Dungeon Defenders II
Intense overall intensityWhat's in it
The free-to-play store sells real-money items including additional hero characters, which change who and how you can play rather than being purely cosmetic.
Free play is bottlenecked by limited inventory and a slow, capped earn rate for the tokens that unlock heroes, steering players toward paid unlocks.
Cartoonish combat in which heroes and towers strike waves of fantasy monsters such as goblins, orcs and ogres; enemies vanish when defeated with no blood or wounds.
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What it is
Dungeon Defenders II is a free-to-play cooperative action tower-defense game with role-playing elements set in a bright fantasy world. Up to four players build and upgrade traps, walls and towers around Eternia Crystals, then jump in as heroes to fight the monster waves — goblins, orcs, kobolds and ogres — that push through. Between waves players collect loot, level heroes, and tune builds with shards and mods across a campaign and harder endgame modes. Combat is stylized and bloodless, with enemies simply defeated rather than injured. The game is monetized through a cash shop: it sells cosmetic skins as well as extra hero classes that bring new defenses, and free accounts contend with a limited inventory and a grind-heavy currency that paying eases. It is played online with others, with voice and text chat and player-to-player item trading.
How it's framed
The game frames its fighting as light, colorful hero fantasy — defending crystals from comic monster hordes for loot and progression, with no injury depicted and no darker subject matter. Its monetization is built around unlocking heroes and easing inventory and currency limits, so much of the pressure a player feels comes from the store rather than the story.
Details
- Developer
- Chromatic Games
- Publisher
- Chromatic Games
- Released
- Jun 20, 2017
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