# Dungeon Village — user reviews

> 356 indexed App Store user reviews of Dungeon Village by Kairosoft Co.,Ltd, rated 4.60/5 from 162 ratings.

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- Rating breakdown: 5★ 131 · 4★ 16 · 3★ 6 · 2★ 3 · 1★ 6

## What do users think of Dungeon Village?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 🚀 Addictive gameplay
- 👍 Charming graphics
- 👍 Offline play
- 👍 No in-app purchases
- 👍 Nostalgic RPG elements

**Cons**

- 🐛 Occasional bugs and glitches
- 🔋 Game slows down over time
- 🔒 Limited customization options
- 🔒 Repetitive quests
- 🔒 Lack of end-game content

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Adventurer levels stuck at 8
- Income stuck at certain amounts
- Aspect ratio issues on some devices

**Most requested features**

- More maps and expansion options
- Ability to control adventurers directly
- Improved AI for adventurers
- Ability to change adventurer jobs
- Longer game duration and replayability

## Newest reviews (16 of 356)

### 2/5 — Buy Dungeon Village 2 instead

*2026-01-29, version 2.54*

Just read there are more maps in DV2 and it looks very similar to DV1. DV1 costs more and has less features than DV2. Hmmm.

### 4/5 — Fun!

*2024-02-15, version 2.54*

Really addicting but not much replay value. I waited 5+ years before doing this second playthrough

### 3/5 — Aspect Ratio Broke Itself

*2024-01-23, version 2.27*

Whenever I turn my phone on its side I get about 2 inch black bars in each side and the buttons are all messed up and when it’s normal vertical all the buttons are extremely small and at the edge of my screen like the size of a couple hairs it completely ruins my experience I was having such a great time too now it just won’t go back to normal

### 2/5 — Blocked part of the title screen so can’t start

*2022-02-21, version 2.27*

Would love to play but right now can’t

### 4/5 — Not bad, but could be improved

*2020-06-03, version 2.06*

I highly doubt a content update will be come to this game, but I might as well leave my feedback. I’ve been playing this game along with numerous other Kairosoft games on and off for six years. Dungeon village was my very first Kairosoft game, so it definitely holds a place in my heart. Looking back on it now, I do have some comments to make on it.

The monster sprites are original and captivating. The monster expeditions are also very reminiscent of the RPG like gameplay the team was shooting for. While the art is great...the gameplay is mediocre.

There isn’t necessarily a story, which is usually ok for a Kairosoft game, just not this one. RPG stands for role playing game so there needs to be a story to actually role play. This lacks any story or purpose for the village and fighting monsters. 

While I say this, I also know that Dungeon village is one of the earlier Kairosoft games, so I keep this in mind given the fact that they’ve improved a lot on the quality of games they’ve been putting out.

All in all, great game, worth a play BUT if you don’t want to get your hopes up or still want an RPG like Dungeon Village I’d recommend Magician’s Saga. It’s also a Kairosoft game and I really enjoyed the execution of it.

### 5/5 — One of their best

*2019-11-06, version 2.06*

I keep coming back to this every few months to play through again. I really wish that they would make a bigger badder sequel! Highly recommend this one. The paraplegic is also a very fun Kairo soft game to check out as well as ninja village.

### 4/5 — 재미있습니다. 다만 후반은...

*2019-08-30*

캐릭들 키워서 던전에 출정시키는 플레이가 굉장히 재밌습니다. 몰입도도 엄청나서 하루종일하게 됩니다. 다만 후반엔 더이상 즐길게 없는 느낌입니다. 카이로 게임 중 후반은 가장 쫌 그렇네요 ㅎㅎ 그래도 카이로 즐겨하시는 분껜 추천

### 2/5 — Good concept, poor execution

*2019-04-08, version 2.06*

I really wanted to like this game, and did up until about 10 adventurers. After that, the game fell apart.

1. Too many useless classes. Every class should be combat oriented with a role.

2. Adventurer AI is awful. It held together fine at first, but now every time I look outside of town I can usually find a group of 5 downed adventurers (usually low level) being camped by monsters who will inevitably kill them once they revive. Nearby adventurers will just ignore this and continue to stand still and await new spawns instead of saving the others. At any one time, expect around half of your adventurers to be down, usually more. Adventurers also refuse to group up, and will always feed themselves into groups of enemies one at a time. At one point, I had 19 people down right outside of town due to a monster mob challenge I had started. Just 5 of them alone could have killed the group of monsters, but because all 19 chose to fight one at a time, they all went down and were re killed every time they revived. I had to wait until the respawn timers happened to match up for the mob to be cleared, which took over a month in game time. 

