Description
"Mystery Dungeon" style roguelike RPG! Quirky and fun but very challenging. Yes, it's hard. But you're not afraid of a hard video game, right?Use magic items, morph into monsters, find friends to fight alongside you! Use keen strategy rather than grinding for levels and you'll clear the dungeon!
LAST SCREENSHOT ADDRESSES A RECENT REVIEW - you can decide if the controls are a deal breaker (or try the FREE version first). Also check this gameplay video: http://youtu.be/pwiRDz1I8z8
What’s a roguelike RPG and how does it play? It’s a classic video game style and here are a couple of strategies...
Strategy A) - attack everything in sight head-on. Result: your character will die quickly and often.
Strategy B) - learn about the powers of the items you find. For example, find a cursed “Empty Vial”, throw it at a "Ghost" to capture its soul. Then later drink the vial, become a Ghost and float through walls to escape danger. Or grab a “Levelup Bead”, wave it at a friendly character - he’ll level up and help you fight, or drop it on the ground, let a "Catapult" monster pick it up & toss it at you - you’ll level up and be able to pound monsters into the ground. But ouch! The "Nosferatu" monsters are too powerful!?! (Nosferatu is a type of vampire, Google it), yet they’re undead and undead monsters are vulnerable to medicinal herbs, like that "Wormwood" you just picked up!
In short, roguelike games offer a rich experience for gamers seeking something beyond casual games.
Notes: save your game at any point, but Voyage to Farland uses hardcore Rogue rules (death=start over no items). Think of it as "tough love".
4 themed dungeons, 36 monster types with devious attacks, over 30 items and 3 NPCs you can recruit to help you fight!
Hints: try the training dungeon first, equip a shield as soon as possible, make good use of the herbs/beads/scroll's secret powers (tap INV, then select Explain from the item's sub menu - use the DPAD or swipe up/down in the center of the touchscreen to scroll in menus). Find an empty vial, use it to capture & morph into a monster to really throw down and you'll be hooked.
More hints on the website:
http://www.peculiar-games.com/voyage-to-farland/hints
Tap MENU for docs. Check out our website for more hints (e.g. dealing with hunger, monster rooms, etc.), videos & an introduction to roguelike games (click "developer's webpage" link below)!
How far can you get in Voyage to Farland?
XPERIA PLAY optimized!
Notes:
Despite the cute graphics, Voyage to Farland is one of the harder roguelike games in the Android market/Google Play. It's not a grindfest. Levels don't matter. Cleared dungeons are what matter in this game. You'll be tested from the very first floor. Many players dive in, attack everything, die quickly and get frustrated. This game demands a more clever approach. Until you find a shield you'll have to pick your battles wisely. Voyage has been on the market for over a year and yet no player has cleared every dungeon. You might be the first if you have patience, perseverance and a will to win! Some gamers want to kill time with Angry Birds or Battleheart. That's fine, but you're not like that. You want a challenge. You want to face the Spirit Witch and defeat her. You want to be the first adventurer to enter "The Path of No Return" and beat the dungeon once and for all. To unlock the secrets of Farland.
watson387
May 18, 2012 4:48:45 PM
Great game for what it is. This game is excellent for its style. Other reviewers need to realize this is an old school roguelike style game, not Diablo 3. It's supposed to look old. The controls work fine on my phone and the game is fun.
Kurt
May 11, 2012 5:05:35 AM
plays great, looks ugly Great game in serious need of a professional artist. Some sprites have solid colors, others are a mess of ugly gradients and blurs (the Tinbots, for example.) Also some areas have a grid (which I actually prefer for this sort of game) and other areas do not. The starting village also has a horrible layout which you will loathe navigating, despite its small size. My tablet allows multi touch but the multi touch controls don't work (thankfully there's a second button layout.) Finally the "miss" and "level-up" sounds seem more like place holders than final sounds. I hope we see improvement, the gameplay is 5-star!
Steve
Feb 20, 2012 3:16:27 PM
Not Great. The reviews for this were great so gave it a go. The control stick being at the top of the screen put me off very quickly. Very poor layout design. Means your thumb goes over the screen to move around. Seriously hindering the viewing area. Made the game unplayable for me.
Kordesh
Oct 16, 2011 12:11:47 AM
. Dev stands behind his work and listens to feedback. Bonus star. Some issues with sleep state and could use a loading screen or indicator that the dev
quentinp
Nov 25, 2010 6:46:46 PM
Would be better with a few difficulty options...and hit floor 9 only to be ambushed by like 10 mobs...felt cheap
Sven Johansson
Oct 9, 2010 1:12:47 PM
Fun and addictive game, but terribly unbalanced... Death in 3rd dungeon because no food was spawned at all... isn't really fun...
Jon
Sep 7, 2010 10:52:29 PM
Very hard. Very addictive. Great fun.
Steve
Aug 25, 2010 5:52:34 AM
Good action and control. Addictive and fun.
Adam Boyd
Aug 6, 2010 7:12:46 AM
I want to stab this game in the face and I can't stop playing it. Everything you like about Shiren and the main dungeon is a 30 minute run. DO IT.