Despot’s Game: Dystopian Army Builder
About This Game
Prepare to die, humans!A group of people wake up in a strange post-apocalyptic labyrinth — naked, with no memories and with a bunch of weapons. Is this a joke, a crazy experiment, or… a game? You’ll find out soon enough, just try not to die first!
Get your pretzels readyYour puny squad is capable of much more. Choose your loot and transform the squishy humans into wizards, cultists, ninjas and dozens of other heroes, including the mythical stale pretzel throwers. With perks and class combos, there are thousands of ways to build your army. The man-eating cabbage will appreciate the variety in its diet!
Crush your rivalsIf you can survive the labyrinth, you’ll meet THE UNSTOPPABLE END-GAME BUILDS OF OTHER PLAYERS! You’ll beat each other to death and only one will be spared by d’Spot. No offense, but in his own game he writes the rules!
Indirect combatPrepare your warriors and let them fight it out on their own! Indirect combat allows you to focus heavily on tactical considerations rather than reflexes. Strengthen your front line with fridge-movers, aim your food-throwers and look after your Forbidden Summoners!
Endless exploration The dungeons are generated from scratch every time, and there is no chance puny humans will ever find the way out! And even if they strike lucky — don’t worry, there are endless ways to die in Despot’s Game!
Game Discussion
Chief 0
Enjoyed this indie title a lot.
Its pretty much completed for early access already and has lots of features.
Steam User 11
Brilliantly awesome game!
If you like deck building or auto battlers like LOL TFT or Auto-chess or Dota Underloards, then this is a must have!
Two main game types:
1) Build your unique team of multi-class units exploring the dungeon room by room (in a few modes), and after beating the dungeon boss, polish your army and compete with all other players in the world for the best army (everyone builds their army by completing a dungeon).
2) Quick brawls with other players (this is more similar to TFT/Auto-chess).
There are two rating ladders, each with their leagues, for 1st and 2nd game types. Seasons lasting around a month. Developers are constantly monitoring the balance of the game. Very accurate game. Developers take care of details.
Remember to join the discord channel for important tips and tricks after you play for a while (use levers on start locations on floors 1/5/9 to get important mutations in the dungeon for your classes, as well as great tips for your builds).
Steam User 7
It's strangely relaxing, humorous, challenging, customization, pvp options, replayability. This game has a lot of great stuff and was definitely worth it.
Steam User 5
Good game. I do wish there was more equipment variety (maybe 1 extra option for each rarity for each class that gives a different effect) and a tooltip that explains what the weapon skill does would be cool too.
Absolute banger soundtrack though. Transitioning during boss rooms and muffling when tabbing out is a very nice touch.
Steam User 3
Fantastic game, very challenging and addictive. Once I beat solo play a few times, the runs became a little stale in my opinion. However, that didn’t matter as unlocking the online tournament mode was able to give me several more hours of playtime, almost becomes a whole different game.
Steam User 3
The game is very short. If this game looks interesting to you, I would fully recommend giving it a play through because it is very fun to finish it. Personally, I feel the game leans a bit too heavily on playing against other players as filler for the game.
Edit: After checking out TFT I have to say, this game is so much easier to learn in the best kind of way. I'm finding myself liking the multiplayer more too the more I play. Though I would love if a bit chunk of single player DLC decided to get made.
Steam User 2
"Despot's Game for Cool and Attractive People" is a game where Master "Despot" Shake in the form of a T.V. monitor shrinks you down, paints you pink, gives you lego weapons and tells you and 2,000,000,000 other idiots to "FIGHT FOR MY AMUSEMENT!!!" against robots, the undead, and killer tomatos while sometimes subjecting you to PvP against your will.
Honestly this is just a really good hands free army builder rogue-like you can play on the side of other projects or while exercising. It can be a bit confusing to pickup at first, I was absolutely playing it the wrong way for my first 2-3 attempts before I realized how important upgrading the store was, but once you get it down, it's a very good game to play when you want your brain to be on lower power mode, but still gives you plenty of opportunities to manage resources and choose upgrades.
Also if you have food enabled, for the love of god do not grow your army too big on the first few floors or you are going to but up to your neck in food bills or food complaints. I learned the hard way and I am telling you now KEEP IT SMALL AT FIRST, AND PRIORITIZE HIGHER TIER GUYS OVER GRUNTS
Steam User 2
I bought 75% off for 4 bucks and this game is GOOD. Another "1 more game" turning into a 8h session type of game. The beautiful thing about it is that at the end of your PvE run, you fight other people's builds (PvP essentially). First time I see this. Plus its a fairly chill game as there are no time limits, you run into the next room whenever you want and also have to click "fight" before too, then its auto battler. There's quite a few builds you can do per run, so you can easily do 30-100h in this game.
I would've lowered my score because of the food but there's a non-food option after you unlock it in 1-2 runs.
8/10 full price but 10/10 at 75% off.