Behoarder

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I don’t often write reviews unless I’m thoroughly impressed or depressed with a game. D&D is a classic and a favorite of mine and, don’t get me wrong, I don’t mind a little bit of rng spice. That all being said, this game is just... a good concept with poor execution? Visually, it looks pristine, but let’s talk actual gameplay. The balancing is terrible. The game makes you choose between items or levels, but both seem to be entirely sporadic with the items failing to scale vs the risk to gain them and the monsters becoming boss level after 5 battles. Either way, you’re going to make a bad choice. This would be accept if there was the “grind element” to the game. This being hand in hand with permanent continuation aspects such as leveling, gear, skill trees, etc. But each run yields you a measly bit of gold to unlock classes that don’t even seem worth the investment. All in all, I think with enough tweaking and redesign the game could be enjoyable. However, for now, I’m just left questioning how I just wasted an hour of my life and why this game was released without a balance check.

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D20 rolls for attacks and saves feel an awful lot like waiting for the real die to settle, the two options after every roll (left or right) for battle, rest, or chance lead to monsters that cant be beaten by 1-3 level characters. If you play the chance game (only choose the chance or rest) far enough, the game pushes you into battle with the behoarder with 247 hp who kills you in two swipes. I got to lvl3 with 32hp and behoarder killed me in two rounds while i made zero successful attacks against his 18 ac. Trudgey and seemingly rewardless, this game. 2-7 gold from each run will take 800 runs to get to buy any other starting character.

So this seems like a very very simplified version of dnd mixed with a slay the spire vibe. I love it. And hate it. For a mobile game it is really fun and easy to pick up and put down. The way mobile games should be. However, it lacks and real long term depth. The Behoarder himself is stupidly strong and you encounter him super early on most of the time, when you are way underprepared. Even if you make it to the point where your only option is to fight the behoarder your measly character vs the 250+ hp beast that can 2 shot you is not going to win. Gold is too easy to get and classes are easy to unlock, however once you unlock them gold doesn’t have that many uses outside of buying an occasional relic to start the game off. It is less a game about skill and more just blind gambling and rng. I would definitely add a longer buildup to the behoarder and make characters tankier a little bit and make rests more frequent.

The people on here who are complaining about the chance or difficulty are the people who lack the skill to balance chance rooms and fighting rooms. I beat the beholder within 20 min of the game because of the choices I made. I easily made enough not only for one new character but two.... people just are salty because it’s not as easy as they wanted it to be.

I’m glad I stuck it through the first few frustrating attempts. After some games figured out a way to basically break the game. Beat the Behoarder with a mighty satisfaction. If anyone’s gonna play it just get through that first frustrating part, where it seems impossible, learn how to win, and exploit it. Good and very fun game. Thank you for the experience.