A Nostalgic Gem and a Must-Play!

I remember seeing the first Dungeon Village over 10 years ago but never got around to playing it. When I saw Dungeon Village 2, I decided to finally give it a try, and wow, it’s been such a fun and rewarding experience! The game feels incredibly polished and engaging. Despite some other reviews mentioning too many notifications/pop-ups, I actually found them to enhance the gameplay by keeping me involved and aware of everything happening in my village. It’s packed with charm and strategy, making it one of the best games I’ve played on iOS. If you’re hesitating on buying it, don’t. This game is worth every penny and an absolute must-play for anyone who loves simulation and RPG elements. Highly recommended!

This was fun.

Like it is cool but there are a few problematic and game breaking mechanics that kill saves. I got tired of restarting my game after the fifth time. I don’t understand why they would add a sleep mechanic that would make the target sleep forever. Plus for whatever reason the sleeping target can’t be targeted and attacked. This will make the mission impossible to finish. On a side note. If you change your characters to a class that doesn’t use a weapon. You lose that weapon. And after you change them back to a weapon wielding class they start without any weapon. Sometimes your characters will somehow path-find themselves in a corner or some gap and get trapped. They will sit there forever if you don’t notice them. And even though there is more I don’t have time to go through each of them. I will just mention one more. There are way too many in game notifications. And the whole game stops when one comes up and you Have to click it to continue. Sometimes I found my self playing on my 15 minute break and realized I was not able to do anything else the whole time because I was just clicking through notifications the whole time. Like I said it was fun at first but quickly became tedious and annoying really quick after a short while. I am glad it didn’t cost me too much money to find out.

IT DIDN’T SAVE

I would have enjoyed playing this game, EXCEPT for the fact that it didn’t save my progress! I was constantly clicking the “Save” button as my town progressed, and it gave me the message indicting that it had been saved successfully. I got to work arranging my town and buildings until everything was just perfect, and then I saved one final time and closed the app. But when I opened the app again later, my buildings were not there! Confused, I began placing them again as before. Then an event that I had previously played through, and completed its quest triggered as if it were the first time. Please note: I am NOT mistaking it for the reoccurring events that pop up periodically as you play. No, this was a tutorial explanation and a quest I had previously already completed! THE GAME HAD NOT SAVED MY (recent) PROGRESS!! And this exact same issue keeps happening. It’s not just a fluke, every time I log in, the game always sets me back a good 30 minutes of play (oftentimes, MORE than 30 minutes), and it is absolutely infuriating!😤 FIX. THIS. NOW.

Fun, but somewhat unbalanced game that quickly becomes burdensome

This was a great game to start, but as the game progressed, it started to become very apparent now unbalanced the game was. Your adventurers go and fight monsters and get exp., but this only leads to relatively minor stat boosts compared to blasting them with items. It’s fun to play around with class swapping and unlocking more powerful classes, but it never felt like there was any rhyme or reason to any sort of difficulty progression. Also, as the game develops, you get utterly bombarded with popup notifications- and at that point in the game, you really don’t care if your traits are going up or your population went up another 100 points or you earned another medal. It’s just constant clicking to make these updates go away. Overall, it’s still worth its price point, it just have the longevity that made me want to keep playing past the first week.

Somehow, worse than the original

I was very excited when I saw there was a sequel to the original and downloaded it immediately. Firstly, it’s more of a re-release with a few new features than a sequel. To their credit, they do seem to have fixed a lot of bugs that plagued the first version, but thats where the improvements end. Incessant notifications mean you spend more time waiting for unnecessary prompts to leave the screen than you spend playing. There is no way to turn off these prompts or even minimize them so they don’t slam the brakes on your gameplay every 3-10 seconds (Not an exaggeration. Many prompts make you wait through multiple notifications before disappearing). They give you less time to actually play the game (10 years as opposed to 16 in the original). And villagers now use items in battle which takes time and often causes them to get killed. I regret this purchase.

Help I Can’t Stop Playing

Everything about this game is rewarding and fun. You are the mayor of a fantasy village. You’ll host adventurers who need an Inn, Weapon Shop etc, on their way to kill monsters on the outskirts of town, explore dungeons, and take down bosses. Give them gifts to increase their satisfaction, and they may just ask to move in. As you learn to play, the game rewards you for exploring new features. There’s no deadline, and you can’t really do anything wrong. Buying this game is well worth the money because there are no pay-to-get-more features, and everything is straightforward and streamlined.

Stop Notifications!

Much like many other reviewers have said the amount of notifications kill the Game Play. After you get past the first world the pop ups never stop and all you do is spend time click to get out of them. There is no reason why the developers can’t put in an option to have the notification show on the top left but not stop gameplay. It would make all of your games more fun but this game is almost unplayable mid-late game because of the pointless pop ups stopping game play. Handing out medals is the worst. Let us hand out multiple at once. As a fan for over a decade I’m pleading with you to fix this massive issue. You would make so much more money with the American audience on all of your games if you stopped the hugely tedious pop ups that stop game play and ruin the fun of an otherwise enjoyable game.

A very fun time

The gameplay loop is rewarding and there are many many levels. Also the pixel art style is very cute. I ended up getting very attached to each one of the characters and naming them individually. Each job gives a new perk to the characters and the growth of the progression feels very natural. I think this game really briefs new life into their other games where you only build a functioning city with its quests. I really recommend it for the money, and it can be played off-line, which is great for those of us still with terrible Internet in the year of our lord 2026

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