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!
Chief 0
Enjoyed this indie title a lot.
Its pretty much completed for early access already and has lots of features.
Steam User 158
The focus on PVP nearly ruined this game for me. It is not very satisfying to beat the final boss and then just get stuck in a loop losing to other players.
I love the art, I love the style, I love the writing, I love the mechanics.
But oh lord miss me with that PVP crap.
Steam User 38
I quite enjoyed this to begin with but there's not much to experience. The game is an autobattler where you have a little army of guys that you equip with tools, each granting them a class. As they survive they get better at their weapon and survival will depend on class synergies such as defenders taking hits to protect melee units, and melee protecting fragile ranged units.
Each floor has a number of encounters and each win grants you tokens that can be spent on people, equipment, or food. Each move between rooms costs food and if you run out you have to sacrifice people to feed the survivors. As you can imagine there's a balancing act. There is also a skill tree which tends to be central to tipping the balance on a run.
It's a fun premise but relies heavily on the equipment you find, though I was surprised how quickly I managed to roll up a reasonable enough team and beat the game. Also the only unlocks are for different starting teams which is a bit frivolous, there's nothing of substance to gain from playing multiple times sadly.
A nice concept and good start but there's much more untapped potential here waiting to be accessed.
Steam User 11
Took a while to wrap my head around the game mechanics. Surprising amount of depth if you bother to read all the abilities. Game is also pretty funny. 20 hours in and I still laugh at some of the pop culture references in the random events.
Steam User 18
I bought the game now it's mine idk why despot won't admit it
Steam User 10
Chilled gameplay with strategy in how you equip your humans and which mutagens you pick.
Once you beat the game your humans will go up against other players who also made it to the end in a battle for the leaderboard. There is also PvP battles. Decent updates too.
The game is also available on android and recommend too.
Steam User 8
The game that got me into auto-battlers. Fun with interesting ideas.
Steam User 6
Very good game, If you like to hone your skills/ play-style this is a perfect turn based strategy game. With tons of roles to be filled with different level systems adds tons of hours of replay ability. I owned this game on xbox for the entirety since release. Once you beat the game you have the ability to become ranked and fight real life players build and you keep fighting until you cant beat the person above you and cant lose to the person below you very fair and fun matchmaking. This is a gold standard of indie games