Разработчик: Nomad Games
Описание
Play through three classic Fighting Fantasy gamebooks by author Ian Livingstone - Deathtrap Dungeon, Trial of Champions and Armies of Death.
Start as a novice adventurer and rise up through the ranks in these epic tales of deadly traps, fearsome monsters and devious adversaries. Relive these exciting adventures in a whole new way – by powering up your Skill and Luck dice and collecting powerful cards to help you on your quests. Featuring a detailed branching narrative system and multiple difficulty levels, relive these iconic adventures like never before!
In Deathtrap Dungeon, step into the most deadly labyrinth of all... Countless adventurers before you have taken up the challenge, but none have survived. Devised by the devilish mind of Baron Sukumvit, the labyrinth is riddled with fiendish traps and hideous creatures of darkness to trick and test you almost beyond the limits of endurance!
The warped, twisted mind of Baron Sukumvit has completely redesigned the deadly labyrinth of Fang. in The Trial of Champions, new traps and terrors, mazes and monsters await you at every turn. And even before you can enter the labyrinth, you must endure the gladiatorial games of Lord Carnuss, the Baron's evil brother. Can you survive this trial of Champions?
In Armies of Death, Agglax the Shadow Demon is amassing an army of undead warriors to conquer Allansia… and only you can stop him! Commanding an army of over two hundred veteran fighters, you must journey east to meet the enemy head-on. But the Shadow Demon is not of this world and no mere mortal weapons will be enough to destroy him. You’ll need to act quickly, as the longer you spend searching for these powers the stronger he will be.
- Officially licensed game based on the multi-million selling Fighting Fantasy gamebooks.
- A card-based RPG with Roguelike elements.
- A detailed branching narrative system ensures that no two games are ever the same.
- Uses the classic Skill/Stamina/Luck attributes from the gamebooks.
- Unlock monster cards in your Creature Codex.
- Earn XP and level-up your Skill & Luck dice.
- Three difficulty levels.
- Take on powerful beasts from the Fighting Fantasy world such as the Bloodbeast, the Pit Fiend and Agglax the Shadow Demon.
- Unlock character Titles based on your choices.
Поддерживаемые языки: english, french, japanese, simplified chinese
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows 7
- Processor: 1.6 GHz
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Graphics: 1024x600 resolution
- DirectX: Version 9.0
- Storage: 500 MB available space
Mac
- OS: 10.10
- Processor: 1.6GHz
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Graphics: 256MB Video Memory
- Storage: 500 MB available space
Отзывы пользователей
Worth the low price.
I am old enough that I bought these books when they were released on paper. On release. So old. However, at less than a block of A4 printer paper today these are great value no matter the price of nostalgia.
However, however ... the novelty factor started to diminish with each 'book'.
Deathtrap Dungeon is great fun. Well done top down CRPG with just enough challenges and cute artwork that I laughed, cried and snorted my way through with a smile on my face. That smile slowly fell away with Trial of Champions which had events so brutal I questioned the madness of the developers. Then I remembered the damned book was the same ... so I apologise to the developers for my cursing of their pointy little wizard beards. Having sneaked through THAT horror show, with one life remaining, I started the last 'book' Forest of Armies of Rock Monsters and Darkness ... or something. I never finished this one as compared to Deathtrap it was a bathroom bottle of meh.
Anyway, I got 5 hours of fun for less than a heavily discounted £5, relived the fun horror of that pissant wizard in Trials and will never look at a rope in quite the same way. (I think it was under £2 on sale, that's like $1.50 in Freedom Money)
That's great value for an enjoyable few hours. Totally recommend.
Old '80s gamebooks coming to life
This game is based on three old Gamebooks from the '80s, part of the Fighting Fantasy collection:
-Deathtrap Dungeon
-The Trial of Champions
-The Armies of Death
They were all written by Ian Livingstone, co-creator of the series. This game is not at all like reading those old books but instead, it creates a world (or dungeons mostly for the first two parts) where you walk and encounter various monsters, traps and treasures, some random, some based on the books.
You still make choices like going left/right/pick up/look at/etc and you have to fight any monsters you come across using the classic SKILL/STAMINA stats, rolling dices like always.
If you are hoping for the true experience, then there are other versions available. This is a roguelite game separated in 3 parts.
Unlike the previous game (Fighting Fantasy Legends), each story is completely separated and you will always start from scratch when starting a new book/adventure.
You select a character and your stats (SKILL for fights & damaging enemies/some events, STAMINA for health, LUCK for some events) then off you go! The difficulty is also changed and this time, the enemies are always dealing the same damage. Instead, the harder difficulty gives you less lives. Because each time you die, whether by events or with low STAMINA, you restart from the beginning of the book, keeping your experience, items and with Stamina replenished.If you have no lives, then you lose everything and restart the book from scratch. it's actually a bit easier than the previous game.
