When comparing Crown of Bjorn vs Bit Golem, the Slant community recommends Bit Golem for most people. In the question“What are the best roguelikes on Android?” Bit Golem is ranked 48th while Crown of Bjorn is ranked 64th. The most important reason people chose Bit Golem is:
While there are no items, runes give you different power-ups, which is sort of refreshing. It keeps it simple.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Variety in enemies and levels
There are 40 levels available to make your way through and over 400 monsters to fight while doing so.
Pro A lot of loot
There is over 300 items to collect and use in game, making for a large variety of different weapons, armor and spells.
Pro Intuitive interface
Navigating the games menu's and controls are pretty easy to understand as the buttons are large and easily differentiated by symbols that illustrate what they do.
Pro A simple, binding-of-isaac-like roguelike
While there are no items, runes give you different power-ups, which is sort of refreshing. It keeps it simple.
Pro Fairly addictive
Coin collecting to get on the leader boards can be a lot of fun. Sometimes in a dungeon you have to risk your health for just one more coin.
Cons
Con A bit too easy
For the hardcore roguelike player the gameplay of Crown of Bjorn is a little too easy, which means it may become boring before completion.
Con Not a whole lot of content
Could definitely use some more enemies and bosses, and perhaps some progression as you go to the next dungeon like harder enemies.
Con Art style
You can tell the dev is probably going solo for the art. It is fairly neat overall, but some sprites are sloppy.