When comparing Mount Your Friends vs Crawl, the Slant community recommends Crawl for most people. In the question“What are the best Local Co-Op games on Steam?” Crawl is ranked 12th while Mount Your Friends is ranked 37th. The most important reason people chose Crawl is:
Crawl has one lone hero enter a dungeon with objective to find the dungeon boss and strike it down. However, other players wish to take that glory as well, and will use all means possible to take the soul and spot in the story of the hero for themselves. Whoever players the hero, must struggle trough the dungeon, killing monsters and gaining money and experience to get new equipment and grow stronger. All the while other players will take control of monsters and traps to kill the hero. Monsters will make attempts cooperate to get the hero, but to get the soul one must strike the last blow and prepare defend themselves when roles change, one cannot be too cooperative with the temporary allies.
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Pros
Pro Good amount of content for price
Coming in at $4.99 there is actually quite a few modes of play as well as local multiplayer, not to mention a character editor. For the price there is actually a good bit to do in the game making for a nice amount of longevity.
Pro Easy to pick up
The simplicity of the main game makes it easy for anyone to grasp the concept in seconds - people know very quickly whether they will like it or not.
Pro Unique gameplay, blend of cooperation and betrayal
Crawl has one lone hero enter a dungeon with objective to find the dungeon boss and strike it down. However, other players wish to take that glory as well, and will use all means possible to take the soul and spot in the story of the hero for themselves. Whoever players the hero, must struggle trough the dungeon, killing monsters and gaining money and experience to get new equipment and grow stronger. All the while other players will take control of monsters and traps to kill the hero. Monsters will make attempts cooperate to get the hero, but to get the soul one must strike the last blow and prepare defend themselves when roles change, one cannot be too cooperative with the temporary allies.
Pro Local (couch ) 2-4 asymmetric multiplayer
Crawl has built in support for local 2-4 player asymmetric multiplayer with 3 out of the 4 playing co-op against the main player.
Pro Replay value
As the game is played, different monsters are unlocked and dungeons change for each playthrough with different bosses making the game stay interesting as time goes on. Available items change each play-trough as well, players cannot choose same play-style each time as different weapons require different tactics.
Pro Retro graphics
The art style of Crawl is reminiscent of 8bit games of yore and yet are still detailed enough to have very different designs for the different monsters in the game.
Cons
Con Keyboard controls do not work as well as controller
Being that the game was originally designed for consoles the controls work best with a controller. The keyboard controls feel a bit off and are more difficult.
Con No online multiplayer
Obviously the game is designed around multiplayer play but sadly there is no online multiplayer included.