Guild of Dungeoneering Ultimate Edition

Straight forward dungeon game with nice and simple mechanics. The most interesting part of it is the dark humour throughout the game, from the theme songs to the monsters and heros.

A cute and fairly simple card game wherein the player takes the role of a goofy dungeon-diver who spelunks in search of treasure and equipment upgrades, fighting silly bad-guys along the way.

There's not a lot to it, but it's fun enough to fill some few idle hours!

fun game hope your good and at math and chess and will make you rage at times but still fun

Fantastically charming, full of fun items and bizarre characters and enemies. It feels influenced by early Flash games in the best way, but with a layer of charisma smeared on top. Well worth a try.

Very fun, silly game. Can be a little frustrating at times.

I used to play this on my phone. I forgot I even had it on pc. I do not like the changes they made to this ultimate edition.

Honestly, what a silly little gem! There are so many little lyrical songs they wrote that play during certain points in the game and that has me thoroughly delighted! I sought it out and found it on Bandcamp! Now I can envision myself a great dungeoneer (or a really shitty one) as I drive around doing mundane errands that involve no dungeons... Sad...

Anyway, gameplay is in part deckbuilding. You start with a certain amount and type of card (depending on which character you send into a dungeon) and can find items that grant you stuff to your character (like more heath or debuffs/buffs or pads out your deck.) The other part is building a dungeon for your character to traverse through. You place down rooms, collectibles and enemies and do your best to succeed. If you don't? No big. You're a guild! More idiots will flock to your guild and ultimately their death, maybe, each time you complete or die in a dungeon. Apparently that's very normal. The game expects the death tally to be so egregious, one of the tiles for your guild is a graveyard. With a Gravedigger no less and yes, you can send them into a dungeon to fight. lol Oh and you do build out your guild. You can buy areas that give you a character to go put in a dungeon, or a blessing to help them out, or more item cards to find in said dungeon. I've said dungeon a lot but hey! It's called the Guild of Dungeoneering and it's wicked good fun! lol

Simple, silly, and so fun every time.

Cute art style, funny presentation, fun gameplay. Just a nice simple game.

A fun game that is easy to learn yet can be quite difficult at times. Once you start playing it continues to captivate you with its thematic artwork and excellent humour. A must try for all deckbuilding fans!

A fun game held back by some limitations in gameplay, some dungeons you just don't draw the map tiles needed to accomplish the goal in a reasonable amount of time. In others you get some powerful items offered and you just run away with the game.
There is some interesting gameplay in the simple style and very simple UI helps this. I didn't have any problems learning how to play the game. (initially I did when I had never played a card game before, and came back some years later to give it another shot and found it comically easy after playing several games now)

You'll lose a few adventurers just down to bad luck, sometimes you'll just get wrecked by being forced to fight an enemy above their level. And sometimes you (or at least I) make mistakes, it happens but those mistakes can cost your adventurers their lives, something the game makes very clear to the player and it's not even meant to be a big deal, more adventurers will sign up very quickly.

So the interesting thing about this game is the maps are basically randomly generated from a set of tiles/enemies and loot. You build the dungeon, ideally towards a specific goal (kill the boss, collect X gold things and so on), unfortunately it's not quite as fun as it sounds. You'll sometimes get some very strong enemies you have to place, other times you'll get swamped with lots of low level opponents on the map and the dungeon will feel like a chore.
There's a little bit too much rng in what map cards are offered, and no way to edit or adjust the drawing of cards for that mechanic.

The actual combat is fairly quick and once you get to grips with the game. I'll say the first level or two of your adventurers seems to be when they're most vulnerable which is problematic because this is when the players are first using them, so most folk will never find out the stronger versions of your little gang of adventurers. (the traits can be powerful)
The biggest issue for me is that hp is just a bit too important, just a single point is enough to swing the outcome of some fights.

You get to customise them but it's very basic, some hairstyle changes, rename them and a choice of 1 male or female voice. I started to get glazed eyes after customising my 8th or 9th adventurers, at some point the random visuals don't really matter, all that really matters at least to me was being able to complete the dungeons without losing the adventurers.

The level ups for the adventurers were a little limited, I think they mostly got +1 hp and after completing a dungeon they got a trait. I would have liked a bit of a skill tree to open up, rather than yet more rng.
The only real choice the player has in character customisation is what item they get to pick when they get the option in each dungeon.

