If you follow JohnHQLD on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter, you would have seen that I did a little electronics project last weekend. This necessitated playing games on the Switch – oh the hardship! One game that I hadn’t realized I had stopped playing was One Deck Dungeon, and I had to redownload it and give it another go.
If you followed the site before the 2022 reboot, you would know my love for One Deck Dungeon. It’s a card and dice-based roguelike adventure where you can build upon set characters for a light campaign-like experience.
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It’s also one of the first times I put forward “If you play it solo, grab it digitally. To play with friends, play it on the table.” I have these thoughts about Cartographers. So much so, I don’t even count the games of Cartographers on my mobile anymore!
Well, for a time, I did this with One Deck Dungeon. While the game works on mobile, I do prefer it on a larger screen with everything laid out. So I used to play it on Steam and forgot I had grabbed it on Switch at all!
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One Deck Dungeon and the stand-alone expansion One Deck Dungeon: Forest of Shadows offer so much flexibility for players. You can combine the two games for a greater challenge and to expand the adventure for up to 4 players. Building ‘maps’ from decks of cards makes life interesting. You constantly burn cards (dealing straight to discard) to guess what could come next.
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Playing One Deck Dungeon takes care of mid-game bookkeeping for you but does deny you the tactile satisfaction of dice rolling. For me, I can get two games in digitally for every game on the table, so for solo play, I prefer One Deck Dungeon digitally.
So while the round on the Switch was fun, I probably won’t keep playing on it. I need to put One Deck Dungeon on the Steam Deck and see how that goes. Whichever platform I prefer, I will probably reset the campaign progress and start again.
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So rediscovering One Deck Dungeon was a lot of fun. It was also well-timed with the follow-up game One Deck Galaxy sitting on my table, waiting to be opened!