Un pacchetto di sigarette dura circa un paio di giorni, costa 5€ e fa male alla salute.
Heroes of Monkey Tavern è simile (sotto i saldi), ma non fa male, per cui questo è già un punto a favore, no?

Il gioco è molto semplice e manca di tante raffinatezze a cui Capolavori come i 2 Grimrock ci hanno abituato in questi ultimi anni (io continuo a sperare in un 3o capitolo a breve). Se la nostalgia è davvero tanta (come nel mio caso) e avete voglia di fare un tuffo nel passato, allora benvenuti. Certo i combattimenti non sono proprio intelligentissimi (anzi, sono piuttosto sciocchini), e non a tutti piacerà il fatto che non vi sia una mappa (fate la punta alla matita, dal 3o piano in poi vi sfido a non perdervi senza). Inoltre non capisco cosa gli costasse farci scegliere almeno il nomee dei PG...
Beh, di magagne in effetti ce n'e' più di qualcuna. Eppure questo gioco mi fa tenerezza nella sua ingenua voglia di far bene il proprio lavoro. Sento di volerlo premiare con qualche ora del mio tempo.

Lo consiglio a coloro i quali apprezzano i giochi valutando anche l'impegno di chi li ha prodotti, ai fan del genere e a chi non riesce proprio ad aspettare LoG3.
Per gli altri, se non fumate, beh forse ne potreste anche fare a meno, I soldi li avete comunque risparmiati... ma d'altronte durante i saldi di piccole follie se ne fanno tante, no?

Si vede subito che questo è un giochino indy moolto basico , e si nota subito che i prodotti concorrenti sono di qualità sicuramente migliore ,più vari, con enigmi migliori e una crescita dei personaggi e un ''ruleset'' migliore ,anche se parlare di ruleset è uno sproposito visto che non c'è praticamente quasi niente.

Ma tutto sommato per 2 spicci vale la pena perderci quelle poche ore che servono per completarlo anche per ringraziamento ai dev.

Kind of a short and simplified version of Grimrock. Biggest difference is that you can't use creative movement in battle.
Well, not true. There is a way. If you keep sidestepping a creature, while it is in movement you can land hits without taking the 'fleeing damage' that you receive if you strategically retreat. Few traps that can be easily disarmed. Still have a thief.
Recommend having a Paladin, thief, Berserker and a Mage/Elementalist for the party.

Cosa dire su questo gioco.
partiamo dai lati negativi:
- Improvvisi crash e non del tipo l'app. e terminata ecc. parlo di vero e proprio
blocco del terminale tanto da resettare il pc per farlo ripartire;
- Impossibilita' di interagire con gli oggetti dello scenario;
- combattimenti a dir poco ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, nel senso che non si capisce quando
vieni colpito dall'avversario;
- Perde tantissimo al confronto con L.O.G. 1 o 2.
- ecc...ecc...
Parliamo ora dei lati positivi:
- E Italiano......;
- Grafica caruccia;
- Costa solo 4,99 in offerta;
- Buono per passare quei 5 minuti (quando non si blocca);
- Invoglio gli sviluppatori a non demordere ed abbandonare il gioco
perche' ha delle ottime potenzialita' ( ma ancora scarse per ora).
Il tutto riscontrato nelle prime ore del gioco completo (nella demo non si nota).
Pertanto fate voi.......

Giochino troppo semplice e parecchio limitato, c'è di meglio in giro...

I was really in the mood to get into an oldschool Eye of the Beholder type RPG. I own Grimlock 1 and 2, and they're great. Saw this was recommended, and at $10, it seemed like a good deal. I'll say this: it scratched an itch, but didn't really satisfy long-term. The RPG elements are super shallow (almost non-existent), the puzzles are incredibly basic switches and hidden button finding, and the enemy design and combat gets boring pretty quick. I hate to sound so negative, because I can tell it was a noble attempt at a nostalgic style (clearly one which I was looking for as well). But it simply didn't hold my interest for long. In combat I spent more time staring at the weapon icons for each character, just clicking on any whose cooldown had ended. I barely looked up to see what sort of damage it was doing. You likely won't survive any encounters that involve multiple enemies, If you survive combat, you just rest and heal fully with no risk at all. I suppose for $10 bucks I can say I was able to sort of enjoy a 2.5 hour experience before getting bored, but I just longed for something more.