The game is okay overall, it functions well (as it should, it's pretty simple in presentation). But eventually I saw through most of the mechanics over time and became a bit disappointed in how it wasn't simple enough to just let me have a fun time (adventurers die pretty easily), or complex enough for me to feel in control (lacking higher levels of customisation in various areas).
Yet the game is fairly hard, particularly when you're first fighting a type of enemy for the first time in various types of dungeons. Once you get how to beat them it's no big deal, but until that point it's not a fun time.
It is however quick, each run is easily 30 minutes to complete or less so it's hard to feel to upset about it.

Honestly if I could offer on a sliding scale of review somewhere in the neutral region between positive and negative I would. (when I was having fun it was close to 8/10 experience, when I wasn't it was more like 3/10. I don't know how to boil that down into one score)
You might enjoy what's on offer if you're really curious but for the most part new games do most of what this one does better and in more advanced and/or intuitive ways.

Ever since slay the spire came out it's hard to argue anyone buy this game over something like that. Or even darkest dungeon. Or a whole host of other card games/rpgs if you want that kind of experience.

I respect this game for trying to tie together card games and dungeon delving but it just wasn't quite there for me. Not strong enough card mechanics to engage me on an intellectual level and not strong enough story/setting to get me immersed in the world/adventurers. Too hard to let me take it lightly and too comedic for me to take it seriously.

Anyways I'd still like to thank the devs for giving it a shot and working on the game for a good while after it came out. So many other devs just abandon projects if they're not immediate successes.

Oddly fun cheeky little game.

Did you like playing Munchkin with friends, but you got old and got responsibilities? Never hang out and play games? This game is like playing Munchkin by yourself. At least you have memories of having friends, right?

Seriously, though. Feels like playing the solitaire version of Munchkin.

TL;DR:
-Dungeons feel the same
-Build variety is bad
-Absurdly grindy
-Sound balancing issues
-Had plenty of time to iron out the kinks
-Not worth the price

6/10

Just started a fresh playthrough hoping the game had been improved, and it's disappointing. The gameplay loop of this game is still very basic and repetitive. All the dungeons feel basically the same, and build variety isn't very substantial.

Right now I have a character who gets +1 to heals, and is basically immortal. The best play is the same thing every time: light enemies on fire and sustain heals until they die. I'd kill him on purpose except that the other characters aren't that different, and I'd just be gimping myself.

Guild upgrades are cheap for the first tier but everything after that is an absurd grind. Four hours in and I've only bought 1 out of 12 tier 2 upgrades, and the ones in tier 3 are four times as expensive.

Also there's random sound balancing issues. Some classes/enemies have startling loud sounds compared to the rest of the game, and there's no way to manually balance the audio.

The game would need a lot of work to fix, and if the devs haven't fixed it by now they likely won't. Not worth the time or price.

I just LOVE this game! I truly DO! I can't wait to see what other games this group of most likely interesting creators, put out. Great Games Guys!

This is a very fun, very simple, and still occasionally quite difficult game. I find myself playing it for a few hours here and there when I want a distraction for a little while. Then I come back to it several months later and do the same. Very enjoyable.

Pretty fun tbh. I'll probably play it some time.

Fun to play. An awesome background game for when you are on long telephone calls.

worth it at any price if you enjoy something casual with a fun design aesthetic, pleasant soundtrack, and commentary.

Enter an adorable dungeon with funny characters, and then get smashed to bits.

I don't know if I could recommend this game at full price: it's okay but I think the concept really lends itself to some inescapable failures which is never fun to experience.

I think if you see it on sale for 50+% off, it's totally worth it to try it at the very least though.

It's the same as the original game without really making things fun; I don't see the ability to resurrect any of my old characters and the buffs you give in the game-play settings are pretty much useless, your characters are put into a meat grinder no matter what you do, all it takes is a bad hand, and an inexperienced player who doesn't know the rules. On top of that the stupid bard has nothing good to say for hints or clues on how to pass a tough character...

...play nice? Not in this programmers vocabulary. You can't do much more than make a character hot-dog look like a dressed up theme meal and stuff it into the dungeon's mouth.

First off don't pay attention to my time, that's only because I recently got the game on Steam, I have clocked DAYS worth of play on the mobile version. This has to be hands down one of my favorite games of all time, the music alone should be enough to get others to play. I love the difficulty to the game too, feeling rewarded when gear I've picked up from previous fights give me the ability that I need to survive the next encounter. Highly recommend this game to anyone and everyone, especially fans of dungeon crawlers and management games.