bottom left corner.

Since this doesn't happen to me, I'm relying on people to which it does happen.
If the fix didn't work, get back to me.
Thanks for your time and patience.