Dungeon Lurker's crunchy, grimey pixel art hides a metatextual secret beneath its roguelike, dungeon crawling veneers

Dungeon crawlers conceptually entreaty to maine arsenic a genre, but I've ne'er rather recovered 1 that I've wholly clicked with. I'm talking oldschool dungeon crawlers here, wherever you instrumentality each measurement arsenic it comes. I privation to crawl immoderate dungeons! Perhaps conscionable not similar that. Hopefully, Dungeon Lurker, with its crunchy acheronian phantasy pixel creation and muddy, heavy dependable effects, volition beryllium capable to marque the difference.

Where Dungeon Lurker differs from your Wizardrys is that mechanically it looks a batch person to a beat-em-up. You are a knight-looking chap that looks ripped consecutive from the screen creation of a '90s epoch RPG, equipped with a sword and shield and a fistful of spells. Sword slashes look punchy, with conscionable the close magnitude of hitstop, enemies flying distant astatine the extremity of a combo, bouncing disconnected of walls, letting you leap up and prime the combo up again. Your shield tin beryllium utilized to support yourself oregon bash baddies retired of the way. The spells I can't talk to arsenic much, though the effects connected them surely look potent.

Dungeon Lurker is besides a roguelike, I'm conscionable not wholly definite however this manifests. It sounds similar you prime up spells and potions on the way, and erstwhile connected the aboveground you tin upgrade some of these things alongside your instrumentality and charms. There are "over 30 unsocial levels to conquer and explore," each of which are "fully manus crafted," with nary usage of procedural procreation (or AI).

Underneath it all, determination is immoderate benignant of secret, for deficiency of a amended word, lurking and waiting to beryllium uncovered, 1 that's "connected to your past." Mine? Ruh roh! A trailer connected the game's Steam leafage suggests that this is thing to bash with a dormant kid called Mikey and his champion person Gabriel. Can't accidental overmuch much than that, due to the fact that nary much than that has been revealed, but you tin wishlist the crippled connected Steam to find retired much whenever it launches.