SeekerDragon Quest Builders
Dragon Quest Builders is totally, thoroughly engaging. Its gameplay is accessible to kids while its dialogue offers enough sly references to keep Dad or Mom amused. Collecting, crafting, and building all sounds familiar, but this package encapsulates so much of the best parts of this creative process and wraps it in light roleplaying progression and storytelling. It doesn’t matter that there isn’t a multiplayer component, because it wouldn’t have contributed to the world. So that means this is a gold-standard RPG for the non-connected gamer to flex all their cerebral muscles wherever they want it to go.
-- As reviewed by IGN
Product details
- Combining both RPG and crafting gameplay together, this game is all about gathering materials to create things like weapons, buildings, and even entire towns
- With the help of the mysterious Malroth and other villagers, you'll be exploring large islands, finding quests, and battling monsters and bosses scattered around the world
- Are you prepared to take on the Children of Hargon
PROS
+ Inspired combo of two gaming genres
+ Absorbing cycles of exploring, mining, crafting and fighting
+ Enjoyable and accessible building
+ Classic bright and breezy Dragon Quest style
CONS
- Characters go unvoiced
- Camera can get flummoxed
- Shallow approach to combat
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Expert reviews and ratings
By IGN on October 08, 2016
Dragon Quest Builders is totally, thoroughly engaging. Its gameplay is accessible to kids while its dialogue offers enough sly references to keep Dad or Mom amused. Collecting, crafting, and building all sounds familiar, but this package encapsulates so much of the best parts of this creative process and wraps it in light roleplaying progression and storytelling. It doesn’t matter that there isn’t a multiplayer component, because it wouldn’t have contributed to the world. So that means this is a gold-standard RPG for the non-connected gamer to flex all their cerebral muscles wherever they want it to go.
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By TrustedReviews on February 07, 2018
There’s something about Dragon Quest that seems to lend itself to hybrids. Maybe it’s the bright and breezy cartoon style. Maybe it’s the charming sense of humour, the way it doesn’t take itself as seriously as your average
80