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Labyrinth.os is a dungeon crawling ode to late '90s and early 2000s uncanny CGI
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Labyrinth.os is a dungeon crawling ode to late '90s and early 2000s uncanny CGI

Rock Paper Shotgun·Oisin Kuhnke·about 1 month ago
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Image credit: Dataerease Labyrinth.os is the kind of game where I'm not entirely sure I can tell you what it is exactly. It is, as the game's itch.io page says, a "new 3D Dungeon Crawling Dream for Windows Machines." A brief, seemingly in-world description explains the setup for the game too: "Before dying out, the smartest of the world from before left a machine, A machine with the power to restart the world, The Thirteen Architects who were built to maintain this machine dubbed it: The World Egg." But beyond that, it stays shrouded in mystery up to the point of playing it, which is the exact kind of game that draws me in quickest. Labyrinth.os is most certainly an old school dungeon crawler. Grid -based paths designed in a labyrinthine fashion (appropriate, given the name), random enemy encounters, a party of characters with which you can fight back. It's the very particular Vibe with a capital V that it's wrapped up in that compels me the most.…

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