Knights of Pen and Paper +1 Edition

Knights of Pen and Paper +1 Edition
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84
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79.849
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$2.49
Release date
18 June 2013
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84 (1 784 votes)

Set out on a grand adventure in this turn-based, retro style, pixel-art RPG, inspired by the great titles of the 90's. Take on the roles of in-game players taking on the roles of their characters in a traditional pen and paper RPG session in the ultimate meta roleplaying experience.

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Knights of Pen and Paper +1 Edition system requirements

Minimum:

  • OS:Windows XP or later
  • Processor:2000 MHz
  • Memory:512 MB RAM
  • Graphics:640x480 minimum resolution (Direct3D/OpenGL compatible card with at least 128MB)
  • DirectX®:9.0c
  • Hard Drive:100 MB HD space
  • Sound:2D sound compatible card

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Kelorel
Kelorel

Fairly simple yet fairly decent RPG that takes tropes and gimmicks from the genre and takes a big comedic spin to it. It never takes itself seriously but gives enough of to keep you engaged. The in game systems are fairly basic, and quite easy to grasp and utilise.

The problem is it's a fairly simple game. The mechanics and systems the game has that makes it easy to pick up, begin to get old fairly quickly. It gets fairly grindy later in the game and the same simple mechanics begin to get irritating. The incredibly simplistic nature of the game is made even worse in the battle theme of the game. It's simple, mind numbingly so. It has the same 5 second sound look with minor tone changes to it that is okay at first, but really gets on your nerves since it never changes or mixes it up. Having the same battle track for the entire game isn't necessarily bad since the original Final Fantasy did that, the difference is the original Final Fantasy's battle track is infinitely more interesting to listen to than this is, and that's saying something since it's 26 years older than this game is.

Overall a pleasant experience overall. Fun and engaging enough and much longer than I expected it to be, which is both a strength and a major weakness considering just how simplistic the game is overall. It's able to hook you in early with how quick you are able to understand the mechanics, but this is also a fault since it doesn't innovate or build on it at all throughout the game aside from making everything a grind to progress. Despite it's glaring flaws, I do give the game a tentative recommendation. 6/10

Seriously, the battle music has to be the weakest part of it for me.

Notsosturdyhorse
Notsosturdyhorse

I've seen an abundance of people defend this game. I do not know at what price it is currently being sold, but it is too high. There are infinite issues that i should only touch on, to avoid arthritis suddenly flaring.
1. This game is ALL grind, no progression. Enjoy fighting X amount of Y 100 times, it'll happen more than once.
2. The story. I personally could not connect with the many pages of dialogue I had to click through to get to play again. It's a barrier in the way of grinding ya have to do anyway.
3. The smithing system. It's like a gotcha game, but you only pay with your time. Enjoy rolling for smithing stones,( about a million needed btw), and then returning to roll for gear purchases you may or may not succeed on.
4. The upgrades. Every upgrade is tainted by an unnecessarily heavy toll. Wanna do more damage as a mage? more mana. Wanna do more healing? More mana. Wanna give mana as a druid to your team? MORE. MANA.
5. The enemies. Too reliably the same. Just character models all fueled by an elite vs. non-elite system. Can't sleep a boss but you can the minions ad infinitum. Sure, that IS fair considering it's an elite. However, enjoy fighting full parties of elites and having certain characters be useless. Imagine this were an actual tabletop. Would YOU have fun being useless as a class against all bosses and hard enemies?
6. The upgrades again. This time I mean to your decorations, table, and even D.M. All take time playing and all are underwhelming considering the grind of the game.
I've played such a long time, and while i'd love to tell you that this game has brought me closer to my recently motherless son, I can't. 3/10 max for what is essentially paying your time instead of enjoying it.

Sir Fox
Sir Fox

Too many balancing issues and a very drawn out campaign that requires a lot of grinding unless you pick/build your team perfectly. Even then, expect copious amounts of grinding. Probably a holdover design choice going back to its mobile app days.

KelVarnsen
KelVarnsen

Just get it. Its never too expensive.

DogsAndCats
DogsAndCats

Throwback RPG for old school RPG gamers, but could be fun for anyone who just likes RPGs. I recommend the game, but I kind of got fed up with and bored with the grind. Even more so with achievement hunting. I still like the game and casually playing the sequel.

