Our Adventurer Guild blew me away with the highlights being the organic story moments that the game generics between party members, the wide amount of class and squad diversity available, and the combat that's quick and snappy. While I do feel that the game dragged a bit between the middle and the end, it did pick up again once you unlock the final few skill tiers and classes.

With all that in mind, I would give the game an 8/10. Additionally, I feel $15 is an extremely fair price for the game and would have no qualm picking it up for full price.


I must admit, I was quick to judge Our Adventurer Guild. With an artstyle reminiscent of those "Learn to Draw Manga" books you find in the bargain bin at craft stores, I thought there was no way that this game could be anything more than mediocre. But I do love me some tactical RPGs and so I was wiling to give this game a chance.

Our Adventurer Guild plays like a hybrid of Darkest Dungeon and small party tRPG like Final Fantasy Tactics or Shadowrun. You take on the role of a Guild Master, from recruiting adventurers and sending them off on quests to building up your facilities and making sure your finances are in the black. Gameplay is split into three sections: town, questing, and combat.

In town, you manage your adventurers. This includes their skills, equipment, what party they're in, and even their mental state. While this sounds tedious, the game has plenty of quality of life features to try and make this as seamless as possible. Examples include allowing you to save equipment sets to quickly outfit characters of the same class and alerting you when characters are unhappy enough to consider leaving.

Note that the key word there is try. Not everything is perfect with the most annoying being the need to manage the mental state of your adventurers. Overworking them will make them unhappy, requiring you to buy them drinks and/or give them rest. At some point, you WILL call all your adventurers babies. But if that isn't the true guild master experience, then I don't know what is.

From town, you can build parties and take on quests. Quests all have different objectives and are represented by a large, 2D grid with you moving your party around in the four cardinal directions. Here, you can encounter random events, find treasure, and battle enemies. Moving consumes stamina and upon running out of stamina, you will be forced to camp.

Combat is initiated by coming into contact with an enemy in the quest overworld. Generally, combat maps are on the smaller side with the exception being story scenarios. Here, you'll put your individual builds and party composition to the test. Combat tends to be quick, usually ending in 3-5 rounds on average.

Defeating enemies helps towards completing the quest objective, which in turn gives you experience and money to be spent back in town before heading out on more quests. This cycle is pretty much 95% of the game and is quite addictive. With the amount of classes, skills, and character traits available, you'll spend a decent amount of time theorycrafting and trying to create optimal builds for the randomly generated adventurers you've been dealt. For example, I managed to build an assassin that could single handledly clear an entire enemy encounter by themself and seeing my assassin rampage around the entire map was immensely satisfying.

The strength of the gameplay allows you to overlook some of the weaker aspects of the game. Notice that I said weaker, which doesn't necessarily mean bad. The story feels amateurish and as cliche as they might be, the relationships between characters were the best part of the story. The same could be said for the artstyle. Again, artist's first anime is probably the best way to describe it. Obectively, neither is particularly great, but when combined, they give me strong Flash game vibes and hoenstly, I started to enjoy it after a while.

I ended up binging the entire game in just under two week's time. The game was strong throughout its entire runtime with the exception being between the middle and end where enemies got their power spike earlier than you. But once you unlocked your next tier of abilities, it was smooth sailing from there. Overall, I greatly enjoyed my time with Our Adventurer Guild. I felt that it had a lot of soul and I could really feel all the heart and effort that the developer put into the game.

the game's actually pretty mediocre, the combat is bog-standard turn-based stuff, but the writing is gold.

i live for the banter between the main character and fiola. really gives off the 'i hate you but ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ i love to hate you' vibes. like a friend you know will cuss you and curse your entire existence but will help you bury a body no questions asked.

Isekai anime - the game