Claim and defend the Tomb of Tyrants against greedy adventurers by matching tiles to build a deadly dungeon full of traps, minions, and more!
Mostly Positive
327 Steam reviews
| LANGUAGE | AUDIO | SUBTITLES | INTERFACE |
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Tomb of Tyrants is one of those games that looks simple at first glance, but quietly eats hours of your life once the systems click.
On the surface it’s a dungeon builder. You’re an evil overlord constructing a death trap to stop waves of heroes. But the twist is that everything runs on a match-style resource grid. Every move you make generates gold, monsters, traps, and mana that power the dungeon.
It feels like a strange mash-up of tower defense, puzzle game, and idle strategy.
The real hook is the upgrade loop. Every run unlocks new monsters, stronger traps, and deeper dungeon layouts. At first you’re barely scraping together goblins and spike pits. Later you’re chaining combos that flood the dungeon with undead armies while your traps shred entire parties before they reach the boss.
It’s the kind of game where you tell yourself “one more run” and suddenly an hour disappears.
What I like most is that it respects the player’s time. Runs are quick, progress is constant, and the mechanics stay readable even when the dungeon becomes chaotic.
If you enjoy puzzle strategy games with strong progression systems, Tomb of Tyrants is a hidden gem.
Tomb of Tyrants sneaks up on you — what looks like a simple match-4 game reveals itself to be a surprisingly deep dungeon management strategy game, and the moment it clicked for me I lost several hours without noticing. Matching resources to build floors, recruit minions, and fend off waves of heroes creates this satisfying loop where every decision feels meaningful, especially once you start chaining prophecies and building toward a specific dungeon identity like an undead horde or trap-heavy gauntlet. Fair warning: the learning curve is genuinely steep and the tutorial only scratches the surface, so expect some confusion early on — but pushing through that initial fog is absolutely worth it. The solo developer has clearly poured real care into this, and it shows in the charming pixel art, the puns hidden everywhere, and the steady stream of updates. If you can tolerate a rough onboarding, this is one of the most rewarding puzzle-strategy hybrids I've played.
I am so sorry it took me so long to review. This is a very fun game with a lot to unlock but I got frustrated with having to reset switching OS's back in the day. That's on me, this is a solid puzzle game with rich rpg mechanics that creates plentiful reasons to play it again and again to unlock and explore every option.
Boring. Cool concept but too boring and fights are to slow not engaging, have to spend to much time looking at the candy crush scene instead of trying to watch the survival
"You Must Build A Boat" is a game I spent a lot of time playing. This game looks similar, and it could be fun, but I can't get into it. The game seems needlessly complex without being rewarding. I just get tired of watching everything at once. It would be better if the game paused itself after moving lines, but you have to press the space bar every time.
It's disappointing that the main mode of the game is just an endles mode. Your final boss is your highest score. After that, you start from scratch, no unlocks, no new content, nothing.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/290890/You_Must_Build_A_Boat/
Today I learned I am too dumb to understand the rules of a match-3 game.
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Build your catacombs and protect yourself from incoming hordes of heroes. Game plays like your typical match 3 type. Gather resources and expand your crypt then place monsters inside to fend off enemies. Music is very melancholic and drowsy. Visual side basic. Definitely not for everyone. I don't know why but this one is not much enjoyable.
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冲着三消玩法来的，发现游戏的策略部分还挺有意思的，需要调整各层和小怪的位置来维持整个Tomb的运作，玩法容易上手但又有深度，好玩！
A poorly executed mess of game. How do you mess up a match 4 to get resources and then build stuff game? Some how they figured out how to do that.
Fantastic game. Old, but great! Very addictive. Basically tactical match 4 :)
This German-engineered solo puzzle game is about the "thing within the thing";
it isn't good-looking and shallow, it's pixellated but deep.
It evolves to adapt to your play-style as a result of hundreds, thousands of your choices.
Warning: might be frustrating if prone to "analysis paralysis".
Its many moving parts defy analysis,
creating instead an engaging, addictive, hours-long session of non-stop active choices
that, taken as a whole, begin to define the "thing within YOU" ! (your style, traits, character)
There's no turning back, no return to zero,
in this open-ended roguelite blend of synergy card games, Tetris puzzle, D&D dungeon-designer, and worker-placement.
One-of-a-kind experience! Stick with it!
PROS:
So far my favourite Match-3 game (although there ain't much competition). Tomb of Tyrants us seemingly simple but eventually requires somewhat strategy and watching over different things. Fulfilling requirements for schemes and rituals while defending and expanding the tomb becomes meditative that you do while listening to podcast etc. Sprite graphics have fun animations, eventhough you don't usually have time to follow them closely.
CONS:
As the game is endless, the poor tyrant is doomed from the beginning. There are slight improvements between games, but when eventually games start to take hour and you loose only because certain resource is not dropped in loot enough and losing your strongest warriors because lack of those resources it demoralizes. There's lots of contents but not that much.
Good game, install the beta for full 4k resolution.
I tried, just didn't enjoy it
Un juego muy recomendable, una mezcla de dungeon manager, match-3, manejo de recursos, con algo de estrategia. A partir de los recursos que vas obteniendo, vas construyendo distintos pisos al calabozo, con el tiempo vas destrabando mejoras que se consiguen al crear pisos específicos continuos con lo cual obtenes mejores minions con los cuales se llega al final, con todo ello se lo puede caracterizar también como un rogue-like.
Very addicting, a lot of unlocks and somewhat complex
I'm writing this review after reaching the 100hrs mark.