1v1VP
1v1VP

If you like DnD, Memes, Easter Eggs and a lil old fashion RPG grinding - you gotta pick this game up. It's hella worth it.

Benjamin_Høly
Benjamin_Høly

It is a very fun game and i just killed a green dragon =D

0xBADA55
0xBADA55

Fun and quirky but it quickly degenerates into a repetitive grindfest ( and the game begs you not to use cheats frequently lol ). Also runs very badly, there is no frame limiting so it hogs your entire CPU and overheats your system. Graphics are OK but the scaling is awful and messes up the proportion of the pixels.

rrsunknown1
rrsunknown1

Pen and paper 2 is superour in every way - the first game is too grindy, battles are too long - both npc and pc have lots of health and low damage - that prolonge the battle without actually any challenge. Upgrade system is total gambling - you gamble 1 hour of grind to one try - with 45% it failed for me 4 times in a row. Everything is super expensive in terms of game gold - take that you get extremly low gold as a rewards. That make gameplay boring to me - only way to progress is to grind low level enemies - try you luck with upgrading and when you fail repeat the process from a begining. This destroys the pacing tottaly.

Foxnael
Foxnael

the most hilarious game I've ever played.

Vlek
Vlek

If you liked the second one and you want more of the game style, pass this one up. It's rough, the end game balance is way off, and they hadn't quite figured out the best way to implement some of the mechanics.

popcorn888
popcorn888

I couldn't stop playing until I beat this game, and it's funny too!

Last-N-Line81
Last-N-Line81

as a old time D+D player, gotta say this game is a blast to play. love the smart ass remarks after the battles. well done.

Chandler M. Bing
Chandler M. Bing

I couldn't finish this grindy game. Boring at the end

Hugh
Hugh

A great RPG. Simple yet charming graphics, good music and sound effects, simple yet effective mechanics and an amusing story. Not as good as the sequel, a rare occurrence but if you liked Knights P&P 2 then you'll like this as well.

kalibaby22
kalibaby22

Bought this because of a Jesse Cox video, and have never played, until today. Can safely say, I am thoroughly addicted already!

Egas
Egas

With blank papers comes great responsibility, dicing and slicing and turning your pages...
You will fight monsters and something else... Probably save the world?
Its hard to tell and hard to fight with papers and pen...

Bellzebub
Bellzebub

I enjoyed the game until i reached level 33 and then the game would no longer load. On starting it would just reach the loading screen with spinning hourglass and had to be shut down using task manager.
It appears this is a known problem that has been ignored since release back in 2013. There is a workaround to fix the problem by downloading a beta version of roughly 20MB. How could it still be a beta after so many years - the game has obviously been abandoned.
When you change to beta any special characters will revert to standard characters and lose all abilities - the points will still be there but will need to be respent on the different character.
Will be abandoning this game until i feel like restarting from scratch again.

Frost FaR
Frost FaR

Tried to play on my iphone, then bought on sale to keep trying... just find to be boring, too simplistic maybe? Unlocking furniture wasnt cool enough, dont know if it would became challenging at some point, just havent reached that far... unfortunatelly it has potential, just doesnt got me that one.

Basic Raccoon
Basic Raccoon

well lets see its a turn based rpg that has a lot more in store for you than it says you have to be tactiful and prepared for everything or else you will die its quite some fun and a great turn based rpg

RGoku
RGoku

I would recommend this game except it requires you to create another account on another website just to play the game.. which you may or may not mind.. I really did mind this because when I purchased the game and started playing it.. you did not need an account you could play off of your steam account.. so based on this fact I cannot recommend the game.. as far as the actual gameplay it was good but a bit repetative/grindy to level up which is common in most rpg to be honest... gets alot tougher around level 15-20 and requires more indepth play to progress.. I was getting to around this point when all my game progress was reset : (

Knuffybaer[GER]
Knuffybaer[GER]

Information / Review English

Knights of Pen and Paper +1 Edition is a tactical RPG developed by Behalod Studios.

