[iPhone] Undercroft old school RPG - fantastic

[Carpet_pissr]

Holy shit how did I miss this one.

Not even a PC based game has grabbed me like this one in a long time, and this one is iPhone only, not even iPad compatible!
Amazing...whenever I finish this game, I am going looking for whatever else this company made and buy it.

Old school, Wizardry-esque party based RPG, with old school but nice graphics, lots of loot, and nice skill trees. Surprisingly addictive.

Some tips:
1. Summoners, IMO, are not that great. I played with one for a long time, then started over and got a priest instead, which worked out much better.
2. Highly recommend the NORMAL setting, not easy.
3. Not sure if dexterity helps with spell damage or not, but I am wishing the game mechanics allowed for better ranged + melee switching. Currently using an assassin for archer duty, but given her particular set of skills (unarmed, specifically), that has been a bit of a pain wrt switching and whatnot.

I HIGHLY recommend checking out this game if you haven't, if you even remotely enjoyed anything in the Wizardy/Might and Magic/Eye of the Beholder genre.

[Cortilian]

This is pretty good. Only made it to the second area so far but feels very EoTBish.

[Carpet_pissr]

I'm almost at the end, and I have to recant my previous comment about the Summoner. I will spoiler this out of an abundance of caution, but I only mention loot drops, so IMO, not very spoilerish - more like - hints if you want an easier time of it at the difficult later stages:

Spoiler:

There is an overabundance of kick ass Summoner specific loot you find at the later stages. Stuff that would probably make the game at this stage a little less frustrating (I am dying a LOT). I guess that explains the crappy start I had with the class...now that I see that the designers decided to make up for that crappiness with TONS of great Summoner loot

FWIW I am about to finish with:
Fighter (hint: you want to get him a 2 handed sword ASAP if you can afford it/find one)
Mage
Priest
Assassin

I found out about halfway through the game that those level up points COULD ALSO BE USED TO INCREASE YOUR STATS, not just skills! What a boob! No wonder it was old school hard!

Also, you REALLY need to specialize on skills, like I am thinking focus on 3 at most for most classes. And definitely only pick one weapon specialization.

I had to restart because I was all over the place, and it literally became unplayable due to difficulty.

[Dave Allen]

I just bought my first iOs device - an ipod 4th gen for $125 on ebay.
Undercroft now installed. May have some impressions soon.

[Carpet_pissr]

Excellent. Looking forward to them. Still haven't finished and I am around 32 hours in. Last 'area' though so it's coming soon. Probably 40 hr game.

[Dave Allen]

I'm in the next to last chapter - the ruined cloister - and I've painted myself into a corner, and not able to finish the game without a complete restart. Perhaps if there had been more save slots...
Even with this happening, this game is SO GOOD it's almost worth restarting.

And to avoid what happened to me:
1) skill builds need to be very focused - only 1 weapon profiency and 3 learned skills for each
2) in the ruined cloister you are forced to kill the only trader (monk) - so be sure buy a zillion potions from him BEFORE you complete his quest.