Overboss Review (PlayStation 5)

by Jim Smale · August 19, 2024

Overboss Review, You are a Boss. You’ve always been a master of monsters, a builder of dungeons, and a hunter of heroes. For many years, you’ve competed with other Bosses in contests of prowess and villainy. Now it’s time to emerge from the underworld. It’s time to shape a new land and bend it to your will. It’s time to claim your crown as the ultimate OVERBOSS!

Overboss Review Pros:

Decent graphics.
520.5MB download size.
Platinum trophy.
You get the PlayStation 4 and the PlayStation 5 versions of the game.
Strategy gameplay.
Three game modes – Solo score, Solo campaign, and multiplayer local.
Tutorial mode which is optional.
Local score history which acts as a leaderboard for each game mode.
Three difficulties – Easy, medium, and hard. This sets out how many retires you get before the definitive game is over-screen.
Fast loading times.
Handy sheet sheet menu using the touchpad.
The goal of the game is to place terrain tiles, monsters, dungeons, etc, and score points.
Having the same monster type in a row will give bonus points and make them a mob.
Put the same terrain types next to each other for bonus points.
Portals can be placed so you can move monsters around.
One rule you use a lot is you have to place a monster on an empty tile if you have space and a monster.
The game plays out on a grid-based island and you place tiles and monsters.
Find and place crystals to get a bonus like get an extra point for every Dungeon you have on the map.
A lot of shortcut menus for help and hints.
Matches or games are round and at times you can choose to end the round early or carry on.
Not all monsters that come with a tile go on that terrain type.
Every round two of your tiles in the market (tile selection area) will disappear and two new random ones will appear.
When playing the campaign, the world you are in will have a set of objectives for you to complete.
A lot of the time the game goes from strategy to a more puzzle-type game.
Your goal is to place terrain and monsters in a way that you score the most points.
Completed objectives in the campaign mode will flash up and fill in the mission entry.
You can replay worlds in the campaign.

Overboss Review Cons:

You cannot remap the controls.
No real game options.
Doesn’t have online multiplayer or leaderboards.
The tutorial just tells you the basics then says at the end that for all the good and more in-depth stuff you have to read menus and figure it out yourself basically.
The game doesn’t play how the tutorial days so you are basically starting again but with a bit of knowledge.
It’s all very slow from new tile generation to the general pace of it all.
The help menu is not always helpful as it would be better to have a list of tiles and terrain types to identify them for when playing the campaign.
The campaign feels more luck than skill half the time.
The game just needs a speed-up option!
In the campaign, there is no Reroll for the terrain tiles.
There is potential but it just lacks basic needs to make it a more engaging offering.

Overboss:

Official website.

Developer: BlanketGames, Brotherwise Games

Publisher: Forever Entertainment

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