I bought it long time ago (leaving at +90hrs though) and gave it a new shot lately for several hours more.
I like the overall idea of matching tiles to get ressources, and also the quests to unlock new stuff. But I have to be honest with you guys : I never ever understood sh!t at what was happening in the dungeon itself. I just randomly moved available minions around when a room was blinking red, or if the game alerted me that enemies were 1 room away from my Tyrant. And all regardless of who I picked and what room I put it in. Same goes for purchasing rooms, just bought whatever stood at the top of the rooms pile.
I know the minions have stats. I know the room have various effects. I guess that both positionning is important to optimize the dungeon defense. But I sincerely couldn't care much and would not put effort into planning things ahead. People purchasing match-3, are essentially match-3 die-hard players, not management freaks.
So, from the bottom of my match 3 enthusiast heart, thanks to the developer for this lovely gem. But next time, don't bother doing something that "complex", it's really not necessary. I enjoyed the game with the randomness of it, and perhaps a more rng based approach would have sufficed.
I think most people mistook this game like some puzzle quest in which you match tiles and something fun happens on its own in the dungeon. And I wish it was exactly that. You have something there, it just needs some rework in order to appeal a wider crowd.
Mixed
Good puzzle game with a classic style. Gameplay normal.
Ugly UI, cluttered and overstimulating. Overlapping text everywhere.
Verdict:
Sure, why not get it on sale?
A kind of match 4 puzzle for dungeon keepers, Tomb of Tyrants is a fun short term distraction when you only have a little bit of time to waste or you want a palate cleanser between meatier titles. The game goes quickly but there is constant progression in a kind of roguelite sort of way. Balancing managing the dungeon with solving the puzzle that grants you powers is a constant struggle. I just don't pause enough (spacebar) to plan very far ahead. A calmer person might not have as much trouble with getting defeated by managing their minions better, but even so I have a blast every time I play.
The game is kind of boring. I've played 10 minutes and don't want to play any more. Refunding.
Visuals are hard to understand: it says "meddle" where it means "options"; the text is intentionally pixelated but that makes it harder to read; lots of visual clutter is going on that you don't really need to pay attention to in addition to the lots that is going on that you do need to pay attention to.
The gameplay is more tedious than fun.
The tutorial is long-winded and unhelpful. You're probably better off just getting in and playing. Nothing it says is unexpected in the least.
Love the art, love the feel. Perfect meld.
Sound design +++
I must have been drunk as I bought this game.
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The two halves of the game don't mesh together well often requiring you to pause the game to micromanage. It's an interesting idea but the poor tutorial and busy UI take a while to decipher.
An absolutely incredible mix of "match-4" puzzle gaming with tactics and strategy. Super, super, super fun and addictive as you unlock new rooms to work through several development paths to get new creatures to get new abilities to set up great combos of minions to set up the ultimate defense against those pesky heroes :)
Meh
fun tower defense/blockswapping game with a Dungeon Keeper-type theme and a roguellike mechanic where the more rituals you fulfill in a run the more floors are preserved when your tyrant inevitably succumbs in battle and you have to begin again with a new one. easy to learn, easy to get hooked. i haven't touched this game in years, reinstalled on a whim, and immediately lost an hour.
This is a cool take on the traditional "match 3" (or match 4 in this case) style of game. Something like Puzzle Quest meets Rogue Legacy. It's held my interest for a while now - lots of replayability as your dungeon gets a little better and more options start to unlock with each play. The approach to unlocks is non-linear so you're kinda free to just do things your own way.
Fantastic game, dripping with style. Great example of committing to a feel and art direction.
Loved it years ago, revisited to snap up those last tricky achievements and had just as much fun.
Wow, pretty underrated game that seems to go under a lot of people's radar.
It LOOKS to me like the game was in a messy, hard to understand state for a long time but I've had a pretty easy time understanding the game in its current state... And I may or may not have skipped most of the tutorial. I picked up on a lot of things from the few tutorial hints I read and had to reset the tutorial eventually just to make sure I understood a mechanic or two (that wouldn't actually change my progress, I was just curious)
So this game is a lot like Dungeon Keeper + Match 4 and roguelike mechiancs.
You do the match 4 to gain resources to build floors to your dungeon that open up branching paths depending on the combinations of rooms you use. For example using goblins and wolves will open up wargs, if a goblin and a warg are in the same room, they combine into a Goblin Beastmaster, that's the most extreme example I have so far, normally its just a room and a new monster/trap. There is a reason to keep using the match 4 system when you've built all you can build. So matching meat/red will heal monsters, matching teal/armor tiles restores armor and so on.
It starts feeling pretty simple. But eventually I picked up on some things. Different kinds of heroes show up depending on what you build. This can open up weaknesses or counter you depending on how you continue to build your dungeon. You can intentionally build something that brings a certain kind of hero and then focus on their counter.
This game has something ELSE that I love. Randomly named monsters with a good bit of variations on their appearances and higher level ones look more powerful(or fancy) than others. Then methods you can use to keep some monsters between runs. This resulted in the grand saga of "Grum the Fashionable" a goblin ringleader. Who carried me through most of the early game allowing me to progress very far. Eventually he was defeated by a level 10 paladin, the first level 10 enemy I'd ever encountered. Now I have a Drow Spider Queen and Heretic combo that can practically hold down an entire floor by themselves due to them having insane damage and a great combination of abilities. They seem simply unbeatable and continuously stick around between runs. This is something I hold dear when a game does it. You build up these implied stories based on what happens when you have characters that stick around, have funny names, look cooler than the rest etc.
