Roundguard

Wonderbelly Games

About this game

Mobile Game of the Year nominations from Golden Joystick, Destructoid, and Pocket Gamer!

Roundguard is a bouncy dungeon crawler with pinball physics, lots of loot, and a randomized castle full of oddballs. Press your luck against hordes of dangerously cute monsters and challenging roguelike elements in this all-round bouncy adventure!

Bouncy Fun: Intuitive pinball physics-based gameplay like no other dungeon crawler.

Multiple Classes: Play as the Warrior, the Rogue, the Wizard, or the Druid, each with their own unique skills, items, and cheeky sense of humor.

Show Off Your Skills: Compete on the leaderboards and try to master all the challenging, rule-bending relics. Earn all the Encore roses in an escalating series of difficulty ranks for each hero.

Daily Puzzles: A new short puzzle every day to test your skills.

Weekly Runs: New special rules each week. Compete against the world on dedicated weekly leaderboards.

Randomized Dungeon: Each time you play, levels are procedurally generated, and quest events and elite monsters are randomly placed.

Permadeath with Benefits: When you die, you’ll have a chance to bring a special trinket with you on your next run. The more gold you grab, the better your chances to collect one of the most powerful trinkets.

A Cast of Oddballs: Chat with the castle’s colorful cast to pick up quests and learn why some rats want their king dead, what’s irritating the local teenage skeleton today, or what the Warrior will do if you can’t get to a bathroom quickly enough.

Lots of Loot: Over 200 items and trinkets, each with effects that present strategic choices and combo possibilities.

Ratings and reviews

A ton of fun with a lot to unlock. The gameplay gets a little repetitive and the RNG is a little frustrating, but hasn't stopped me from putting hours and hours into the game. The one thing I've found is a bug where if you hit the spikes at almost the exact time you kill the last enemy (e.g. with a ranged attack), you won't get any rewards as the turn ends before you get it.

Bad phone port. You'd think that a Peggle clone would work well on a phone, but Roundguard was designed for PC doesn't work well on a phone. By default the view zooms in on your character (ball), but you NEED to see the whole board for spells like the wizard's lightning that zaps targets all the way to the edge of the board. It's also difficult to activate spells at the exact right moment using on-screen buttons instead of a mouse. Get this for PC, where you can often get it for a dollar.

Definitely a fun game, but after a couple hours of play the bugs are starting to come out. Late in one run, the text from the announcer guy was missing the letter M in every sentence. A different run I had to close the game because I couldn't get past the dialogue of a character that popped up. Hopefully these types of issues get fixed. Otherwise a pretty solid time waster.

What's new

Fixed bugs caused by app switching.