Gameplay / Story

At the beginning of your adventure, however, you will first find an empty table with a dungeon master who will guide you through the story. Immediately afterwards you determine two people and also choose your favorites from the many different classes such as knight, druid, paladin, magician or villain, with whom you then sit down at your table. Later it is of course also possible to increase your troop so that up to five people can sit at one table. The more people and classes sit around a table, the more diverse tactical possibilities open up for you. But once you have chosen your starting class, it starts right away and the classic pen & paper round with your friends begins. The minimalistic, round-based combat system that just consists of an attack, a class-specific attack, items, defense and escapes immediately catches your eye. Despite the minimalism of possible actions, it becomes clear later that the various skills of your comrades offer enough tactical depth to keep you happy. At the beginning everything is broken down a little more to the bare essentials, which is by no means bad and slowly introduces you to all possibilities. Later, however, you can use the various attacks, characters and items to tactic a lot and thus experience all the classic facets of an RPG from the 90s. Your playing field, i.e. the table as such, also always stays in the same place with your character stats, which underlines the feeling of a real D&D game.

Pro

+ RPG meets party
+ funny humor with charm
+ motley retro style
+ likeable pen & paper flair
+ lots of spells, monsters and special attacks
+ motivating upgrade & decoration spiral
+ a lot of unlockables
+ Trading cards and achievements

Contra

- few tactical options in combat
- monotonous background music

Conclusion

Knights of Pen and Paper +1 Edition offers you a cuddly adventure in which charm and humor are at the top and reminds of former times.

Information / Review Deutsch

Knights of Pen and Paper +1 Edition ist ein taktisches RPG, welches von Behalod Studios entwickelt wurde.

Gameplay / Geschichte

Zu Beginn deines Abenteuers erwartet euch allerdings erstmal ein leerer Tisch mit einem Dungeon Master, der euch durch die Geschichte leitet. Gleich danach bestimmt ihr zwei Personen und wählt zudem aus den vielen verschiedenen Klassen wie beispielsweise Ritter, Druide, Paladin, Magier oder Schurke euren Favoriten aus, mit denen ihr euch dann an euren Tisch setzt. Später ist es dann natürlich auch möglich, eure Truppe aufzustocken, so dass bis zu fünf Personen an einen Tisch sitzen können. Umso mehr Personen und damit Klassen an einen Tisch sitzen, umso vielfältigere taktische Möglichkeiten eröffnen sich euch. Wenn ihr aber erstmal eure anfängliche Klasse gewählt habt, geht es aber auch schon direkt los und die klassische Pen & Paper Runde mit euren Freunden beginnt. Dabei springt euch das minimalistische rundbasierte Kampfsystem direkt ins Auge, welches lediglich aus Angriff, einem klassenspezifischen Angriff, Items, Verteidigung und Flüchten besteht. Trotz des Minimalismus an möglichen Aktionen, wird gerade später deutlich, dass die verschiedenen Fertigkeiten eurer Kameraden genug taktische Tiefe bieten, um euch bei Laune zu halten. Zu Beginn wird alles ein wenig mehr auf das Nötigste heruntergebrochen, was aber keineswegs schlecht ist und euch langsam an alle Möglichkeiten heranführt. Später allerdings könnt ihr durch die verschiedenen Angriffe, Charaktere und Items durchaus viel taktieren und erlebt somit alle klassischen Fassetten eines RPGs aus den 90ern. Euer Spielfeld, also der Tisch als solches, bleibt zusätzlich mit euren Charakter-Stats auch immer konstant an derselben Stelle stehen, was das Gefühl eines echten D&D-Spiels nochmals unterstreicht.

Pro

+ Rollenspiel trifft auf Party
+ witziger Humor mit Charme
+ kunterbunter Retrostil
+ sympathisches Pen&Paper-Flair
+ viele Zauber, Monster und Specialangriffe
+ motivierende Aufrüst- & Dekorationsspirale
+ viel freischaltbares
+ Sammelkarten und Errungenschaften

Kontra

- wenig taktische Möglichkeiten im Kampf
- eintönige Hintergrundmusik

Fazit

Knights of Pen and Paper +1 Edition bietet dir ein knuffiges Abenteuer, in welches Charme und Humor ganz oben steht und Erinnerungen weckt an frühere Zeiten.

art3mis66
art3mis66

The game is okay, but takes way too much CPU for what it is. There's no excuse for a game with old school graphic to max out a cpu. Also, the leveling of quests is completely misleading compared to their actual difficulty.

