Total Weirdo Action Roguelike Blood Dungeon Hacks Its Way to Release

Total Weirdo Action Roguelike Blood Dungeon Hacks Its Way to Release

From Hardcore Gamer (Written by James Cunningham) on | OpenCritic

No matter how easy it becomes to ignore, sometimes there's no getting past how deeply weird videogames can be. Sonic is a lightning-fast blue hedgehog who collects rings? Ok, no problem, he fits right in with an ultra-athletic plumber who's dating a princess that gets kidnapped by a musclebound turtle. Or farms where fully-ripened crops grow over the course of a day or two, or a game of hide and seek where you paint yourself to blend in with the background, or a fighter where godlike beings can be beaten down by the world's greatest detective. Sometimes games tie themselves into knots to justify their weirdness and other times they just let the weirdness run rampant, and Blood Dungeon lands with both mobility appendages firmly in the latter camp.

You Collect Blood In a Dungeon, Therefore Blood Dungeon. Simple!

Blood Dungeon is a side-view action roguelike where the plot is ???, with no justification for spelunking into its dungeons beyond "Have weapons, need enemies!" I mean, what's even the point of having a nice gun if you don't have a dungeon full of endlessly-spawning monsters to use it on? Each run is through a randomly-generated area built...