Legend of Keepers - Evil Overlord Dungeon Defense Roguelike

what's up guys and gals and welcome back to the nerd castle today in the world of indie games we're checking in on an oldie but a goodie legend of keepers this is a game with fantastic pixel art really really kind of peerless production values when it comes to the vis i guess the visible aspect of the game it looks really really good and in fact there's a fun game inside of here too going along with it over the years the developers been pumping out updates and putting new stuff on into the game and this week they fired over a key for their brand new expansion feed the troll so i spent about three and a half four hours playing the game so that we could get kind of like the troll master started off so that you wouldn't be seeing the bear basic bones and take a look at the gameplay expansion and see if it's worth your time it's added new monsters it's added new traps it's added new overseers a new campaign and so there's a big chunk of content here i figured probably take you about 12 to 15 hours to mash your way through the new campaign and i've been enjoying it thus far with the four hours that i've spent if you've never seen legend of keepers before and you don't know exactly what the game is legend of keepers is a game where you are a mercenary evil overlord and basically you work for an overlords union that basically rents out your contract to go defend dungeons from adventurers the adventurers will stop at nothing to get the treasure and it's your job to stop them and you will do that with monsters you'll do that with traps and you will do that by carefully planning your upgrades and the way in which you want to stop them off by paying attention to their resistances and their attacks and their zones and things of that nature there is a positional aspect to the game let's dive on in and do this thing so i think this is the one that i've been playing on i'm a level seven troll master i've done i think three or four campaigns yeah i've done four campaigns right now and i'm doing pretty well we're actually starting off pretty strong i figure i'll drop you guys into something which one is good for showing off the game the first time let's just jump into the level four man i'm gonna jump on into the level four i don't know how difficult it is i haven't played the fourth chunk of the campaign just yet there is also kind of a customizable mode so that when you get done with the campaign and you unlock everything for this overseer you'll be ready to rock i do have some talent points that are ready to be thrown on out i think i'll probably go with as of right now i've got a little bit more regen whenever my characters kill a hero i've got like a little bit of power added on into my dungeon master oh frost whirlwind gives them tiredness yeah i'll take that that sounds good but every single overlord has kind of a limited skill tree that allows you to customize and level them up and make them a little bit stronger in various ways the shaman tends to have a whole bunch of bonuses towards monsters that have the spirit tag i've been ignoring it entirely and playing mostly demons because i find that demons are my favorite army to play around with all of the different armies have different things that they're good at there's undead there's demons there's green skins there's elemental spirits it really depends what you like to play with and they've all got different synergies and stuff that allow them to perform in different ways now we started off with a number of monsters here we also have a celestial map if a blessing is active when combatants have taken their action it replaces it with the opposite yeah so this character he has a mechanic called celestial blessing where basically the blessing of the moon or the blessing of the sun is going to be active and that blessing will affect the way that your monsters perform in combat and the various bonuses that you get some monsters get stronger the more that you swap between the two some monsters abilities change fundamentally depending on what blessing is up it's good to pay attention to but i haven't had to be too strict about adhering to it it's a nice bonus but it doesn't force you to play a particular way all right so we've been promoted what that means is we get to pick for a ceremonial room what our abilities are going to be on the left-hand side we've got ourselves a passive that puts slow whenever a monster is killed uh we've got the mahwaddle throw which is like really really really strong although it looks like they nerfed it since last night they did i streamed the game the other day with the new expansion it looks like they nerfed it this did 108 damage uh yesterday after recording this so it looks like they nerfed it pretty hard it's not nearly the meta pick that it was previously over here we've got wasps that we can spray all over enemies we've got a backline extreme compression that deals a bunch of damage to the guy in the back on this side it looks like we've got area damage for 39 and it looks like we can actually spit acid on somebody in the back which then makes them weak to fire i don't know i think i'll probably go with the middle one now that they nerfed them a