![]() ![]() ![]() But not just any board game: Demeo is a magical board game that brings the game world, characters and monsters to life before your eyes. And, as with previous titles from the studio, the developers plan to keep the game updated with new content over the long term.įor this review, I played Demeo in single-player mode and in a group setting with fellow MIXED writers.ĭemeo is a strategic tabletop role-playing game that simulates the game situation itself: It puts you in a virtual basement where you meet up with friends for an evening to play a board game. The game was in development for around three years, according to CEO Tommy Palm. Whether it's Angry Birds VR, Cook-Out, or Blaston ( review): The Swedish studio knows how to make good games and use the strengths of the medium.ĭemeo is the studio's biggest and most ambitious project to date. The conditions for this to succeed are good: Resolution Games has become one of the best VR studios in recent years. Both are in short supply in the world of VR games.ĭemeo wants to kill all three birds with one stone. Together with VR players, of course.īut that's not the only gap that Demeo wants to close: The VR gaming community is also thirsty for titles with role-playing flair and gameplaying ambition. There are only a few VR games that you can play with others, and if you do, friends without VR headsets are left out.ĭemeo is different: The game is designed for up to four VR players, and from April 7, 2022, 2D players can also join the adventure via Steam. It’s only when the odds are most stacked against your party that the rich interplay between Demeo’s classes gets to shine, and there’s a level of nuance here that you don’t often see in true-blue RPGs.Demeo wants to combine co-op fun, fantasy role-playing, and gameplay depth in one VR game. ![]() That said, Demeo’s satisfyingly asymmetric combat encounters can feel like tug-of-war at their tensest moments often managing to remain tight enough to make you think carefully about each move, but never so much that you’re left completely out of options if you have a few odd cards and some spare patience and creativity to figure something out. This makes sense as an incentive to keep people from quitting in the middle of an online session, but I missed out on too many opportunities to earn XP in the single-player Skirmish mode just because I saw where things were heading and didn’t feel like narrowly carving my way out of danger or waiting for my party to wipe. And if you forget to save before quitting mid-game, you lose all the experience points that you would have earned toward your account’s progression had you simply died. If you get bored or distracted, you can just save at the end of a floor (while speaking to the card merchant) though it’s frustrating that you can’t save in the middle of a floor if reality calls mid-run. Also, it’s a bit of a bummer that Demeo’s account-wide progression system is only cosmetic – meaning you won’t see your characters gain any persistent progress through an extended series of quests and adventures. It’s a slight disappointment, though, that each of the characters available to use in your party is entirely premade, name and all. Defeating monsters gradually refills your card meter until a new card is drawn, but it’s slow enough to make you think about when to unleash your best abilities. While the gameplay might look like an isometric CRPG in the vein of Divinity: Original Sin 2 or Baldur’s Gate from a distance, but don’t be confused: Demeo deftly takes you directly to where the action is without getting bogged down in story, and thanks to its intelligent monster AI that keeps you on your toes with plenty of status-altering spells, movement-deterring group attacks, and smart use of chokepoints – it’s much more of a tactical board game than an RPG.Įach of the seven playable classes is decked out with a dynamic, constantly revolving set of powerful abilities unlocked through a randomly generating deck of cards. ![]()
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