3. The monster scaling is awful. The monsters seem to scale off of your best adventurer, which means new adventures are going to be one shot by every monster. Not only that, but because the adventurers only gain xp if they survive a monster encounter, they will remain a low level. This cycle will continue unless you manage to get lucky and the noob hides in the back and lets max level adventurers take the hits. I have level 1-2s that have been around longer than max levels, purely because they keep dying and getting no xp.

4. Adventurers do not buy equipment. In my town of 4000~ pop and nearly $1,000,000 in the bank, my weapons, armor and accessory stores all run less than $2000 profit. If you want adventurers to have equipment, expect to micromanage every one of them. Otherwise, you can just expect that this (relatively important) game mechanic won’t work.

### 5/5 — На 2 раза прошёл)

*2019-02-20*

Шикарно !!

### 5/5 — 재미있습니다. 그러나

*2019-02-18*

인터페이스가 스마트폰의 것이 아닌 가 같은 느낌도 들고
최근 이런 류의 타이쿤 게임들처럼 아이들링이 가능했으면 좋겠어요

### 2/5 — Okay for couple of hours.

*2019-02-08, version 2.06*

Not sure if it worths the money. I generally enjoy most of Kairosoft game this one had so little to offer with such low depth... :/ it's kinda way too easy and has no variety in its content.

### 5/5 — Leur meilleur jeu

*2019-01-25*

Très bon jeu, parfait jeu de gestion d’une ville dans un univers d’heroic fantasy

### 3/5 — Amazing concept / mediocre execution

*2019-01-15, version 2.06*

I was very excited about the concept of this game.  I found myself rather disappointed.  The stat bonus system is absolutely tedious!  The game has MAJOR balance issues - toward the end equipment doesn’t even matter since your character stats are enormous in comparison.  All my characters get 1 shot killed and only win by mobbing enemies.  The jobs are ... bad.  Most of these (like merchant, Carpenter etc) should just be aspects of town building.  I don’t want to fight dragons with merchants, carpenters and ... clowns???  The endgame character class (no need for diversity because it dominates everything) is literally a blockhead.  The present / medal system also silly and tedious.

I wanted to build a town, attract character classes based on how I developed my town (which would five replay value) instead of “collect them all.”  I was looking forward to the passive nature of this game but found myself constantly sucked into tedious tasks.  

Worth a play through but ZERO replay value.  The concept is amazing.  If the developer had consulted to implement better and more traditional rpg mechanics for the characters this could have been such an amazing game.  Turned out kinda mediocre.

### 5/5 — Amazing game

*2019-01-08, version 2.06*

Been playing this game for years! It’s always a great game to come back to and beat again!

### 5/5 — Not just another sim

*2018-12-31, version 2.06*

Anyone who loved Majesty the kingdom sim would love this. Heroes have their own minds, lead their own lives. Too bad there aren’t enough games like this, so I’ve had to play this repeatedly

### 5/5 — Good game

*2018-12-27, version 2.06*

I would really like for devs to make a DV 2 and I would definitely buy it. Or make more content to this one. Game is so freaking addictive that once you accomplish everything you are left with the desire for the game to be infinite like those ascending games where everything get reset but you get an extra benefit every time you ascend. 

This game worth every penny and would love to see more 🙄🙄🙄😁😁😁

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — Incompatible with the iPad mini 2021

*2022-05-30*

The controls are incompatible with the newest iPad mini. Half of the screen gets cut off.

### 1/5 — 환불요청

*2020-02-22*

자꾸 튕깁니다... 환불해주세요 자꾸 튕겨서 오분도 안했습니다

### 1/5 — Mega billig Programm !!

*2019-06-26*

Ist der letzte Müll bloß nicht kaufen !

