I wanted to mass-download my favorite game characters but this workshop of yours is unintuitive and slow to download.

Now I know why the game is almost dead despite looking surprisingly promising on the surface.

This was always an anti consumer decision that probably killed the game, but now with the hindsight of what happened to Garry's Mod featuring "copywritten content" and getting DMCA'd to shit, was this actually a better move?

Either way still doesn't excuse how fucking terrible the in game search and creation is

I was excited to see the workshop tab. Then I came here.

I don't know, frankly having seen what happened to gary's mod i'm kind of glad that they are hiding the workshop.

it still depresses me this game took this route, steam workshop has been crafted over like 10 years to be as easy as feature rich and easy to use.

heres what i gathered about the pros and cons
pros:
- multi platform

cons:
- no longer updated
- often confusing
- half functional searching
- hides available content until after purchase
- slower downloads
- no user feedback

I hate they said "privacy" and "convenience" as if you want privacy on the steam workshop, set your item to friends-only or hidden. If you want convenience, steam workshop is FAR more convenient!

and to nitpick, for the image to say "rapidly-growing" is also a complete lie since the game has been dead for 2 years.

and for a complete different nitpick, adding remote play was stupid as the game has no controller support, so everyone has to take control of your mouse and wait their turn to move it, its really lazy and difficult. To say it has any coop capabilities (remote play implies coop) is a lie.

Your decision to do this probably killed the game. The way to make new characters is confusing and abysmal. If you cleaned up the interface and made things much more clear to understand, it might be fine. But the way everything is done with the search is unreliable, and terms often have double meanings. If I look for status effects, I don't find "decreased armor" or whatever the value you guys use for that. On top of that, creating a custom character is practically impossible since all the values keep shifting when you try to adjust another one. I understand this is probably an attempt to keep game balance, but unfortunately it just makes character creation a fight. Instead of making it easy to grab an awesome character that might be overpowered to make appropriate adjustments, you need to learn all the terms, figure out how they set it up, bla bla bla not worth the trouble. I shouldn't need to spend 6 hours fixing a Goblin Slayer character. I want to slay goblins.

In response to the comment by Lord Haard. Yes the 'idea' is fine. Here is the problem. they say there are 10,000+ items and growing, yet there is no search system implemented to separate anything other than popularity, name (if you even know what to type in), and most recent. Even something as simple as filtering by class type would be useful. Instead the game vomits 10,000 downloadable into a search result and good luck finding what you want. I excused this 2 years ago assuming they devs would come back and ad this, but i guess i was wrong to assume they wanted to make this game better.

that comment looks ai generated as fuck

It's a very good idea, in-game addies, and here's why.....

Advantages of In-Game Add-ons in Popup Dungeon:

Seamless Integration: In-game add-ons seamlessly integrate within the game's framework, ensuring a smooth and uninterrupted user experience. Unlike external platforms like Steam Workshop, in-game add-ons eliminate the need for players to navigate away from the game, enhancing accessibility and convenience.

Enhanced Customization: The in-game add-on functionality in Popup Dungeon empowers users to create and modify intricate gameplay elements, including characters, items, and environments, with a greater degree of customization and creative control. This direct and integrated approach fosters a more immersive and tailored gaming experience.

I came to see if I could make the game enjoyable with some cool workshop stuff.....
I'll just uninstall.

TBT is steam level 0

WTF is this crap?

Steam should not allow something like this

You fools

This is the worst decision ever made for a game. Trying to find ways to have control and monetize mods, apparently was the goal. So bad.

Janky and hard to navigate

So, we're not able to upload and share our own created adventurers and campaigns directly to this workshop?? That's ability is a large reason why I purchased this game.

Meh. it works. Found what I was looking for. Could it be more functional? Sure. Is it likely to change? Prolly not.

Terrible idea. Let us browse the workshop with Steam so we can actually see what we are looking for.

This mod is fully functional

It's completely broken

As DigiDragoon said, the search doesn't exactly feel robust and it's not always clear why something is popping up in your results with no apparent relation

The in-game download manager is kind of clunky and search terms rarely work.

is it even working? so far, it doesn't. do I need to set this stupid thing up to see UGCs?

There are no in game downloadable assets I can see. I'm using the in game thing and nothing shows?

@jaargo2000

The dev could have done both. Having an in-build mod download system for those don't use steam, and have workshop support. Both Amazing Cultivation Simulator, and From Jianghu done it for their game. And there's really no excuse not to do it, when two Indie Chinese team managed to code something like this since Mainland China (both the state and private sector) is notoriously hostile towards things like comic and game industries.

The dev (BEEP)ed up, and shot their own system in the foot when they dropped workshop support.

oh no

Everyone, this game is not Steam exclusive, and making and sharing creations is a core part of the game play loop. And a single character can link together 40+ assets. Their browser handles all that without duplication (meaning 5 characters sharing 10 assets only has 1 copy in database)

So they had a content browser inside the game without Steam.

