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..and the moonblades piefed.blahaj.zone catfeeder@piefed.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2025-06-07
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Hello, I made this community as a place for a subset of RPGs that usually end up in the shadow of more popular open-world RPGs, JRPGs and Souls-likes.

My definition of dungeon crawlers (that's, admittedly, stretching the definition a bit), is as follows:

  • it takes place in a confined space (doesn't need to be a literal dungeons!),
  • it puts a strong emphasis on combat and looting,
  • and it offers little to no story.

This includes a broad variety of games and genres, such as:

  • Blobbers (first-person party-based RPGs like Dungeon Master)
  • Traditional roguelikes with procgen, permadeath and one controllable character, e.g. Nethack
  • Some ARPGs like Diablo and King's Field
  • Many unconventional indie titles like Osteoblasts, Ruadine or Divers (UFO 50 game)
    And there are definitely other notable examples that I forgot to mention!
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slazer2au lemmy.world slazer2au@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-30
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Does it include literature? Or do we have to get Princess Donut involved?

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Landless2029 lemmy.world Landless2029@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-10-23
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Torchlight series?

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..and the moonblades Moderator catfeeder@piefed.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2025-06-07
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Does it include literature? Or do we have to get Princess Donut involved?

Well, if you can find books that 'offers little to no story' then sure go ahead ;)

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..and the moonblades Moderator catfeeder@piefed.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2025-06-07
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Torchlight series?

It looks to me like Diablo so it's welcome!

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