Not encountered your channel before - this just popped into my feed. A very refreshing way to present your information. Subscribed, and will see how things go. Cheers,
Dungeonquest. Owned it and the expansion for years. My wife was playing one evening and straight out of the corner turret start place thingy she fell down a bottomless pit. How I laughed. " Right, I`m off then! See you later with some loot! WAAAAGHHHHHHH!!!!"
Depends on what you're looking for. The Base game is easy to find and affordable. Any of the expansions, Lt packs, or Hero/Monster packs - those are freaking expensive
Finally a top 10 video which the dungeon crawlers are actually dungeon crawlers with no -ish or -esk! About L7OP it's the other way around, player actions go straight to the overseer adrenaline pool. Other suggestions, Sword&Sorcery, DnD board game series, Doom (the old version for me), Mantic games Star saga (for more refined mechanics) or Dark saga (which is a little bit more enjoyable), ofc Heroquest (evergreen) and as a skew one Nemesis.
Heads up, while Descent 2nd edition is default 1 vs Many, you can also play it with an App that adds a few campaigns and, my favorite, a cheap DLC that is basically a random delve for one-off play. That said, it's kind of hard to get Descent 2E these days
Medieval IKEA I about fell out of my chair laughing. 😂 hilarious . That is my fear of this game too, can’t just jump in. Gloomhaven should be top slot in my opinion. So fucking good. Try jaws of the lion less set up as maps are in the booklet..really clever there. Also as another reviewer said Gloomhaven on Steam is amazing …no clean up or set up …just jump in and do so,e ass kicking or get you ass kicked …either or just a blast.
A simple and (relatively) fast dungeon crawler is Dungeoneer. I really like it, and it has a couple really keen ideas in it (for mechanics). And it should be cheap, but as it's out of print ... idk how hard it would be to find.
I am curious what you think of the Tiny Epic series. I have loved Tiny Epic Dungeons, which seems to cram an impossibly big game into an almost pocket sized box. Definitely gets bonus points for saving shelf space, haha
Fine. You’re now my favorite board game reviewer. Don’t screw this up! Love to play any of these with you if we are ever in the same country at the same event. Not likely though. Piss off until the next review.
This channel has so much identity now. I remember when it was Boardgames 4K, back in the olden days. Love it more now. Always a laugh to watch (and useful too!)
@@BoardGameBollocks definitely one of those games that has to have a dedicated group or you just keep starting over. I can practically set up the first scenario by memory.
I fucking love this fucking channel. My first exposure was through the Blitz Bowl review, and I knew right then and there, you were the reviewer I needed to help keep me in line from my already questionable boardgame purchases. In short, your reviews and opinions aren't shit, yeah? ;) Cheers mate. [edit] I could not agree more about claustrophobia. I find all of your suggestions that I have never played quite intriguing, and the ones I have played that you suggested I quite agree with as well. Your #1 choice, well, I will take that seriously, and I shall endure to make myself available to anyone that has a copy and needs more players.
Descent 2nd edition is also good. It features campaigns and the app allows for cooperative/solo play besides the standard 1 vs. many out of the box. Also, Gloomhaven is not classified as a dungeon crawler. It's a tactical asymmetric-style Euro-y puzzle. Everything is known to you right off the bat...map layouts and monsters. In a true dungeon crawl, you don't know what's coming up. Hence, Gloomhaven is not a dungeon crawler.
I once bought tons of generic figures and made tiles to use with a free crawler called "Dungeon Plungin". i´ve had them laying around for ages and I´m looking for a way to put them to good use since i´m quite fond of my own crafts and pnp over retail huge boxes. Is there any system that we could use (2 players here) that works with tiles? we tried 2hour dungeon crawl but the combat wasn´t tactical like, say.. Fantasy Trip or WHQuest. Also got to check Dungeon Bash, which uses 3.5 dnd. Maybe there is a ruleset that uses 4th edition? or a simpler system that generates scenarios or the wole random dungeon? Maybe someone has some valuable advice. Worth mentioning that we live in Argentina and importing is out of the question, the regular salary here is like 100 U$D and a 15 usd pdf ends up costing 30 due to taxes in foreign purchases (as third world as it gets).
Love Dungeon Crawlers. Love shooting nasty alien c*#+s. But I love most things that comes with a board. But I had a physical connection with the first four or five then fuck all. I have to do some research. Great video.
Nice list, might be worth looking at the Battle Systems board game-slirmish hybrids Core Space and upcoming Maladum. More medieval (and sci-fi ) Ikea to build, but looks so awesome on the table, and rules are great, stopping short of being too complicated, and with enough sandboxiness to have your cat go in it. Oh and it can be played both co-op and pvp... 🔪 🔪 Worth checking.
