Tiny Epic Dungeons is live (Tiny Epic Crawling)
Update: Tiny Epic Dungeons is live on Kickstarter and the campaign will run for 21 days. You may back either the retail version of the game, or the Deluxe edition with extra cards. The all-in bundle includes the Stories expansion, and there is also a PnP option.
Our preview post below was published on February 21.
Tiny Epic Dungeons is a 1-4 player dungeon crawl game, and the latest installment in the Tiny Epic series from Gamelyn Games. It will launch on Kickstarter on February 23.
In Tiny Epic Dungeons, you play standard Fantasy characters (a Dwarf fighter, a Half-Orc barbarian, an Elf sorceress and a Dark Elf rogue), each with their own different stats (four resources: Health, Focus, Defense and Movement, and three skills: Strength, Agility and Intelligence), a unique ability, and specific starting gear. Later in the game, a character can equip two weapons, an armor, two side items, and learn two spells.
The goal of the game is to defeat the final boss, drawn at random, before your lantern goes out. The party explores the dungeon by revealing tiles that may trigger traps or spawn goblins and minions. Goblins differ from the other minions as, if they accumulate up to a certain number, you automatically lose the game.
Heroes can engage in various actions such as searching a room, disarming a trap, attacking, or casting a spell. The different actions rely on dice-based skill checks. By searching rooms and disarming traps, you can find spells and loot to better equip your character, including specific sets of equipment, or gather new sources of light to push back the time tracker.
Finally, Tiny Epic Dungeons will be the first in the series to introduce miniatures of 28mm size, one for each character.
Wow, there's over 30,000 Backers (over $1.5million/€1.26million/CAD1.9million pledged) with a week still to go.
I looked up the designer, Scott Almes on LinkedIn. In addition to being a Free-Lance Game Designer, he's also a Product Manager at Dick's Sporting Goods. I can't believe his games aren't paying the bills. Maybe it's for the Health Insurance. 🙂
He has a Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering. A ways back he was employed by Westinghouse as a Nuclear Systems Engineer. Cool.
I will eagerly hear your impressions when you receive and play it. :) I once played Tiny Epic Zombies co-op with JW and we weren't impressed with it.
I was a bit reluctant at first, but in the end I think I'm settling for my pledge. I really like what the Tiny Epic games aim at: games that don't take too much room, that are not overly expensive, that are easy to learn and fast to play, and yet that feel as real flesh-out games (unlike most Button Shy micro-games, for instance). Even if they start to have a huge crowd of followers they don't seem to try to exploit the fanbase, staying true to these principles, which I appreciate.
Now, all this wonderful stuff was never enough for me to back any of their previous games, as I found them usually lacking design-wise, focusing too much on…
So the game has Meeples and Minis? That's unusual, isn't it? 🤔
I wish they had an all-meeples cast instead of minis and meeples. Item-meeples would be fitting here, I think.