waddle through okay so the way that this game is structured let's go through the ui the game is over if your hero is killed your hero or your villain is in the final room of the dungeon and if they get past all of your defenses they fight your hero who is incredibly strong and damage is dealt directly to him you heal a little bit every week that goes by every single week they're going to give you an option as to what you want to do right now we've got 350 bucks and i would say let's go to the merchant and see if we can buy some new monsters i love the skeleton bulls so i will take the skeleton bull i also really really like the anahanga so i'll probably monstrous alter let's renew it real fast and see what comes up we've got another ballista right here let's renew it one more time i like this guy right here the possessed armor he's pretty good we'll renew it one more time and then we'll probably take the we'll probably take the icy breeze trap right there just something to build around uh this game does have that in common with like monster train or like slay the spire or elena of the arena where you kind of want to pick a gimmick and you kind of want to stick to it the entire run it's a really really good idea to have that gimmick that kind of like combos off of itself and has a lot of synergies in general most of the gimmicks will have a weakness but you should be able to take an l on the rare fights where the weakness kind of catches up with you and then the vast majority of the rest of the fights you're going to have a pretty strong advantage if you focus on your build really really well over here we have our monsters layout where we want to put our guys on this side we're very very tanky in the front room and i think that's a really really good idea the second room you tend to want to have like a little bit more dps so i do like this layout right here i'll probably take the first opportunity to get rid of this little bird guy right here i don't think that he's very good uh he might have gotten buffed he is level two which is nice in fact all of our monsters have started out at level two which sort of denotes that nasty things are gonna happen we have no money for the trainer which is where you level up your monsters we have no money for the engineer which is where you upgrade your traps so i'm just gonna go for the event the r d manager has made a new trap and he seems like he's very proud of it he wants to sell it to you for a few gold coins i don't have any gold coins unfortunately we are broke as a joke right now another event a giant worm has oozed its way into the lower levels of the dungeon what will you do with it once you've killed it let's go ahead and sell the body for a little bit of extra money down here i'm gonna go for another event we've got a secret room one of your employees accidentally discovered a long-lost secret tunnel it leads to a treasure room filled to the brim with gold and housing a rare and valuable artifact you can keep everything for yourself reward your employee with some gold or gift them the artifact so this artifact right here monsters in a group containing three different types gained 30 power at the start of a fight so what they mean right there is if you have like a demon you have a spirit and you have like a green skin uh they will just be flatly 30 stronger 30 damage increase it's not bad and it actually it really kind of i think it i think it incentivizes running a diverse team so i'm gonna keep it and i'm gonna take the gold we don't have any morale loss right now whenever your monsters are killed in combat against the heroes they take a morale loss you can see that from this little meter that's underneath their name right there uh when it gets down to zero they will desert and they will leave you luckily in the earlier stages of this game it was really really difficult to manage your morale like it tended to tank on you pretty easily but they balanced that out to where morale unless you really really neglect it is not really an issue one of the big things about this game is that i have found that you always want to take the hardest fight you possibly can no matter what if you do that you're going to be stacked with money you're going to be stacked with artifacts you're going to be stacked with rare monsters and it makes your later game a lot easier in exchange for you taking big risks at the beginning so right here we've got a templar who is level four so these guys have us out gunned pretty seriously 67 air damage to the front line okay replaces a penalty with a bonus one time uh passive heals all heroes by 10 at the start of a fight rough one uh we have the merlin over here we have an enchanter 24 nature damage to everybody gives elemental weakness that's bad uh randomly moves all monsters to another position at the start of the fight that's bad and then attacks regenerate the hero's life by half of the damage dealt that is also bad we may actually get swept right here and then we've got an aoe physical damage with a bleed ad he gets dodged which means he avoids the next attack and then he reduces the duration of penalties every single time he has a turn okay let's go ahead and we're going to throw out the ballista right there yeah