Anyways, this game is cheap. I'd say this is worth more than the game costs when it's not on sale. So pick it up ESPECIALLY if it's on sale. At least if you know you're into these roguelike dungeon master games or just want to play some pretty good connect 4.
Not really playable with gamepad.
One of the best match 3 games I have ever played.
Pros:
- Simple to learn, hard to master floor system
- Great RPG elements in tandem with the Rogue-like elements
- Large variety of floors and upgrades
- Constant changes and layering as match progresses
Cons:
- Not always a clear for the upgrade paths on the floors
If you like Match 3 games, this is a must have!
It's a good, simple little game to pass the time. I suggest it especially if it's on sale.
It's a nice match 4 type game with roguelite elements. the way the pieces move is original. if you enjoy puzzle games you'll enjoy this... WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO SAY ?
Hey, I'm too old to do this kind of job! It's not because of my physical performance but of my brain's ability to handle both left and right screens, being never knowing what exactly is going on. Still, quite an addictive match-3 variant. Especially, dragging one line to the left and then up/down and then right in one time is awesome.
A nice combination of a match-4 mechanic fueling an overall tiny tower strategy game. I like the mechanics and overall idea, but the design is focused on pushing players to grind long sessions with little return as well as diminishing returns. This means the incentive to play for further unlocks and carryover of your strongest soldiers drops drastically with every play-through.
There is a limit of buildable floors with static floors being the starting floor and a hero camping floor for every 5th floor. Unfortunately, each floor is only supplied with 2 troops and there is no way to build more troops or change the choice of floors and troops after they are built, and herein lies the main problem: the game keeps spamming high level heroes (lv 10) which will always overrun your tower and since you have 1 less soldier per floor, you are set up to be spread thin and needing to micromanage and move troops here and there to address enemy swarms.
At the same time, you have to worry about resource management via the match-4 and really only have the unlocked item buffs at your disposal to shore up your weakling troops, since you can only carry over a few strongest troops per play-through. So, although the game is very cleverly built and merges two very cool mechanics together, the math doesn't add up and players are punished each session with these limitations.
Even with 86 unlockable floor plans, there is a balance issue where the rate of enemy spawns exceed your dispatch rate so swarms of enemies end up reaching the lowest level.
After scanning Steam community, it looks like the game was specifically designed this way to encourage online leaderboard play. The possible buildable number of levels seems to be unlimited as long as you have the patience to grind 4- 6 hours per play-through after unlocking better floors and troops... o_O
This game is designed for long-term play and grinding unlocks. Each of my sessions usually last 2 hours. This game is for you if you love unlocking things and enjoy match-4 mechanics with some troop management on the side and are not easily discouraged by difficult AI.
Summary: Tyrants are always set up to fail regardless of previous tyrant's performance.
Maybe I'm just garbage but I tried to get into it a few times and didn't seem to make any progress and just got frustrated every time. It looks like it should be fun and has plenty of charm, but you might want to spare yourself the frustration of trying to figure it out and get anywhere.
I've tried to get into this multiple times, and have never had any success with it. It seems like something I would like, especially because it seems similar to 10,000,000 - but it's so confusing that I just couldn't grasp what was going on. Maybe I'm just bad at multitasking, but there are so many things to keep track of, all in real time, that it goes from being fun to frustrating.
strange and a bit convoluted, but a also bit addictive match-three-or-more tower defence.
decent time killer. 5.5/10
I enjoyed this anti hero game. This is dungeon building by necessity and what resources you have while playing a fast paced puzzle game to gain the resources. Every new game is a new experience and your prior performance will help you in the next game. This game is great for time as well if you need a few minutes of gaming or want to do a 3 hour binge both can be just as satisfying. This game requires multitasking and will test how much you can do if you try to master it. if your looking for an on your toes puzzle based game that you build with the resources you gain this is the top of my list for that.
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It is a fun game but the mechanics could use some work, maybe streamline them a bit.
Stop killing my damn minions!
This game is a blast to play, while seemingly simple in design as you progress more and more elements of the game reveal themselves to you. You will often times be saying the same phrase that starts this review as you play through this game. This game is boatloads of fun and you will be cursing the heroes as they fell another one of your minions.... A fun time-waster that you can pickup and play for a spell.
Tomb of Tyrants is a game with charm and alliteration.
This is a match-3 (match-4, actually) dungeon builder which is very light on the management and heavy on, well, matching. This isn't a casual Dungeon Keeper, rather, you match resources to fulfill little mini-goals and tasks paired with a little minion juggling.
To be fair, you'll end up staring at the matching more than adjusting dungeon stuff. It is also hard find any guides or info about strategy. But to end on a good note, even though there's no real endgame, the roguelike angle is pretty well done. There is a satisfying feeling of progress as you build on your previous failed dungeons.
Recommended if you are looking for a pixelated matching game with light dungeon overlay.
The closest I've gotten to my Puzzle Quest fix. Pick this game up if you like a hybrid of puzzle and strategy, as well as long term resource management from the dungeon building aspect.
8/10 - Worth the cash I paid for it, easy to pick up, one of my favorite puzzle games
Love the wit, graphics, experience, and controls
First game: I have no idea what I'm doing, so I play "match 3" and eventually die. The game seems overly complex. I'm confused.
Then I see a youtube video showing someone explaining prophecies. Hmm...
So I start the game again. It offers me to play the "next" tyrant because my first one had died.
Instead, I start the game over. "Are you sure?" Well I had no idea what I was doing, so yes I'm sure - let's start over!
Second game: WOW! Prophecies are really important.
What's a prophecy?
