![]() ![]() This means that, unlike a lot of other dungeon crawlers, you don’t have the luxury to carefully plan out your next attack and decide if you can drink a potion this round or next. Vaporum plays out in a huge grid, much like classic dungeon crawlers, but with the added bonus of most things being real time. It soon becomes clear that the exo-rig will be needed to find answers as to how this laboratory became abandoned, why it’s full of menacing, half-robotic organisms, and what the dark secret is behind the work that was happening here. The rigs each have their own strong points (one for offense, one for defense and one for skills/magic) and feel strangely familiar to him, though he cannot discern why. Shortly after awakening, he finds a series of “exo-rigs,” mechanical suits that he dons in order to protect himself from the environment and also from hostile robots. Vaporum, which is the first title launched by Fatbot Games, is an incredibly ambitious tale of a man who awakens in an underground lair, without a clue as to how he got there, and looking for answers and escape. Thankfully, I now have a more fitting dungeon crawler under my belt, and it’s the best one since Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey. ![]() Some time ago, I had a chance to try Moero Chronicles, and I commented that, despite the crazy lewd undertones, it was satisfying to delve into that sort of map system, and the ideas were solid. Born initially out of necessity to emulate how classic Dungeons and Dragons campaigns were made, and compounded by limitations of computers at the time, the dungeon crawler is a pretty archaic vessel to deliver stories nowadays, especially with the availability of better engines, more robust processors and infinitely stronger graphics cards. True dungeon crawlers are a fascinating genre. ![]()
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