Dungeon Lurker Passes 100,000 Steam Wishlists, Demo Now Live
The story frames the player as uncovering a deceased friend's game, and the wishlist milestone plus the August 25 Pixel Arcadia footage suggest the unsettling secrets are the hook drawing players in.
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13AM Games is developing the roguelike action game Dungeon Lurker for PC via Steam, where it has surpassed 100,000 wishlist registrations. A demo is available now. The game is set inside a cursed dungeon and framed as clearing an action game left behind on a fictional retro console by a deceased friend, with the player's own secrets gradually exposed as the player progresses.
Dungeon Lurker is a roguelike action game built around a specific frame: the player is clearing a game that runs on a fictional retro console left behind by a deceased friend, and the player's own secrets surface as the run goes on. The developer 13AM Games says all 30 or more 2D dot-design stages have depth, with obstacles coming from every direction and shortcuts hidden in the levels.
Combat leans on spells and items picked up during exploration, and gear can be brought back to a base to strengthen it. New footage from the August 25 Pixel Arcadia stream showed a hallucination of the player in a city, screen-wide noise, and a CRT TV that does not fit the dark fantasy setting, pointing at the secrets the story is built around.
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