Massive Darkness (2017)

The reviewer found Massive Darkness to be a highly enjoyable and straightforward dungeon crawler with many positive aspects and few drawbacks, emphasizing its fun gameplay and accessible rules.

“Massive Darkness brings the classic fantasy RPG experience to modern board gaming, with an action-packed campaign chock full of gorgeous miniatures and a streamlined system that keeps the focus on the heroes' actions, with no need for a game master to control the enemies.”

Massive Darkness is a highly enjoyable cooperative dungeon crawler that delivers an Ameritrashy, dice-chucking experience reminiscent of Diablo, featuring well-sculpted miniatures and unique Shadow Zone mechanics.

The reviewer highlights the game's engaging combat mechanics, the innovative transmutability of loot for upgrading equipment, and the smart design allowing for both quick standard play and a more progressive, RPG-like story mode, finding these features to be 'really cool' and 'very smart'.

The reviewer highly recommends "Massive Darkness: Dungeons of Shadowreach" as a fun, dice-rolling dungeon crawler, rating it 4.5 out of 5. They appreciate its asymmetric heroes and the integrated difficulty modifications, suggesting it might be an even better starting point for new players compared to previous iterations.

“Massive Darkness is a challenging, visually engaging, and addictively fun dungeon crawler that will thrill tabletop fans and RPG players alike.”

“Then we tackle the latest festival of miniatures and dungeon adventures that is Massive Darkness.”

The reviewer found Massive Darkness 2 to be a good and solid dungeon crawl, noting significant improvements over the first game and particularly praising the excellent asymmetrical powers of the different heroes.

The reviewer enthusiastically recommends Massive Darkness as an engaging, cooperative dungeon crawler that effectively captures a Diablo-like experience, praising its streamlined combat and unique Shadow Zone mechanics, despite minor criticisms regarding retail component variety and inherent dice-chucking randomness.

The reviewer found Massive Darkness to be a very fun and engaging dungeon crawler, praising its numerous miniatures, interesting quests, and good player scaling, despite noting that the story mode can become too easy.

The reviewer enjoyed Massive Darkness for its engaging "zero to hero" gameplay, abundant loot system reminiscent of Diablo, and interesting character progression, despite finding the map tiles visually uninteresting and some design choices disappointing.