The Case of the Dungeon Descent
👑 Investigate the princess's fate
The princess has disappeared in the dungeon! Scry on magical events to deduce what spells were cast when, piece together the stories of multiple adventurers, and uncover the princess’s fate.
💜 Inspired by games like Her Story, the Roottrees Are Dead, and Type Help.
🔎 How to play
✨ Discovering targets
Click on highlighted words to discover them as potential scry targets.
- Click on the title of each scene to discover that floor.
- For heroes, you can click on their portrait or name. For spells, click its name.
- Tip: Each scene shows the count of undiscovered targets in the top right.
🔮 Scrying on scenes
Chose one or more targets and click Scry to search for a scene.
- You can scry for traces of a spell that was cast, the heroes that were present, or the dungeon floor where it happened - or any subset of those.
- To see the details of a scene, pick the combination of targets (spell, hero, or floor) that identify exactly one scene.
- Tip: Start by choosing a single target to scry on. If there are multiple results, refine the search by adding additional targets.
⏳ Playtime to discover the whole story is about half an hour. There's currently no save functionality.
📜 Credits
Made in 72 hours for Ludum Dare 57. The theme was "Depths".
- Celia: design, writing
- Rose: art, code
- Music by Audionautix.com
Comments
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The game is very interesting. I found myself wishing to know what would end up happening and after I was done with the story I really wished for there to be more. The visuals are very pleasant with the old timey 8-bit style. The music is pleasant and the story is very interesting. The gameplay is also quite fun I wish there were more games like these.
A great concept and impressive execution in such a short time. I really enjoyed it. I hope you make more investigation games!
Thanks! And since you mention it - it's more a straight puzzle game rather than an investigative game, but if you're itching for more dungeon action, feel free to try my puzzle Twine game, The Hall of the Sorcerer King! 🙂
Good music! Cool interface! Woo detective fun!
Somehow managed to see all Scene list by Scrying for emptiness. Not that it helps when everything's ??? heh.
Twisty! Good use of colors! Nice and short so even though it doesn't save, I can easily replay!
I played this with my gf and it was a joy. Love the scene discovery mechanic and the way you can linearize the story by character etc. Also the pixel art scenes were a great way to add some visual uniqueness to each scene (Trogdor!) and writing was great too. Thanks!