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Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate is a mystery dungeon, rogue-like and rpg game
developed and published by Spike Chunsoft Co. and Ltd..
Released on December 02nd 2020 is available only on Windows
in 4 languages: English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.
It has received 832 reviews of which 639 were positive and 193 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.3 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 3.99€ on Steam with a 80% discount.
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- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 64-bit
- Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) 2 Duo 2.4 GHz, or better
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: DirectX 11.0 compatible GPU with at least 1GB of VRAM
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 4GB MB available space
- Sound Card: DirectX 11.0 compatible sound card
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At its core, Shiren is an interactive chess game. You and a handful of monsters all wander around a grid comprised of multiple rooms and tunnels between them. The goal is to reach the stairs to the next floor, and each dungeon ranges between 5-99 floors. The amount of content in this game is legit insane. The main story involves traversing 40-50 floors that will take an average player with no previous Shiren game experience 20-40 hours, assuming the dabble in the 40 odd tutorial dungeons and the 120 odd puzzle rooms on the side. Once that's done, more challenging dungeons open up, where the game wants you to start understanding the mechanics, be that mixing your weapons/shields in the field to give them bonus stats, bag management, item identification, and understanding what the various monsters can do and how best to handle them. This part of the game can easily add another 100 hours of enjoyment, and I was still picking up tricks even after 120 hours of play. Then there's the endgame ... Should you also try to complete all the achievements, expect at least another 150 hours of pure grind on top of that. These involve completing a number of dungeons that are 99 floors, as well as collecting every item and a ridiculous amount of money. This is where RNG starts playing a major role, and the game became more frustrating than fun. The game feels like it's been balanced around the first 50 floors. By floor 30 monsters are already hitting hard enough that you want to stop exploring and begin locating the stairs asap. Beyond 50, many of them of them start getting dungeonwide abilities which will end your run should you not have the right items to counteract them. The problem is, the right items are often 1-3 things in a loot table of 200+, where only 5-6 items are on a floor. If you don't locate one of the two bracelets that allow you to see the monster locations on the minimap, you'll likely be dead by floor 35 after walking into monsters in corridors that you couldn't tell were there until you've faceplanted their fists. Miss the one shield that prevents you from being moved and you'll enter floors where magician rabbits immediately teleport you to them, along with 3-4 monsters just to be sure, and kill you. Fail to find something to nullify fire damage, and you'll have to cross 3-4 floors where dragons are literally spewing fire on you through the walls every other step. This sort of difficulty is all good and well, but when it can take upwards of 3-5 hours to reach these deeper regions, being destroyed due to the game deciding to not provide you the items you need to deal with stuff is a little demoralising. Spike Chuunsoft have also added a bunch of dungeons that spell out the letters of their name, which might be a fun easter egg in any other game, but when the whole point is to AVOID monsters, creating dungeons that are lines of rooms linked by a single passage ... yeah, not their best decision. RNG also rears its ugly head with the massive loot tables. Going 10+ without a single shield or weapon, or starving to death after 15+ floors without any food items sucks balls. And since the identifying portion of the game takes place in these earlier floors, wiping out after an hour of identifying because the game decided, "Nah, not this time" isn't great.0 But the worst RNG comes with the traps. I opened stating this is like chess, a game where you can see the whole board and know exactly what every piece can do. The fun is planning a strategy and reacting to what your opponent's pieces do. Now imagine a game of chess where you move your queen five squares, only three squares in you're told she stepped on a trap and is demoted to a pawn for 3 turns right in the line ofan enemy bishop. That's how the traps in Shiren work, and having an entire 3-4 hour run wasted because you got turned into an onigiri one step into a new floor where you've spawned in a room with 3+ monsters that will kill you in 2 hits ... I just don't know what they were thinking. Having a full bag of items ready to mix, reaching the three floors in every 25 where a monster who can merge said equipment spawns, only to step on a floor switch trap that teleports you three floors ahead, skipping all of said mixer floors, is quite frankly gaming aids. These traps were so bad I legit thought the game was picking the worst trap in every situation, but having reached a stage where I copy and pasted the game files to roll back deaths, I realised that no, all 99 floors are predetermined in the run you get given, including the traps. And yet despite knowing where those traps were, I STILL walked into them again and again, they are that devilishly placed. Mad respect to any who completed 99 floors legit, but damn, I've not got this angry at a game since I last played a Mario Party back in 2005. My final niggle is that the developers seem to have equated hard with punishing. Every death you lose your entire bag, death also including any time the game closes without saving. I had an issue when my PC crashed a couple of times due to overheating and the game "assumed" I'd died, so threw me back to the hub and removed all my items for the pleasure. That one of these crashes occurred while I was in the hub didn't seem to matter. Remaking your items is not that hard, but it doesn't make it acceptable. Considering the hardest dungeons don't allow you to take any items into them, the challenge coming from working with what's there, there's really no reason to have this item lose mechanic other than to waste the player's time and add another 20 odd hours onto the already ridiculous grind achievements. I assume this was probably leftover from the handheld version to prevent people turning the device off to cheese death, but again, there was really no reason to do this, and coupled with the fact that items that allow you to leave the instance with your bags intact are also ridiculously rare, all it achieves is rubbing every death in the player's face and making them question if they're not just wasting their time. But at the end of the day, for all those complaints, Shiren is weirdly addictive. 400 hours of gameplay and I still don't find myself bored walking through the dungeons. If you're ok for dungeon delving, consulting item charts outside the game, and not opposed to bag management, Shiren is a steal of a game. Just be prepared for the mental anguish if you're ambitious enough to clear everything it has to offer.