that seems okay i see brees might do okay too although we do have some ice resistances in here and we do have a lot of armor so i think the ballista is better we've got a spell casting room right there that should help out a little bit i'm probably let's find somebody with good air resist to be out front so that's gonna be nasal put you in the middle will put you right there because he gives shell and haste to the things around him so that'll be all right over here we'll probably go with icy breeze we've got a ceremonial room right there oh never mind they get to purge some of their debuffs right there all right uh we'll put you out front probably put you somewhere in the middle we don't have the best team [Music] put you in the back yeah we don't have the best team for dealing with this but that tends to be the case in the early game so i wouldn't worry too much about major mismatches in the early game like stuff's gonna happen things are gonna go wrong you should just like accept it we do have the blessing of the moon right now i think we can do 104 fire damage to the guy in the back i think that's a pretty good idea let's go ahead and do that all right and so we've got our fight here he regenerated a little bit his dodge is up they've rearranged my lines a bit of a bummer there but i'll take it we're gonna go for crushing on this guy to break his armor even further and we'll probably go with an impale right there just to spread the damage around a little bit first monster's already down that's not great we're gonna go ahead and slow them with trampling for the moment that'll also strip off his dodge and it'll give us a better chance to get like another impalement in and just keep these guys withering a little bit okay let's go ahead and we'll go flame of wrath right there just to get a little further damage off and he is gonna go down right here there it is okay so we got a decent amount of damage off in the front they got a little bit of frost damage off right there they're gonna purge their debuffs at the shrine no idea why we keep that inside of our evil dungeon um not explained why we keep something so detrimental around us but like we do for whatever reason uh we're gonna go with extreme compression on him because i think eliminating one guy as early as possible tends to be a really really good plan in this game i'm going to i'm going to strip his shield i'll probably go with an infernal blade [Music] right there just anything that really gives us a little bit of damage before this all falls apart flame strike will put burn 2 on everybody or we can flame fist the guy in the back let's go ahead and get burn on everybody [Music] i'll throw that out right there but i think they are gonna make it to the overseer unfortunately and they're gonna make it there intact which is really kind of a problem oh that guy's got a lot of debuffs so we might be okay they've made it to our overseer that's bad that's not a great thing i would recommend he does have negative fire resistance so there's a one tap right there you have negative fire as well so there's a double fire tap right there looking good actually these guys are pretty fairly weak to fire these guys are not great at fire there we go and that ate off his dodge buff and then we're gonna go ahead and skewer him real quick we did take a little bit of a scuffing right there but it's okay uh we get to make a monster pick now so we've got the skeleton magus who does a lot of damage actually a lot of damage we have the skeleton archer who also does decent damage but unfortunately does not have a lot of hp i would probably go with the skeleton magus just because it'll be a nice bonus and as you can see we've lost some morale right there which is just the way she goes sometimes it's just the way she goes we've got a choice between a trainer a merchant and an event right here i kind of want to fish on the merchant for anything that might be helpful yeah let's go fishing let's see if we find anything good around here so we have a pile of bones we've got you let's renew it these aren't exactly what i'm waiting for so this guy's a time watcher i've never seen him before elemental weakness four might be nice if we can get a back-to-back trap yeah i do think that this guy is pretty solid i'll take him and i'll take the poison trap and we'll just leave it right there uh we can go to the engineer and we can upgrade something here and i would recommend that we do so we can take that up to poison three which is not bad snake cannon gets a lot of mileage out of that first level up ice also gets a nice little boost up yeah let's upgrade the snake cannon why not who doesn't love firing snakes out of a cannon uh we get to choose between plundering and a business trip right now it's up to you which one you want to pick i'm gonna go with plunder so we've got three options we've got plus one morale but it costs us a hundred gold to go to that one and we get a free monster this one right here we get morale and we set a monster free maybe this one over here we get money and we might get an artifact i'm gonna go with this guy because it seems to have like the lowest amount of consequences their volunteers have snuck into a prison and left a trail of