This means that with an easy difficulty, you can still continue building your character to overcome the tough challenges that these books throw at you and with a higher difficulty, you have less room for errors, maybe even bypassing some known fights which would only reduce your STAMINA.
The 3 stories are separated but they are presented as YOU the hero being always the same person. It's actually quite well done and the flow is good. The graphics to represent the dungeons are pretty nice and you can see that the description from the original book is there even if the art from the books is not present.
Anyway, to have a quick overview of what you have (so that you don't think you get just 3 times the same thing):
-Deathtrap Dungeon, the critically acclaimed beautifully crafted deadly dungeon, with traps, rivals, monsters and trials awaiting you. The whole story is inside the Dungeon but there's plenty to discover, plunder and destroy.
-The Trial of Champions, the sort of sequel as a gamebook is here a direct sequel. A new sequence that isn't present in the book is created to bridge the stories (even if your character starts again with 0xp/no inventory). The difficulty is much higher than the previous one, more devious traps, stronger AND relentless opponents will test your survival skills.
-The Armies of Death, often considered inferior to its elder brothers, this is a complete different adventure, no dungeons but it contains travelling overland, visiting cities and exploring a forest and caves. The Skirmish aka army battle has been overly simplified and is just a normal combat which is a bit of a let down and the story is back to one similar to the Fighting Fantasy Legends' one: get items, go kill the baddie.
In conclusion, if you like Fighting Fantasy, you will probably like it as it's based on the gamebooks but it's not at all a 1:1 transcript and the gameplay is quite different, having lots of randomness as well as being able to keep getting stronger.
It's easier than the previous game, the three stories being linked is kind of nice and each story can take around 2/3 hours to beat. If you are looking for a simple, no frills, not too expensive roguelite with some good atmosphere, then it's a good choice for you!
took 5.6 hours to win first book, very frustrating. The rng for dice is GREAT!......if you are the enemy rolling!!!!! Also took me hours to figure out that its better to hoard stuff than use it right away i.e. healing potions. Just die a few times getting items cause you cannot beat it without losing a life or 5 anyway :-)
once i got an internet map this became enjoyable.
SHORT REVIEW
This is a cRPG version of three of the early Fighting Fantasy gamebooks (Deathtrap Dungeon, Trial of Champions and Armies of Death). The game is presented in a top down 2D environment for illustration purposes and encounters are via an encounter card deck with a dice based conflict resolution system.
PLOT: Seems to be a reasonable translation of the books although I'm going from memory and it was getting on for 40 years ago!
GAMEPLAY: Dice based conflict resolution system.
DIFFICULTY: The “difficulty” levels in this game are utterly pointless. All a higher difficulty level means is you have less lives to complete the adventure, the game play remains identical.
GRAPHICS & SOUND: Perfectly adequate for the game.
REPLAY VALUE: Very little. You cycle through the main dungeons multiple times in a single play through anyway and as the conflict resolution is dice based (i.e. pure luck) there is no point in playing again.
ISSUES AND BUGS: None. The game works “straight out of the box” with no messing around and appears to be completely bug free.
ACHIEVEMENTS AND TRADING CARDS: Partial integration with the Steam platform, Steam achievements for those interested but no trading cards.
VALUE FOR MONEY: Good. The game is competitively priced for what it is but I would put it in the “wait for a discount in a sale” category rather than the “buy it now at full price” category. (It was 75% off in the recent winter sale.)
LONG REVIEW
This is a cRPG version of three of the early Fighting Fantasy gamebooks (Deathtrap Dungeon, Trial of Champions and Armies of Death). Unlike the other Fighting Fantasy Legends game where the three books have been combined into a single game in this one they are three completely separate games each one starting from a basic character again. Its also required for you to complete the first game to unlock access to the others. As far as I can tell its a reasonable translation of the books although I'm going from memory and it was getting on for 40 years ago!
The game is presented in a top down 2D environment for illustration purposes and encounters are via an encounter card deck with a dice based conflict resolution system.
The game is quite reasonable but there are three things I don 't particularly like about it:
1: Trial of Champions has far too many blind choices of Option A or Option B where one of them results in instant death.
2: Armies of Death has a whole series of hard combat encounters at the end. To get through this you need to do a lot of grinding to upgrade your skill dice to have a reasonable change success.
3: Personally I don't like dice based systems, they are 0% skill and 100% luck.
Two of these are actual “problems” with the game in my opinion, the third is just an issue of personal taste.
Originally these were dice and choice books and Deathtrap Dungeon Trilogy keeps these elements, so when you decide to go one path, that's it, you might be able to circle back the other way later, particularly if you die, but it's still a version of Option A or Option B, not both.
Overall quite fun if you don't expect too much from it although there is a bit of grind, particularly in Armies of Death. Also has a nostalgia element for those of a certain age who played the original books.
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Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Nomad Games |
| Платформы | Windows, Mac |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 21.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 75% положительных (28) |