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Tale of Fallen Dragons

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2017

Should you play it?

This is a dungeon crawler game with roguelike elements based on Ancient Chinese story. Under the Fallen Dragons Temple, you`ll fight with various dragons which all have different shapes. The art style is based on real artifacts from China, we hope you could experience a different style of our culture.

What works
  • Unique chinese mythology theme and art style
  • Challenging and skill-based combat
  • Extensive item and rune systems for customization
  • Procedurally generated dungeons with replayability
  • Active developer updates during early access
Things to keep in mind
  • Repetitive level design and enemy variety
  • Poor english translation and lack of tutorial
  • Limited weapon and item diversity impact gameplay variety
  • Unbalanced difficulty spikes in later stages
  • Abandoned development leading to incomplete features

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feel the closest overall

  • Volkolak: The Will of Gods

  • Dungreed

  • Zompiercer

  • Trench Tales

  • Cinderia

  • Sundered®: Eldritch Edition

  • Never Return

  • CONVRGENCE

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Hidden Gems

Less popular games with surprisingly high similarity

  • Volkolak: The Will of Gods

  • Second Stellar

  • Tales of Spark
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Tale of Fallen Dragons: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Expression, Fellowship, Cooperation, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Cooperation, Expression, Violence.

Why this game works

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