This "mod" is just a hook to link the in-game browser to include a second DB hosted on the Workshop.

The "content control" is for flagging mature content because it is SUPER easy to upload images that aren't appropriate.

Go to options to turn on mature content to see more options. You can also toggle and option (default off) that allows you to vote down voted content. Which is how the game keeps bad content hidden. So if you see a character that does not function, down vote to hide it.

i got this from the ukraine support bundle and i'm a little disappointed after reading some of these comments and finding this, why not just put everything on the steam workshop?

Well. I was going to play this, but apparently the supposed workshop support isn't actually real. Couple that with what is apparently a terrible in-game UI when Steam Workshop is legit one of the best modding platforms around and easy to set up, and my motivation is dead. If the devs are pulling this sh*t, I'm frankly too scared of what else they might try to give it a shot now. Someone let me know when they decide to backpedal on this hilariously terrible and shortsighted decision.

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Honestly the Steam Workshop would be a lot more user friendly and a lot more creator friendly, if you aren't going to actually use the workshop it would be nice not to have it on your game or to at least make a comparable in game workshop. I'm glad that a handful of high quality items were easy to find but most of what i am seeing in game is either straight up bad or is by someone who obviously isn't as experienced as some other mod makers, it would be nice if it was easier to filter out some of those

This is the worst.

How do we actually use this in game? I can't find any option to pull assets. Who thought this was a good idea?

The search function in both the workshop menu and in game downloaded assets menu needs to be fixed, or at the bare minimum have additional filter options introduced, it shows unrelated items when you search for a term. The bare minimum required addition is the ability to only show items with the exact search string in the title, so if you search for say "Bear" you can use this option to only see items that have the word Bear in the title, which would be good as searching for Bear in Ability data gives nine or so items with Bear in the title, and then three and a half pages of items that don't have Bear in the title. An additional good one would be to make it have the exact phrase matched but not in the middle of another term, so for example "Bear" needs to be separated by spaces or dashes for it to be caught by the search if you enable this option.

The in-game content search feature is busted and doesn't have enough search options. Whats the top RATED character? Who has the most downloads in the last week/month/year? Searching by "new" or "trending" is going to show me a sliver of whats available and I can't search for characters by name because I CAN'T SEE THE WHOLE CATALOGUE to learn their names.

Having a massive backlog of player characters is cool, but not when you can only see "Whatever the community published this week".

This is a terrible, terrible system. You can't find anything at all. It's unusable. Imagine that you want to make a party of, say, cowboys. You can't. You'll never find enough even if they do exist.

I cannot understand why the devs would go out of their way to make the game worse. Like, actively and deliberately put in EXTRA WORK to make the game WORSE for end users. It's nonsense.

i completely forgot why i stopped playing this first week of release and i came back and tried to install some mods from the workshop - Thanks for reminding me why this game remains uninstalled.

IT SUCKS. The downloading progress bar just randomly stops and the cancel option will never work, then I need to restart the game again and again. So frustrating.

Uhms... Rei decideds to check ons this because the in-game character search is *reallies* bad. (Somehows, "catgirl" gets more results than jus' "cat", an' not because it's pullings up more catgirls, an' searchings for Nekomata pulled up virtuallies everything *except" any actuals characters who was nekomata. Rei is kind of afraids to search fors Youkai ors Mononoke.)

also "convenience" my ass. most other game i play use workshop, and searching for the mod you want is easy.

not having a workshop is one thing. having one workshop item that says "yeah we dont have a workshop" is another, much more cocky thing.

Stop being stubborn and use Steam Workshop! No idea why you made this bizarre choice.

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I agree with all the people saying this should be on the steam workshop, the in-game option has NO good way to search for my favorite characters and sometimes it won't download if the character is similar to another. For example I downloaded one version of Ainz and then I ran across another creators version of him I liked better but it refuses to download the new one, it looks like it is then I get only the old one to choose. You also have no way to easily delete a character you have downloaded, instead requiring us to go into the creator and delete it from a number of options that might be attached to the character. Clunky and hard to use. Please use the steam workshop instead.

Steam workshop support PLEASE THANK YOU KINDLY

As others said - "Use Steam workshop!" (or at least improve your own mod installer)

The Ingame Mod thing is hard to look around, i cant even search for mods from same devs and have to manully either try out the names of my fav chars or just sit myself through all sites.

also i like to have the option to look up mods before i buy a game. having cool mods can be a reason to buy it (even more).
Got the game through humble bundle, btw.

Use the steam workshop. I want to advertise my creations on my profile. Don't be daft.

Give your workshop to blockland if you're gonna keep using it wrong!