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Dungeon Encounters

Square Enix
Oct 14, 2021 - PlayStation 4, PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5
Strong

OpenCritic Rating

77

Top Critic Average

67%

Critics Recommend

Eurogamer
Recommended
Metro GameCentral
8 / 10
Destructoid
8.5 / 10
God is a Geek
9 / 10
Nintendo Life
8 / 10
The Games Machine
6 / 10
Gaming Nexus
8 / 10
Wccftech
7 / 10
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Critic Reviews for Dungeon Encounters

Hiroyuki Ito returns to the helm for the first time since Final Fantasy 12 in another brilliant examination of RPG fundamentals.

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Metro GameCentral

GameCentral
8 / 10
Metro GameCentral

The Japanese role-playing game stripped back to its bare essentials and yet rather than an exercise in nostalgic pandering this is one of the most compelling and sharply designed dungeon crawlers of recent years.

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Give it a shot, and once you get into it, you might see it the way I do: as a gripping, strategic adventure that is not only a game but a celebration of one of the great innovations of the turn-based RPG genre.

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Dungeon Encounters is a hardcore experience, that some will dismiss as overly simple. More fool them.

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Dungeon Encounters is a masterstroke of game design, character and narrative – it's storytelling in the way only games can be. It teaches how scale is felt in a game, and it teaches, through their absence, the roles of rich visuals and verbose storytelling. Next time we play an RPG with baroque graphics and forests of text, we will understand a little more deeply where a game's atmosphere really comes from.

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RPGs have been an ever-evolving genre for years, and while most developers strive to introduce some new details to innovate, Dungeon Encounters follows the path of hardcore minimalism. The result is a game that looks outdated and with rusty game mechanics, sold at a price that is everything but minimal. It offers a couple of interesting details but also wild grinding, very repetitive gameplay, and poor graphics. We should expect more than that from Square Enix.

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When your only motivation to continue is to see just how far down a tiled dungeon you can get, I became exhausted. I Love the combat system. The amount of weapons and armor you can equip your party members is great. But by not providing any story or character motivation, I became weary of the game. The repetitive music fit perfectly with the same look and feel on floor one as it did on floor 24. While I enjoyed the mechanics and searching, the somber feel of Dungeon Encounters made me realize why they don't quite make them like they used to.

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Wccftech

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7 / 10.0
Wccftech

As a Mechanics-First style of game, Dungeon Encounters offers little to entice players that aren't already fans of Final Fantasy's Active Time Battle from yesteryear. What surrounds that dungeon crawling experience is threadbare but established fans can use what's there and chart their own paths.

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