It's just a shape that looks like it's from a Tetris game - the blocks in a certain order making a shape. That's a prophecy!
So what does it do? If you fulfill a prophecy (which you do by dragging around boxes of the same color until you've made the shape, and it can be tricky), for whatever resource you made the "shape" of the prophecy with, you'll have a bigger holding bin for that resource. Then also sometimes there are counters waiting for you to fulfill a certain number of prophecies and then specials come up.
Also floor order can be rearranged, and which floor each of your minions is on can also be rearranged, and some units can be set to patrol between floors.
So now I'm continuously pausing the game, and meticulously planning my moves to create the IMPOSSIBLE shapes of these prophecies! Well they aren't impossible - but they can be very frustrating.
The game is suddenly no longer a "Match 3" game - it's a "Match Prophecy Shape" game. I never thought I would be concentrating this hard in a match 3 game, pausing it to death, screaming at the screen when some other shape ruins what I was going after! It's so engaging - I forget everything else trying to get those shapes to work!
Other points:
The longer I play, the more I get the impression you can never really last very long on your first tyrant if you start the whole game over. He is doomed after so many rounds, and the subsequent tyrants too. The adventurers that come to attack you come in huge numbers after not too long, and it takes too long to beat them so eventually you are overrun. Then in the next tyrant you've inherited something from the previous tyrant so it gets a little easier, etc. That part I wish was a little less predictable.
Conclusion:
Yes I recommend this! Even at full price! The graphics are very simplistic but the game-play more than makes up for that!
落ちものパズルでダンジョン経営するゲーム
ダンジョン経営というけど、そこまで経営要素はなく、ただひたすらパズルでリソース貯めて、フロア追加するかモンスターを呼ぶかするだけと思われる。
有志の方が日本語ガイドを作ってくださっているが、それでわかる範囲のルールだと、頑張ってパズルやってるうちに気が付いたら攻め込まれて死んでる。
ヤバくなった時にどういう対処をしたら良いのかが良くわからないので、パズル自体が何となく楽しいんだけど理不尽な気持ちになる。
英語の得意な方がちゃんと読んだら何か変わってくるのかもしれないけど、英語力の無い俺みたいな人にはお勧めし辛い。
[h1]◆概要◆[/h1]
落ちものパズルとダンジョン経営を組み合わせた作品。
左画面にブロック、右画面にダンジョンとややこしそうなゲームだが、基本的にやることは「上部に表示されている条件を目標にして左画面でブロックを消す」「死亡しているミニオンがいたら復活させる」「アイテムを使用する」の3つだけと意外と単純。
特に上部に表示されている条件だけ見ていればとりあえず何とかなるほど。
なにより縦横方向にスライドさせてブロックを揃えるだけでもかなり楽しく、ブロックの挙動や揃った時のSEも相まって特にルールが分かっていなくても2時間ぶっ続けてブロックを揃え続けたほど。
条件を達成したりモンスターが死亡した場合もSEでわかるのがポイント。
それでもやはり敷居が高いため、簡易日本語ガイドを執筆した。
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2337401450
これさえ目を通しておけばゲーム内の英語がほとんどわからなくても問題ないほどなので、まずは一読されても良いかもしれない。
落ちものパズルだが引き継ぎ要素ありの似非パーマデスであり、上部に表示されている条件を満たすことで新しいミニオンや部屋などのアンロックや部屋の強化が可能。
特に重要なのは部屋の強化であり、強化した部屋はゲームオーバーになっても削除されず引き継がれる。
そのため何度も繰り返しつつ部屋を増やしてどんどんダンジョンを長くするゲームとなっている。
序盤こそどのブロックを揃えようか考える余裕があるが、ダンジョンが長くなるとひっきりなしにブロックが落下し続けて休む暇もないほど。
しかもただブロックを揃えるだけではなく上部に表示されている条件という目標があり、達成すると利点もあるとのことで飽きずに延々とプレイできた。
なぜか日本ではそれほど知名度が高くないようだが、マッチパズル系が好きな方にはおすすめの作品だった。
Fun little kill time puzzle/dungeon master game, well worth its time!
I'm going to have to give this a marginal thumbs down. This is from a closet Match 3 maniac who has enjoyed every permutation of Puzzle Quest and various other indie tile-shifters.
The Good:
I like the pixel aesthetic.
The tile matching is easy, unique and immediately understandable.
The theme and concept are awesome. Dungeon Keeper + Match 3 sounds awesome on paper.
The Bad:
Micromanaging your dungeon and moving monsters around is rarely rewarding and requires you to pause the game.
Unnecessarily complicated mechanics for building rooms.
Late round developments are few and far between. Often times you're basically sitting around and essentially waiting to die after you place everything you can.
There's a possibility that I'm just not *getting* something here. But I have loads of Steam games to try out and honestly I just don't find this all that enjoyable.
Je joue sur Linux. Version Linux : excellente.
[h1]Le jeu[/h1]
Un roguelite match-3 de gestion de donjon ? Pas forcément évident de définir le genre du jeu. Le gameplay consiste principalement à match le plus possible pour collecter les ressources qui servent à ajouter des étages au donjon, ou bien à acheter des monstres quand ceux qu'on avait ont été vaincus.
Mais pas que: chaque ressource, quand collectée, a aussi un effet sur le donjon : heal des montres, restauration de leur armure/agilité, ressusciter ceux qui sont récemment décédés, ...
Et encore: accomplir des prophéties afin de débloquer de nouvelles pièces/monstres/objets, des rituels pour augmenter le stock de ressources, ou encore de sauvegarder les étages étages pour la partie suivante.
