I waited on this one until the actual game showed up instead of pledging in on the strength of a campaign page, which after enough disappointing Kickstarter deliveries felt like the responsible move. My copy came through fine, no shipping drama worth complaining about, and once it was on the table the wait made sense. Chip Theory’s skill-dice system carries the whole thing, and the character creation puzzle sitting underneath it is deep enough that I spent the better part of an hour just building my first character before we even got to the actual delve.
The tutorial delve does real work here, easing you into the dice-combat puzzle without dumping the entire character-building complexity on you at once, and by the time you’re building your second character solo the systems have clicked enough that it doesn’t feel overwhelming. Player aids are strong across the board, individual reference cards for combat resolution, status effects, delve structure, exactly the kind of table-ready reference I complain about missing in other heavier games. I never once had to stop and hunt through a rulebook mid-fight.
The delves themselves are the highlight, procedurally feeling fresh with traps and surprises baked into an evolving level rather than a static map, and the replayability that promises seems genuinely well built in rather than bolted on for the marketing copy. My one real hesitation, echoed by other owners, is that the story choices inside a session could use a bit more actual weight, they read as flavor more than consequence most of the time, fine for a casual pace but not quite as meaningful as the combat puzzle around them. Component quality is a pure joy to handle, the dice alone are worth the unboxing. A genuinely excellent game system from a team that clearly sweated every detail, worth the wait it asked for.