Blocky Dungeon
- April 6, 2023
- SquareAnon
Get on Steam"Blocky Dungeon" is a voxel-based dungeon crawler game where you battle monsters, collect resources, and build structures to progress. Fight enemies in turn-based combat, gather materials to craft weapons and tools, and strategically place blocks to create your own path. With procedurally generated dungeons, each playthrough offers a new challenge.
PC
Windows
Reviews
- Blocky Dungeon offers a fun and engaging blend of Tetris mechanics and dungeon crawling, providing a unique and strategic gameplay experience.
- The game is relaxing and allows players to progress at their own pace, making it accessible and enjoyable for casual gaming sessions.
- The combination of thoughtful gameplay and satisfying mechanics, such as the comboing/attacking system, keeps players engaged and encourages strategic planning.
- The lack of saving progress in endless mode and buggy achievements significantly detracts from the overall experience and longevity of the game.
- Some mechanics and objectives are poorly explained, leading to confusion and frustration, especially for new players trying to understand the game.
- The game can become unplayable at higher levels in endless mode due to enemy scaling, making it difficult to progress and achieve certain goals.
- gameplay24 mentions
- 42 % positive mentions
- 46 % neutral mentions
- 13 % negative mentions
The gameplay is characterized by engaging and fun mechanics that blend dungeon crawling with Tetris-style grid building, allowing players to progress at their own pace. While the game can involve a frustrating grind and requires practice to master its mechanics, it ultimately rewards thoughtful strategy and offers a satisfying, zen-like experience. Overall, players find the gameplay addictive and enjoyable, with a unique premise that keeps them engaged.
“Overall, the gameplay is engaging, fun, and relaxing.”
“It’s a zen experience with gameplay that keeps you engaged.”
“Really fun little game with a unique premise and an addictive gameplay loop.”
“I think Blocky Dungeon takes a lot of practice to get its main mechanics down, but once you start to master them it becomes really fun.”
“It's simple in mechanics, but it requires a lot of thought and care.”
“Basic dungeon crawling RPG with Tetris-style gameplay.”
- story22 mentions
- 27 % positive mentions
- 59 % neutral mentions
- 14 % negative mentions
The game's story unfolds through a series of engaging quests that combine tile placement and dungeon exploration, offering around six hours of gameplay with a focus on achieving three-star ratings. While the quests are enjoyable and feature rogue elements, they are relatively short, and players may find themselves replaying levels to complete all objectives due to a design quirk. The addition of an endless mode provides a relaxed way to further explore the game's mechanics after the initial tutorial.
“The game has a series of quests that takes maybe 6 hours to complete with 3 stars and an endless mode with a few variations.”
“The quests are a lot of fun, especially trying to 3-star each one.”
“The quest mode is challenging, while the endless mode is frankly a good way to get a better feel for the game after the tutorial.”
“Only minor gripe: when a quest is 'over' and the gold door piece drops, it seems like you can no longer try to achieve any of the other goals.”
“Not sure if this is a feature or a bug, but it's worth noting since you often have to do quests at least twice.”
“It looks basic at first, but trying to accomplish all of the quests on each level gets difficult.”
- stability6 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 100 % negative mentions
The game's stability is significantly undermined by the absence of a save feature for endless mode runs and the presence of buggy achievements, which detracts from the overall experience and longevity of the title. These issues have been consistently highlighted by users as major drawbacks.
“Unfortunately, the lack of saving run progress, along with buggy achievements, really hurts the longevity of an otherwise great indie title.”
“[u]Drawbacks:[/u] There are unfortunately a couple of big problems with Blocky Dungeon that really hurt the experience: no saving endless mode runs, and buggy/broken achievements.”
“However, it is really hurt by a combination of no endless mode saving, and buggy/ridiculous achievements.”
- graphics4 mentions
- 100 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 0 % negative mentions
The game's graphics feature a charming art style that is complemented by effective sound design, creating an appealing overall aesthetic. Players have noted that adjusting settings for performance, such as lowering graphics quality and enabling vsync, can enhance the experience.
“A cute art style and good sound design help tie the whole thing together.”
- music4 mentions
- 25 % positive mentions
- 50 % neutral mentions
- 25 % negative mentions
The music in the game effectively enhances the overall experience, with many users suggesting that a Russian soundtrack would further emphasize its Tetris-inspired roots.
“And the music helps support that.”
“All it needs is a Russian soundtrack to fully drive home the Tetris roots.”
- optimization2 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 50 % neutral mentions
- 50 % negative mentions
The game's optimization has been criticized for initially demanding more from users' systems than necessary, leading to performance issues.
“Performance: FYI, the game was running my system harder than it should at first.”
- atmosphere2 mentions
- 100 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 0 % negative mentions
The atmosphere of the game is consistently described as very relaxing, creating a soothing environment for players.
“The atmosphere in this game is incredibly relaxing.”
“The atmosphere in this game is incredibly relaxing.”