Il est possible de placer nos monstres sur les étages qu'on veut ou déplacer les étages pour améliorer notre stratégie de cassage de bouches de héros.
Quand le tyran meurt, la partie se termine, on garde les étages sauvegardés et quelques monstres, et hop c'est reparti pour la construction de différents étages et le meurtre de héros en masse.
Graphiquement, c'est du gros pixel avec divers effets. Tout est animé, mais dans l'ensemble c'est assez moche. L'interface fait très fouillis, pas évident de s'y retrouver au début, et même quand on a bien saisi, les popups sont sur les objets, le codex est assez difficile à naviguer, et pas mal de choses ne sont pas expliquées dans le tuto (qui a tout de même le mérite d'exister !). Si la musique est pas trop mal, les bruitages sont assez pénibles.
[h1]Rejouabilité, achievements[/h1]
La rejouabilité est plus ou moins infinie, on peut tester de nombreuses possibilités, et toujours chercher à obtenir un meilleur score.
Les achievements ne sont pas très compliqués, je les ai tous obtenus en jouant juste le match-3 sans me prendre la tête sur la stratégie. Il faudra juste varier un peu les pièces de départ pour obtenir assez de prophéties. Lorsque j'ai cherché à toutes les débloquer, j'en avais déjà pratiquement une centaine sur les 114 que compte le jeu. Un guide sera probablement nécessaire pour toutes les avoir, vu que certaines dépendent d'objets et d'étages particuliers...
[h1]En bref[/h1]
Malgré le fouillis, 20h plus tard j'y jouais encore sans déplaisir. Je ne sais pas trop quoi en penser, mais en tous cas j'ai passé un bon moment.
[h1]GNU/Linux[/h1]
La version Linux est excellente. Le seul reproche serait au niveau du fullscreen qui ne fonctionne pas correctement en multiscreen. J'y ai donc joué en fenêtré. Je ne sais pas si c'est spécifique à Linux.
OS: Linux Mint 19 x64, MATE edition.
Hardware : i7 7700K OC@5Ghz, Nvidia 1080GTX, 32GB ram.
Screens : Dualscreen, 1x 4K & 1x 1920x1200, un seul screen X.
1 of the best game I had played.(I played this more than Devil May cry 5)[b] Pls buy & support this game. This developer deserved so much more..... [/b]
This is a retro 2D pixel dungeon management/match-3 hybrid game where you control a tyrant and must play Candy Crush and drag and drop monsters around your dungeon to fight off invading heroes. The gameplay is mind numbingly and also pointlessly convoluted.
On the technical side, ugly pixel graphics make a complicated game too ugly to care about. Apart from being unable to come up with better quality graphics, the developer couldn't work out full screen, either, so this falls way below the minimum quality standard for a PC game. The price tag of $11.50 is ludicrous because you can buy proper dungeon management games for that with 3D graphics and without bizarre and needlessly headache inducing mechanics. Or, you know, match-3 games in your web browser for free, if that was what you were looking for.
I don;t understand what I'm doing, but I hate the bloody heroes.
Huge amount of replayability.
La primera vez que jugué a este juego me salté el tutorial y no entendí nada y no me gustó demasiado, pero la segunda vez me lo tomé con calma y descubrí lo equivocado que estaba porque este juego es un vicio fascinante y maravilloso.
I wish there's a detailed tutorial on how to play this game. I took quite some time to understand this game which until now I'm not 100% sure that I understand the game. The funny thing is I able to get all the achievements and I hope nobody will ask me how to do that or how to play the game. And the weird thing is I enjoyed playing the matching game without knowing what I'm doing.
Match 4+ aspect is fun. Other parts seem like they should be interesting. There are minions, room upgrade paths, etc, but it generally and repeatedly misses the point of being a labyrinth for incoming heroes (which is my impression of what the game says it's supposed to be). I don't know about you, but, if all of your defenses (minions, traps, layout) on a 20+ floor starting labyrinth can be just walked past after 1 or 2 minions are defeated, I don't find that remotely rewarding. Why does that matter? Because there's no ending (which is fine) when you micro-manage everything correctly to get to a high score/high wave, but that just leaves starting over again... where some basic level enemies can just waltz to the elevator and end the run quickly (ex: wave 4).
Буду краток,тут есть полугиганты-библиотекари,и они - серьезные противники
見ずらい
一風変わったタイル消しゲーム。
タイルを消して資源を集め、魔物部屋を作って勇者の襲来から魔王様を守る。
作る部屋によって呼び出される魔物の種類が異なり、
それらを上手く配置していかに効率よく敵を撃退していくかがポイント。
エンドレスなので最終的に魔王様はやられちゃいますが、
道中でProphecyというサブクエストのようなものを達成すればより強力な部屋が解禁されてゆき、
次回からは最初からそれが作れるようになるのでどんどん楽しくなっていきます。
隠れた良作。
全実績難易度：1個だけ難しいけどあとは普通
I rarely review a game that I haven't finished, but it's sufficiently clear this early on that that's not going to happen.
The game begins with an extremely off-putting tutorial, where it seems to be trying to (over)compensate for its unclear mechanics by heaping pages of text at you describing all manners of mechanisms that the player has zero point of reference to tie to. You're shown a dozen elements of differing order all at once, with barely any idea on how to implement them, or any time to try them out before the game's assaulting you again with more paragraphs about something entirely different that it needs you to memorize. This is not helped at all by the UI, which very quickly fills the entire screen with several dozen hard to read stats, all relating to things you, again, have no way to connect to anything yet. Maybe there's an enjoyable game buried somewhere underneath all of that for whoever has the patience to either power through all that, or to go back and study for it, but for me this was more than enough. With a game this unfriendly I can tell we're not going to get along.
it was ok for a while...
