I keep seeing this pop up on eBay, and when Siannah brought up DW Bradley's name in the Peter Molyneux thread, it just piqued my interest in this again. I did consider buying it last time, but watching some LPs of it, it looks like crap; OTOH some users have recommended it too. So, what do those of you who've played it think? I'm not that into pure hack-n-slashers, other than a few niche titles. Unless it's from Soldak Entertainment, I prefer games that involve more than just pointing your cursor at a bunch of pixels, and clicking them to death. Will this game appeal to me?

I played it myself

Let me summarize my experience with the game in short: It's a bad game, I tried to like it but almost everything is bad about it

Don't waste your money on it

Depends - I got it on the cheap so having it in the collection is worth it to me. It has a neat slip case like box. Nothing spectacular about the game. I too was hopeful with D. W. Bradley but it was very disappointing just as Wizards and Warriors was disappointing. If you are a collector and can get it cheap it may be worth it to you. If you are looking at it just for the game I would pass. I should point out that it is the only way to get the latest version of the game as there is no patch to get it from 1.4 to the Collector's Edition of 1.5

I got it in a sale on GG a long time ago and had some fun with it, but it's not really got a lot of sticking power.

If you really want to play it though, get it from GG.co.uk for £4.50. I notice that it's no longer available from GG.com though.

I haven't had the chance to play it yet, but from what I've heard, the Collector's Edition is decent and all other versions are not good. Like Lou says, the only way to get 1.5, which is what you'd want to get.

Funny, a copy with the collector's tin is $4.04 on Amazon, but the jewel case version is $8.99.

Also, I've seen the combat mechanism compared to "Die By the Sword", if that helps you decide one way or another...

Its painful to play. I own Dungeon Lords CE discs. Never got through the first 10 minutes.

Was it a CE edition? It improved much upon the retail release.

Get the game if you want. But just the game.

CE edition is more or less what the game was supposed to be originally. Which is horrifying. You're walking down the street, when a group of thugs spawns in a nearby alley. You kill them and loot them. About a minute later an identical group spawns behind a building ahead of you. You kill those too. Then another one. And another one. The first dungeon will spawn you with waves of slimes and packs of rats. Boring clickfest combat vs. repetitive spawn while you try to figure out, which of the identical rooms had that switch you need. Boring clickfest combat vs. repetitive spawn while you look for an NPC.

Holy crap okay I think I'll pass lol.

My Ex-girlfriend's brother had the game and gave it to me. It's the standard edition, and I've been torn about this. I mean, I have heard the game is utter shit before the CE. And them not releasing an upgrade patch to the CE is bullshit. If I had bought it, I would have no problem just pirating the CE because fuck these guys, but since I didn't I just have the discs lying around and considering buying the CE. Thank you, guys, for letting me know to steer clear too.

The funny thing about some of the design decisions is that you can totally see them work. In an old-school Wizardry. Your slow-ish party navigates tile-based dungeons, fights an occasional random pack of monsters, finds quest items and switches scattered all over the place. Nothing out of ordinary. Now, you put all this in a 3D shooter environment, increase the speed of action and rate of spawns, do nothing about backtracking and "maze of nearly identical rooms" dungeon design, and bolt on slasher-style controls without knowing what they actually are. You get Dung'n'Lords.

I played and finished the standard edition many years ago. Even with the latest patch then it had a lot of bugs. I think there is no newer patch until now, so they remain.

If you may surpass the bugs, the game is a rough diamond. It's really an old-school Wizardry game, as grviper wrote.

I played it in the middle difficulty settings and it was hard at times. The monsters' re-spawn rate was very high. As I remember of that game, it's one of the best Action-RPGs I've ever played, even with its bugs.

yes, it was the CE edition

Let me just agree with everyone else who has posted. It is a bad game that was pushed out the door way before it was ready. That's not to say it didn't have some creative ideas but they are buried under terrible ideas, bugs, and bad production. You might have a better experience than I if you got a bunch of mods but you would need a lot of work to make it remotely playable.

I would rate it among the worst games I have played.