The Living Dungeon Review

This is a turn based game where the player has to roll a dice and then move around the squares to reach a certain point on the map to progress. You will control 1 or 2 characters in single player mode, with each character having their own role of the dice and then their own movement in the game. Each character has their own set of skills, and you will need to use both of your characters working together to move around the map.

The dungeon will throw lots of challenges at you, from creatures who want to kill you to ghosts that can move through walls and barriers to get to you. Some of your characters can manipulate the environment by spinning or flipping the tile, which in essence changes the layout of the map.

“As table top games go I would have to say that The Living Dungun is a disappointment”

In multiplayer mode up to 9 players will pit their wits against each other to win, however at the moment this is restricted to local players and you don’t have the opportunity to play online. This leads me to feel that the game is unfinished or has been rushed, we have come to expect some of the big AAA titles to be released unfinished, but I don’t think that ‘Radiation Burn’ have done themselves any favours by following this trend.

As table top games go I would have to say that The Living Dungun is a disappointment, the animation is quite patchy and does not move smoothly, and the overall feel of the game is quite clunky. The voice over is very amateurish, I have heard much better voiceovers from general users and would have expected much more from a finished game. The sound effects add nothing to the game play, although they don’t really take anything away from it either.

The controls are extremely simple to understand, ‘A’ to roll the dice, bumpers to select the dice you want to play, stick to select where you want to move to and ‘A’ to confirm your action. You do have a time limit of 2 minutes to make your complete play and play all 5 of your dice, then your turn ends. You can end your turn early by pressing the ‘B’ button. The menu system is also very simple to understand and come to terms with.

The concept of the game is very good, and dedicated ‘Table Top’ gamers will love The Living Dungeon, it is not quite your normal dungeon crawl and you will need to use quite a bit of strategy to win. Would it become my go to game when I have a spare half hour? probably not, as it does not have the pace or the finish that I like when gaming.

Like most gamers today, I enjoy playing multiplayer with friends on line, so the fact that this is missing from The Living Dungeon does diminish the playability of the game quite significantly for me personally. That being said the single player is very playable , and I have enjoyed the game which I found quite surprising as this is not normally the kind of game that I like playing.