DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information
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The beloved block-building RPG, DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS, is bringing its handy crafting features to Steam! Weave your own tale as you build your own unique buildings and towns to restore Alefgard to it's former glory!
DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS is a rpg, jrpg and platformer game
developed and published by Square Enix.
Released on February 13th 2024 is available only on Windows
in 11 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America and Traditional Chinese.
It has received 466 reviews of which 416 were positive and 50 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.3 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 27.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 18.23€ on Instant Gaming.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows® 10 / 11 64-bit
- Processor: AMD Ryzen™ 3 1200 / Intel® Core™ i3-6300
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: AMD Radeon™ RX 460 / Intel® Arc™ A380 / NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 750
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 16 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Expected framerate: 30FPS with 1920x1080 resolution and default graphics options, Systen RAM 16GB required when running on Intel GPU.
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Dragon Quest Minecraft is a neat little spin off all about crafting and building towns for your little NPC buddies. There are monsters to slay but no level ups to be had. You'll craft gear to stand a better chance against them and as you progress your town there will be defense events against groups of various monsters where some of your more capable NPCs will aid you. It's a fun game but quite repetitive as every time you clear an area you will move to a new one just to start all over again. Fortunately it doesn't take super long to move on to the next one and gives you a clean build space to try some fresh new ideas. I got a kick out if, you might too.
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I bought the game on the PS Vita back in 2016 and immediately fell in love with it. That’s why I didn’t hesitate to order the sequel as soon as it was released in late 2018—even though only the Japanese version was available at the time. Then, the moment I saw both games on Steam, I bought them again. That pretty much sums up how much I enjoy this series. In short, Dragon Quest Builders is the ultimate simulator I’ve been dreaming of: [*] Interactable furniture like in The Sims [*] Characters with individual needs like in Cultures [*] World customization like Minecraft [*] A strong story like Dragon Quest [*] All seasoned with a genuinely good sense of humor. As a long-time simulation game player, the biggest frustration has always been this: after trying many games, one finally found the exact type that hits the personal niche, only to realize there’s almost nothing else like it out there. Before DQB, the closest games to what I wanted were Cultures and Spore—and those are 20 years ago. Indeed, there are plenty of city-building and sandbox games, but they always seem a bit off in the scale. In Minecraft, building a city without citizens feels like playing a WALL-E simulator. In other city-builders, while there are citizens, it lacks the same level of customization. It really needs the right scale to have a living world. And then there's the final puzzle piece: a strong narrative. What is the city about? Is it a fortress? A small farming village? A commercial hub? Without a story, it's hard to see the proper shape of the city. And a game that balances all of these things is like a perfect carbonara: simple on the concept, but requiring just the right touch to get everything right. DQB is that perfect carbonara I have been looking for. It’s something special. It has citizens with unique personalities, and they aren’t just sitting there waiting for you to meet their needs. They can cook, craft, gather, and even pick up weapons to fight alongside you. All of this happens in a voxelized world where you control everything from the shape of the terrain to the brick in a wall. Sadly, years have passed and we are yet to see a DQB3. I guess it's joining culture and spore to become yet like another series that I might need to wait for decades, or hopefully SE will listen and resurrect it like what SEGA did to VC. Who knows?