I'm going to recommend this game, but with caveats.

Heroes of Monkey Tavern is a party-based first person view grid dungeon crawler.
Graphically, it is decent. Music is good, gameplay is average. There is no discernable story. You select a party of four from various classes and venture into a dungeon. You'll level up, gain loot, figure out some simple puzzles here and there, look for secret doors, etc. It's a very simple game, and it's short. I finished in about 6 hours. When your party levels up, you do not choose stats or abilities for them, they are assigned for you. The loot is not random. You can only assign 1-2 spells at a time to your casters. Your spells are static, and you'll gain them at preset levels. Combat consists of simply clicking a weapon or spell icon over and over for each character as soon as its cooldown is over. Not much strategy at all. However, there is no square dancing in this game, which is a plus.

All-in-all, I did have moderate fun with the game, but it's too short and too simple for a hearty recommendation. It feels like a game you might play on a tablet. But it is well done, and it was an enjoyable 6 hours.

Graphics: 6
Music: 6.5
Fun: 6.7
Value: 5.5 (I'd recommend it on a sale, $5-$10 range)

Gioco carino, abbastanza veloce anche se migliorabile in alcune dinamiche. Non posso fare a meno di confrontarlo con il gioco più similare: Legend of Grimrock, ed al momento Heroes ne esce sconfitto... manca la customizzazione degli eroi, i combattimenti sono davvero fatti male non potendo praticamente muovere nessun personaggio.
Non ho gradito molto l'idea di poter scegliere tra scudo/magia.

Al contrario i mostri sono fatti molto bene.. la grafica è interessante .. gli indizi non sono impossibili tali da rendere nessario l'utilizzo di una soluzione. Molto rilassante anche la musica!!!


Al momento al gioco do un 6,5!!! Spero in contenuti futuri migliori!!!

I pretty much own every dungeon crawler ever made. My addiction started with Dungeon Master on my Atari ST. This game is a lot of fun and a pretty much simplified version of Legend of Grimrock. (Basically you can't strafe in combat) I've played around with all the classes they all are fun. The weapons are varied and the monsters look great. If you like dungeon crawlers I think you should give this one a try.

Played through the first four levels. It's alright, but nothing remarkable. It has some fundamental flaws that I don't like.

First of all it basically forces you to fight at one place, you can't dance around enemies as you get fleeing damage if you do so. This might work coupled with an interesting fight mechanism, but this game doesn't have that. It's just your basic reaction test: push the attack button when your attack is ready.

Your charactes are in a line opposed to a grid. This forces you to move your mouse further than in a traditional two by two grid placement and because of that, fast weapons are in disadvantage as you miss those important seconds what you save by using those weapons. Spellcasters can use only two spells at a time and they have to sacrifice their hand slots for them and they even share the cooldowns with each of their spells. This basically means that your utility spells are useless, you just use heals with your healer and your best damage option with other casters. All this combined makes the fights little bit boring. And on top of everything, as your characters don't need any food or water, you can rest after every fight without any disadvantage.

Leveling is predefined. You don't get to make any choices as your characters level up. And you don't get to swap your characters in the line, it automatically assign your characters to the imaginary front and back row based on the class. It doesn't tell you which character are in those rows, only way you know that this happens is by reading a random tooltip during sleeping. So the only meaningful choises are made in the beginning by choosing a class and of course what equipment you use with your characters.

Level design was a little bit boring. It's your standard labyrinth. It had some furniture in it to evoke some meaning to the design, but mostly it was just boring corridors and rooms. But I've seen worse. Puzzles in the first four levels were pretty basic.

Music I liked and couple of the monsters were pretty nice looking.

All in all, I can't really recommend this game to anyone else than the most enthusiastic dungeon crawlers.