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Dungeon Munchies
Dungeon Munchies is a side-scrolling action RPG with a focus on hunting down creatures, cooking them, and eating dishes to gain certain abilities. The combination of dishes you choose to eat will impact your entire play style.
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I’m always excited to tune into an Indie World Showcase to check out the latest indie offerings on Nintendo Switch. The most recent showcase was home to a few
Dungeon Munchies surprised me with its poor level design and platforming but shined in its story and characters. I wanted more from the characters and would probably have really dug this as a visual novel. As it is, however, the drifty platforming with floors that feel like ice are a slog. Combat wasn’t bad, but I always generally wanted more of the better parts of the game, like the slick soundtrack. By the end of my time with Dungeon Munchies, I certainly wasn’t full. I felt like it deserved more and could be more, maybe a little more time in the oven.
The latter half of December 2021 saw the release of a somewhat uneventful Nintendo Direct aimed exclusively at upcoming indie releases for the Switch. One of the titles announced in said show was Dungeon Munchies, a game that caught my attention not because of its visuals (which, granted, are bland), but due to a neat mechanic presented in its trailer. It involves cooking body parts collected from fallen enemies, eating them, and acquiring their abilities. Essentially, a more morbid (and hila...
Part platformer, part RPG, part hack ‘n’ slash, part cooking simulator… Dungeon Munchies tries to set itself apart from its contenders by throwing many th
Some indies have very intriguing premises so does the strange Dungeon Munchies serve up the fun? Let's give it a taste and find out.
Dungeon Munchies is the kind of game that feels like it might be good in another two or three years. Despite the shoddy visuals, awful performance, sloppy movement mechanics, and unoriginal crafting systems, it feels like there could be a good game somewhere in here. With a few tweaks, this combat system might have some promise, and the core loop of crafting—fighting—repeat seems like an interesting riff on the main idea of Monster Hunter. Unfortunately, that potential has yet to fully present itself here — this is an Early Access release with all the issues and lack of cohesion that implies. ...
What that means is that the only ingredients you can get your hands on are those self-same killer beasties. Dungeon Munchies is mostly an action platformer with light cooking elements, although the cooking isn’t quite as key as you might think.
Unfortunately that means the jury is officially back out on whether or not a series of fat, hairy spiders routinely creep into your wide open mouth as you sleep, in an attempt to crawl down your throat and lay their eggs inside your lungs. Sleep tight!