Excellent timekiller, and additionaly, proof that even 3-row can be made into great game.
Autism, ho!
It's a fast paced puzzle game that can be played quickly. This match three game starts easy, but you'll soon be pressed to think fast on how to manage your tomb's denizens, resources, and facilities. Add fending off adventurers to the mix and things get frantic fast.
Don't forget the great tunes that come with the game. They're great to listen to.
Aweaome game
Something about slide blocks to make exact not rotated pattern--- STOP
A few of your monsters has died, res them bef--- STOP
You don't have the resources to res him, Ok use the match bones to res--- STOP
You don't have any bones tile because you matched them to build your dungeon down. --- STOP
The heroes are on your doorstep, you are dead no big surprise.
The game wants you make big patterns and clear your board to make new floors but either floods you with tile or barely any at all.
[strike]
Each monster and heroes have strengths and weakness but even with codex of "info" the game fails show what each thing mean. You can manage your monsters which is overwhelming and futile. [/strike]
Also the unlock suck. They are annoying, needing exact conditions to show up and unlock. and some only unlock new heroes making it feel bad.
I guess I should have notice the highscore stuff and book it
yeah.
被大家说的3消模式给吸引了···
结果实际进去大片大片英文看不懂~
哎~悲哀···
Man muss sich reinfummeln, aber danach entwickelt sich der Suchtfaktor.
I like the pixelart graphics and combination of two different games
[h1]¡Te vas a sentir más perdido que Marco en el día de la madre![/h1]
Mira, te cuento, así entre tú y yo. El juego mola un puñado, pero es bastante frenético y el tutorial es tan malo que te va a quedar claro hasta el Dark Souls, así que te digo de qué va el juego por si se te ocurre comprarlo, y al flipar un rato todo frustrado, vas y lo devuelves.
¡NO!, no seas vago y al menos lee de qué va.
Este juego es un doble juego. Tienes que jugar un "Bejeweled" [i](un poco más flexible)[/i] a la par de ir defendiendo una mazmorra, contratando gente, construyendo salas e ir ocupándote de poner trampas, desarrollar nuevas estancias, completar misiones, etc. No vas a alcanzar en las 10 primeras partidas una clara comprensión de cómo se juega realmente, así que lo primero, paciencia.
¿Sabías que es una especie de roguelike?. Lo podían decir, pero pensaron que es mejor que lo descubrieras por ti mismo y sufrieras mucho en el proceso. Tras llorar unas cuantas veces, verás que hay luz al final del túnel.
Sobre el tutorial:
En tu primera partida harás el tuto y dirás, [i]<<Uh, si esto es como un pinta y colorea, unes colorines, ganas recursos y construyes salas demoníacas, como hace mi sobrino>>[/i] , ya, sí, y luego vienen 3 hordas [i] (con suerte)[/i] de enemigos, te quedas con el culo torcido mientras te petan la mazmorra, no sabes qué hacer y la palmas. Entonces dirás [i] <<puta basura de juego>>[/i] .
Vale, calma, yo te cuento.
[h1]La trama:[/h1]
La premisa del juego es que tienes un tirano muy malvado al que persiguen para matarle porque le deberá unos nineros a alguien, y eso está muy feo. Entonces se resguarda en una tumba, porque es lo más inteligente en estos casos (ya que sabes que van a por ti, te pones la lápida tú solo y acortamos tiempo). Pero como la tumba está muy fría, pues decides decorarla, y ya de paso contratas a seres del inframundo para que te hagan compañía.
Cuanto más construyas, más profunda será tu mazmorra, y te sentirás más protegido y calentito acercándote al infierno. <3. Como efecto secundario, los héroes tardarán más tiempo en alcanzarte y apuñalarte por lo mala persona que eres.
[h1]¿Cómo se juega?[/h1]
A la izquierda tienes un panel en el que tienes que ir deslizando cubos de colores. Cada color representa un recurso que tienes, desde carne, huesos, tesoros, armamento, hasta poderes mágicos. Tienes que intentar hacer formas de 4 o más colores, y cuantas más rompas de un color, más recursos tendrás para construir salas, y si te portas bien y tienes suerte, irán cayendo hechizos, que, si rompes, irán aumentando de nivel.
Irás viendo que hay una línea gris en tu campo de juego, que a medida que rompes cubos va bajando, y ¡no aparecen más cubos de colores! Yo me sentí desesperado porque me quedaba sin cubos y no sabía cómo reponerlos. No desesperes. Los cubos se reponen al matar o robar a héroes, o al construir salas nuevas.
Esa línea gris que estás viendo es la que te permite construir salas. Pongamos un ejemplo, la catacumba. Esta sala costará x recursos y te pedirá 3 filas. Estas filas son las que tienes que tener encima (vacías) de tu línea gris. Una vez construyas la sala, la línea subirá y se te llenará de cubos de colorines una vez más.
[h1]Los hechizos: [/h1]
Esto no te lo cuentan en el tuto, pero es lo que te va haciendo ir sobreviviendo con el tiempo.
Hay veces que te aparecerán símbolos raros, como un corazón, que es el primer poder. Muy bien, ¡a por él! Tu prioridad es conseguir esos hechizos, ya que se desbloquean para tus siguientes partidas. Cuantos más rompas de un tipo, mayor nivel tendrán e irás resistiendo más.