blood on their way out they even found a monster cage and set him free okay so we got psycho imps it's just 3 amps and a trench coat with big knives i'll probably sell them later on on the black market because it's not that helpful for right now but like still decent the r d director has made a centrifuge that can turn hero's blood into tears would you like to use it that will give us 30 tears basically the way blood and tears work is if you kill a hero you get blood if you make them run away in fear you get tears let's go ahead i tend to kill everything so like that sort of is what it is uh we get an artifact if we run another hard fight which i think is a smart idea we've got adventurers over here though we get a free monster off of those let me take a look at my monster layout real fast and figure out where everybody's at we do have three types over here but i sort of feel like it might be advantageous to swap that in right there or maybe even swap her in although she is my only group two tank well he might be able to tank from the front we can give it a go there we go that seems like a decent arrangement i don't know if i want the artifact or if i want the i don't know if i want the artifact or if i want another monster and some gold let's go for this one right here that last fight we took a little bit more of a scuffing than i'm comfortable with and so i think i would like to kind of oof they start out way higher level than i am okay these guys aren't armored very well so physical damage is gonna do us real good they are also lacking in resistance to poison so we get a magic spell and then we get another attack right here these guys are all pretty strong versus ice we could go for another break their armor type deal let's do that in this room we've got ice damage to the front we've got air damage to the front we've got fire damage to the front so whoever's in the front is gonna get torched pretty quickly there's just no way around that how's their fire resistance not great could be better could be worse i think she's got to go out front for the 40 resist the air is gonna still hit for bonus damage i think she's still gonna get folded and there's not a lot of ways for us to get around that but that's life let's see what physical stuff we can get on in here put you out front you in the middle and maybe you in the back and then they're on to our boss room all right so off goes the cannon hits the guy in the back with a big old ball of snakes uh i'll probably go for let's go ahead and just get a frost whirlwind on the front guy because that'll nerf his damage down pretty solidly no it won't never mind it's gonna fall off before he gets there okay a little bit of damage out on the first start we do get to attack though which is really really nice and we get to capitalize on the fact that their armor is pretty much negative uh permafrost blade not that helpful right here we'll go ahead and hit him with a fire beam a little bit of the old death ray and we'll go for some more crushing right there didn't really go the way that i wanted to but we do have them softened up pretty solidly after this first room so i don't think it's going to be quite as critical as the last fight let's go ahead and kill the guy in the front it's always good to kill somebody [Music] yeah well baton throw to the back that's good lots of damage right there like to see it i would like to go so this is swap two times so we get to deal 42 i think three times here no twice all right i'll take that that's fine let's go ahead and baton throw nice little chunk of damage right there he has dodge so that's really nice we'll go for a double stack of typhoon triple stack of typhoon right there and the second room has managed to blunt the heroes advance fantastic uh we could get a gargoyle we could get a succubus or we could get a scientist i'm gonna take the succubus i don't want any of these three but the succubus you can use her for events from time to time and so that'll help out we have a little bit of money but really it's not much yeah we can't really do anything here so i'm not gonna worry about it we can send people out on a business trip i think that's a really good idea if we send her out everybody gets plus one morale and we get 175 bucks so i'll send her out especially since i'm not planning on putting her in my rotation we've got an event right here icarus has fallen from the sky a wizard with a strange hat has fallen from the sky and landed in the entrance hall he has a magical artifact uh the fang of melinda is one of the best most busted relics that i've ever seen this is a really really good relic if the enemy has burn on them if a demon deals damage to them they regenerate 150 percent of the damage they deal with the right comp this right here can actually break the game and allow you to just coast through the entire game i'm gonna take it because it's like really really good it's kind of a meta upgrade i think we can go to the trainer i would like to buff up some of my tanky boys around here i'd like to if i don't know who i want to level up here let's level up edward he's pretty good especially since he works in collaboration with the relic we just picked up we've got our first champion this is gonna