### 1/5 — Schwächster Titel des Entwicklers

*2019-05-26*

Ich weiß leider nicht genau warum
Dieser Titel so gut bewertet ist. Komplexität ist anscheinend gleich null. Gar kein Vergleich zu anderen Titeln. 
Es scheint egal zu sein, dass jeder Held die gleiche beste Waffe trägt (außer Zauberer)
Auch scheint das aufwerten mit den Zutaten an den Helden etwas unsinnig zu sein, da die Entwicklung mit den Waffen viel mehr Punkte bringt.
Ich hab es einmal durchgespielt weil ich dachte am Ende passiert noch etwas aber die letzten 4h (~8y) habe ich das Spiel nur neben den Laptop gelegt und mal die quest angenommen.
Nachdem man alle Gebäude hat, alles erforscht hat ist nichts spannendes mehr. Dieser Zustand war leider schon bei mir bei 9y (von 16y!)
Schade

### 1/5 — ui 및 조작 최악....

*2018-08-16*

이런류 게임 처음해봤는데 요즘 혼자 만들어도 편의성 이렇게 수준 낮게 만들기도 어려울탠데요... 아기자기 하고 게임성은 좋은데 진짜 불편해서 하기 싫어요.. 돈 아깝네요

### 1/5 — 컨텐츠부족

*2018-08-16*

다양한 직업들이 끊임 없이 나오나..직업 특색 없음
걍 무한반복만 하며 컨텐츠 없음...
하지만 묘하게 중독성은 있어서 두세시간은 훌쩍 보낼수있음

### 1/5 — 이중결제되었습니다. 첫번째 결제 환불해주세요

*2018-08-12*

처음에 결제만되고 다운이 안됐습니다. 첫번째결제한거 환불부탁드립니다.

### 1/5 — Waste of money

*2018-08-08*

Interesting for about 15 minutes, afterwards it’s just the same thing in an ugly app design.

### 1/5 — Unglaublich langweilig

*2018-01-17*

Wurde leider sehr enttäuscht. Es ist unglaublich langweilig und hat mich überhaupt nicht gecached. Außerdem auf dem kleinen Display eines IPhone 5s absolut nicht empfehlenswert.

### 1/5 — The game is great but I was overcharged

*2017-11-27, version 2.06*

I was charged 17$ on the game...this was the only purchase I’ve made on iTunes since I got my phone so it can’t be anything else...

Love the game but it isn’t worth 17$ sorry.

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — 편의사항 개선 요청

*2025-12-11*

생각 날 때 마다 한번씩 하는 게임입니다. 항상 재미있게 하는데, 상점 및 아이템 선물하기에서 한꺼번에 구매나 한꺼번에 선물하기 기능만 좀 넣어주시면 감사하겠습니다. 옛날 게임이라 기대는 안하지만, 그래도 혹시나 하는 마음에 리뷰 적어봅니다. 최근에 나온 마왕성 스토리 게임에서는 해당 기능이 있는데, 똑같이 넣어주시면 감사하겠습니다! 카이로소프트 화이팅!

### 5/5 — As addicting as it was 10 years ago

*2025-04-24, version 2.54*

Thoroughly enjoyed my time with the game after finally being able to buy it for myself, looking forward to playing the next one!

### 5/5 — 10 years and going

*2022-08-15, version 2.27*

I’ve been playing this game on and off since high school, and I love it all the same! It’s super addicting and adorable. I’m playing through the game again before going on to DV2. :)

### 5/5 — Игра супер!

*2021-08-09*

Лучшим саундтреком для нее был бы Rammstein - Sonne!))

### 5/5 — Love this game.

*2021-07-31, version 2.27*

Love this game, owned it since the beginning and it moves from one device to the next as i update.
Now i see a part 2 and sheesh i will have to buy that one now.
Hopefully it is also offline play.

### 5/5 — Wow

*2021-06-22*

Update after 4 years, wow, impressive!

### 5/5 — New screens support

*2021-01-07*

Please, add support for the new iPhone screens, the game is cropped on IPhone 12 pro max for example.

### 5/5 — Хорошая игрушка.

*2020-07-11*

Жаль что забросили, добавить пару фичей и нет цены игрушке)

### 5/5 — Dungeon Village 2

*2020-02-14, version 2.06*

I will happily hand you my monies for a sequel, or for additional content for this one. Great game

### 5/5 — Simple and best RPG

*2019-12-08*

Looking for more new games similar to this.

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