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Ignore the play time, I actually had this on switch. This game has been fun enough for me to buy it again on a different console. That should attest to how fun it is. Still waiting for number 3 :(
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Absolutely Great Game But only an alright port to PC... First of all let me preface this, I already played this game through to its completion a few years back on the Nintendo Switch and had an absolute blast with it. I decided to pick this up on Steam again so I can play it again and also play it on my Steam Deck. With that being clear, I have experience in both the original release and this port of it and for everyone who doesn’t know, this is a port to PC from a mobile port so bear that in mind if you expect this to be an upgraded version from the first release (it is not). What’s different from the original release? So here’s my gripes with this port of the game. There’s a whole bunch of changes that I'm not particularly a big fan of in comparison to my experience with the game on the Nintendo Switch. I’ll still rate this game good as a whole but if you can choose between the Switch release and this one on PC, I’d personally recommend going for the one on the Switch instead. But if you can’t, absolutely go for this one, because the game is still great and worth being played. If you’re unsure about it, here’s the changes that stuck out to me while playing. Too many Quality of Life changes In the original release of Dragon Quest Builders there used to be much more limited space in your bag and no direct access to the big storage at the home base, so you had to plan out much more resource management while on expeditions. “Should I give up a slot in my bag for this resource to bring home or should I drop it to grab it later?” “I could take healing items with me, but they also take up a whole slot” “I should take more food with me in case this is a longer expedition, but can I afford giving up another slot for that”? This port of the game just dumps all that and gives you probably double the inventory space compared to the original and direct access to the practically infinite capacity storage placed in the home base from anywhere on the map, making separating the two inventories practically pointless. I get that DQB 2 did this as well, but there it was a necessity due to there being so many more different items than in DQB 1 that it would’ve maxed out your inventory within a few meters of your home base. But this wasn’t a problem in the first game and resource management was an important system to give more depth to the gameplay. Additionally, Tool and Weapon Durability was removed as a whole. In the original release, tools and weapons were an important resource so you had to pick and choose when you should sacrifice some of your precious durability to gather resources or defend yourself against monsters. Having to replace broken weapons and tools was a constant resource sink that also needed consideration. Tools made with valuable materials are strong and durable, but they also need replacing someday so you’ll have to keep that in mind every time you use them. But this port just throws that whole system out of the window and you’ll only ever need to craft tools once and that’s it. It’s basically a permanent upgrade for that chapter of the game. If you dislike durability systems as a whole, then absolutely play this port instead, if you don’t, then the original release is definitely a more interesting experience. The UI is made for the mobile port and is butt ugly compared to how it used to be Due to this PC-port being a port of the mobile port, the UI is also unchanged from how it was made for mobile. I get that you need huge digital buttons on screen for a device with no physical buttons, but you could’ve just dumped those while porting to PC (I’m only glad they actually removed the digital D-Pad or we would’ve had a real big problem). Just make sure to go into the settings and change the UI size to something more fitting for your screen size and turn off the mobile button prompts cluttering your screen and you’ll have a much nicer experience playing the game and actually seeing something past the UI. Though sadly there is no setting for changing the overall UI aesthetic back to the original release so you’ll just have to deal with the inferior visual design (but maybe that’s just my opinion). But is the game good? Oh, absolutely! I wouldn’t buy a game twice (and rate it positively) if it wasn’t good. If you get into this game with the mindset that this is “Minecraft but Dragon Quest” you’re in for a big surprise because it’s way more than that. While yes, it checks off all the boxes of being similar to “famous block game” with all the mining and crafting and building and so on, it feels like there’s a much bigger point to doing these things with the town/base building aspect having a bigger focus in Dragon Quest Builders. With there being a point to building outside of just aesthetics due to NPC requests for certain rooms and buildings, there’s a point to going out and gathering resources and exploring. And since the world in each chapter is handcrafted instead of just procedurally generated, you’re bound to find interesting landmarks with relevance to the story as well. And let me tell you, the story and writing is pretty darn good too. So it’s absolutely worth it to give it a shot for that alone, even if, like me, this is your first experience in the Dragon Quest series (even if it is a spin-off). While to me personally this port is inferior to the original release, I’m still having a blast replaying it. TL;DR: Game is really good. Perhaps even better than “famous block game”. This port isn’t great but better than no PC port at all. If you can, play the original on Switch, if you can’t, play this.
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Love the changes that they made with the PC version, especially the unbreakable equipment! Always loved this game, and love to see that it is a descent price for an older game on Steam.
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DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS is currently priced at 27.99€ on Steam.
DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 27.99€ on Steam.
DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS received 416 positive votes out of a total of 466 achieving a rating of 8.31.
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DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS was developed and published by Square Enix.
DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS is playable and fully supported on Windows.
DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS is not playable on MacOS.
DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS is not playable on Linux.
DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS is a single-player game.
DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS does not currently offer any DLC.
DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS does not support Steam Remote Play.
DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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