The 7th Circle - Endless Nightmare

I like the CONCEPT of a lot of classic games rather than the games themselves because modern advances like mouse compatibility, hovering tool tips, min-maps...they've spoiled me. Thankfully there's a middle ground between the complexity and challenge of the past and the convenience of the future! I personally love dungeon crawlers and this one is easy to get into but has a lot of options and although it does punish you for failure it has a unique mechanic of your next 'persona' character being able to improve upon the last by willing equipment and bonuses to the next one in line. This game rewards you for playing, rewards you for replaying, and even rewards you for losing since you can get permanent benefits if you sacrifice a certain amount of characters through their expeditions. The aesthetic is right up my alley. There's a bit of generic fantasy here with spells and melee weapons and armor but there's also a grungy nightmarish look to the demonic monsters and the creepy locales which is much more interesting than dwarves and elves and dragons all over again. It's the kind of drop in and play, navigate, weigh equipment, plan on character progression, groan as a run of bad luck brings one adventure to an end, cheer when you learn a secret spell or advance a level and kick a tough demon in the tail section. Simple but with breadth. Generic, but with a twist. It is NOT a cake walk but that makes it feel all the more rewarding.

So, once in a while I crave old school games, hence GOG. This game is certainly able to scratch the old-school dungeon crawler itch, whilst bringing it's own modern flavor. Fantastic and difficult, I look forward to my time with this game.

This reminds me of old school Dungeon Hack but turn based and roguelike which are mechanics I love so that makes the game much more enjoyable for me. You can customize a lot of what your play experience will be like and there are different games modes +optional random maps and lots of character builds so replayability value is pretty high for such a low cost title. If you are a old school gamer who loves dungeon crawlers you will enjoy this one a lot but I would suggest starting on a higher difficulty level since normal is a bit too easy (no need to worry if you are looking for a challenge the higher difficulties can get absurdly hard). This is the only dungeon crawler I've seen with roguelite elements and I love the concept. I am eager to try out the sequel once I'm done with this one and looking forward to their future projects.

An "old school" FPS dungeon crawler that's a massive slog to play. The map is huge and that's probably because everything was copy and pasted to create a huge scale, it's not even hard to get lost in since the game has a built in map feature that you can use but it would be nice if there was more distinct features to the area to help navigate, but maybe that's what "old school" means. Outside of running around a maze you will be fighting mobs of enemies and while the designs are cool the combat is extremely boring and easy. You take turns (sometimes up to 10) and can attack or defend or use a bunch of other stuff that was never needed since hitting and spamming attack will do the job for you. Even the traps that spawn several mobs can be blasted through and you never have to worry about health since you can just camp and restore it. So at the end of the day you have an ugly dungeon that's oversized for no real reason other than to make a bullet point for marketing and you have extremely bland easy combat. I've you're itching for a dungeon crawler this could scratch that itch and it's priced very reasonable but if you want any depth look elsewhere.