[h1]¿Cómo se usan las salas?[/h1]
Bien, esto es importante. Cada sala tiene 3 posiciones. Si arrastras un minion sobre una sala, te dirá que lo pongas en el hueco 1, 2 o 3. Es muy importante que uses el grimorio para ver qué hace cada minion, porque algunos son buenos en la primera posición, otros de apoyo, otros roban cosas, etc.
Otra cosa que tampoco te cuentan en el tuto, es que las salas se anulan entre ellas. Al principio tienes muchas, y cuando las vas construyendo, muchas desaparecen. No, el juego no te trolea, es que no leíste la letra pequeña del grimorio (nunca mejor dicho).
[h1]El grimorio:[/h1]
El desarrollador, que claramente es caótico malvado, pensó que la mejor manera de torturar jugadores era creando un libro donde puedes consultar casi todo del juego, pero a tamaño pulga, para que te quedes ciego leyendo.
En el grimorio puedes ver las estadísticas de tus aliados, ver las trampas, cómo se desbloquean nuevas salas, etc. Además, te dice que, si construyes cierto tipo de sala, habrá otra que se anule.
/h1]Los villanos:[/h1]
Bien, te van a matar un puñado de veces, pero a veces sobrevive alguno de tus minions, que van subiendo de nivel al matar a los héroes, y esto hace que sean más útiles. Si éstos sobreviven, pasarán a la siguiente mazmorra, así que te compensa mucho cuidarlos, porque no es lo mismo empezar una mazmorra con un minion de nivel 1 que de nivel 5.
Esto va haciendo que la partida sea consecuentemente más larga, y puedas ir haciendo mazmorras mucho más profundas.
[h1]Las piezas de Tetris: [/h1]
Bien, habrás comprobado que al inicio de cada partida solo puedes almacenar 25 de cada recurso. Al principio bien, pero esto es una mierda según avanzas en el juego.
Los costes de las salas y trampas son elevados más adelante, y las salas un poco más avanzadas superan los costes de 25. ¿qué debes hacer? Bien, supongo que habrás visto que en los bordes de tu cuadrícula van apareciendo piezas de “Tetris”. Vale, pues tienes que intentar hacer esas formas cuando rompas los cubos de colores. Si lo consigues, aumentará en 2 tu máximo de el recurso que hayas roto. Se puede aumentar más si haces combos al mismo tiempo, ya que aparecen multiplicadores, pero esto no es fácil.
Lo mismo me animo a escribir una guía, porque el juego mola un montón, es barato, y me da pena que porque el desarrollador es un poco cazurro, no lo juegue más gente.
[h1]Valoración:[/h1]
PROS:
✔️ Super rejugable.
✔️ Es de estos juegos que te envician horas, cuando sabes jugarlo, claro.
✔️ Muchos hechizos que irás desbloqueando.
✔️ Gran cantidad de salas que irás descubriendo.
✔️ Mogollón de misiones que deberás ir completando mientras juegas.
✔️ La música está guay, aunque hay poca.
✔️ ¡Pixel art!
CONTRAS:
❌ El tutorial es más malo que cantar el cumpleaños feliz por teléfono.
❌ El ritmo es muy frenético cuando pasan las dos primeras hordas.
❌ Leer el grimorio cuesta mucho durante la partida, aunque puedes pausar.
❌ El grimorio te resta -1 a la visión cada vez que lo lees. Con el tiempo quedas ciego durante 2 turnos.
¿RECOMENDADO?
Pues sí. Si te gustan los "Bejeweled", los "Roguelikes" y el ambiente de fantasía, pues es tu juego la verdad.
Está muy guay para pasar ratos cortos, pero intensos. No creo que sea apto para gente que quiera que se lo den todo mascado, porque se va a frustrar mucho intentando entender las primeras partes del juego, que insisto, son fáciles, pero es que no te las explican una mierda.
Le doy un 7/10. Porque el precio en rebajas me ha parecido un regalazo.
A wonderfully crafted puzzle, tile-matching, tower defence, and strategy indie title - with a stellar soundtrack.
Play it.
Cheap, fun, simple, good loking
Not bad for the price. Graphics aren't stellar of course, but the gameplay is solid and surprisingly deep. You can change direction up to 4 times when making a move which gives you a lot of flexibility. Not only do you have to match what you need when you need it, you have to spend resources wisely and whenever possible make the right shapes with your matches.
I'd recommend this to every fan of 88 Games' "10,000,000" and "You Must Build A Boat", and most anyone who likes puzzle quest or gems of war type games. This won't appeal to everyone, but if you think it might appeal to you, I think it very likely will. Read the tutorial text on your first game, and if you need to see it again, disable and re-enable the tutorial to reset the tips.
A nice take on the classic matching style puzzle game with dynamic gameplay and an integrated progression system that is both rewarding and nicely folded into the simple story. The option to pause and think over strategy helps with what can be an extremely fast-paced game in the later stages of play. Overall, the game mechanics are nicely crafted with sensible feedback, although your click can occasionally be ignored in the mess of cascading tiles. A good game at a decent price, and with no need for additional purchases to enjoy the full game.
Love this game. :D
Просто мусор
How much time passed since i started playing? Interesting and more depth than most match games. Really enjoy the setting and tunes as well
Entretenido, aunque se hace repetitivo muy rápidamente.
10000000 o You must buid a boat, del mismo estilo, le superan, pero si ya los has jugado, puede ser buena elección.
Super cool concept and fun for a while but as you traverse deeper with your dungeon the game opens up and becomes more complex than needed. This just makes ToT confusing as hell and it's hard to know what you are doing right from wrong.
