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Overpriced and under...good. It's not TERRIBLE, but it's no holy grail of rpg random battlemaps. The AI evenly spaces the same object in orderly rows through a room -- 4 desks in 3 rows of a library, or 4 tables in 3 rows of a pub, or 4 pillars in... you get the point. It adds columns of the same repeated objects and calls it a day

No cool random patches of Difficult Terrain, or Hazardous Terrain, or spike pit traps, or uneven ground, or inclined surfaces, or anything especially interesting for you or your players to discover thought up by a brilliant AI

Not unless you add those things yourself. Manually. And if you do that, just use one the multiple alternatives that cost a third the price, have more features, and bring a less clunky interface. The only thing this offers over it's competitors is the AI, and the AI aint great

This app is a cute toy, but nothing more. If they ever pull their heads out and fix the absurd $50 price tag to the 15 or 20 of their (better) competition, maybe give it a try. Other than that, buy Dungeondraft or google free random generators like "dungen" or "donjon"

TL;DR:
Dungeon Alchemist is a fantastic tool for map and dungeon creation, offering features like 2D or 3D image exports, animated videos. It's intuitive and easy to learn, making it a great choice for new mapmakers looking to step into the craft.

Pros:
User-friendly interface
Fun and engaging to play with
Excellent for exporting maps to VTT platforms like Foundry or Fantasy Grounds

Cons:
Overloading the software with too many workshop assets can cause performance issues and crashes. (While it's tempting to have a complete arsenal ready, it's best to avoid excessive asset imports.)

System Performance Review:
Tested on the following hardware:
System: Bazzite 43 Desktop Edition
OS: KDE Plasma Version 6.5.3, KDE Frameworks Version 6.20.0, Qt Version 6.10.1, Kernel Version 6.17.7-ba20.fc43.x86_64 (64-bit)
Hardware: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core Processor, 64 GiB RAM, AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Graphics
Platform: Linux (Wayland)

While Dungeon Alchemist runs smoothly on Linux, with performance improvements over Windows, crashes still occur once you load around 250 or more workshop assets. The issue doesn't seem to be related to hardware but rather how the software handles asset loading. Optimizations could be made to improve this, especially for AMD Linux systems.

Additionally, there are occasional graphical glitches on Linux (possibly driver related) like texture issues along the edges of the map and wall rendering problems when adjusting terrain (e.g. creating a pit). These are noticeable and suggest room for further optimizations.

This is good for creating dungeon maps for D&D and similar. If you're just going to print it out on paper, this might not be what you're after, you likely want simpler maps without much colour saturation. But if you are even just exporting image files and using them on VTT or TTS or roll20 or whatever, they will look good. If you use the advanced features, exporting to the special formats, you can even use dynamic lighting, doors opening and closing, and other cool effects that your players will likely appreciate - it is in this format that you will really get the full value from it. But even if just using image files, the maps will still look *good*, and there is a huge variety of props and things you can place.

It's also not tied to a given system - you can't actually run a game within this, so you're not limited to some set of tokens or minis provided within it, you instead use the full array of tokens/minis in the software you're actually running the game in. If your game is basically some kind of fantasy setting, you can probably use this for it, whether it's D&D, the many old-school style heartbreakers, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (probably even maps for the wargame too?), Fabula Ultima, or other things in those styles.