Eternal Rogue: Dungeon RPG

This is a fun little Rougelike in the same vein as the Mystery Dungeon games. But it gets kind of unbalanced (90% in the player’s favor, except certain special challenges, but see ranged combat) fairly quickly, and especially once pets are unlocked.Ranged combat is incredibly broken on both sides because thrown items, monster ranged attacks, and damaging Rods completely ignore regular Defense (as do damaging Scrolls, but those are AoE rather than missile attacks). And monster ranged attacks scale quickly with their level (fixed damage equal to a multiple of attacker’s level, with the multiplier usually being 5x, 10x, or 20x, with a few 30x… and Minotaurs get a whopping 45x!). BUT, monsters only shoot targets at most three tiles away, while the player has no maximum range, so in late-game sniper duels, that’s advantage: player, especially considering it doesn’t take much Deftness for thrown objects (except Rods and most Grasses, which do other things) to out-damage melee attacks against heavily armored foes. Hilariously, while late-game tanks like Dark Wyverns can shrug off slashes and thrusts from weapons worthy of the gods, they’re easily one-shotted by boomerangs, shurikens, stones, or even a spare loaf of bread! (Thrown items are destroyed if they hit a monster, though, so don’t fling something you have a better use for!)Pets also become broken quite easily, although the dungeon that contains the Meat required to bring them along is moderately difficult and has a nasty surprise on the first floor containing any (and then turns brutally hard, so bring a Scroll of Escape). A decent bruiser monster that gains a few levels will steamroll most wild ones, and they retain full access to their special abilities too (and will even sometimes use their ranged attacks point-blank, while wild ones always prefer melee). And you even get nearly full benefits of your pet’s kills (full EXP, and Skill Power once you unlock Skills, but no Proficiency points). Also, they aren’t reset to level one when running dungeons in Hard Mode, which is just as abusable as it sounds.

Is this Torneko’s Mystery Dungeon by any other name? Seriously though, give me One Way Heroics meets Pokémon Mystery Dungeon, and let me check the App(le) Store every 12 hours for the update that finally allows us to bring a monster along into the dungeon - the actual sole reason I pre-ordered this game! I’m ready for more story chapters and new job grades - not to mention potentially more attributes, skills, and abilities to individualize/specialize classes. I dunno what you have en route, but I have been recommending this app to my friends as I see them and am excited to see any improvements whatsoever!! <3 Heard offline play is underrated~