be the first guy that we've got to deal with uh it's not going to go well spoiler alert uh we're kind of we're kind of getting trucked on right now it's a bit of a problem uh we can snake cannon the guy in the back we do have a somewhat strong opening not the greatest opening but an opening nonetheless the ninjas gotta go they have a lot of nature damage going out too let's go with some poison uh that's too much nature resist we'll just go with the physical ballista i don't think it's gonna help that much but we'll give it a try okay so the guys we have to play out here so we got 56 to the back 80 to the back [Music] don't really have much that i can play here i think either way the back line folds instantly no matter how we do this i mean i could put the bull in the back so that he gets like some tiny bit of resist right there you can put burn three on this guy so maybe we'll try that out over here we want him safely squirreled away in the middle not a lot of great options here it's a lot of damage to the back man it's one of those weird situations i don't have much to play so hopefully we make it through this uh we've got another attack over here i would say let's get the snake cannon on the back guy and i think they're going all the way to the boss on this one this fourth mission is quite a bit more difficult than the previous ones he's got nature resist she's got no air resist let's go ahead and put the damage on her in the back okay we've got fire column i do recommend we get rid of the ninja as soon as possible so if i can focus some damage on the ninja i won't be against it impalement sounds like a great idea too while their armor is still broken go for another fire column right there just to keep the burn stacked up skeleton man's down impalement right there carries it on through we knocked out like i know it seems like the hero is their strongest player but actually the ninja is the biggest problem if you ignore him so i strongly recommend going after the ninja whenever and wherever you all right see that irritating cry that'll lower her damage dealt let's do that i don't think it's gonna matter yeah put a baton on the person in the back yeah poor little guy still got buried uh we've got flame strike it puts burn three on everybody i'm down with that let's put some burn three on folks another baton out all things considered actually going kind of okay right now a flame strike gets double damaged for enemies that have burn on them so they're now down he healed because he's a demon and he dealt damage so that's very very good and baton throw finishes the fight not as bad as i thought it was gonna be i actually thought that was gonna fall apart pretty fast uh we can get a calendar of the apocalypse so it looks like once everybody has fought all penalties get doubled now i'm just gonna take the infernal guardian this guy's like meta like meta meta the infernal guardian is incredible uh he's absolutely fantastic if i can send somebody out on a business trip that would be great too preferably a business trip that gives me morale because our morale is just abysmal right now so we'll send that out take another event a strange gentleman in the guise of a toy manufacturer knocks on your door and offers to sell you a range of amusing items he requests nothing in return other than the materials to make them a strange and troubling force physically prevents you from declining okay so we've got a choice in three relics here we can sacrifice a unit and that'll make the front two characters share 30 of the damage thus lowering focus fire on fights like the last one that we had or the one before that where all the damage is going to the front or all the damage is going to the back or we can get a mere damage suffered of the first attack by the monsters at the back is returned to the assailant it's not terrible and we've got okay life so i'll drain out for right now you can do a sacrifice but i don't know if it's worth it it would sort of depend what monsters we pull let's go and take him out and we'll put him in the reserves for the moment you and the reserves too so that they can kind of bounce back we kind of want you in the front group now because we need you to put burn on everybody so that we regenerate whenever we deal damage back room looking a little wispy right now definitely not a lot of tanks in our back room but i'm hoping that we can stall them in the front room by chance you meet a tamer traveling through the region looking for some work the traveler offers to train one of your employees at half price if you have the right employee you could get it for free i do we'll bargain with them so there you go we just leveled up one of our demon tanks so that's really nice we've got an artifact over there we've got a master bonus or we've got a free trap i'm gonna take the free trap and the money i think like we're almost full up on artifacts anyways and i've got a sneaking suspicion that we're gonna get it all back at some point this is a very armored group lots of damage going to the back and i don't think there's gonna be any way to stop that very weak versus nature damage though so put out the frog trap we also get a spell cast right there which will help out considerably we