After 10 hours of playing, making new guilds twice, it's safe to say the game is too grindy even for the Darkest Dungeon knock-off and has some disgustingly painful systems that can't be avoided through upgrades.
I'm fine with the leveling system despite it being quite annoying because of some requests.
The building upgrade is slightly grindy, but the requirements for some buildings are ridiculously high, forcing you to play for a long time.
The quests are a lifesaver as they reward you with mana, favor, and gold, sometimes even rewarding you with good equipment.
Speaking of equipment. The system is not just terrible, it's egregious. Forcing you to put on equipment without the possibility to identify it in any way, even back at the guild, clearly is a bad design. For example? I bought legendary equipment from a vending machine, and it was a goddess outfit. The next moment I put it back in the guild, it turns out to be a restraining latex suit, completely bricking my character with the request "start combat with no positive quirks". Fuck off. Wasting 5000 gold to get an adept cleric screwed over is foul from the developer.
In the end, I'd rather go and mod Darkest Dungeon to have the same shit as this.
P.S. I forgot to mention status effects. I'll say one thing. Fuck them. Some of them are so retarded, it makes me want to ask the developer the reason of adding requirements to get rid of them. Not only that, some enemies are just not suppose to be in a novice dungeon, such as orcs and crabs (who love to give 12 bleeding for 3 turns).
I'm fine with the leveling system despite it being quite annoying because of some requests.
The building upgrade is slightly grindy, but the requirements for some buildings are ridiculously high, forcing you to play for a long time.
The quests are a lifesaver as they reward you with mana, favor, and gold, sometimes even rewarding you with good equipment.
Speaking of equipment. The system is not just terrible, it's egregious. Forcing you to put on equipment without the possibility to identify it in any way, even back at the guild, clearly is a bad design. For example? I bought legendary equipment from a vending machine, and it was a goddess outfit. The next moment I put it back in the guild, it turns out to be a restraining latex suit, completely bricking my character with the request "start combat with no positive quirks". Fuck off. Wasting 5000 gold to get an adept cleric screwed over is foul from the developer.
In the end, I'd rather go and mod Darkest Dungeon to have the same shit as this.
P.S. I forgot to mention status effects. I'll say one thing. Fuck them. Some of them are so retarded, it makes me want to ask the developer the reason of adding requirements to get rid of them. Not only that, some enemies are just not suppose to be in a novice dungeon, such as orcs and crabs (who love to give 12 bleeding for 3 turns).