Undungeon is a Diablo-like dungeon crawler with some unique RPG flavor to it. Undungeon is a game developed by Laughing Machines and published by tinyBuild.
Undungeon has an amazing universe and that allows the player, the Herald of the Void, to fix the problem in the world caused by the Great Shift. Overall, the player will have to go through a bunch of dialogues as the game has a lot of text-based conversations, which comes to be a very important factor in the game. It is not that there is no actual combat, we will be talking about it a bit later on, but the conversation can give a lot of insights and important decisions that the players will need to take on.
Combat for the game is very similar to Diablo, where you have to move around in the dungeon areas and attack. Players are provided with different weapons that can be equipped and provide different combat gameplay. On top of that, the player can equip different organs and provide improvements to the Herald. There are a bunch of drops that players can get after destroying mobs/enemies in combat.
There are special skills available on the player, as well, that allow the player to spawn shields and create exploding orbs. But overall, combat can get exponentially difficult if the player gets hit by any enemy/mob. Each mob that hits the player gets a 100% damage boost that stacks up to 5 times. During the earlier phase it can get pretty difficult to get through.
That was most of the things about the combat, now for the Quests and traversal part. Herald will travel to different dimensions/worlds and rather than providing the full open world experience, the Herald will start off at a location and travel to the nearest town/dungeon or point of interest location will be displayed. But, when moving from one location to the other, the map will show traversal from a zoomed-out view. Interacting with other NPCs will provide new quests that need to be completed in a certain number of days. And, during the traversal, the player loses a day depending on the length of travel.
As the player uncovers new things, the story will keep on getting interesting and provide some unique writing. But that doesn’t mean the game is free of problems. Combat can get tedious and there was this specific bug that wouldn’t let players pickup items, even though you drop an item from the inventory by mistake you won’t be able to pick it back up. After a long time searching, I found that I had to restart the whole game, at that point I lost a bunch of hours already without any items or equipment.
Overall, I would say Undungeon is a unique game that has story and writing as its core and will be good for the players who are interested in story-based games.
I would rate Undungeon 7 out 10.
For more information, visit: https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/undungeon-switch/
Related: Reviews by Hemal Patel
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