#Dungeon Crawlers

[acquired-stardust]

Baroque Playstation 1999

[prokopetz]

I love the current trend toward rules-light dungeon crawlers that put some serious thought into what makes the mechanical gameplay loop of a dungeon crawler tick rather than just subtracting random pieces from Dungeons & Dragons and saying "it's better because there's less of it", but with that serious thought seems to come the impulse to make one's rules-light dungeon crawler be About Something™, and in the spirit of perversity I feel moved to try my own hand at the genre with the explicit goal of writing the dumbest fucking rules-light dungeon crawler you've ever seen.

[90sfantasyanimestuff]

Brandish VT

[another-anime-daydreamer]

I know I’m your mutual, but I also am a creature you’d find in a lower dungeon level 🫶🏻

[smbhax]

"Gameplay: Dungeons of Blood and Dream is a randomly generated dungeon crawler with roguelike elements in which the player will wield an array of bladed weapons and harness wondrous spells to fight through hordes of skeletons, zombies, slimes and other disgusting creatures that dwell in the dungeons. No two playthroughs are the same! Features: - Procedurally generated dungeons filled with enemies, treasures, traps and secrets; - Over 20 cursed rings with unique powers. Some effects change depending on what finger the ring is on; - 20+ unique weapons, each with different effects; - Randomly generated potions with effects varying from one playthrough to another; "

Dungeons of Blood and Dream (Steam - coming soon)

[tnperkins]

An original sketch inside my art book, “IF..”.

thomasperkinsart.com/shop

#artbooks #sketches #thomasperkins #AnimationArtist #artbook #AlienWorlds #Alien #tokusatsu #DungeonCrawl #Swordswoman #elf #wizard #WeirdTech #PenAndInk #CharacterDesigner

#tnperkins4 #sketchcommission

[freakyfarm]

The crawlers have a little game of hide n seek!

I drew the first part right before my top surgery, so Imp had been sitting in that mimic for a few months... oops!

[sequentialplanet]

Video Game Review: Labyrinth of Zangetsu

  The Switch is a safe haven for dungeon-crawler fans. The genre is known for hardcore RPG play and being somewhat inaccessible to new players, so the hybrid console makes dungeon-crawler much easier to pick up play than the other available consoles. This has led to many remakes, remasters, and new dungeon-crawling games for the hardcore crew to sink their teeth into. Labyrinth of Zangetsu is the…

[zehecatl]

list of upcoming dungeon crawlers i think looks neat, for no real reason :]

Psychopomp GOLD, expanded version of Psychopomp, also releases really soon (25th October!)

LURKS WITHIN WALLS, horror dungeon crawler, with art by the guy who made Sirenhead (Trevor Henderson)

They Speak From The Abyss: Zenith, originally intended as a short(er) prequel, it seems to have very much grown into its own thing

UTTER INVERSE, incapable of describing this one, gets too excited every time i see a screenshot

Labyrinth of the Demon King, dark and crunchy, and set in a horrifying feudal japan

Navicula Meatus, dark and surreal meat puzzler

Hibernaculum, gorgeous pixel arts and a nasty-looking sci-fi setting

REPOSE, surreal sci-fi horror, done entirely in black and white

[firstdraftblog]

Dungeon Crawlers - 3

The family moves through the forest, whacking a few ankle biting monsters as they travel along the path to town. Some of the monsters turn into gold coins after being hit. Tempo picks one up and turns it over in his hand, examining it.

Tempo: "Why do some of them turn into coins and stuff when you hit them?"

Dad looks over his shoulder: "They're monsters! It's just what they do!"

Tempo: "You mean you've never wondered?"

Dad: "Not as long as towns keep letting me use the coins for payment!" He laughs raucously.

CUT TO -

The family is in town and dad is trying to buy something.

Shopkeeper: "You can't use those coins for payment."

Dad: "What? Why not?"

Shopkeeper: "Oh well you CAN but you'll need a lot more than that. Adventurers have sacks full of those things. Caused all the prices around here to go up a bit. You'd be better off paying will jewels. One jewel is worth like 50 of those."

Dad: "Well why didn't you say so!?" he happily begins fishing jewels out of his satchel when mom stops him.