@@BoardGameBollocks well actually, the core box pledge for Maladum is £99, and contains all you need to play a full co-op party in 3D, plus a bukcet load of extra stretch goal goodies from the Kickstarter, all that at the same price as Heroquest... It's a no brainer 😊 late pledges finished yesterday, but they might still squeeze you in if you email 'em. 😉
I've got Descent legends of the dark, my son and I played the crap out of this, according to the app 46 hours, only to have the laptop break and lose our save, FML. The thing is with Descent is that I don't like the lore, the monsters and the very cheesy story, but the game looks and plays really good. Some good games in there. my top Dungeon crawlers would be. Death may Die, Descent LOTD, Massive Darkness, Etherfields, Heroquest in no order. I also have Core space and Imperial assault but I haven't tried them yet.
gloomhaven sounds interesting but i'm not a fan of games that result in you basically defacing the board. Not typically someone who plays many board games but some ideas that i've been hearing about lately make them somewhat interesting. I'm big on rpg video games and have always been curious how that has translated to board games. Sure I could just playing dungeons and dragons but often many people I know don't want to put in the effort for one of those types of games so I've been on the hunt for a board game thats easier to set up but can still give me that rpg fix.
Have you seen Alone by Horrible Games? I'm not sure it ever made to to retail, but it always reminds me of Level 7. But it is to Level 7 what the movie Alien was to Aliens. It's a horror flavored dunegon crawl where the good player only sees a small part of the map, just what the actual character sees. Good mechanic, good combat, good atmosphere....
@@BoardGameBollocks I was hoping that was the case because that would be a lot of nonsense! I love the format you use and commentary so that caught my curious eye
I own Arcadia Quest and I've never been able to play it at more than two players. It was not very good at two. What's the best player count for this one? I want to try it at optimal player count before giving up on it.
I don't know why but for some reason my ultimate dungeon crawler has always been the original Warhammer Quest. it's a janky game and there's so much wrong with it but for whatever reason any dungeon crawler I've played since just feels off. A great many of them lack the sense of exploration that Warhammer Quest's procedurally generated dungeons gave me and going to town afterwards made the world feel bigger. It was also nice not needing an 'evil wizard' player as I tend to end up relegated to that as many of my friends don't seem quite as capable of commanding the armies of darkness vs individual heroes :o Flying Frog games had a stab at replacing WHQ with it's Shadows of Brimstone series and I suspect it'll work for a lot of people but somehow it feels clunkier and slower than WHQ did to me :P I managed to hook a whole lot of friends into my WHQ obsession and my constant habit of boardgame prototyping rubbed off on one of them who went on to make Darklight: Memento Mori. I wish I'd picked a copy of it up at the time but was too skint at the time to go buying a £100 game and now, much like the original WHQ, it's a bit of a pain to get your hands on. Honestly, I've been toying with the idea of making my own take on WHQ for years now... maybe one day I'll sit down and actually make something concrete :P
Stop. Just stop. "Better than on orgasm on heroine." I busted out laughing at that. I copied it. Shared it with friends. ... Okay, now I'm back. Go ahead.
Level 7 Omega Protocol is great, apart from most of the alien minis, which are amongst the worst ever produced. Don't believe the tale that the 2nd edition was better....it wasn't and 1st edition is often cheaper. I bought 1st edition, with the expansions, for buttons and use alien minis from Chronicle X ( which I have never got to the table).
@@BoardGameBollocks to me, that model is very obviously the future of the genre and makes non-real-time games of this kind feel comparatively unengaging.
Maintaining the high standard of banter I’m glad to see. Expecting to see the Lord Mayors chain round your neck after the local elections. Or a dismembered Dice Tower member 😉
add Star Saga from Mantic games. dungeon crawler in space easy rules but in depth along with character leveling and each mob and hero has cool rules for play unlike this once a mission feat crap
I'm surprised that Advanced Heroquest wasn't on this list, I guess, A you haven't played it, Or B you think it's shit, whatever the answers is at least GW DungeonQuest made the list, so that's better than nothing.
Immaculately produced miniatures in Massive Darkness2??? It shows you've never played a game with proper miniatures (like a miniature wargame), because these are just cheaply produced, terrible material, a pain to work with, abysmal detail rubbery toys. Proper miniatures can easily cost half as much (or as much) as the entire MD2 box but it in no way means MD2 pieces are miniatures well done by any standard.
I did say they were brittle, but the detail is great. I noticed you didn’t give a specific example which leads me to believe you came here just to be a dick.
