Directory Dungeon - File Explorer Dungeon Crawler

[url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/43083373/]Clever games curator review: 5/10[/url]. This game really is played completely from the Windows Explorer File Manager. This is definitely a gimmick, and it’s also pretty much the entire substance of what makes this game worth trying. As an RPG, it’s extremely basic: Kill the monster and loot the body, choose to keep the better equipment, and occasionally eat cabbage to restore health. The interesting part is learning how to use a file manager to do these things. To that end it would make a lot more sense if the actions you took in the File Manager were sort of sensible. e.g., opening things to inspect them. Guess what, that’s not how you inspect an object: you delete it! The somewhat odd choices made here plus the fact that the File Manager is not a very sensible way to build a UI for an RPG makes the actual experience of playing the game pretty clunky. Navigation in particular is a chore, involving copying the player character into the appropriate folders and then navigating there yourself. More than once I put my player in one location and then changed to a different one by mistake and then lost my player. This would be a lot harder to do if the locations were named, however they’re just given as cardinal directions e.g., N, W, S. I’m left with a question: Was this even a good idea? It’s hard to say. Done perfectly I suspect it would have been more enjoyable than the actual implementation, but maybe not that much. As is, it’s still an interesting experience for the first five or 10 minutes. But the second time I got hopelessly lost and couldn’t backtrack to the fork in the road that I needed to find, I rage-quitted and uninstalled. Now don’t get me wrong. I love how unique the idea is. And I want to commend the developer for trying to do something really different. The idea is almost as important as the gameplay. However, the total experience certainly could have been done better. In some forum posts it becomes clear that part of the design choices came from not wanting to be too invasive, such as not making any file associations. But I think that really nerfed the design too much. However, if this idea sounds intriguing at all to you, I do think you ought to give it a try. This is a game that’s so short that you can definitely ask for a refund with no worries about having played too long. And of course, if you do enjoy it, please don’t abuse the refund system.

Highly rate this game. Clever use of your OS's directories and files. Short and sweet, doesn't overstay its welcome.

Great little game! It had me busting out the graph paper and pens for map making. This is short but simple and repayable as hell. The fact that you actually play in your windows browser is a fun spin on dungeon crawling. Your literally move through folder directories. I would love to see the Dev's revisit this title in the future with more content.

this is such a neat little game! I really enjoyed the structure of it, I'd love to see something more involved in this format. I could imagine a really interesting store in this style. It reminds me of desktop explorer (not released yet) but on your own computer. So cool!!

Just nice.

Fun, short and a bit meta :).

Short and fun game. Makes you remember that games do not have to be a movie like experience to be fun. Btw I think you should rename the doors to have names of where they lead to since backtracking is sometimes confusing.