Mom: "Before we go spending everything, do you happen to know if there is an armorer or blacksmith who can appraise a sword? We have one we're looking to sell."

The shopkeeper points a clump of houses just outside of the city center market.

Shopkeeper: "That's Bandit Alley. Not as scary as it sounds - their family name is Bandit. But they ARE crooks so Billy who lives in the one with the big sword stuck in the door WILL buy that off you but his pricing can be... special." They raise their hand slightly and off to the side. Through a clump of market stalls there is a little path that leads to another group of houses. "Thieves guild. Now they actually aren't crooks - "thief" is an official job class you can get for being able to sneak in and out of dungeons successfully. That whole clump of houses there belongs to a group of dungeon crawlers. Thieves, all of them, in the official sense. If you want something dungeon related, even to buy and sell gear, that's your best bet."

Tempo overhears and speaks up: "You're not all crawlers in this town? - I thought every settlement that popped up around dungeons was full of crawlers."

The shopkeeper raises a brow: "Your daddy didn't teach you the history? Settlement was here first. Most of us don't want anything to do with the dungeons but they popped up on our land and we don't want to move, so as adventurers and crawlers moved into the area we adapted. Well sell food, clothing, potions and offer lodging. Keeps our pockets full of jewels and we remain safe."

Dad: "Well we're gonna clear the back acres before the pests spilling out of those old dungeons become a problem for you folks."

Shopkeeper: "Oh yeah? Well if you don't get eaten or something, come on back sometime. I may not be a guild merchant but I got some robes and cloaks I bet you'd love."

Dad laughs as he and Mom turn towards the Thieves Guild pathway: Mom: "Then we'll see you around."

Tempo stays where he is. He's examining the fabric of one of the cloaks. Tempo (almost to himself): This material isn't normal...

The shopkeeper smirks: "Neither are half of the fruits and veggies at the stalls around here." They lean in and whisper conspiratorially. "The dungeon provides."

From a short distance away, a young woman in a hooded cloak watches the family go about their business.

[zenosanalytic]

the only problem with this is that the second game would advertise it's maps as "AI generated" u_u u_u

if they made a dungeon keeper-type online game where you build trap-filled levels for NPCs to venture through and then released a completely unrelated first-person RPG that advertises "endless handcrafted dungeon-delving" but secretly draws its level data from what players built in the first game how soon do you think people would notice

[omercifulheaves]

A Dark Journey Through Shadow Tower - Series Retrospective by Majuular

[strange-house-art]

Age of Rot is a haunting exploration of forgotten stories, doomed kingdoms, and the struggle of surviving in a world of rot and decay. Through fragmented tales, cryptic dialogues, and hidden truths you'll be able to navigate the delicate balance between the rot curse and your own fading humanity.

Disclaimer: This game doesn't exist.

[goothemighty]

I honestly ADORE old school Dungeon Crawlers, enough to play through Wizardry Gaiden with a team of all Hobbits. They started out as teens, all from the same village, but they’ve aged into their 20s in the course of Dungeon crawling (that’s an actual mechanic).

Cheldlo handles the party finances, Hethel does all the map making and journaling, the twins (Bola and Toma) do most of the cooking, Venkar arranges the watches and leads in battle, and Swith is essentially the lore master. They can all read, but she reads multiple languages and studies Hethel’s maps judiciously, to avoid teleportation mistakes.

I live for this kind of party building and story telling, and Etrian Odyssey adds a lot of great interactive areas for playing with party dynamics. My EO4 party always pushed the medic to stick his hands into dubious crevices in hopes of treasures, even though the medic is the most important party member to NOT be rendered immobile by trap or venomous creature that could just as easily be within.

in honor of the rerelease on switch, waypoint's renata remembers this blurb from etrian odyssey's old website. i like it because the dungeon crawl rpg has a reputation for being a cold and grueling numbers-fest--and it is!--but to the people who love them it isn't only that.

(i appreciate them but don't quite love them)

[smbhax]

Adventures on floors 2 and 3 of the dungeon, Demon Lord Reincarnation (PC)

Gameplay session: https://youtu.be/2rS0-5yF-_8

Finished my map of floor 2: https://paleface.net/cgi-bin/gdb/n.pl?i=1650_map_floor2.png