Pocket Dungeon Quest

Cool game. A bit more frustrating than I was expecting. I wasn’t expecting to lose most of the time. Makes me wonder how playtesting went. My son and I only won 1 out of 10 times — and that was with each of us playing 2 characters and with one house rule we decided to try out/test (doing away with the inventory cap, which turned out to not matter much in the 1 game we managed to win since we were using items/spells to fast to hold much in inventory).

Great game! Great company!

Box came in great shape. Upon opening the box I coule smell the adventure of a fresh new game and quickly became excited to try it out! Components are made simple and seem pretty sturdy. Love the mat! Makes everything much more organized.
Pros- Simple, replayability, and did i mention you can play solo. Quality components
Cons-Setup is easy but alittle time consuming since you have to place 100 tiles lol
Overall a great game for kids and adults.

The game is super fun, the price was correct, but the box was damaged during shipping. I know it is silly since there is no control after it is shipped, bit it is just frustrating to buy a new product and it arrive damaged.

Pretty simple game that I'm able to play with a 5.5 year old while still scratching a quick game itch. I can see this being a good filler or quick solo crawl. It is pretty luck based and strategy is thin but it's fun and keeps us from having to play Candyland to often, which is a win...

Great little game and easy to learn. Fun to play a quick round with the kiddos (she's 6) and even fun to do a quick solo round. Simple and fun art and a nice little carrying case.

Really enjoyable quick game. Our children got this for their dad for Father's day and have asked to play it every day. Simple enough for the 3 year old. Great game! Wish we could purchase the mat for the game they had on kickstarter.

This game came with no instructions. I have no idea how to play this game.

I found the designer's info on Kickstarter and connected with him. He provided the game manual in a pdf, which I printed.

I played the game seven times with my kids last night and this morning and we lost every time. Stepping back, this could have been: a) entirely random, b) the way the game is designed (to be hard), or c) based upon my inaccurate interpretation of the game manual. I suspect that the answer is c). The game is not overly complicated but there are a fair number of pieces and rules associated with them. The users' guide is only two pages and therefore some needed detail was missing. For example, can you teleport a "boss" or can you revive dead heroes without a feather spell? Regarding the latter, the instructions imply that you can but I couldn't figure out how. If you can't revive the dead without the feather spell, the game may be over very quickly.

In conclusion, I suspect that many positive reviews to date come from Kickstarter participants or from the designer's friends who naturally benefit from deep rule knowledge (either from the designer or from the games that Pocket Dungeon Quest is modeled on and they applied here). The game might be a lot of fun if you knew the rules better but quite frankly, I didn't find it interesting enough to keep trying to figure it out. Others might feel differently of course.

I know I shouldn't have expected too much from a Kickstarter-based project and expect that this game's kinks will eventually be worked out. Good luck to the designer for taking some risk and doing this.

Pocket Dungeon Quest has been a personal and family favorite game since the print-and-play that was included in the original Kickstarter campaign. It is a wonderful combination of familiar concepts and a fresh new approach to a dungeon crawler. Easy to learn/teach, quick to play, and impossible to master. Yes, there is luck involved, but playing as a team is quite fun! Setup is quick, game-play is entertaining, and no two dungeons are the same. I cannot recommend this game highly enough!

My kids love it as well and beg to play it constantly. The team element is unique to any other games we play and they really like that.

The great thing about PDQ is that it's fun with just 2 players. It's a co-op game that isn't strictly limited to each player playing together. The tiles make the game less random than a dice roll, but allows for enough strategy for even the experience gamer to have fun. It plays in 30 minutes or less and isn't restricted to a kitchen table to be played. My wife and I don't have a group of people to play table top games with. So we are always looking for a fun 2 player game. We've played this game as a co-op and as an individual winner. Either way was fun and ever changing as no two games are the same. I highly recommend and will be looking forward to new expansions!!

Nice quality, fun game that if easy to learn and very repayable. My family loves to play and so do my more hardcore gaming friends.

This is one of my family's favorite games - for both the kids (pre-teens/teens) and adults in the family. It's also our go-to game if we're taking a game anywhere. It packs up small and sets up easily to meet a friend during a coffee break or to take to a friend's house or game night. Everyone we introduce to it loves it!

A fantastic concept, easily to pick up and play! Reminds me of playing some of my favorite classic video games.