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Guild of Dungeoneering – Roleplaying Game Review
Guild of Dungeoneering is a Roleplaying/Card game from Gambrinous Ltd, first launched in 20th July 2016.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 1,161+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Guild of Dungeoneering Stand Out
Get ready for some Ice Cream Headaches! The second Adventure Pack is now available!
Become the ultimate Dungeon Master as you bribe, entice and coax your heroes through their adventures on a quest to restore your guild to its ultimate glory! Guild of Dungeoneering is a unique turn-based RPG with a twist: instead of controlling the hero, you build the dungeon around him. Using cards drawn from your Guild decks, you lay down rooms, monsters, traps and of course loot! Meanwhile your hero is making his own decisions on where to go and what to fight. But will he be strong enough to take on the dungeon's overlord? In between dungeon runs and card based battles, manage your Guild building new rooms to attract new classes of adventurer and to expand your decks of cards with more powerful items and events.
Build up your Guild with new rooms to attract new classes of adventurer and collect powerful items and abilities. From lowly Chumps to renowned Cartomancers, you’ll need all the recruits you can get in this challenging rogue-like RPG where no two dungeons are ever the same. Lead your hero to battle with the dangerous dungeon overlord, where his skill will be put to the ultimate test – for the glory of your Guild!
Guild of Dungeoneering will reward you for purchasing now by giving you all future content updates for FREE! As each content update is made, we may be charging a little bit more for the game.
Our second expansion pack, Ice Cream Headaches, is now available! Quest through the snowy mountains, visit the ice cream monks and battle all new monsters like the Slushie Elemental and the Pygmy Mammoth. With 21 new quests, 30 new monsters and 3 new classes, it’s our biggest expansion yet!
Ice Cream Headaches also introduces Favour, an all new gameplay mechanic which can aid in your quest’s success… or failure. Earn Favour by defeating monsters in rooms with a Rune of Fate, and spend your Favour to earn powerful card-manipulation effects. Use your Favour to draw extra cards in battle, or even remove weaker cards from your deck for the rest of the quest.
All this plus our first expansion pack, Pirates Cove, is available now!
Does not require an online connection to play.
NOTE: Guild of Dungeoneering does NOT run on the iPad mini 1, iPad2, iPhone 4 or similar hardware.
Features:
• A turn-based RPG card game with a truck ton of personality, unique pen and paper visuals, catchy music and hilarious writing!
• Take control of your fledgling group of heroes and lead them to victory! (after admitting to a few defeats of course)
• Entice, coax and bribe your heroes to clear the dungeons you build by strategically placing rooms, monsters and loot from the cards you are dealt
• Get to know each of your hero’s personality and traits, upgrade your existing heroes, and add new heroes while you try out new strategies to keep from sending them to their doom!
• Manage your guild carefully and spend your hard earned ‘glory’ wisely to level up and unlock more rooms and equipment. Improving your guild means you'll have a better chance at beating the harder dungeons as you progress and take down the ultimate dungeon overlord.
This Roleplaying game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Guild of Dungeoneering is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 20th February 2017
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Watch out for Ice Cream Headaches! Our second Adventure Pack is now available as a FREE update!
Our second expansion pack, Ice Cream Headaches, is now available! Quest through the snowy mountains, visit the ice cream monks and battle all new monsters like the Slushie Elemental and the Pygmy Mammoth. With 21 new quests, 30 new monsters and 3 new classes, it’s our biggest expansion yet!
Ice Cream Headaches also introduces Favour, an all new gameplay mechanic which can aid in your quest’s success… or failure. Earn Favour by defeating monsters in rooms with a Rune of Fate, and spend your Favour to earn powerful card-manipulation effects. Use your Favour to draw extra cards in battle, or even remove weaker cards from your deck for the rest of the quest.
If you have previously beaten the game you should restart in one of your old save slots and take on the new region with a new save using the 'icecream shortcut' option.
We have also included some bug fixes & much improved memory usage to reduce crashes on some older devices.
Download & Availability
Guild of Dungeoneering is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Guild of Dungeoneering on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Ive had the app for a while, and keep coming back to it. We keep hoping the team will put out a GoD 2, and if they ever do, we will be buying it the day it comes out.