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Shiren: The The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate is the fifth installment of this mystery dungeon series where permadeath is just 2nd nature to serious dungeon delvers. In the game, you play as the mysterious wanderer who one day comes to a village where the resident kind lady is dying due to a mysterious illness and you decide to venture forth to the tower of fortune to help her fiancee obtain all die of fate and change destiny itself. Each dungeon floor is randomly generated, the monsters are the same but the layout is not. Making this a roguelike game. If you lose and get taken out, you lose your items and your money, having to restart all over again back in town, defeated but wiser. but all is not lost, if you manage to bring back items, through an escape scroll or an Undo grass, you can prepare for the next run. Fuse two weapons you've found using synthesis to make them stronger and be able to use both their special traits, grab that sanctuary scroll you found and use it in a pinch so enemies can't harm you, bring that revival grass just in case things go sideways. The game is relatively short, you can finish the main storyline in a few days, the real challenge comes after. The achievements require you to beat very tough dungeons which do not allow to bring any outside help, so no items, no allies, no money, just the tricks to outsmart enemies you have picked up along the way. Took me around a month and a half to 100% this one, getting 99 million monies was a very long grind. Shiren 5 will be a fun time to those who enjoy games where enemies move only when you move requiring you to plan ahead one or three steps ahead and give you time to do it, the grind is horrible but only true completionists will have to suffer through it, 100% completion is not for the casual gamer. I award the game 45 times I accidentally threw my pot full of talismans at an enemy instead of grabbing one to use it out of 60 deaths caused by getting confused, enraged, striking a shopkeeper by mistake, losing my shield due to an enemy parrying it away from me and crying because a monster turned my only Undo Grass into an Onigiri making me despair as I had to accept that I had to either die and lose everything ot get to floor 99 and clear the dumb dungeon.
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Edit: I previously said that this didn't have other dungeons to do if you got stuck before finishing the main story, but I just didn't realize where they were. I'd recommend Serpentcoil Island over this for newcomers to the series, since that one is easier to start, has more quality of life features , and has more side dungeons to try if you get stuck . However, this is a great game to play after Serpentcoil Island, because it ramps up the difficulty very early on and has items and gameplay elements that Serpentcoil doesn't have, in particular the day/night cycle (which totally changes the gameplay). Anyway, this game is brutal. It's not quite like a typical roguelike where you try to work with what you get and start from scratch every time. Instead, you can (with the right items) safely escape with your inventory and store up resources and better equipment, along with knowledge of which enemies and traps to expect and when, so that you can go in prepared for all of the possible things that can and will go wrong. There are enemies that, if I was designing a game, I would not even consider to put in. Enemies that downgrade your equipment, your stats, your level(!!) , prevent you from unequipping your equipment, etc.. There are invisible traps that may downgrade your equipment or hit you with temporary or near-permanent debuffs. But, knowing that these things exist, you can bring protection and learn to expect them. Shiren the Wanderer is a series about learning the hazards and preparing yourself to deal with them. It's like being an experienced adventurer and packing your bag with the appropriate ointments and tools for the area. It is not simply throwing yourself into the unknown and hoping for lucky drops (although there is still some of that). Once again, if you haven't played the series, I highly suggest Serpentcoil Island as a starting point and then consider this one as the next step up if you enjoyed that. I know the price of entry is steeper that way, but I think the average person would have a rough time getting into the series with this one as a starting point.
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Have played Shiren 5 for over 200 hours before buying on Steam. Insanely deep. Highly customizable. Also very challenging, yet rewarding. Honestly this game gets a very unfair Steam rating. Not sure what that's about but this is one of the best games i've ever played.
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I've sunk 30 hours in that game and I am still learning stuff. I didn't know this series of mystery dungeon/traditional roguelikes existed before and now I find myself itching for a quick run quite often, because "it could be the one". Honestly, I've been glued at that game with the same interest as with a soulslike. Shiren is hard, but it is also somehow fair despite the RNG, and actually gratifying when you get the gist of it. The story is cute and heroic, the companions are all quite characterized and charming in their own ways (Gen, my boi) yet those story aspects don't get in your face too much. There is also a great attention to details, such as interactions with items and entities which gives the game much environmental and strategic depth. There is also an active community of people online who WILL save your 4ss when you derp and collapse on a floor, which gives the game quite a good vibe ! Coming from Shattered Pixel Dungeon, Tangledeep and having tested Shiren 6, I find this game to be the most engaging and qualitative. RNG is RNG, but your chances of finding a weapon early in a run are still better than in Shiren 6, for instance; the pixel artstyle is really pretty and timeless too, and the game is overall a pretty stimulating challenge. I'd love a FHunger game with this game's playstyle. I didn't expect such a little gem when buying it on sale. I'm sure it makes a perfect steamdeck game as well. Shoutout to Shattered Pixel Dungeon, though, because it really is an open-source gem, but Shiren has an undeniable je-ne-sais-quoi (actually, a japanese game design take on traditional roguelikes) that really makes having it in your game library worth it.
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Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate is currently priced at 3.99€ on Steam.
Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate is currently available at a 80% discount. You can purchase it for 3.99€ on Steam.
Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate received 639 positive votes out of a total of 832 achieving a rating of 7.33.
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Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate was developed and published by Spike Chunsoft Co. and Ltd..
Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate is not playable on MacOS.
Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate is not playable on Linux.
Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate is a single-player game.
Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate does not currently offer any DLC.
Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
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Online players
70
Developer
Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
Publisher
Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
Release
02 Dec 2020
Platforms
Remote Play