➤ The boss of the dungeons 🎮

A team of heroes and a series of dungeons to conquer, all in the context of a turn-based combat system borrowed from classic RPGs: this is the idea behind Dungeon Boss, the new title developed by Boss Fight Entertainment and produced by Big Fish Games, available in the traditional freemium format for iOS and Android devices.

It is a game that takes you by the hand during the first missions, which act as a quick tutorial, and then leaves the user free to select the components of the party, upgrade them using the gold collected during expeditions and face more and more enemies. strong and determined. The experience is very simple, very "compact", and characterized by a surprisingly clear interface, which from the main screen allows you to access the profiles of the heroes to make any upgrades, collect the rewards of completed achievements and use a portal to summon objects and / or characters. Considering that the slots available to the team are far from numerous, you find yourself almost immediately having to make difficult choices: bring along the healer or the support unit that energizes the companions? Confirm the mighty hammer-wielding Viking and the warrior with the bow, or replace either one with the slow but deadly Dark Reaper?

Dungeon Boss is a simple and straightforward RPG, fun for a while but with a few too many limits

Final clash!

The scenarios change and gradually the paths that lead us to face the bosses of each area become longer, however, in terms of a structure that in addition to the fighting offers little else: in Dungeon Boss all we have to do is take advantage of the shifts available to eliminate the opponents and move on to the next wave, up to the point of defeating the boss (or bosses).

The basic attacks of each character are accompanied by special moves that can inflict serious damage, but which take a few turns to be able to recharge once performed. Around the expeditions there is the management of your own dungeon, which is activated after reaching level 10 and sees us organize the base to best accommodate any invaders, a feature that is now all the rage in the mobile environment. The formula works very well for a couple of hours, despite the obvious limitations of a gameplay that concedes little even to strategic possibilities (the order of turns is fixed, with few exceptions), but the problems of Dungeon Boss are others. With all the freemium titles that are on the App Store and Google Play, in fact, a quick glance at the new Big Fish production is enough to understand where it wants to go: where victory or defeat in a fight depends exclusively on the strength of the characters in the field, it is clear that a certain type of balance of difficulty is destined to drag the experience on the tracks of the most vulgar monetization. All the more so considering that you can collect much more gold than it is possible to use it to upgrade your warriors, a factor that after a while proves frustrating. However, the pleasantness of a simple and colorful RPG remains, very nice from a graphic point of view, certainly immediate and fun until it hits the paywall.

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Dungeon Boss is an RPG with a very simple and immediate structure, supported by colorful and very pleasant graphics. The missions see us simply select a team of warriors and face a series of opponents and their respective bosses, in the perspective of an increasingly demanding campaign, in which the strengthening of the units soon becomes a fundamental factor for progression. At first the formula turns out to be effective and fun, although it is based on very limited gameplay. Going forward, however, it runs into an unedifying use of the freemium format, which aims at monetization rather than the actual skill of the user.