App is even better. Why are you still reading this? Its worth more than $6.
We have this for our phone and switch. It doesnt seem as fun as it actually is; we love it, highly recommend.
Amazing Game! Fun and simple to pick up but challenging to master. Full of character and cool design! Really pops on iPad.
Amazing simple game play but yet with growing complexity Well done.
Please make a new expansion pack. This game is so entertaining.
The characters talking is funny and also combat is cool.
Ive been filling up the cemetery but having a great time doing it.
This is one of those rare games that truly hits the sweet spot between irreverent fun and challenging game play. The music, sound and story are hilarious and catchy while still not overpowering the game itself. We can easily see playing this for hours.
We played this everyday in algebra, good times, dont know algebra tho.
If you like games you can pick up and put down when you please, this is the game for you. Its basically a card game. The graphics are good, story is funny and overall a recommended game.
We love this game, it is simple to understand and complex to master. It is well worth the price and the gameplay is beyond fun. Definitely worth the cost and time.
This game has amazing music, graphics, and humor. However, the best thing about it is the actual gameplay. Its easy to start playing but there is a ton of complexity if you want to master the game. The combat is amazing because it incorporates strategy while still being intuitive and fun. It doesnt have the problem many similar games have where the minions are to easy and the boss is too hard, you are never guaranteed to win. The loot system with skills and blessing is very easy to understand and actually impacts your gameplay much more than other games. While there are consequences when you fail they are never overwhelming and only encourage us to play more. The only problem Ive seen is that later on in the game the enemies dont improve quite as much as you do and the rewards dont get as big as we expected. Overall this is a amazing game and we love playing it.
Where…. Is…. An… UPDATE????? Or at least a sequel. Give us MOOORRREEE.
This is a wonderful card based game. Great on the iPhone or iPad. Witty and sarcastic narration keeps you hooked. The beginning is very easy, but gets hard kind of quick if you dont learn how to equip for the environment. Top down view of dungeon you build with cards and stock with encounters and loot.
We keep hoping for more expansions or a sequel.
We played through this over a year ago and recently reloaded it to play again. This is a unique game with a gameplay loop that we are looking for. Please make a sequel to this.
Theres only a few good gamer games for phone, this is one of them. Card dungeon is good too.
Just the right length. Fun play. Challenging, but not frustrating. Good sense of humor. Thank for the game.
Really enjoying this game. Lots of fun. Great challenge but not incredibly difficult.
We love the state of the game right now but it could be even better if we support the developers they are already making free content updates and its nice so we think you should get the game and it would also help the developers.
If they offered more dlc, we'd buy it.
Awesome game! If you want a stupid easy game, this isnt your game… But for games that do NOT have in app purchases, we think this is one of the best, if not the best roguelike rpg game thats out there in phone game world. Its so much fun figuring out all the cards and gear and all the Dungeoneers.
This is an awesome and fun game. We like to play D&D, it would be nice to have some of these maps for export to play paper and pen games for people like us who cant draw. We strongly suggest download this game and indulge into creating the dungeons. Love the pirates.
This game is so fun you can build your on guild and fight in dungeons, there SO MANY THINGS YOU CAN DO IN MY OPINION.
Ive downloaded tons of games and never felt compelled to write a review until now. This game just keeps us coming back. The simple gameplay but deep strategy just doesnt let go. Very clever and intuitive interface with cute characters and hilarious voiceover poems. A bit grindy at times, but always leaving us wondering how to approach a level differently to squeeze out a win and unlock more cards. This game is super fun. Highly recommended.
We love this game. Its easy to pick up, fun to play, and full of charm. Its a great feeling to unlock a new class, but it leads to one thing that needs changing: the new classes make the older classes obsolete. Once you get into the third (or even second, really) tier classes, you dont need to use anyone else. It might be fun to have certain dungeons that require a specific class or genre to keep the player on their toes. Chumps and Mimes need quests too.
A great game thats lots of fun with the right amount of difficulty.
Ive had the game for five days and Ive probably racked up about 20 hours of game time. We find it really fun! Sometimes the cards dont go your way, but accepting that Dungeoneers die is just part of the learning experience. Use your Chumps to scout out dungeons and see what kind of monsters youll face before committing your better people, and you can save a lot of (non-Chump) lives. Love the game, worth the money.
