Interesting board game.

Players take turns digging into the field by placing tunnel pieces and then sending their dwarves down to collect as much treasure as possible. Your dwarves can mine for treasure, but that takes time. Larger caches of treasure can be found by killing monsters wandering around the board, although this involves fighting and is much more risky depending on your team makeup. Artifacts are a form of treasure that can have a wide variety of effects, good or ill, and make the game more exciting. The game ends after a certain amount of turns, where the player with the most treasure wins.

It can be quite fun, but for god's sake find a friend to play this with. That is essentially the whole point of a board game, really. And to all of you who bat your eyes at my calling this a board game: you could conceivably convert this to physical form very easily, with a human dungeon master taking the place of the monster AI.

I don't know why all these other reviewers want this game to be something it clearly wasn't supposed to be. I mean, how hard can it be to talk about this game in the way it was designed to be played?

Delve Deeper is a funny and interesting strategy game. You send gangs of dwarves deep into the mountain to gather riches for their king, and whoever finds the most is the winner. The game has many smart strategic elements, but lacks depth and content to be anything but an amusing interlude between greater strategy games.The retro aesthetic really works well for this type of experience. There's a nice attention to detail in the sprite work. That said, the art style isn't as consistent as I would have liked. The backgrounds, text, and some elements of the HUD don't quite fit in line with the throwback vibe.The biggest issues I had with Delve Deeper, however, was the camera and tile placement. Simply put, the camera is erratic. As for the tile placement system, it's overly complicated.Delve Deeper is one of those flawed, but much-loved gems. Lunar Giant was wise to set the game at such a low-risk price; you can get quite a lot out of it, if you are willing to put up with some minor to not-so-minor annoyances. When you get into a groove with this game, time slips past you.Overall 7/10.

This game is unplayable. Every time I played the game, after a couple minutes, it crashed (the game just silently disappears and returns you to the desktop). Every time. It's a turn based game and I haven't been able to get past a second turn without the game crashing.

It's a known issue, you can read about it in the forums, look for all the posts about the "invalid tile bug". It seems that it's been known and unpatched since at least November 2012.

There are no saves or checkpoints, so if you do want to try again after the game crashed, you have to start over from the beginning every time.

Can't seem to play this game. Just crashes everytime I play. Game looks like a decent game to play, but they have to fix this issue. Hoping for the game to be fixed sooner or later.

Bought this with a 90% coupon. (only 50 cents)
Got 8 free cards with it, I managed to sell them for 52 cents after tax.
If you manage to get such a coupon, this game is essentiallialy free!