Reviews - Stevensonbak

NOTE: This is my opinion on the FREE version.

I was enticed into playing this by its Minecraft/Terraria multiplayer-like gameplay, with the awesome twist of deliberately using the terrain and your characters abilities to attack the enemy team and defend your player-built fortress.

All of the game mechanics work well, but the reason I don't give this game a perfect score is the massive gap between the casual and first-time players and the pros and veterans. The first groups mentioned can be frustrating to work with and often cost your team games for silly reasons, and on the other side of the spectrum, the latter are capable of gamebreaking feats of skill (like the infamous shield-bomb jump) and often happen to be friends on the same team capable of perfectly coordinating their efforts; kind of a non-issue since this is possible in almost every competitive multiplayer team game, anyway.

Oh, and the griefers... You know, those nasty kids who switch teams temporarily to utterly destroy your defenses and switch back to the opposing side to exploit the weakness they just created.

I write reviews to try to inspire some thought in potential buyers, not scare them away, so definitely pick this game up if these issues I've noticed don't phase you. The only reason I'm not buying it is because I'm not willing to take the time to learn an entirely new set of skills just for a video game; I would become more of a robot than a gamer if I tried to be good at this game, haha!

I am not a huge fan of of roguelikes or even RPG's to begin with, (I don't consider games like The Elder Scrolls that I play to be full fledged RPG's) but after watching a couple videos on youtube I was instantly drawn to it.
Even on the most punishing of difficulties, it is intensley addictive and fun thanks to the powerful feeling you get from progressing and the humorous dialogue and text that accompanies almost every item, enemy, and stat description present in the game.
If you don't like turn based strategies, RPG's, or dungeon crawlers... Who Cares?
Pick this game up, get over the initial difficulty and minor frustration, and you'll be crushing Diggles in no time.
Hundreds of them, if you're playing on Permadeath.