Legend of Keepers: Career of a Dungeon Manager Review (PlayStation 5)

by Jim Smale · May 15, 2023

For this Legend of Keepers: Career of a Dungeon Manager Review, where we play the perfect mix between Dungeon Defender and Roguelite. You have been hired as a dungeon manager by the Dungeons Company. Your job is simple: protect their dungeons!

Legend of Keepers: Career of a Dungeon Manager Review Pros:

Nice graphics.
875.2MB download size.
Platinum trophy.
You get the PlayStation 4 and the PlayStation 5 versions of the game.
Game settings – quick monster placing, and team management before dungeons (smart/never/always).
3 save slots.
Dungeon management gameplay.
2D perspective.
The goal of the game is to build a dungeon and have Ai-controlled heroes enter and attempt to kill everyone, including the boss, and take the loot.
You place traps and enemies in rooms and as the heroes kill them they advance to the next room until the final boss fight.
Turn-based combat with a turn order.
At the end of a successful loot defense, you get to see their stats etc.
Motivation plays a huge part and dictates how well your employees (monsters) perform.
Leave employees out of the dungeon to have them regain motivation.
You get to recruit a new employee from the defeated heroes.
Earn gold from playing.
Uses gold to buy new traps or employees, upgrade traps and improve your employees.
Multiple choice scenarios.
The schedule is a run-by run of your game. As you complete a task the next st will appear and most of the time you have to pick just one task each time.
Has a choose-your-own-adventure vibe.
The game plays out by you doing a preparation stage, placing traps and employees then the heroes enter and if needed you control the actions of employees in battle.
If you have ever heard of it the boardgame Boss Monster is a lot like this except the dungeons and rooms are also random.
Everyone will play it differently.
Complete control of placements.
Fast loading times.
Randomized schedules and random events can happen at any time.
Game difficulty is based on the dungeon and uses a one to Five swords difficulty scale.
So satisfying to play and watch play out.
The game gets very addictive.
Collect resources along the way and use them for items, events, etc.
At the end of a victory, you may get items, traps, or upgrades to choose from rather than new employees.
Passives, abilities, and elements like poison and ice play a huge part.
Statuses can turn battle like terrified and stunned.
When an employee dies he remains in the game as he gets reanimated by the team Liech.
Three game speeds are controlled with a button press.
Good soundtrack.
You can stack elemental effects and have a load of them on one person at one time.
The archivist will keep track of all encountered employees and heroes along with items and traps.
It’s all run-based in that once you give up or run out of employees the game ends.
The end-of-run breakdown shows weeks played, dungeons defended, gold, blood, and tears collected, employees slaughtered and heroes killed along with a final score.
Your master is your character in all this and at the end of a run, you level up and get skill points to unlock new buffs and abilities.
World map level select.
New run settings – 3 difficulties (easy/normal/hard), heroes strength slider, gold gains slider, masters life (yours), motivation lost slider, and game length slider from normal to long.
Six masters to unlock and play. You get one initially then unlock the rest.