As games are meant to be fun, I’d say it’s a success.

Challenging the reviewer’s credibility smacks of Ad Hominem fallacy…

If you’ve played Mansions of Madness or Journeys in Middle Earth, it’s about at the same level.
When you start a mission, the app tells you what tiles and terrain to lay out, and what monsters to place. When you want to fight, the app tracks monster heath and special effects. All the card play, rolling, and movement of miniatures happens on the table. The app has no idea what miniature is where on the table. It’s basically a big Dungeon Master.

Thanks, Tony! I will check out the Discord channel.

Thanks for the kind words, and I understand. Personally, I love app integrated games because it offers so much flexibility and creative gameplay that you cant have otherwise. From generating the maps as you, to variable powers for the monsters, to the crafting system, it feels more of a helper than intrusive.

To be honest, it’s been a couple of years since I’ve played Middara, so I don’t think I can compare it anymore. You can read my review of it here:
https://www.boardgamequest.com/middara-review/

I haven’t played Sword & Sorcery, so I can’t comment on that. I know our reviewer Brian has though, so you can always hop on our Discord channel and ask him about his thoughts on the two.

I’m looking to pick up a big dungeon crawl (that’s not Gloomhaven). I want to like this, but it just looks like so much time in the app.

What are your thoughts on this vs Middara vs Sword & Sorcery?

Ah, I see, yes thank you that’s very helpful. I like to be able to make a narrative, in my head, about what’s happening. How would you characterise this sort of thing? Ie I’m using my sword, it’s getting tiring or damaged, so I back of and switch to bow for a bit? Do you see what I mean? What does the mechanic represent?

Sure thing. Using the rangers weapon card, twin swords on one side and a bow on the other. You can shoot with your bow all you want. If you want to use some of the special abilities of the bow, you have to place fatigue tokens on it. Once the bow hits its fatigue limit, you can still use the bow, you just can’t use its special power anymore.

One way to refresh an item is to flip it over to its other side, which clears all tokens (good and bad). Another way, is during the darkness phase, you can remove 1 fatigue from any card. So you can slowly refresh it that way too.

hope that helps!