A Kobold Story : Trenchcoat Adventurer PC (Final)

Join three hungry Kobolds (and several Trenchcoats) in a hand-drawn, classical dungeon-crawling adventure to be Great Heroes – but mostly to find Shiny Things and Eat Good Food! Three Kobolds find themselves drawn to the allure of adventuring after overhearing how successful adventurers get to eat the best food and have the shiniest shiny things. Cunningly disguised in a trenchcoat, this towered trio finds their way through an ever-deepening dungeon in the hunt for shinies and tasties! Unbeknownst to them, the “beginner dungeon” that they wandered into breaks through into a much deeper, darker place full of real peril… with the training wheels off and the worst equipment they could find, can our Trenchcoated heroes go from wannabes to true heroic adventurers?

A Kobold Story : Trenchcoat Adventurer is clearly a labour of love, both of silly kobolds and of classic dungeon crawler games. The whimsy is in plain sight. Colourful, cheerful hand-drawn art makes everything look like a children’s storybook. Item descriptions reflect the kobolds’ simple and wide-eyed worldview. And of course, the protagonist is literally three kobolds in a trenchcoat! This could have been just a gimmick in A Kobold Story : Trenchcoat Adventurer, but it actually introduces some interesting resource-management challenges.

If Bawtom gets knocked out, you can’t dodge attacks or run away. Meedul is responsible for defending against hits, while Topp takes care of attacking and magic. They’re also three mouths to feed, and every step you take makes them hungrier, so it’s a constant quest to keep them fed. The gameplay of A Kobold Story : Trenchcoat Adventurer will remind you of the 1987 classic Dungeon Master with its block-based pseudo-3D view and the aforementioned resource management. It’s turn-based, unlike with Dungeon Master, so you have time to plan.

Loot is randomized, which can be a blessing and a curse. It can be annoying to fight through piles of enemies for the key to a chest that, when opened, just holds a single copper coin. But when you find gear, it’s always a delight to read. There are plenty of items in A Kobold Story : Trenchcoat Adventurer! They could have had just one type of item for each sort of buff you can get, but there are lots of lovingly described bits of gear that make the place feel like a world and not just a dungeon. And of course, if you don’t need a piece of gear you can feed it to your kobolds.