With near-perfect execution, Dungeons of Dreadrock is a must-play for any action fan.
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Verdict
94%
Steam
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IGDB
Verdict score based on confidence-adjusted Steam reviews?
Very Positive on Steam (94% positive from 518 reviews)
Standout indie gem
Limited professional critic coverage
Dungeons of Dreadrock is a puzzle video game created by German indie developer Christoph Minnameier. It is set in a Nordic fantasy world, where the player assumes the role of a young woman who rescues her brother from the eponymous cave system. The game was released in 2022 for Android, iOS, Windows, and Nintendo Switch.
Runs well on modern hardware.
Good thing all the enemies had suspiciously convenient ways of defeating or bypassing them, or that might've been a real pickle.
-Something different. Finally. -Subverts expectations. "You can do that in a game like this?" -Rough but doable 100 levels of puzzle levels. Gives off lousy Sokoban vibes at first. Could not possibly be more further away from the truth -Tip system to aid you. Things get really weird and some puzzles are just nasty In the end though easy to recommend to anyone. More experienced players will consider this a good snack before moving on to playing something else and more casual people will be thrilled by all the things going on. Helps that it has decent graphics too and clear animations. Best played with a gamepad. Good buy at any price. Normal price is under 6€ so easily worth it.
This game holds your hand way too much in the wrong ways. I don't need to be told to avoid a hard fight, let me learn that by trying and failing and figuring my way out of it. The puzzles feel more tedious than fun unfortunately. The UI art style and the game art style also feel disconnected from each other. The font feels like a child's comic book, almost humorous, but the art style is western fantasy pixel art with gory realism, so these two styles fight with each other.
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