Paper Dungeons has been a tabletop RPG for some time now and a decently popular one at that. However if you are not really into the tabletop RPG scene, you probably haven’t heard of it. Well the good news is that now you don’t have to be a tabletop RPG player in order to enjoy Paper Dungeons as it has been digitized, massaged, visually strengthened, and released onto Android.
Paper Dungeons is a puzzle-based RPG that plays out as both a board game and a dungeon crawler. There’s a couple of different game modes to choose from as well. Board Game Mode is one of the bigger modes in this game. Each dungeon begins as a new board from a long list of available adventure sets. Every new dungeon, your character resets to level 1, but fortunately you keep your inventory. Unexplored parts of the dungeons are hidden by a fog of war. Monsters and items are placed at random, combats based on your statistics and dice rolls. Unlock and collect sets of dice (common/uncommon/rare/epic). Interestingly enough, monsters use their own dice sets with their own rarity as well. Monster also have an awareness feature so if you are in their line-of-sight, they will begin to move towards you.
Campaign Mode lets players go through a full story with up to 10 dungeons linked together. Each time you play the campaign mode, you will have an introduction, dialogs between dungeons and a conclusion, all of which differ depending on the dungeons that are linked together. Rogue Mode lets you continue leveling up your character instead of it resetting to level 1 when you start a new dungeon. You keep on leveling up until you die. When that happens, your name will go into the Hall of Fame and more powerful sets of dice will be made available that you can use in your next Rogue run. Puzzle Mode has no luck involved at all nor is there and Fog Of War. You can see everything, including where the monsters and loot are. Monsters don’t move though so you will have to use a lot of strategy to get through each run.
Paper Dungeons Features:
– Supports high resolution with native 1080p graphics.
– Big campaign of 125 Adventure levels and 31 Puzzle levels.
– 5 character classes (warrior/archer/priest/mage/thief), male and female, each with a unique gameplay.
– Dozens of different dice sets to improve your character.
– 80+ monster types.
– More than 50 unique pieces of equipment, 30 scrolls and 8 potions.
– 4 different starting zones, each with specific monsters and bosses, 3 sizes of dungeon and special boss stages.
– 3 zoom levels.
If that isn’t enough content and replay value, there is a Map Editor and a Campaign Editor for you to create your own maps and campaigns. When you finish a map or campaign, you can publish them online for other people to try and conquer. This also means you can play other people’s maps and campaigns as well. Lastly, if you find the game too easy after awhile, there is a ‘Void’ difficulty setting you can turn on which uses an alternate color for the monsters, making things a lot more difficult.
Considering the sheer amount of content, editors, and user create goodies Paper Dungeons come with, this is one of those games you will always have something to do in. If you want to check this game out, you can download a copy off of Google Play for $2.86 and the game contains absolutely no IAPs.
