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Pocket Dungeon (Japan)

PlayStation
🇯🇵
Reviewed in
1999
58
✪ Reviewed on January 27, 2023
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Pocket Dungeon offers a classic Japanese roguelike, pleasant to explore but limited by a dated interface and modest dungeon variety.

Your verdict
Category
Roguelike 1 player 7+
Description
Pocket Dungeon by NEC, released in 1998 in Japan. Compact dungeon crawler for PocketStation linked to a main PS1 game. Turn-based combat, random dungeon exploration, and hero progression in a portable adventure.

Pocket Dungeon review

3/5
Art direction
★★★★★
"Polished"
2/5
Music
★★★★★
"Decent"
2/5
Story
★★★★★
"Classic"
Gameplay
"Decent"
Fun
"Pleasant"
Addictiveness
"Engaging"
Difficulty
"Punishing"
A compact but tricky roguelike, it generates its dungeons anew each run and forgives no recklessness: a single death wipes your progress and sends you back to the start. Rationing items, reading threats and weighing every step matter more than the hero's level. Bone-dry but addictive, it suits fans of procedural challenge ready to learn from their failures.
Lifespan
"Average"
Technical info
💾0,1 GB 📅04/02/1999
Published by Sunsoft

Pocket Dungeon (PS1) price, value & rarity

Common
Q1 loose
 $5 Q6 complete
 $15 Q10 new
 $38 !
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