The original Etrian Odyssey, released in 2007, was something of a lifeline for the dungeon crawler genre. At least as far as consoles were concerned. After the NES and SNES enjoyed robust support from the genre, things dropped away significantly, and while there were still PC titles produced, it seemed…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Developer, Toybox Games, and publisher, Arc System Works, have announced that Kowloon Highschool Chronicle will be released on the Nintendo eShop in the west on February 4. This is a dungeon crawler that you’ve probably not heard of before, but it really does look like it…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. Moero Crystal H is the most exquisite fan service you’ll ever see on a console. Compile Heart and localisation outfit, EastAsiaSoft, have really pushed the boundaries with this one, and even as someone who has played a lot of fanservicey games, this one had me opening…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. With Moero Crystal H we can crown a new king of fan service, and I really don’t know how this one got through the Australian censors (bravo, EastAsiaSoft). I could easily spend this entire review describing the ways in which Moero Crystal H manages to continually…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Is It Wrong To Try To Pick Up Girls In A Dungeon? has got to be one of the neatest titles for an anime or visual novel. It’s immediately descriptive and you know exactly what you’re going to get going in (i.e. fantasy action with a…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. I’ve never watched the Is It Wrong To Try To Pick Up Girls In A Dungeon anime, but I was certainly interested in trying the game out – a fanservicey dungeon crawler/visual novel combination? Sign me the heck up! I’ll have a review up on DDNet…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Popular niche developer, Experience Inc, is behind some of our favourite horror VNs of all, and now, courtesy of NISA, we’re going to get to play two of its dungeon crawlers on our Nintendo Switches in 2021. Saviors of Sapphire Wings and Stranger of Sword City…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. The dungeon crawler has been around for almost as long as video games, and it was certainly one of the first forms of the RPG. Those who grew up playing the likes of Wizardry and Might & Magic will love what Zen Studios has achieved with…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. Operencia is Zen Studios’ latest work, and it’s very different from the pinball action that everyone knows them best for. This is a turn-based, traditionally-themed, dungeon crawler. If you grew up with the likes of Wizardry and Might & Magic, you’re going to love the aesthetics,…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Idea Factory has decided to call an end of the Mary Skelter series while also announcing a third title. If a trilogy sounds like a short series it’s actually two more games than I thought we’d get, since the original Mary Skelter was a super-niche PlayStation…
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