DUNGEON ENCOUNTERS on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information
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Dungeon Encounters is a unique dungeon exploration RPG in which you lead an expedition to chart the depths of an otherworldly labyrinth. Plan and prepare to overcome numerous obstacles, solve puzzles, and defeat monsters. Strategize to survive!
DUNGEON ENCOUNTERS is a rpg, jrpg and exploration game
developed and published by Square Enix.
Released on October 14th 2021 is available only on Windows
in 2 languages: English and Japanese.
It has received 510 reviews of which 349 were positive and 161 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.6 out of 10. 😐
The game is currently priced at 29.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 10.52€ on Instant Gaming.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows® 10 64-bit
- Processor: AMD A8-7600 / Intel® Core™ i3-3210
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: AMD Radeon™ R7 240 / NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 730
- DirectX: Version 10
- Storage: 2500 MB available space
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This is a hidden gem of a game, it tinkers around with the common tropes of RPGs in a refreshing way: No heavy-hitting story-- there is just one paragraph and a challenge: get through the dungeon maze. No random encounters-- you see the encounters on the map, you can view your battle log to see what monsters you'll face within said encounter so you can change your gear load out appropriately before you fight. No traditional "side quests"-- the side quests come in the form of riddles, math puzzles, and "x marks the spot" style treasure hunting that you have to solve in order to obtain the reward, which is usually a new unique item or character. No drawn-out combats with flashy animations that you watch several hundred times during your play through-- static images represent the characters, you get in, you get out, and on to the next thing. Combat is somewhat like a puzzle to solve in and of itself-- because some monsters have different defenses or immunities, you have to mix-and-match physical and magic AND/OR melee and ranged attacks in order to defeat enemies. You get abilities that allow you to manipulate your dungeon crawling-- you can warp around squares, hop over squares, warp up a dungeon level, warp down a dungeon level, etc. It gives you options to get around obstacles, which is always fun. The only downside is the production value. It feels on the cheap side. But I **REALLY** appreciate that a developer had the cajones to make an RPG that leaned heavily on the mechanics of their game rather than the writing and aesthetic, which is the more popular thing to do nowadays.
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It's a great dungeon crawler that feels like it hates you at times, but everything about it is thoughtful and well made. The friction here serves a purpose, unlike a lot of RPGs that just waste your time and pad everything out with busywork.
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Dungeon Encounters is very bare-bones and minimalist, but that just means that the parts that remain are done well.
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At some point, somebody decided that every JRPG would be a playable anime, and boy do I get bent out of shape every time I'm reminded of that. Shall we list the other sins of modern JRPGs? Scripts written for children, stories more stale than last week's challah, combat that goes nowhere and tries nothing. DUNGEON ENCOUNTERS jettisons all of that, and with all the cruft removed it's like a bolt of lightning. It's cruel, it's uncompromising, it's so opaque it has a puzzle based on Superbowl scores. I implore you to support weird JRPGs. If you don't, soon all of them will be set in Japanese high schools and I will start sticking forks in my eyes.
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An interestingly weird minimalist dungeon crawl style jRPG. Recommended if you are a fan of JRPGs and are interested in seeing a weird, competent deconstruction of jRPG mechanics. The game takes the basic mechanics of JRPG combat and exploration, strips them down to their fundamentals, and makes something as interesting as possible with what's left. I think it is a successful experiment, but it wont be to everyone's tastes. Exploration: You explore a dungeon made out of a large 100 x 100 x 100 3d grid, starting from the top, and fighting increasingly more powerful monsters as you dig deeper down in the cube, each layer a different "level", and every 10 layers make up a stratum of the dungeon with its own set of enemies, visual themes, music and level design gimmicks to keep things fresh. Some grid spaces are marked by white or black hexadecimal numbers (00,01,02... through FC,FD,FE,FF) that mark those grid spaces as special. Black numbers mark the location of random battles, and are scattered at random every time you enter a floor. White numbers are fixed special locations, such as stairs up/down, special abilities to collect and shops. Along the way, you discover new movement and exploration abilities you can use to explore, such as a leap that skips over a few spaces, or the ability to dig straight up or straight down one level. These abilities allow you to find shortcuts by figuring out short 3d paths through the maze that allow you to return to safety in few steps, or sometimes allowing you to find secrets or access special locations on certain levels. However, some of these abilities are dangerous to use: One of the "dig down" abilities, if used carelessly, can result in your party falling through the entire maze and down into the void below, which leads to your whole party getting scattered all over the map. Combat: Battles use a simple but effective, stripped-down active time battle (ATB) system such as found in most Final Fantasy games from FF IV onward. Much of battle strategy comes down to prioritising targets in combat, choosing the right attack ability for the right enemy, and building a party with varied attack options so you can reliably take down any combination of enemies with various strengths and weaknesses. The game manages to do this with shockingly simple components that strip these sorts of combat fundamentals bare, removing nearly all obfuscating layers that would otherwise hide them. Enemies and party members all have very simple characteristics and combat actions which you can see at a glance during combat. You know exactly how much damage your attacks do, and how much damages enemies can soak up before they die, which allows you to pick exactly the right moves in combat to eliminate your foes while taking as little damage as possible. Enemies have three separate life bars: HP, Physical Defence and Magical Defence. You need to deplete either physical defence or magical defence (using physical or magical attacks) before you can attack an enemy's life directly. Your own defense bars replenish between battles, but your characters' life bars do not. A lot of enemy variety comes simply from giving them a different balance between these three numbers. There are some patterns in their designs, such as undead enemies always having exactly 1 hp but high physical and magic defence, making them very vulnerable to the few rare abilities and weapons that pierce defence and attack life directly. There are also flying enemies that cant be targeted with Melee attacks, and Reflecting enemies that bounce Spell attacks back to the caster. The weapons/abilities you can equip to your party members are very straightforward, and can all be described with only 5 characteristics: Damage Amount (from 1 to 999999), Damage Variance (either Fixed or Random), Damage Type(Physical or Magical), Range(Melee or Ranged) and Targeting (Single or Multi). All abilities and weapons are just different combinations of these, with very few exceptions. Conclusion - It is impressive how much depth the game manages to pull out of such stripped-down mechanics, it really squeezes every last drop of blood out of that stone. it feels like playing a JRPG that's been taken apart, all of its pieces labelled and categorised for you to poke at as you play. Never quite played any other game like this. It's not for everybody, but I think if you played a lot of JRPGs before, this could be interesting to you. If you're not sure, get it when its on sale.
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Frequently Asked Questions
DUNGEON ENCOUNTERS is currently priced at 29.99€ on Steam.
DUNGEON ENCOUNTERS is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 29.99€ on Steam.
DUNGEON ENCOUNTERS received 349 positive votes out of a total of 510 achieving a rating of 6.56.
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DUNGEON ENCOUNTERS was developed and published by Square Enix.
DUNGEON ENCOUNTERS is playable and fully supported on Windows.
DUNGEON ENCOUNTERS is not playable on MacOS.
DUNGEON ENCOUNTERS is not playable on Linux.
DUNGEON ENCOUNTERS is a single-player game.
DUNGEON ENCOUNTERS does not currently offer any DLC.
DUNGEON ENCOUNTERS does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
DUNGEON ENCOUNTERS does not support Steam Remote Play.
DUNGEON ENCOUNTERS 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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