Review: Deathtrap Dungeon: The Interactive Video Adventure (Steam)
Deathtrap Dungeon is an interactive video realization of Ian Livingstone’s multi-million selling classic gamebook starring Eddie Marsan (Fast & Furious presents Hobbes & Shaw, Deadpool 2, Atomic Blonde) as narrator.
Pros:
- Real video graphics.
- 4.73gb download size.
- Subtitles-on/off.
- Auto attack-on/off.
- Choose your own adventure gameplay.
- The whole game is told to you by the power of video.
- Skip the scene button.
- Replay the scene button.
- Sound effects/music plays for the atmosphere.
- Art will pop up on screen to help set the scene.
- Character-you can use 1 of 3 presets or roll your own with the dice.
- Full-on dungeons and Dragons vibes as you would expect.
- Combat rules- classic or new. Both are explained beforehand.
- Play how you want.
- Perfect for the big TV gaming.
- Engrossing story.
- All controlled with just the mouse.
- Nearly 6 hours of video to discover.
- Visual effects and filters used for setting the scene.
- Combat has a timer for choices.
- The story is branching with constant decision making.
- Let’s off Knightmare vibes.
- Click icons on the screen for pop up info like inventory/health/stamina.
- The map fills in as you play and shows when it last Autosaved.
- Animated icons.
- Rules are fully explained all the time and can be skipped.
- High replay value with all the choices.
- Game over/death-restart at the last checkpoint.
Cons:
- Just jumps straight in.
- No video options like playback.
- Volumes are not always balanced with the background music being louder than the voice at times.
- On character creator rolls there is no limit to re-rolls so you can go max stats.
- Dice rolls add a lot of RNG or bias.
- Not sure when it saves and requires you to keep clicking the map up.
- The map pauses the game.
- Repeats a lot of phrases.
- No Steam achievements.
- It can just replay scenes with no consequences.
- No controller support.