Nectir
Nectir

imagine a tabletop game being popularized by a generic voice actor and his even more generic voice actor friends so much that white girls write post about how they didnt pay the game cause the nerds were gate keeping them from doing so mostly to hide the fact that they shat on a game without even giving it a try until it became popular, thats what its like to play ps2 games. also needs more dungeon masters besides discount yoda and totally not master splinter

fluidpannerd
fluidpannerd

I've played this game before many times and had to pick it up while it was on sale. I really love this game! It's a must play for any D&D nerds!

calthaer
calthaer

At its core, Knights is just a combat game with lots and lots of grind-y battles to fight. You'll get levels and equipment, and there is a story that is primarily a cheesy spoof on the tired tropes of the role-playing genre. Those things, however, are secondary to the real meat - slaying legions of pixelated foes.

This game would probably be better on a phone, where you fill idle seconds with monotonous grinding and aren't looking to get too involved. But when you want to engage with games on a PC, there are deeper experiences out there. This game, with its paper-thin and simplistic combat, just isn't worth the time investment.

Ezpock
Ezpock

Lo empece a jugar en celular y creo que es una excelente experiencia, de igual manera creo que es mas disfrutable en celular.

Sosiee
Sosiee

There really isn't much good to say about this game. The classes are bland. The powers the classes have lack imagination. It's very grindy. When you do almost anything you have numbers tell you how much damage you are doing, how much damage you take. However your health bars, mana bars have no numbers to indicate how much you have in total. Your enemies health bars are the same thing. Which is infuriating!!!!!! Why give me numbers for a random encounter and not where it really matters. How much mana and health my team has. I cannot recommend this game to anyone. There are better dungeon crawlers out there. Avoid this one!

SirLaurent
SirLaurent

Fun at first but quickly becomes grindy and repetitive.

Phaser Phriend
Phaser Phriend

Fun turnbased RPG thats easy to waste a whole afternoon playing or just as easy to play for 10min and come back later. Lots of goofy cultural refferences and fun easter eggs to enjoy. Overall, its a lighthearted fun game that doesn't require a lot of skill and main story arch is great. I haven't finished it yet because I enjoy the side quests too. Plus get the DLC as it adds more enjoyable content.

ChaosCas
ChaosCas

Cute game to zone out and play.

Assassinnite
Assassinnite

あなたはこれを読むことができるか、それをグーグル翻訳に入れることができます。いずれにせよ...これは良いゲームです... 7/7

xelamitchell
xelamitchell

This is old school tabletop RPG translated to a videogame experience. The humour is spot on. Characters and abilities are diverse and allow for some great synergy. The story is a bit meandering but overall fun and engaging. The mechanics are cool allowing you to customise many elements. This is a lovely little gem.

RickMalmsteenBR
RickMalmsteenBR

I liked the concept but the execution it's not as good. There's so much room for improvements.

SEnXi
SEnXi

My good old time, in pc version.

DairunCates
DairunCates

Dumb, goofy, nerdy fun.

The jokes may not land very well (especially since the D&D cartoon jokes were dated when the game launched almost a decade ago), but this little meta RPG gem is a good quick bit of fun. There's tons of unlockables and builds you can work on and the game can be completed quickly so you can dive back in and try the game with a different set of classes. The game isn't super easy, but it's simple enough that just about any build combination can work. So, it can be fun to just go through with randomized parties or whatever you feel like. Good for a long weekend alone if you want to just have some good old school turn-based RPG fun.

Brother Beans
Brother Beans

its like dnd but for people that dont have friends

LordXenophon
LordXenophon

It's more than a little silly, but it also recreates the feel of playing Basic D&D. Don't expect fancy graphics, because it also has the feel of an 80's RPG video game, despite actually being a bit more advanced.

If you've ever played real D&D and miss it, it's definitely worth rolling up a gaming group and giving this game a try.

Blue
Blue

For those long plane rides or those quiet nights in bed. There are too few actual dnd style games, this is one that fulfills any such needs.

businessisboomin
businessisboomin

Very nice game with lots of humouristic moments through all the experience, such as most RPG campaigns happen. It's combat gameplay is very interesting and open to many strategies. It's characters, map, items and abilites have so many references attached to them and are really well-executed. A game to fully explore all quests and places. Morderlagger ain't got chance with MOM.

