I thought this game was gonna suck, being completely honest. I had shrugged this game off and lumped it with the middling-quality XBLA titles of its era. Eventually, I decided to give it a shot when it was dirt cheap on Steam, and found it quite enjoyable. It's simple, sure, but it manages to work within its simplicity to keep itself enjoyable throughout, each map introducing its own "gimmick", which keeps even the early maps interesting (I've seen similar games of this type recycle map ideas per difficulty and am glad Dungeon Defenders at least tries to keep each map its own thing). What's most surprising is the fact this game a community-maintained branch with modding support and updated content that is just THERE on steam, as a beta.

Keep an eye on this game, pick it up whenever its cheap, rope some friends into doing the same, and have a blast Defending some Dungeons.

People who know me well enough to know what checks the boxes of a "Scrap-Core" video game will already know I REALLY like Path of Exile. This game lets you try some truly absurd ideas by virtue of its main progression being a massive, class-independent skill tree (With your class choice deciding your starting position on the tree and, later on, a specialized mastery tree). Each standard "Archetype" you would see in other games has more than a couple ways you can specialize them to fit YOU specifically (I myself have built my main character around an INCREDIBLY specific setup that others playing the same starting class would never consider). It's a wonderful to boot up whenever I wanna try something dumb or just chill out.