PC User Reviews

TL;DR: Aria Chronicle is essentially Darkest Dungeon Lite in an anime setting. Gather heroes, send them off to missions, level up, rinse and repeat. PROS: - Nice anime visuals - A wide variety of heroes and team combinations - A decent story - Nice audio CONS: - Though Aria Chronicle is sort of like a Darkest Dungeon clone, the level difficulty is much lower, which actually makes the game *less* fun. At times I actually felt my characters are a little overpowered, which made dungeon crawling tedious. - Max level of your characters is 10, but at level 8 you have all your skills unlocked. Also, 8 is more than enough to finish the game. And since there's a Hero Succession system (in which your veteran, who you can easily replace later on, retires and gives away half of his EXP to another character) you can reach the 8th level very fast. After your main character reaches level 8, it's very easy to acquire more level 8 characters and upgrade the whole village, way before you actually need any level 8 characters (I managed to acquire a full party of "eights" when the world tier was still level 6). You can play post-game content and fight in the arena with your powerful characters, and grind for no reason at all, but until then the game is too easy and thus boring, offering very little replayability. - Dungeons are very repetitive and do not offer the same depth as the Darkest Dugeon dungeons. Summary: though I enjoyed the game for a while, it wasn't meaty enough for me to finish it. It does not offer enough of a challenge, which makes crawling tedious. If Darkest Dungeon was too much for you, but you liked the premise of the game, this might be a great find.