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Dungeon Hack Review

I nfinitely generated fun* or your money back Dungeon Hack is a roguelike dungeon crawler based on the old Eye of the Beholder D&D game engine. Sort of a precursor to Baldur's Gate's real time AD&D adaptation. The system allows one to run with a slightly janky set of faithful rules in order to experience a traditional dungeon crawl. You play as a lone hero, as opposed to a party, tasked with venturing into the depths of [dungeon] to brave the dangers and return with [orb.] To explain the game mechanics would be to explain AD&D, so all I'll say on that front is that Dungeon Hack adapts them faithfully, with enough leeway to allow for the solo character real time gameplay to work out without becoming overbearing. Though dodging enemies will remind more modern players of Legend of Grimrock's own enemy design. The real question of this review, is that of whether Dungeon Hack still holds up in literally any fashion. Sure, in 93 to get endlessly generated dungeons...