DemonGyro
DemonGyro

Some disclaimers: You WILL need to grind. It's not optional for parts. No spoilers, but you will be asked to fight the same enemies a ridiculous number of times near the end of the game.

This game is a fun, brainless RPG game. There is little else I do later in the game then just spam the same abilities in the same order for each fight. That being said, I did enjoy the majority of the game. The ending feels padded out for no other reason then to increase the level requirements. I almost lost interest and feel that I need to grind some random quests in order to complete the last dungeon area. There is some interesting designs for enemies, and the tongue-in-cheek humour is great. If you play D&D or similar tabletop RPGs and enjoy grinding that comes with most japanese style RPVGs, then you will likely enjoy this game.

Porcupine
Porcupine

Baby's first poorly made RPG. Way too grindy than it needs to be. Combat is boring and repetitive at best. Quests are horribly unbalanced and aren't labelled correctly to level tier. Just when you think you have everything figured out, the game slaps you down with another difficulty spike that can only be remedied by, guess what? MORE GRINDING.

I got near the end and gave up when the enemies started healing more than I could dish out. F*** this game. A big waste of time I could have spent with games that actually respect the player's time put in

dhaskin96
dhaskin96

Dungeons and Dragons without the paper

Trumpet Skeleton Of The Abyss
Trumpet Skelet…

Very grind but incredibly enjoyable! Lots of classes and party compositions available to experiment with.
The game world is quirky and fun and also the story is surprisingly good, if you have the patience to read through all the dialogues.

Major
Major

Very nice game! Super recommended!

greenleaf108
greenleaf108

If you've ever played Dungeons and Dragons you'll like this game. Knights of Pen and Paper deftly combines the feeling of sitting around a table with your friends, rolling dice and enjoying friendly banter with the Dungeon Master while your characters fight monsters and go on adventures. The game is packed with fun pop culture references and cheeky in-jokes about RPGs and gaming.

Acadian Bacon
Acadian Bacon

Pretty good li'l RPG with some good comedy mixed in.

wrb41977
wrb41977

Interesting game. Basically you play as a table of players and their characters in a pen and paper RPG. Fun and funny. Fully recommend.

Ceana of the Crags
Ceana of the Crags

Having played KoPnP 2 first, the natural tendency is to compare the games to each other. The game mechanics in this game take a little getting used to. The quests are not obvious, and there are not always quests available at your level, so you may need to fight monsters to gain xp, in order to move on to other quests. I like that you can abandon a quest and return to it later. I don't like that you might start one quest from another, and the second quest will be 5+ levels higher than the first, so that you have to quit that quest, and re-do the first one, too, because it was the trigger for the second one.

I recommend this to those of you, who are into old games.

lucas101
lucas101

I Love the graphics and dialogue

Ita
Ita

Repetitiveness, the game

Music? yes, it's repetitive.
Grindy? of course, YES.
Is combat interesting? OF COURSE NOT!

Every. single. fight. would be played. more or less the same.
It's even made worse with the very unnecessary death mechanic.

This game has less spice than fresh tofu.
Don't even buy it on a sale

babybigbluebird
babybigbluebird

I don't play dungeons and dragons in real life, i am not a board game geek, i am also not one of those types of people that spends hours and hours devising new imaginative games. However i might become one in the next few months because i actually really really like this game. If its anything like the real thing then i might be converted. Well done paradox, you have done it again, a great game. Simple but beautiful game play.

ZombieKidzRule!
ZombieKidzRule!

Reviewed edited at 40 game play hours and 40/42 achievements.

I recommend this game because it checks off some of my boxes and I like turn-based games. I don't think this would win awards, but it has some humor, making me laugh several times so far. Although a lot of the humor will be lost on younger people due to a lot of references to the 80s. It has a good variety of characters to choose from (instead of race), quite a few classes, a good number of items to activate in your "gaming room" and on your characters, and quite a bit of consumables.

Also, you keep your unlocked characters & classes, accumulated gold, and things you buy in the Shop for other saves. Which makes starting another save game much easier and gives you a good head start. Which is important since you probably need that to get the speed run achievement. But unfortunately, the blacksmith upgrades do not carry across the save games. That probably would have been a game breaking advantage.