Somehow complicated without much depth.
Everything feels random and progression is really weird. Doesn't feel rewarding.
Tags: Casual - Match3
Additional Tags: Delete Local Content & Remove from Library
TLDR: Unfortunately they did not mesh the basebuilding and match3 segments well together. You are better bruteforcing the match3 than trying to plan ahead while requirements for rooms are unclear. Play Puzzle Quest instead.
Awesome little game to kill some time. Set goals based on prophecies and things will go smoother.
I'm sure it can be great and fun, but the gameplay is too convoluted and confusing, so i'll pass.
I admit I still don't fully understand the game. This is not just four matches puzzle, but also dungeon defender and strategy game. The puzzle is a real fun to play and this is my favorite part. Lots of required shapes, some are difficult and require good planing. But you can't just focus mainly on those puzzle, you also need to build the dungeon and manage your minions.
I play this game for a while now. But it will be a long road before I master the game and complete all the prophecies.
Ok... es ist schnell. Sehr schnell. So schnell, dass ich kaum zeit habe die Erklärungen zu all den tollen Sachen zu lesen, die ich bauen, kaufen, sonstwie erwerben und auslösen kann. Meine Gruft wächst munter weiter, meine Minions leveln ordentlich und nach meiner Niederlage kann ich eine steigende Anzahl an Gruftebenen und Dienern mitnehmen. Ausserdem wimmelt es in der Übersicht nach einer Weile ziemlich ordentlich rum und man verliert das letzte bisschen Überblick.
Aber was solls? Spaß mach das Ganze trotzdem, und darauf kommt es ja an.
I can't make sense of the tutorial, guess I'm too dumb for this one...
Don't let the four-in-a-row theme fool you, it is a dungeon simulator at heart.
The amount of things to unlock is massive and there many strategic choices to be made. The artwork is lovely, your minions are unique in names and looks, which also changes as they level up. Some really grow on you.
It can feel very relaxing to watch the ant hill that your dungeon has become, with hundred little battles being fought. Always a lot going on.
If you like simulator games with a lot going on, this one is for you.
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I've tried playing this several times, and never really understood it. It seems to crash a lot, too.
A neat, semi-casual puzzle game that hides a lot of complexity beneath its' deceptively simple exterior.
Match four? Tower Defense? Dungeon sim? The answer is... [b]YES[/b]. It's all these things, addictive and fiendishly delightful once you grasp how the mechanics interact.
Sprinkle with offbeat humor and pop-culture references, and you've got yourself something pretty unusual and nice to come back to repeatedly.
Tomb of Tyrants just isn't any fun. Even the menu is frustrating because the names of the options CHANGE NAME when you hover over them. Yes, there are only 4 options to choose from but I had no idea what they did and accidentally closed the game the first time I started it. Who designs a thing like that?
This pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the game as well which is even more confusing and does a poor job at telling you what you need to know and it seems to just sort of play itself. You click around on the left-side of the screen and miss out on all the action on the right side of the screen because you're too focused on the left part. At least for me, any way. i find it very difficult to look away once I'm focused on something and dislike games that do not feature the action in in the centre of the screen. You waste a lot of screenspace this way, the edges of the screen should only be for things that you occasionally need to glance at. Imagine playing this on one of those ultra-wide screen as your head would be on a swivel, probably end up with a whiplash or something.
Hard to tell if you're doing okay, hard to tell what exactly the things do that you're doing or what you're supposed to be doing. Tutorial doesn't really help as it completely floods you with messages that you won't be able to retrieve later on and dumps you straight into the action. And what's with that codex? Thing gave me a headache trying to tell apart the actual info from the pixel 'art'. And I use the term 'art' loosely here.
Your screen is often obscured by a tooltip or by a tutorial message and to top it off, closing the tutorial message unpauses the game. Pause the game again and another tutorial message pops up, possibly getting in the way of what you're looking at. Get rid of it, pause the game and voila, yet another tutorial message pops up. Frustrating. Was this even play-tested or did the developer give up on it?
Absolutely disliked it within the first few minutes. I figured it would play out like Puzzle Quest meets Dungeon Keeper but there is no 'oomph' to the block matching and I did not feel at all like I was in control of a dungeon.
Back to the drawing board, this game is literally a mess. It feels like a demo.
Fun game! Rough around the edges, has some flaws, but I like it.
之前被其概念所惊艳便买下了，今天偶然有时间试了一下，怎么说呢，“想法很丰满，现实很骨感”的一款游戏，对于玩家而言，学习成本过高而能操作的内容过少，反馈也过少，虽然仔细研究可以得到其中的乐趣，但上手难度真的可以说是不友好。如果不是消除类的狂热爱好者及热爱研究游戏规则的核心玩家，不推荐此游戏。
mac version
the steam spring clean got me to try this game again and it still crashes for no reason after just a few minutes of play.
Original, avec des mécanismes bien pensés.
Esse jogo é muito bom (para um joguinho tipo Candy Crush).
Basicamente você é o chefe de uma Dungeon, e seu dever é, simultaneamente:
-Cumprir as tarefas para se realizar as profecias, desbloqueando novos minions e itens
-Colocar os minions nas salas certas para otimizar a defesa da sua Dungeon
-Observar o timing na hora de usar alguns blocos (como [i]bone[/i] para reviver minions na hora correta)
Enfim, recomendo, principalmente se estiver na promoção.
Fun game of matching with a dark-humor fantasy flavor. Def worth the price. Plus, he developer seems like a cool person, and I believe is working on more content.
A hidden gem in the steam store. Loved the concept.
