True love is not found in a dungeon, but only in the real world? The crazy “Boyfriend Dungeon” promises the opposite.
The Japanese gaming market has created many crazy genres. Among them are especially “Dating Sims”, where the main goal is to win one of several potential partners in a more or less dramatic story.
This is usually achieved by selecting different dialogue options, guiding the story in the corresponding direction. Since there is almost always a large selection, several playthroughs are worthwhile to experience multiple romances – a genre that is equally popular with young men and women.
Another popular genre is the typical Dungeon Crawler. Countless randomly generated levels, filled with monsters that you can slash through, while your character collects a lot of loot.
Boyfriend Dungeon lures with hot swords
And that is exactly the balancing act that the game Boyfriend Dungeon aims to achieve. A large part of the game consists of cleaning out dungeons. The caves are randomly generated and filled with enemies, different weapons offer different play styles. The experience and gold earned are invested in your weapons – quite literally.
The weapons are only real weapons in the dungeon; outside of it, they are people – most of them guys who seem to have sprung from the spring dreams of women. Only Valeria (the dagger) appears to be a woman, but not all weapons and their human counterparts have been revealed yet.
Swords that then transform into hot guys? Sigmund Freud would be thrilled.
The good or bad news (depending on which camp you are in) is that Boyfriend Dungeon will not be released until 2019. Until then, the unholy alliance of dungeon crawler and dating sim will remain just a dream.
Rather in the mood for “real” games? We recommend these 6 games for October!