Speaking of game breaking, I haven't found any bugs in the game other than the achievements.

Although there are only 3 save slots, I eventually figured out that you can overwrite save slots by selecting New game. I wouldn't let me overwrite my save slot where I finished the game, but it would let me overwrite a save slot that I had started to experiment and didn't want to keep playing. So, there isn't an option to delete save games from the Load option, but there is a limited ability to overwrite a save slot from the New option.

BE WARNED, if you are an achievement hunter and perfectionist and don't like multiple play throughs and grinding to get all the achievements, this probably isn't a game for you. The achievements are definitely bugged, in general. You will get game notifications of getting an achievement and then it doesn't record. Or you will get achievements before you are supposed to. Some achievements seem bugged for everyone, based on the discussions page. You can't get all the achievements in one play through and you need to grind/farm for a couple of the achievements, which, if you don't like grinding won't make you happy. There is a locked achievement that you will need to consult a guide to figure out to make sure you get. I was able to get 40/42 achievements in my first save game, but that involved a lot of grinding, I couldn't beat the last enemy (which isn't necessary), and it took me over 1500 game days. The speed run achievement is somewhere in the 400s for days. You accumulate days when you rest, every combat, and traveling the map.

But a nice feature for the speed run is that the main quest line has a start next to the choice to help you just follow the main quest if you want that achievement. At least that is helpful.

This game is not much more than turn-based combat and it isn't very tactical or strategic. You don't walk around, rather you move between points on a map. And did I mention grinding. I don't happen to mind grinding, but I usually prefer it when it is optional, not a necessity.

This game has a little replay value if you want to try different combinations of characters and classes. And from what I have experienced, you might not get to do all the quests during a single play through and you definitely won't get all the achievements.

This game isn't one that I will keep coming back too, but still, for me, this game was worth the few dollars that I paid for it.

I will update this review if I discover anything significantly new or if I manage to get all the achievements.

sethkane
sethkane

Nice idea but the game is just one long grind and after a few hours the combat becomes incredibly boring. I guess the story is supposed to be ironic but I just found it too trite and cliched to carry on. It was probably better suited to being a mobile game.

1NotALizard
1NotALizard

I love the style for this game, and I also enjoy the gameplay. 8/10 game, I recommend!

Squato
Squato

A fun little game where you are both the player AND the forever dm.

And this isn't a bad thing!

Trent W. Buck
Trent W. Buck

Is there a way to turn on frame limiter?
This is causing more fan noise than Forza Horizon 4!
I'll come back and review this properly in winter when my computer won't overheat ^_^

Wildy
Wildy

The first game of the Pen and Paper family

This is a fun and tough game with plenty of funny moments. Unlike its sequel, it looks a bit more dated but can still be played correctly.
The most enjoyable parts are overcoming its challenges.
You will need to grind a fair bit to get enough level to advance the story so don't expect a game where you can breeze through chapters. You can get bogged down in some uninteresting farming, obviously you could maybe avoid it if you are a strategist god with perfect min maxing skills!

The RPG side is quite simple and the main attribute of the Pen & Paper games is the fact that YOU decide the adversary in most encounters, you could make many small and easy battles or do a big huge one with more XP payoff.
It's a tough game and will require plenty of time investment to finish the story.
Speaking of which, it's an interesting one with some twists, especially breaking the fourth wall and fits enough the theme of the game!

Graphics are cute with nice pixelated art, it serves its purposes and at least you can differentiate all the NPCs and adversaries.

I would recommend this game if you played and liked other games from the same Studio, otherwise I would recommend to play the sequel instead.

Warden
Warden

Nice game I just completed it 100%. no regrets

Sheepstealer
Sheepstealer

Fix resolution or format of your text, it's unbearable for eyes.

Liviathan
Liviathan

Simple, cute, incredibly casual game for DnD nerds. Plays like a mobile game, but isn't constantly asking for your wallet or your attention. Doesn't take itself too seriously either.

Garthorium
Garthorium

There are very few games I quit half way through, but this is an exception.

This game is extremely shallow, grindy, and repetitive, down to the Nth degree.

