When comparing Crown of Bjorn vs Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, the Slant community recommends Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup for most people. In the question“What are the best roguelikes on Android?” Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup is ranked 21st while Crown of Bjorn is ranked 64th. The most important reason people chose Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup is:
There are a few different classes available at character creation, each one has it's own abilities that are different from the others. Creating one is quite simple, which makes for a fast way to get into the game and start playing.
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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 Simple character creation with different classes
There are a few different classes available at character creation, each one has it's own abilities that are different from the others. Creating one is quite simple, which makes for a fast way to get into the game and start playing.
Pro Gold Standard for roguelikes
The controls and replayability have been refined over the years. Whether the player chooses to play with Tiles (graphics) or console (ASCII) the game works well even when choosing online or offline play. Either way there is just enough interface to play the game.
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 Have to fiddle with controls
Being that the game uses an emulated keyboard on screen it works best on tablet, though is not really the preferred method (but is the only one) since it takes up screen space.