Deathtrap Dungeon: The Interactive Video Adventure

loved the variety of gameplay

Superbly produced. Eddie Marsan is just perfect, as are the subtle sound effects, and the overall video and audio work. Also nicely subtle is how the game mechanics (there are "points" and "skills" and die rolls) are blended in without intruding on the storytelling. It's a thoughtful and very-well put together total experience. It's too bad that the source material is so mediocre. Ian Livingstone's original game was a silly dungeon crawler with a pointless background story and cringey challenges, basically what you would get if a bunch of 11-year-olds were playing D&D for the first time. This is not an "adventure", but rather a series of rooms with either good things or bad things in them, and more often than not it's all about just guessing. Will the left button give you a reward? Will the right button poison you? There's no thinking involved, no puzzles, and no satisfaction in choosing to "go north" rather than to "go west". After going about randomly for a while I got frustrated and looked up a walkthrough to finish the game. This is a wonderful and new way to make games. I hope it's applied in the future to content that's actually good. Unless you're playing this for research, better to skip.

Low to no replay value, sounds design that is quite poor in places with the background noise blaring over the speaker. Definitely not worth it at full price.

I grew up on the books of Steve Jackson & Ian livingstone and I can say without question, this is a fantastic experience. Bringing together the amazing writing and voice acting makes you wonder... why hasn't this been done to this standard with any other fighting fantasy book before? With any luck, there will be more D&D style books from the authors re-created in this way (as they have an extensive library), which means a whole new generation of people can be introduced to an experience which they may have missed out on if it wasn't for the devs of this game. Big thumbs up from me :) Grab your weapon and delve into the Deathtrap Dungeon...will you survive?

This game is misleading and dumb. It's a D&D game, realize that before you buy it.

JUSTICE FOR THROM!!! T_T

Do you miss the old days of AD&D modules' casual coin-toss of life or death with no context? Pick one: left or right. One option just kills you, the other is a key item. You *could* just run away from every encounter and never open doors to avoid risks, but then you won't have the kit you'll need to succeed. Make choices, die pointlessly, load the last checkpoint. You have stats and resources, but that's not really important. Even if that doesn't appeal, buy it anyway. The narration is top notch and the nostalgia (for some) harkens back to happier, more youthful days. Don't take your deaths seriously... Just enjoy the old school narration.