Monster’s Den: Book of Dread is a ‘flash turn based strategy team dungeon crawl RPG’(phew…), which seems heavily inspired by Dungeons and Dragons.
When you start Monster’s Den you make a team of 4 characters to assault the dungeons with. You can choose between 7 different fantasy classes for your characters, the Warrior, Rogue, Conjurer, Barbarian, Ranger, Cleric or Mage. As you descend into the dungeon your characters level up, learn new skills and find new equipment.
Item collection is similar to World of Warcraft, where you have standard, uncommon, rare and legendary (rarity of each in order), you can also go to a vendor to sell looted items and purchase new goods.
There are three campaigns to pick from, two standard dungeons and a survival campaign, in the survival campaign you have to fight an almost infinite amount of enemies to see how long you can survive.
Monster’s Den is a highly addictive game and very polished, it’s very easy to get caught up in the game and continuously just want to do one more level, then one more, then another one.
My only disappointment was the lacking storyline, as although you can go indefinitely deeper and deeper into the dungeon the storyline finishes after level 10 on both campaigns.
Casualty Tips:
- Make sure you set your flash storage area to maximum, otherwise it may chug.
- Having a cleric paired with a conjurer is extremely useful at the deeper levels.
- Survival, make sure you have a ranger in your team with Nature’s Balm + Speed Increase, as once cast they carry on for every wave.
/Off to do one more level.
Got time to waste? Tower Defense is any easy way to waste it, here is a list of my personal favourite Tower Defense games.
5. Bloons Tower Defense
In Bloons Tower Defense stop the 50 waves of baloons using monkeys welding either darts, cannons or a freeze ray, save up for the Super Monkey to unleash a fury of darts.
Recently Version 2 has been released with extra turret types and upgrades.
4. Random Defense
In Random Defense build up a defense to stop ‘random’ creeps from getting to the finish line.
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Ikariam is a free online realtime strategy game released in 2008 by Gameforge AG. The concept behind Ikariam is much like Sid Meier’s well-known Civilization games, where players command a small village and construct buildings such as Barracks, Ports, and Taverns to create a larger city, and palaces which are constructed to allow for the expansion of a small empire. Unlike other online browser games, Ikariam has a greater emphasis on trade and diplomacy but does also feature combat. It is impossible for a colony to be completely captured by another player, but it can still be pillaged, controlled, or blockaded. (wiki)
[/Personal-Experience] Ikariam is still in beta (maybe alpha?), it’s still missing a lot of content and it has numerous bugs, yet it still has very solid gameplay. Build times and research times in Ikariam are quite lengthy and trading rather then combat is emphasized, hence it’s a very good game if you like games that are a bit more casual and you don’t like having to check your browser every hour.
Travian was originally a German browser-based game developed by Travian Games GmbH. The game’s developers drew roughly from Classical antiquity and particularly from the Roman Empire to create a predominantly militaristic real-time strategy.
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As an off shoot of my blog I decided to make a blog dedicated to Gaming, content will mainly be lists, humorous gaming content and maybe an occasional review.
Next few posts will be copies of posts from MangaTower
