Basics
Dungeon Raid is a match-3 puzzle game with rpg and rogue mechanics. The game is centered around the game board ( a 6x6 board, filled with tiles). You match tiles by drawing a line through 3 or more tiles of the same category.
There are 4 different difficulties, each with it's own leaderboard. The game starts off with a random short introduction. The game ends when your health goes down to zero.
Tiles
There are five categories of tiles. The sword, shield, coin, potion and skull. When you collect 4+ tiles, the chances for bonus tiles are incremented directly
The sword is used to attack your only enemies, the skulls. The sword takes advantage of the weapon damage, the damage multiplies by the same amount of swords you have in the clearing line. It also adds the amount of strength you have when you line it up with a skull. Lining up swords in themselves doesn't add anything.
The shield is used to replenish your armor skill and to upgrade your equipment. When you collect shields, they first fill up your armor skill, and the quantity left goes to your upgrade bar.
The coins are used for the gold box, when it fills up you are able to buy another, better, piece of equipment.
The potions are used to fill up your health gauge. They can be changed to different kind of potions, XP potions, Explosive potions or Mana potions.
The skull is one of the most important tiles. The skull is your main and only enemy in the game. The skull has three different numbers in its side, the white number represents it's attack value, the blue value represents its defense value and the red number represents its health. When you attack the skulls, the attack is directed first to the defense value and then goes to subtracting health.
Improvements
One of the objectives of the game is to improve your stats. There are three ways to improve, either by earning upgrade points, scoring experience points or getting coins. Each of these improvemnt paths has a bar or meter at the bottome of the screen to indicate how close you are to earning the next improvement. Improvements are presented in a set of four from which you make your selection and confirm using the check mark at the bottom of the window. In every case, you must select an option to continue.
Upgrade points are tracked on the blue bar at the bottom of the screen. When you fill the bar, you are able to choose one equipment upgrade from four random upgrades.
Experience points are tracked on the green bar at the By going up one level you have the option to choose two of four random skills.
You gold accumulation is tracked on the bottom left side of the screen. Once you reach 100 gold, you will have the option to by new equipment presented as four random choices. Carefully check the equipment as sometimes the offered piece will not have all of the special attributes a previous piece had. Selecting a piece of equipment will show what is currently worn in that slot, making for an easy comparison.