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.