Game:

One More Dungeon 2 (2022)

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Review

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5

One More Dungeon 2 is an Indie, First Person, Action Roguelike Dungeon Crawler, an FPS RPG packing
Procedural Generation and powerful weapons, artifacts, and relics to find.
One More Dungeon 2 is good.

The Dungeon: Ziggurat + Zelda? Kinda
One More Dungeon 2 feels a bit like Ziggurat, mixed with a little bit of old school Zelda.
Like in Ziggurat, defeated enemies drop exp crystals, and, much like Ziggurat, when you lvl, you pick 1 of 3 upgrades.
These upgrades might instantly heal you to full, grant extra inventory or relic slots, grant bonus hp, or increase the amount of doom you can handle before being cursed; very useful stuff here.
Unlike in Zuggurat, you don’t have to kill everything to progress to the next room; you can just run past and try to avoid hits if you want; good; make the game more of an interconnected dungeon with shared dangers, as opposed to a series of randomized challenge rooms.
The original Zelda also often sealed you into rooms, forcing you to clear all the monsters to proceed; One More Dungeon 2 does not do that aside from boss battles.
Like in Zelda, you run around, smashing pots and barrels, hoping to find goodies inside.

Like in Zelda, there are traps in the dungeons, and they hurt, so watch where you step!
Cracked walls can be bombed, just like in Zelda, and you can find the dungeon map to help guide your way.
Sometimes, enemies will even drop hp too; nice!
And, much like in old school Zelda, you can find powerful items, artifacts, and relics that change how you play, think the magic boomerang, the candle, or the wand.
Here, in One More Dungeon 2, you have Relics you can find in the randomized dungeons, which grant permanent buffs to your current run if equipped; think always dealing max damage on a melee hit, or finding more crystals, or dealing more melee damage; handy.
Also fun artifacts, like the skull that turns nearby bodies into gold! At the cost of all your stamina!
It feels like One More Dungeon 2 pulled the best bits from the two above games and combined them to makes something that feels like its own fun, dungeon crawling thing; good work.

The Combat:
Unlike old School Zelda, In One More Dungeon 2, there is no bump damage by default here, and enemies must make an attack to hurt you; good.
One More Dungeon 2 also has fun and varied weapons like a spike stave that blasts out shards of thorns when an enemy is hit, or one that fires an acid blade that cuts through enemies in a line; fun!
Or a cursed blade that is very powerful, but curses you, (just a little bit) every swing you take with it.
These curses, which build up via doom, are negative perks, like 25% less hp, crystal weapons doing 33% less damage, or you find less money, stuff like that, adding some real cost to getting hit by certain nasty monsters, desecrating tombs, or wielding cursed artifacts . Is it worth it? You decide!

Classes:
There are many different classes in One More Dungeon 2, like the default Stranger, who has the ability to regenerates health over time, plus 6 more to unlock!
The Warrior: more hp, and heal more from found food, but crystal weapons cost 50% more to use; their special power is Berserk: 100% more weapon damage and 50% taken damage.
The Wizard: Crystal weapons consume 33% less crystals; special power: Synthesis, magic wands do not use crystals and their rate of fire is increased. Pew, Pew, Pew!
The Paladin: Has a shield, blocking attack build rage, and using artifacts increase your doom lvl; special ability damage enemies in sight; starts with a mace, and holy water, 2 healing potions, and 1 bomb, but does not start with a crystal staff, so not ranged option by default.

Meta Progression:
Runes are the Meta Currency here, used to unlock additional classes , small stat increases, like +5 hp, +5 energy, +5 doom counter, access to a merchant, where you can spend earned gold in the caste for some additional starting crystals or bombs, small stuff like that, and unlocking more additional rooms in the castle that have more stuff to unlock; fun!

Controller support is present, as is good old mouse and keyboard; the usually superior choice in first Person games.
I much preferred the mouse and keyboard controls here.

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