The simple animations aren’t anything to write home about, but there’s enough personality here to keep things from getting dull. While the enemies at the start are mere flies for you to swat away, they get more vicious and foreboding as you move down. Think something along of the lines of a slightly more serious episode of Scooby Doo. However, the overall tone is still quite foreboding.

The colors pop off the screen, and the enemies all look like goofy flash animations. That isn’t normally a big deal, but the intro is so well done that you’ll likely want to see more of that world.įrom a presentation standpoint, the game uses a humorously dark look. There are a couple of side story bits where you fend off a goblin attack and help resolve a scarecrow strike, but don’t expect any sort of plot. You kind of just go through dungeon after dungeon until the end. Humanity’s last hope depends on adventurers who dare to trek through dangerous dungeons in order to slay the monster.Īfter this neat intro, very little story is to be found. The three new continents are soon overrun by monsters. Shattered Lands starts off with a pretty great intro about people sucking mana from the ground and eventually causing the partial collapse of the global continent. Can this tile flipping dungeon crawler impress in one of the most crowded genres on the market? To prove this, Shattered Lands has made its debut on steam.

The Dungelot series has existed as a footnote on mobile devices for a while now, but the developers think they’ve finally got it right. The roguelike genre has only been getting stronger in recent years, and there seems to be no end to the innovation that indie developers will bring to their attempts.

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