The main story has very little substance, most side quests are either fetching, battling, or 'escorting' and they hardly deviate beyond extremely simple means. In fact, despite supposedly being modelled off of D&D, no other aspect bar combat is ever explored. You can't do dice rolls for stealth, charisma, luck, or anything, every quest simply devolves into a combat encounter. The game is interwoven with plenty of pop culture references, but this is hardly a drawing point for the game.

Nothing musically stands out, most pieces are very simple, looped tracks which feel a bit generic. Graphically competent but that's not saying much for a pixel game.

Inventory system is a joke. You can only hold twenty or so items and even at max capacity you can still obtain quest rewards only for them to go to the void. With the rate you encounter enemies in this game, you'd best pray you don't randomly win a great piece of loot at full stash capacity, because it's gone for good. Have fun grinding out a thousand more fights for the chance to get it again.

My biggest complaint is the characters, combat and gameplay loop. This game is an absolute chore to play. Hardly any of the classes have AoE skills making fights tedious clicking matches against single opponents. Those who do have AoE skills suffer drastically reduced damage output. I played with a rogue, warrior, cleric, druid, and mage, and I have never encountered such simplistic and monotonous combat in a party based game. Every single fight I pitted myself into reduced itself to one of only two strategies, and neither were mentally engaging enough to even consider them strategies. Despite being pretty high levelled pretty quickly, basic mobs half my level still outchecked my initiative, resulting in encounters that never feel like your characters are developing.

On top of this, you have two types of enemies; basic and elite. Every single elite enemy I encountered resisted debuffs and special effects like stun, sleep, or freeze, negating up to 33% of my characters available skills and specialisations. What is the point of gearing a character around stun and physical debuffs if both of these are tied to a single skill that is negated, purely by enemy type? Of which, every class has 4 innate skills, any number of which can be passives. The Barbarian for example, has only ONE single combat skill, which makes you lose targeting. Enjoy doing 50k battles with only one skill you can use, which you will need to do if you want to earn any money and levels, which you absolutely MUST do if you want to enhance your gear at the blacksmith, with his stupid extortionate prices for a bloody CHANCE to improve your gear. I failed ten improvement checks in a row based on a 60% chance to succeed at 300 gold a piece, that's 3k gold, which equates to roughly 15-30 fights of grinding, just to fail a level 1>2 upgrade for my rogue.

To further reinforce the hollow feeling behind the characters, there's no way to actively measure health, you're only given a total and have to guesstimate off of a red bar. Honestly, I've never played a game that just feels so meaningless for absolutely no good reason. On top of the piss poor gameplay loop, the story being so damn basic is the biggest insult, because what incentive do I have to play this game if not to see how its narrative pans out?

To know that no matter how much time I invest into this game, that its conclusion will not payoff, is the biggest shame of all. This game is the worst type of repetitive, it's the kind that just maliciously wastes your time, and it knows it. Well, not anymore.

Hardly a game that has any standout moments or features. An extremely average run of the mill, turn based adventure that has little reward or payoff for your time and effort. Avoid, even on sale.

GameShelf91
GameShelf91

Not full sceen!!! no settings options, can't read whats going on.

LeMustacheMan
LeMustacheMan

Good game, I have spent an ungodly amount of time on it :)

Iolo The Thief
Iolo The Thief

+ Easy to learn
+ Funny
+ Keeps you going
- Somewhat grindy
- Not really a great number of ways playing the game
- Neither items nor skills have significant impact on the game - it's all +X linear progression

NeverAlone
NeverAlone

If you like tabletop games and you are alone, this game is for you.

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l- No Regerts -l

It's rough around the edges and you can tell it definitely was the original on much more polished sequels... but you can also tell why there were sequels. At its core it is still a very good game.

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very good
i feel like a nerd now

Blazeking726
Blazeking726

This is an amazing game if you have a d&d urge but can't play at the time. I think that this one (as well as the 2nd paid one) are balanced as long as you do a little grinding. The story lasts for a while too which is always better. Overall, a great game to play when you wanna play d&d or are in a rpg mood. 9/10

Kaptain Krawdad
Kaptain Krawdad

This had everything I loved about nerding with my friends except my actual friends. An RPG where you are RP'ing the RPers. If you ever enjoyed sitting around with your buddies throwing some dice at a dungeon crawl, you will very likely enjoy this retro-style offering from Behold.

