About a month ago I wrote a tips and strategy guide for a fun new game in the App Store. Since then Dungeon Maker: Dark Lord ($2.99) by GameCoaster has basked in glory at the top of our Hot Games List. After spending a whole month as one of TouchArcade’s hottest games it makes perfect sense for me to come back and review it. We are dealing with a highly addictive strategy game incorporating card, tower defense and rogue-like genres. Actually it incorporates a huge amount of rogue-like gameplay; you pick cards each turn to decide whether you will fight, rest, or upgrade you dungeon. Along the way you collect relics and equipment for you monsters, which increases you chances of surviving.

Be prepared though, surviving is not going to be easy until you get yourself a good plan of action. If you are struggling, head on over to our forums as plenty of Dungeon Maker: Dark Lord fans are sharing their tips and strategies. We all have different tricks to help keep the Dark Lord breathing down their minions neck and fighting the (not so) good fight. As you have probably worked out by the name, you are playing the bad guys in this game, vanquishing heroes left, right and center. You chose which Dark Lord you would like to play and start the game with a random selection of monsters and a single battle room in the center of your dungeon. From here it is up to you to choose where to put you facilities and which monsters to place in the different rooms. Do not underestimate the im...