Wonderful, very funny game. Play the PC version. My save on the Switch version became corrupted 75+ hours in.

Doom & Destiny Advanced is the prequel to Doom & Destiny. Kemco only published the first two games in the series. The third and fourth were self-published by the Italian development team, Heartbit Interactive, who shut down in 2025. (Heartbit Interactive have pledged to indefinitely continue supporting the online features of their games.) The third game in the series is Doom & Destiny Worlds, a survival/crafting RPG with lots of paid DLC content, and the fourth is Nerd Survivors, a stand-alone “bullet heaven” roguelike with RPG elements.

All four games star the same quartet of nerdy, modern-day heroes (making the Doom & Destiny games an “isekai” or “modern people are sent to another world” series). Since the stories of all four games primarily focus on jokes and fandom references, they can be played in any order. There is no character development; the nerdy heroes (and pretty much everyone else) are who they are.

However, DO NOT PLAY THE SWITCH VERSION OF DOOM & DESTINY ADVANCED. The Switch version crashed roughly 20 times in my playthrough. Worse, my save became corrupted 75+ hours in, when I was about halfway through the abundant postgame content.

Doom & Destiny Advanced only allows one save file per playthrough (and autosaves every 2 minutes, a requirement that cannot be turned off). The game’s internal attempt to recover a backup save failed. The Switch requires the paid Switch Online service for cloud saves, so I had no cloud save to draw upon.

I can’t say whether mobile versions of Doom & Destiny Advanced are any more stable or not. I only played the iPhone version through the tutorial. It didn’t crash, and the touchscreen controls seemed pretty standard (swipe your finger to make the party move around). Doom & Destiny Advanced does have a few story beats where, instead of random encounters, the encounters are on screen and can be dodged by moving the party with the correct timing. These cases are infrequent, and the only penalty for failing a dodge is an extra encounter.

Another hit against mobile versions is that the visual cues for some hidden Secrets are VERY tiny or subtle, and can be difficult to see on a small screen. Most Secrets are cleverly concealed; the average player will overlook half of them without help from the fan-made Doom & Destiny wiki.

As far as I can tell, data corruption resulting in permanent data loss isn’t a problem on the PC version. Doom & Destiny Advanced is native to the PC/Steam, and the game’s Steam community hub has (almost?) no “my save data is lost” posts. So, I may one day replay Doom & Destiny Advanced on Steam, because the game is genuinely fun, funny, and wonderful.

Doom & Destiny Advanced improves on the original Doom & Destiny in almost every way. This time the world is genuinely gigantic, with a tremendous amount of optional areas to explore and hidden Secrets to find. Each of the four heroes can unlock and upgrade up to four classes as the game progresses; over half of these classes are optional, and require diligence to obtain! There is a fair amount of character customization with regard to which abilities one chooses to equip.

Combat is turn-based, with a visible battle-action timeline similar to most Exe-Create games. There are three difficulty levels, Chillax (Easy), Classic (Medium), and Old School (Hard). The difficulty can be changed anytime out of combat (some achievements are easier to complete on Chillax). I played entirely on Classic, and it felt modestly challenging; my team got wiped out half a dozen times. I ran away from a number of tough random encounters (which can be done by assigning an item-based power that allows the party to flee).

The player doesn’t lose any experience, gold, items, or progress if the party is wiped out; they’re just kicked back to the last giant floating crystal they touched. There are a couple boss fights or storyline choke points that will let the player run away or “go back in time” to level grind, if the player needs a little more power to progress.

There is a very challenging gauntlet right before the final storyline boss. The player gets only one chance to attempt the gauntlet; success or failure affects absolutely nothing except for whether the final boss assumes an extra-powerful form. Both forms of the final boss will be added to the in-game bestiary anyway. Some other bestiary entries may be either missable or hard to find.

Player progression is tied to both standard leveling up with bonus stat allocation, and class upgrades using resources (nuggets/shards/gems) that are strictly limited in quantity until the late postgame. There is (eventually) a way to redo bonus stat allocation, but the in-game gold price rises with each undertaking, requiring the player to limit how often they reallocate stats.

There are also a whole lot of in-game achievements. Some of these are grindy, and worse, some are tied to the player’s level relative to the monsters (the player can’t see what the monster’s level is until a certain point, maybe around the 1/4 mark of the main story). If the player levels up too high, these achievements may be effectively missable.

Doom & Destiny Advanced has asynchronous PvP and an Arena with online leaderboards that reset weekly. All PvP is completely optional… unless one wants to grind out costumes for the heroes, or worse, PvP-related achievements. At least one PvP-related achievement may be almost impossible to get today, since the game is 10+ years old.

So, it’s hard to recommend Doom & Destiny Advanced to 100% completionists who feel compelled to grind out every last achievement or appearance. For everyone else, it’s a blast. I loved this game. I refuse to penalize its score despite its flaws. It deserves 5s across the board.

Seriously, though – DO NOT PLAY THE SWITCH VERSION. It’s probably safest to play Doom & Destiny Advanced on the PC.

Nerds Never Die v2

Far, Far away, in another Dimension..

The Four Horsemen of Apocalypse (from now onwards known as Nerds) are back (or not) for more Stories, Secrets and Souls (SSS rank in writing achieved) to bind using an Artifact from another Dimention.

Embark on a 101 (or more, but that’s my Final Final Final Speedrun time, try to beat it!) hour Journey through world filled with Chests, Easter Eggs and Sant.. Ninjas in Red! Nerds are too OP, please nerf them, Benjamin!

Each Nerd seems like any ordinary Nerd you have ever seen in the past, present, or future. But, Nerds Never Die.. except for the two times they did.. but Death likes them (and the game) too much and lets them get posessed by random Spirits that give them new fancy clothes and useful Powers to defeat some Aliens Ripley missed.

Meet (again) Francis, the best Ninja in the West; Johnny (Cage), who wants to become a Golz Millionaire and dpends free time farming on Golden Island; Mike (Tyson), who believes in Spaghetti God while digging out Jack Sparrow Treasures and Nigel, the Blue, whose Spirit is longer than Gandalf’s Beard and his Magic tricks enemies into an unfair fight.

Benjamin: Doom, I paid you to write a review, not tell random unfunny jokes about Mario’s Mushroom addiction! (Doom quickly notes one last sentence below, then vanishes)

Overall, Advanced Do&Don’t is a fun game that doesn’t exist yet, but once it’s out, it’ll be fantastic!

D&D - Spirits and Dimensions DLC

First of all, it’s important to know that time-wise, D&D Advanced happens before the first D&D. One character can prove this in Post-Game Scenario
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This Time the story starts almost the same at benjamim’s Cellar. But now it was merged with another dimension, while our 4 heroes were exploring, they met with a egomaniac man called “Solomon Steel” which use his minion to steal the vital force of our heroes and creates dead-dark versions of our heroes as servants. In Spirit realm, the 4 heroes join with heroic spirits to get temporary bodies and powers in order to defeat solomon steel, get their bodies back and have a great adventure by the bless of the FSM.