!dungeoncrawlers@piefed.blahaj.zone

Hello, I made this community as a place for a subset of RPGs that usually end up in the shadow of more popular open-world RPGs, JRPGs and Souls-likes.

My definition of dungeon crawlers (that’s, admittedly, stretching the definition a bit), is as follows:

  • it takes place in a confined space (doesn’t need to be a literal dungeons!),
  • it puts a strong emphasis on combat and looting,
  • and it offers little to no story.

This includes a broad variety of games and genres, such as:

  • Blobbers (first-person party-based RPGs like Dungeon Master)
  • Traditional roguelikes with procgen, permadeath and one controllable character, e.g. Nethack
  • Some ARPGs like Diablo and King’s Field
  • Many unconventional indie titles like Osteoblasts, Ruadine or Divers (UFO 50 game)
    And there are definitely other notable examples that I forgot to mention!

My hope is that the community is broad enough to find its audience here but not too broad! Lemmy would really benefit from more focused communities I think.

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        6 hours ago

        I’d rather have communities in instances that are topic specific, that’s all. It is easier for discovery and easier to explain to newcomers.

        • Lucy [she/faer]@piefed.blahaj.zoneOP
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          4 hours ago

          The only fitting instances I see are retrolemmy and .zip. Retrolemmy specifies that it is only about retro stuff while my community isn’t exclusively about retro stuff (and I’m more interested in posting about modern games). .zip to me feels like a generic instance and I don’t like its local feed so I don’t see a compelling reason to move to it.

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            3 hours ago

            If ttrpg.network doesn’t seem suitable to you, I can create a community on level-up.zone and make you a moderator.