Depths of Peril

A really cool action RPG, while the graphics suck it maeks up for that with some unique features. Namely quests in this game are dynamic: take to long to rescue someone, and they die. Leave a dungeon boss alone? They'll start an uprising. leave that alone? It'll keep getting wrose untill there's an attack on the town. On top of that, the whole time all of this is happening, you're actively competeing for control of the town with several other clans, that you can trade, form alliances with, or declare war on. I highly reccomended tihs for people who like games like Titans Quest or Torchlight 2, but want something with a few unique tricks up it's sleeve.

So, i have played another game by this same developer called Din's Quest, and the developer's actually care about their games too. I asked a question in the forum, and this game is 5-6 years old in retail and they answered it. After beating it on easy, i decided to write this review, so here is my pro/con breakdown: PROS: ~Great ARPG very similiar to diablo 1 and 2 ~You can choose which class you want ~Lots of quests and dungeons ~Covenants for who is to rule the town ~Treasure like in diablo that is colored for rarity ~Teleports and gates ~You can recruit random heroes on the map walking around and killing monsters CONS: ~One town in the whole game. This game is basically confined to one town, and you go out to do dungeons and such. ~The difficulty is quite high in my opinon, even on easy ~Recruiting is a pain since the quest to recruit someone is usually above your character's leve

This precursor to Din's Curse is by no means a simpler game. A bit more rough around the edges perhaps, but the take on party based ARPG gameplay is completely unique. Your party competes with other groups for control over the town. You have all manner of diplomatic tools and victory conditions support alliance wins. All of this takes place in a sweet, if obviously tile based, procedurally generated world, with Soldak's great dynamic questing system. All the other groups are out in this world too, competing to complete the same quests. Groups you are at war with can be fought in the world as well. Indeed the most common path to victory involves crushing the other groups. In order to do this effectively you'll need to recruit your allies carefully, and then see to their development. You also have a hall of your own, where you can post powerful monsters as guards, enshrine relics to give y

A thinking man's action-RPG... Straight from the mind of some genius game-designer, who created a mad-scientist engine, and a game that defines its own genre. This game has a quest system which uses their own game mechanics; it has store-vendors with their own agendas that play out through in-game artificial intelligence. But all in all, I am not sure it is much fun to play, and it sure is not much to look at. The game has a solid tutorial, that has the player completing quests for town merchants, but I still wish it revealed the game mechanics a bit slower. I still felt overwhelmed with the number of new game elements, even before I had a full set of equipment. Well, this is a Soldak game, and that is a really special kind of game designer. You really owe it to yourself to try one of the game demos, just so you can see what they doing. For the most part, I had little trouble with this

It's an indie Diablo-alike with multiple factions each sending their own heroes out into the wilderness to do the quests. You're not just trying to level your character, you're trying to take over your town from up to seven rivals. It's a little rough around the edges, but it brings some fun, interesting ideas to a very well-known formula.