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Bonehold

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81%Game Brain Score
Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, replayability
Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics, story
81% User Score Based on 88 reviews

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About Bonehold

Bonehold is a single player hack and slash game with fantasy and dark fantasy themes. It was developed by SaikingS and was released on July 28, 2026. It received positive reviews from players.

Bonehold is a 3D roguelike dungeon crawler with ARPG and hack-and-slash elements, blending fast-paced combat with strategic exploration. Choose from 10 unique character classes, including the Knight, Barbarian, Sorcerer, Spellblade, and more, each offering distinct playstyles and abilities. Venture into Bonehold’s ancient fortress, battling hordes of skeletons, ghosts, and magical abomina…

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81%Audience ScoreBased on 88 reviews
gameplay7 positive mentions
story2 negative mentions
  • Engaging roguelike dungeon crawler with varied weapons, spells, and armor making each run feel unique.
  • Simple to learn but challenging combat that rewards learning enemy patterns, blocking, and dodging.
  • Charming pixel art style with a retro vibe and satisfying itemization, progression, and build variety.
  • Repetitive level design due to tile-based map layout causes a lack of exploration variety and pacing issues.
  • Underwhelming and minimal stat upgrade system during runs with incremental buffs that feel insignificant.
  • Abundant traps and environmental hazards create frustrating slow pacing and navigation interruptions.

  • gameplay

    17 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    41% positive mentions, 41% neutral mentions, 18% negative mentions

    Gameplay received mixed feedback, with praise for its smooth mechanics, itemization, and rewarding depth, especially for fans of roguelikes and dungeon crawlers. However, some found the loop repetitive, the exploration unrewarding, and combat simplistic or lacking challenge. Overall, it offers solid fundamentals but could benefit from more engaging pacing, balancing, and character development options.

    • “Smooth gameplay and great itemization and unique enemy mechanics.”
    • “Very easy to pick up and play, with a clean simple UI that lets you get right into the action, but there's a surprising amount of depth hiding in the gameplay itself.”
    • “It does that "good roguelike" thing of seeming hard at first, but really rewarding your increasing understanding of the game mechanics and effective tactics.”
    • “If you just wanted a game to play some older style first person dungeon crawl, it does have the visuals but gameplay and exploration feels empty; the first run with any class is the same as with any other.”
    • “At first charmed by the simple graphics and gameplay, I was almost immediately put off by the gameplay loop.”
    • “This game is awful; there is no thinking involved in any gameplay, just back-circle strafe away from everything as you shoot at it, gameplay from circa 1990.”

  • graphics

    9 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    33% positive mentions, 34% neutral mentions, 33% negative mentions

    The graphics feature a charming, simple, hand-drawn art style with an old-school, dungeon-crawl vibe reminiscent of classic games like Doom. While the visuals are appreciated for their uniqueness and character design, the simplicity can lead to repetition in environments. Overall, the art style is praised for its appeal and fits well with the game's roguelike theme.

    • “The art style gives old-school Doom vibes, which I appreciated.”
    • “The graphics are neat, especially the hand-drawn character sprites, which reminded me of Devil Spire.”
    • “Fun dungeon crawler with a cool, unique art style.”
    • “The fact that the game art style is quite simple doesn't really help: essentially, you end up seeing a lot of the same visuals repeatedly.”
    • “At first charmed by the simple graphics and gameplay, I was almost immediately put off by the gameplay loop.”
    • “If you just wanted a game to play some older-style first-person dungeon crawl, it does have the visuals, but gameplay and exploration feel empty; the first run with any class is the same as with any other.”

  • replayability

    5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    60% positive mentions, 40% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The game offers solid replayability with enjoyable, randomized dungeon crawling and diverse build options. While currently limited by a single final boss, players appreciate the fun gameplay and hope for more content to enhance long-term engagement.

    • “Fairly simple game, but I found it enjoyable and replayable.”
    • “The vibes are sick and I hope this game gets more content. It's super replayable but I feel it could be even more (right now the final boss is only the lich; maybe adding more, etc.).”
    • “The gameplay is fun, and I really like the different build options and replayability.”

  • music

    3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, -33% neutral mentions, 33% negative mentions

    The music effectively enhances the game's atmosphere with its slow, ambient tracks that suit the creeping exploration of the fort. Users appreciate the variety and how well the music complements the mood.

    • “The music matches the ambiance, being slow and mostly in the background, as you're creeping deeper into the fort.”
    • “I have just briefly scratched what the game has to offer, but I already love the atmosphere and music!”
    • “More music variety.”
    • “More music variety”

  • story

    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    The story is largely absent, with minimal plot development and unengaging progression. Players find the gameplay repetitive and tedious, hindered by overused mechanics and a lack of meaningful narrative depth.

    • “Tried to like but couldn't, the progression is stale and boring; stats upgrades had to be buffed because they were not enough for the increased difficulties you unlock. Every run feels like a slog because there are too many traps everywhere on the map, so even just exploring requires frequent stopping. Enemies are basic and buggy, often hitting through corners. Gear variety is just the same 5 items with generic buffs that go nowhere, and the plot is pretty much non-existent.”
    • “This is not a 5-hour small story-driven indie; it doesn't need more friction to prolong the playtime.”

  • stability

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    The game suffers from stability issues related to unbalanced difficulty, repetitive and buggy enemy behavior, and monotonous progression. Frequent traps and lack of variety make exploration tedious, while the limited gear options fail to engage players effectively.

  • grinding

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    Grinding is often tedious and frustrating due to the abundance of destructible crates and pots that require health to break, with no quick method like a kick option, making resource gathering slow and class-dependent.

  • atmosphere

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 100% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    Users praise the game's atmosphere for its captivating and immersive quality, often highlighting the music as a key element that enhances the overall experience.

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Play Times

21h Median play time
21h Average play time
21-21h Spent by most gamers
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Bonehold is a hack and slash game with fantasy and dark fantasy themes. Common tags for Bonehold include indie, exploration, pixel graphics, action roguelike, souls-like and others.

Bonehold is available on PC and Windows.

On average players spend around 21 hours playing Bonehold.

Bonehold was released on July 28, 2026.

Bonehold was developed by SaikingS.

Bonehold has received positive reviews from players. Most players liked Bonehold for its gameplay but disliked it for its graphics.

Bonehold is a single player game.

Similar games include Mana Spark, Devil Spire, Book of Demons, Crown Trick, Tower of Kalemonvo and others.