Brány Skeldalu

I've played the majority of renowned dungeon crawlers out there, however this one turned out to be a serious disappointment. I get that it's around 28 years old, it's just not as fleshed out as Dungeon Master or countless others from around the same time period. Originally tried to get the freeware online version running with English, and it was just not working no matter how many times I followed the instructions with careful detail. The game looks pretty decent, however the combat feels like you have zero control over it and the forward movement animation is not fluid making you question your perspective and your in game position. Never had to guess if I was truly facing a wall back in Mt Anaias. Whomever came up with the name 'blobbers' should leave this hobby and take up birdwatching instead.

Classic and suprisingly timeless given how simple in its core it is... cant recommend, there are gamebreaking bugs related to puzzles, that will leave you absolutely clueless and unless youre speaking czech, good luck trying to find a solution on internet... shame. i wont ever recommend broken games the game doesnt explain almost anything, like what those spells you cast actually do... this should be ingame and i shouldnt bother myself googling the simple explanations... while i appreciate the compatibility, it is obvious that the ingame manual should have been part of the game in options.... the combat itself is also a joke, there is clear initiative of all enemies and your characters, but its all random number generator, you will never know how to sequence your turn properly, because it doesnt make any sense, once you start encountering enemies, that will run away from you, you will know what i mean... basically you set actions and then you watch the turn unfold... bartering is so stupid yet so complicated if you look at the numbers behind the process in a guide... basic stat redistribution is also a mystery to me (health, mana) when you make your characters you basically set the for the entire game whether they will gain health or mana... otherwise i cant explain why my 30strength "mage" character still has 35hp while my 35strength "warrior" has 100+... there is ofc no explanation anywhere whatsoever

Not recommended, very overrated for what it is, a basic bare bones blobber with a very basic and amateurish art direction, seems made in MS paint. Very questionable (read wtf) mechanics even a ridiculous (for a blobber) food/water starvation system which is with absolutely bizarre and out of place, your strolling along and a random character starts to die bit by bit like if it were poison, so you guess guy is poisoned, maybe they'll make their saving throw or smt, but guess what it's not poison, character is thirsty, so he loses hit point by hit point till dead, if you try to use all the *** you picked up you deduce he was thirsty, good, that was the only water bottle, so 5 steps later another character decides to go thirsty and soon enough everyone dies, seems the game world is a sub-Saharan desert with MS paint trees plastered on the background for esthetic purposes, dev couldn't even bother to make a pdf manual to explain all this ***. Then you have all the interesting ctd because the programming is obviously stellar. smh. This reissue apparently was freeware until they decided to sell it on steam to those who had bought the original game back in 98 for nostalgia effect, so most of those 50 something reviews seem to remember this product fondly, guess in the former soviet country they were not able to play contemporary games of the time and were evidently starved for games so yeah, I get it, better than nothing I guess. The experience is objectively very poor even as a vintage piece of content, the competition at the time was way ahead, and GoG is chockful of better games, this should have remained freeware. Refunded.