got to decide who we want to put into the back to kind of like tank all this damage that's going to be going out there so it's air and fire going to the back he's got air and fire resistance let's go for it you go right there you go right there and that should be good if we can get the burn up i think we're golden if we can't get the burn running we're in trouble aaron fire to the back and then that's just air to the front not fantastic but we can nerf his damage and maybe hold a little bit over here we'll go for the go for the icy breeze right there and then they're on to our boss all right here we go let's see how this goes nice little grip of damage right there they're going to take a little bit extra from the poison wasp pheromones i think is going to make that even worse for the front line guys so he's got five poison that's 25 damage i think yeah a turn so pretty nasty stuff lightning has gone out we want to go with let's get infernal blade going right here so burn is up burn is up again we're actively healing now let's go ahead and incinerate that'll take health almost back up to full which is great and then infernal blade right here will heal her back up i don't know if it'll be enough to survive is it all damage yeah let's go ahead and spread that then just to get an even better heal off oh okay never mind uh well i thought we were gonna be okay i thought we were gonna tank it right here but i guess i was wrong [Music] it really comes down to whether or not our burn guy right here can tank for the rest of the fight i think he probably can although he is going to take 30 percent more damage next time we may have the heroes aced right here it'll depend if he crits through this guy in the front did not crit through the guy in the front respectable like i said the fang of melinda easily one of the best items in the game bar none if i see the fang of melinda i basically know how to build around that so that it's basically impossible for me to lose uh it's a really really really good item get a little bit more fire out here and we actually should start stop gapping the enemy in the first room from here on out now that we've got melinda in this comp right here i think we'll be okay now we've got the bag of aeolus we've got the furnace the furnace would actually go really well for this because we could preload burn on the enemy before they even get here oil cauldron also plays into our build really really well by lowering their resistances thus allowing us to hit for more damage thus allowing us to heal for more i think furnace is the meta pick right here though but we stopped him in the first room which is great that's like exactly where you want to get to as far as the game is concerned let's go ahead and upgrade the furnace real fast take that up to max level and then i'll probably take the poison trap up to max level well 60 damage from the snake cannon is no joke and we haven't touched the ballista yet so maybe i'll round it out a bit uh business trip over here for morale hopefully we lose you for five weeks but we don't really need you for five weeks so like it's fine no biggie the therapist will also allow us to restore morale so i'm gonna take the therapist real fast uh i am gonna spend some tears to give everybody a plus two let them cry it on out this game does have a healthy dose of humor if that's the sort of thing that attracts you to a game uh there is a lot of funny stuff in here there's a lot of kind of like references to things so on and so forth i can take you up to level four which would be even better you are a linchpin of my strategy right now yeah let's solidify you a bit but yeah this is legend of keepers i hope you guys liked it a lot this game is fantastic i always end up coming back to it there's not a whole lot of flaws with the game there's like little balancing issues but honestly the dlc or the expansion is not even out yet so like they've got plenty of time to tinker with that it doesn't come out for a little while longer aside from that though this is one of those games that i always end up coming back to i think it's only real flaws that it can be a little bit easy due to the imbalance of some of the items a little balance pass would probably be a good idea of the sum total items going through the game but aside from that this is a game that definitely makes you think it definitely makes you play cerebrally it definitely makes you think about it it comes with multiple difficulty levels so if it's too easy for you you can play on hard which sort of negates my critique anyways which is why it's a minor gripe but if you enjoyed this video make sure you hit the link down there the like button helps me out as a content creator i don't like asking at the end of videos but like youtube is what it is nowadays it is no longer unfortunately uh aside from that my name is splatter cat i sift through the pile to find what's worthwhile in the world of indie games every single day so you don't have to i'll be back tomorrow with some hot and fresh off the indie skillet but for now it's time for me to go and get a snacky bye

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Length: 34min 21sec (2061 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 29 2022