Musgo
Musgo

Nice game, a bit too tough by the end.

alek861
alek861

Knights of Pen and Paper is really fun, in the beginning. The battle system is simple but enjoyable, the animations are cute and really fit each class. If you make a druid its gameplay will feel like a druid, same for any other class. The quests are generic but funny, many references and jokes. Lvling up doesn't take too long and as you level your skills you feel the change. Seeing the damage number go from 50 to 53 might not seem like a lot but you really feel the progress of your characters in the fights. Also it's not just brain dead leveling up the spell you like, the MP cost goes up as well and you feel it. One level can turn a spell from being spamable to being used only once or twice in a fight. You have to think about how you level spells which adds a little complexity to a simple game like this.

The issue with this game is the late game. You will have a great time lvling up to about 42 (I've read some people hit this rodeblock as early as 35). You will look at the map and see that all the quests are finished. Every area is explored 100%. Only 2 are left that aren't. One is a dungeon where the last boss is located. This dungeon is marked lvl 65. The other is a sequence of dragons you need to fight. This quest is marked lvl 70. Let me remind you, after finishing everything else I was lvl 42. There are no areas with lvl 50 or 60 monsters, or maybe they are hidden somewhere that I haven't figured out but I doubt it. You have to fight the forty something monsters over and over to grind. This is awful design. The last boss isn't hard, it just has big numbers. It's like they forgot to create areas (and questlines) for about 20 lvls. It would be ok for the boss to have hard mechanics, or even to be so high lvl to demand a little grinding or some item. But asking me to grind 20 levels (arguably more then a third of the game) is ridiculous. I've seen discussions of, I did it at 40 blah blah blah, buy feathers and upgrade gear, get gud, and so on. That doesn't change the fact that you need to grind the gear upgrades, and feathers and all the crap. And even then I don't think you can easily kill the boss. At lvl 40 most classes get one shot by the boss so even if you cheat the system and get to the boss by using the luck amulets (you skip all fights before the final boss of the dungeon) you still skiped lvl 40 something mobs (because they are hard and boring) to fight a lvl 65 boss. It makes no sense. It might be doable but video games aren't supposed to be doable but fun and having the difficulty spike from a 2 to a 11 isn't fun. They are missing a third of the game, that doesn't make the game challenging it makes it incomplete.

Tavish_2554
Tavish_2554

Everything except the dragon fights.

Vipershark
Vipershark

I ended up forcing myself to beat this game and get all the achievements purely out of spite because it made me so angry that I didn't want to quit and let it win.

At a certain point in the game the difficulty curve becomes vertical and unless you want to spend ages grinding, it forces you to buy items from the in-game "Shop" which essentially gives you the ability to cheat. I only got to the end of the game by purchasing loaded dice and luck necklaces that allowed me to roll 19s and 20s on every roll, thus skipping most of the final third of the game. Being forced to cheat your way to the end of the game is not fun.

This game is not worth your time or your money. The concept is interesting enough but the execution is pretty bad and playing it is painful, grindy, and repetitive. Don't make the same mistake I did.

Lone Wanderer
Lone Wanderer

want to play D&D bit have no friends to play with ? this game has got you covered.

The Beyonder
The Beyonder

Excellent DnD homage + parody.

VetDave
VetDave

Engaging, addictive gameplay. There is a lot of content to explore. I would recommend this game to friends.

Riviale
Riviale

If you enjoy tabletop D&D and don't mind pixel graphics, you will likely enjoy this as this game allows you to play as both the DM and the Players at the same time (more or less.) (meaning in most situations you can pick what encounters to go on, what monsters and how many are in said encounters, and some other fun stuff, the main campaign stuff is set though, can't customize "those" encounters, which makes sense.) Running into mobs is determined by dice rolls, as are several other things, just like D&D. ::)

Valkyrie Farrow
Valkyrie Farrow

Knights of Pen and Paper +1 is a nice RPG if you're searching for less complicated and linear gameplay. The pixel art is beautifully created and there are a decent roster of characters to choose from. I also enjoyed the humor. From time to time the music gets repetitive and boring but other than that it's a decent game.

Rating: B