Games on Steam with tags Dungeon Crawler, First-Person, and Grid-Based Movement sorted by user rating.
post
Legend of Grimrock and Vaporum are supposedly pretty good. World of Horror looks sick and has a Junji Itō inspired spin. And there is a new release The Secret of Weepstone that’s very much inspired by the current resurgence of oldschool tabletop games.
It was literally the first RPG I ever played... in ye olden days of 1982. I stuck with the series until the end, but haven't checked out the remake.
Too much time playing a fan remake of a DOS game from 1993, Master of Magic.
I generally don't enjoy dungeon crawlers very much, but Barony swallowed my life for several weeks recently. I highly recommend it.
Thanks for not calling them blobbers, which is an awful name.
I've been liking the term Dungeon RPG (DRPG) honestly
The Super Famicom ports of the first three Wizardry titles have fan translations available on turnip trucks out there on the interwebs. Honestly great games that completely hold up if you're willing to forgive their willingness to murder your parties. The remake of Wizardry 1 is fantastic but it's very faithful in a warts & all sort of way to the Apple II version, as a matter of fact it's running the Apple II version under the hood in a similar way to that Oblivion Remaster from earlier this year. I don't know if this is still the case but when I played during early access you couldn't strip equipment from dead characters before the temple failed to raise them and they got dusted, which made losing geared characters that much more painful. Can't stress enough, a fantastic dungeon crawler though, if you like Darkest Dungeon or similar 'march these folks to their death' gameplay loops you'll feel right at home
Ultima, if it counts, are some of my favorite games of all time. In particular, I love Ultima 1's bite-sized first-person dungeons that you do in between overworld exploration -- the rewards you get versus the time spent make them a retro dopamine hit. Ultima 4 has you going through first-person tailor-made around eight thematic moral vices. Since the stat-boosting orbs of virtue you'd find at the end of the dungeon respawned, I had fun going back in and further boosting my stats.
Daggerfall is my favorite Elder Scrolls game. People complain that the dungeons are labyrinthine and take hours to finish, but I absolutely love that (with QoL mods). I tend to roll up non-magic characters who are good at climbing, and I feel like a proper Tomb Raider-esque explorer.
I've been gradually working through the old Might and Magic games. I really enjoy the "scavenger hunt" gameplay loop of that series with how you're given riddles in the environment to figure out where to go next. I just wish they were a little shorter, so I get the feeling that The Bard's Tale trilogy will be even more up my alley when I get to them.
I did try Wizardry 1-5, minus 4, and found them all really repetitive, even for the time they came out. You just kill a wizard and draw maps and there's not much else going on with it. I'd love to try the later games someday, though.
For modern games, I haven't played Etrian Odyssey yet, but I did play The Dark Spire on DS, from the same developers, and loved the dark tone and horror-esque art direction.
Etrian Odyssey series was all pretty interesting to me. Idk what changes the HD releases have, but I generally enjoyed playing the later ones compared to the earlier ones. Shin Megami Strange Journey and Labyrinth of Refrain/Galleria were interesting too.
all 14 comments