LEGEND OF KEEPERS UPGRADE

This time, however, we are the ones defending the riches. It’s evocative of older games, times when we were sitting in front of old TVs trying to reach that elusive magic weapon or that greedy pot of gold. It’s bleeding pixels!īlood, gore, wind, fire, monsters, heroes, dungeon backgrounds and everything else are in a beautiful pixel artstyle. Get stronger and make mommy proud or die trying. You also earn talent points to spend on your talent tree. Each level you best will give you experience points which let you level up. Get rid of that one and you’ll advance to the next level, die and be resurrected at your current level again. Stronger groups of adventurers will knock on your door in later weeks until, finally, a champion arrives. Plan your resources, both breathing and not, carefully. Monsters sent out on quests might not be back in time for the next group of invaders, forcing you to leave a dungeon’s room understaffed or even empty. You have to let them rest in the garrison once in a while otherwise they won’t be able to fight for you. If that happens too often, they’ll get a burnout. But pay attention! Monsters don’t like to be killed and resurrected repeatedly. The choice of all the random occurrences during each week is yours. You might want to do desk work or have a party with your underlings. Perhaps a dubious merchant offers to sell you a fresh employee or trap. You can send out some of your monsters on quests, too.

LEGEND OF KEEPERS UPGRADE

You’ll spend those to train your monsters or upgrade your traps. The next few weeks will be spent taking care of your resources: blood, tears and gold, which you harvest from killing or driving away heroes. Die here and you lose the level, persevere and you’ll live to guide your employees for another week. When they reach the last one, you’ll have to dispose of them personally. If the heroes are too strong or you made mistakes in the preparation phase, it’s your employees who will kick the bucket resulting in the adventures moving to the next room. Different resistances together with various types of attacks (fire, ice, nature, air), status ailments (poison and bleeding among others) result in deep strategic combat. Front, back and center hit the respective positions of your opponents. You can’t choose which opponent to attack as each attack has a fixed impact point: front, center, back or area. When its your turn, simply select an attack to execute it. All battles are three versus three with the turn order displayed at the left side of the screen. While traps work automatically, battles are left for you to orchestrate.

The heroes will enter each room one after the other until they are wiped out or flee. Done with preparations? Then off to battle we go! No use in placing a poison trap against opponents immune to it. Use monsters with strong defenses against the heroes’ attacks and strong attacks against their weaknesses. Then, have a look at the roster of your employees and place them strategically. That will tell you their strengths and weaknesses. It’s a good idea to have a look at the stats of your opponents first. The flow of rooms is always shown at the top of the screen. The last room will be yours as you are the boss around here. You can use that to ambush the lowly heroes with a spell. One room will be left intentionally empty. Some rooms can house monsters, some traps, some natural disasters. To prevent that, you have to place your monsters and traps in the different rooms of the dungeon to mount a strong defence.

They’re about to intrude your turf and steal the company’s gold.

Don’t neglect the managerial aspect, or it’ll be your head that rolls! Getting things doneĪ level of Legend of Keepers starts with a group of heroes on your doorstep. Being the boss monster of a dungeon also means that you are responsible for your company’s gear (traps) and employees (monsters). It’s your first day on the job working for the Dungeons Company and defending their dungeons is what you’ll do. You begin the game as Maug, a slaveholder of the centaur race. It’s a roguelike dungeon defender management simulation with RPG elements and turn-based battles. Every once in a while you come upon a game that intrigues you simply because of its generous mix’n’match of genres.

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