Attack value hits your shields first, which absorb a certain amount of damage and then it hits your HP very standard fare but familiarity can sometimes be comforting. There’s a percentage chance to hit that can frustrate but it can be counteracted with the right items, otherwise it’s easy to predict how much damage you will take and if you’ll win a certain encounter. Thankfully the game deals mostly in absolutes, so the RNG factor is kept to a minimum, certainly in battles. You can avoid most fights but monsters block adjacent squares and the key to the next floor is often in their clutches so you sometimes have to enter the fray. Most discoveries play out as you might expect equipment offers stat boosts, traps affect you negatively and enemies invite you to turn-based combat. Each step reveals one of many different thing, generally falling under a classification of good or bad. Reviewers like to connect the dots between games so readers can quickly judge their interest yet that becomes pretty tough when it’s a largely unique experience.ĭungeon floors are set out as a grid that can be explored in any order from your starting point, uncovering one tile at a time. Not very helpful, I know, but with the formula being shared only by two niche mobile predecessors, it becomes difficult to make comparisons you can relate to. However, that’s not to say it’s that much like those games. The gameplay in Blackfire Games’ Runestone Keeper is something of an amalgamation of Minesweeper, Dungeons of Dredmor and Desktop Dungeons. Luckily, both questions have the same response. ![]() It splits the review down the middle does it offer enough to fans of Dungelot to leave behind familiar stomping grounds and does it offer an interesting experience to those that are blissfully unaware of the games it draws upon? I realise a lot of people are detached from the mobile world so the comparison will be lost on most but there is much more than a passing resemblance to Red Winter’s series of tile-tapping dungeon crawlers. It’s impossible to review Runestone Keeper without mentioning its clear inspiration, Dungelot.
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