Haunted Dungeons: Hyakki Castle

So here's the thing, I want to love this game. It's a japanese themed dungeon crawler. However, its interface and UX design is terrible. Tons of really annoying things add up, like you press escape and cycle through to your map, then press escape to close it but that doesn't work. You have to manually click the X to get it to close. It has a party splitting mechanic that seems like a novel idea, but you have to...

66 found this helpful, 2017-11-16

Most of the UI and gameplay issues raised in previous negative reviews have been fixed. This game is much improved after the recent update (verison 2). Plays like a relaxing Japanese Grimrock lite. It is quite possible to run through the game without getting stuck in about 7-8 hours depending on death / collecting all secrets. It lacks alot of depth but I had fun.

17 found this helpful, 2018-11-03

What could have been an enjoyable albeit mediocre dungeon crawler with impressive art-direction, clever combat encounter designs and surprisingly fun puzzles is actively self-sabotaged by numerous terrible design decisions and mishandled porting. There is no resolution or window size setup and the only option provided is a fullscreen toggle, with UI effectively overlaying most of the camera view bottom in windowed...

6 found this helpful, 2020-07-19