Its easy to play, with challenge.
Overall the game is fantastic. It reminds us of a munchkin game that we used to play, but without the unnecessary burden of other people or friends (god Im so lonely.) The graphics are pretty good for what they are trying to do, as the art is simple, but has a lot of detail. Gameplay is fun and very humorous, but can be kind of grindy. Soundtrack is amazing, has great music and voiceover. Best thing, no ads or in app purchases being shoved down our throat. Great job overall guys, keep it up.
Laying out the dungeon and the round-by-round combat are both fun little puzzles. Not too challenging, but enough to keep busy.
We download games all the time and if it doesn't catch our "Fun zone" right away, it gets deleted. We've been playing this game for several hours now because it's captured us.
The choices are bizarre, we get to make the dungeon, but not retain the equipment or experience they receive between crawls. Still, its humor and layout is refreshing. Bit twitchy lately, the loot cards dont appear sometimes after defeating an enemy so we dont know the effect of the choices we could make. But otherwise, a cute game we are enjoying.
An interesting game that will keep you entertained for about 10 hours.
Overall, fun game, good session-by-session deck building concept. Enemy types were varied enough to stay interesting, synergies were fun and simple to put together. Our one complaint is that we never needed to use most classes. Some were just so much better than the others (lookin at you, artificer) that it felt like handicapping ourselves if we chose anyone else, and too easy is we chose that one. We had something in the neighborhood of 30 dungeons complete on a single character by the time we got to the end of the game, and we thought it was a little ridiculous that we were able to do so on a single character.
Really good game play with the perfect amount of grinding/advancing in difficulty. Awesome strategy too.
We really enjoy this game. It has just the right mix of strategy and luck to make it exciting with the use of cards. The different classes and types of gear also add a clever build fun to plan out your characters. But do not get attached to your characters. They will die! Also the humor of the game will make any gamer that played pen and paper and computer game rpgs laugh.
Simple mechanics, subtle strategy and silly songs. Great fun for old school RPGers.
We love card rpg games. Add a bit of roguelike elements. You have a winner! HAVING A BLAST.
There is no better game than this.
6/5 we cant believe Ive waited so long to play this. So many dead guildmates.
Great game, love the lack of in app purchases. Very fun to play. Needs a new expansion very badly. PLEASE give us new content.
Its easy to play right away, and its easy to die no matter what dungeoneer you use. So you have to get enough money to upgrade the decks and unlock characters that you will need, along with luck, to pass harder levels. You dont actually train your characters (for very long) you really just learn which characters work better, and which upgrades work better. Its a lot of fun if you dont mind dying most of the time, and gaining in game knowledge rather than experience or level of your dungeoneers, which always die. One of our most promising characters died in the first encounter with a bat with 3 hp. What can you say, they just regenerate as beginners again, all heros are completely disposable. Otherwise pretty cool. We give it an extra star for not being dependent on in-app purchases. Its an interesting game, and pretty fun if youre not too easily annoyed by constantly dying by a passive RNG.
Finally something without ads and add ons that can be played just as is. Great game for kicking back for a few minutes and killing time between projects.
This is a fun game that is easy to pick up and put down. Because its turn based there is no stress to monitor it constantly. Perfect for when theres a few minute to fill. Careful though! It can be addicting! One note, its starting to menu a little slow, may need an update for the newer OS.
We can't put this down. Love the card battles, and the thrill of figuring out how best to use each character. If we could change one thing: we'd like to be able to write our own epitaphs. Our dungeoneers deserve better than simply "he didn't get out much".
A very fun, pay once and play card battler. We like being able to play this kind of game at our own pace without multiplayer. Grind feels just about right – always giving you new stuff to see, new loot to use and progressively better character classes to master. Way, way worth the price of admission…Ive gotten a good 30 hours out of it easily, and still enjoying.
We love the concept. We love that it's a full game and no BS DLC or IAP. Keep up the good work.
It's not for everyone but it fills its niche very well.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.5
- Size: 360.63 MB
- iOS: 8.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References, Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: Gambrinous Ltd
Last updated: 20th February 2017 | Genre: Roleplaying, Card | Developer: Gambrinous Ltd