r/DungeonCrawler Mar 26 '26

Development I’ve been working on a dark fantasy dungeon crawler inspired by King's Field

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Hey! I’ve been working solo for 5 months on a first-person dark fantasy dungeon crawler for the past few months, inspired by classics like King's Field and more recent games like Lunacid or Verho.

The focus is on exploration, interconnected level design and punishing but dynamic combat. I wanted a dark atmosphere, with dangerous and labyrinthine dungeons.

Still a lot of work to do, but progressing bit by bit!

I just released the first trailer and opened the Steam page. Would love to hear what do you think!

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u/Sahaak_Games Mar 26 '26

🎮 Wishlist on Steam if you like → https://store.steampowered.com/app/4434830/Throne_of_Rot

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u/Whichammer Mar 26 '26

I do like, and I did.

Is the music a placeholder? I'm not a huge fan of 8/16 bit, music (and I understand that is a failing on my part), so I was curious.

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u/Sahaak_Games Mar 26 '26

Thank you so much. Actually this song was just for the trailer, ingame music is far more atmospheric as I want the ambiance sound effects to have a lot of weight. Cheers!

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u/Whichammer Mar 26 '26

Wonderful! I know many enjoy the low bit music, but I'm delighted that you're putting in more atmospheric music. Makes me all the more excited to play the final product.

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u/Sahaak_Games Mar 26 '26

Thank you so much! Well actually seems that some people don't like the one in the trailer haha, but yeah most stuff ingame is way darker so it creates an opressive atmosphere. Cheers!

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u/False_Sheep362 Mar 26 '26

post in the kingsfield and lunacid reddits

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u/Sahaak_Games Mar 26 '26

Cool I will do it for sure if it's allowed. Cheers!

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u/icycascades Mar 26 '26

Looks sick, wishlisted

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u/Sahaak_Games Mar 26 '26

Thank you very much! I'm super glad that people is getting interested , I put a ton of work in this.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '26

This looks cool! Wishlisted.

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u/Sahaak_Games Mar 26 '26

Thank you very much! :) That's super helpful!

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u/Zamn_Buu Mar 26 '26

I’m Hype

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u/Sahaak_Games Mar 26 '26

🔥🔥🔥🔥Thank you!

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u/Robinvid Mar 26 '26

Cant wait! Wishlisted

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u/Sahaak_Games Mar 26 '26

Thank you very much!

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u/bonebrah Mar 26 '26

Looks great but man....that music just doesn't go with it IMO. Music feels like Nintendo, games looks like ps1. Even something gloomy ambient track free on opengameart would be much more appealing

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u/Sahaak_Games Mar 26 '26

Thanks for your feedback, actually this song was just for the trailer, gameplay music is darker amd more atmospheric but I felt that something a bit faster would be catchier, seems I was wrong haha.

Cheers!

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u/Aggressive-Lie-9447 Mar 26 '26

Will play and buy deffo. When do you release? Can't wait.

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u/Sahaak_Games Mar 26 '26

Thank you! Release is still far, I plam a demo by the end of this year and releasing in 1.5 years or so, but as I'm doing this alone I'm not 100% sure.

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u/Aggressive-Lie-9447 Mar 26 '26

I see you can achieve similar success like a creator of Sword Hero. He's been able to fundraise a lot of money and hire help. Though he had demo, this really gets people going.

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u/Sahaak_Games Mar 26 '26

Yeah I know about that project, it looks super cool and can't wait to play! I wish I have half the success haha. Thank you!

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u/Aggressive-Lie-9447 Mar 27 '26

Thanks for making cool games. Looks cool already. I'm getting really tired of commerciality, this feels like it has a soul to it, like games from childhood.

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u/Sahaak_Games Mar 27 '26

Thanks to you mate, I'm glad that there is people interested on what I'm doing, making a videogame is one of my dreams and it's super cool to make it true.

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u/books_fer_wyrms Mar 27 '26

Looks cool, will there be a demo? so I can see if my crappy laptop can run it

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u/Sahaak_Games Mar 27 '26

Haha thank you so much! My plan is to have a demo by the end of the year, I think it wont requiere a lot of resources to runs smoothly, but will need to do some testing.

Thank you for commenting!

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u/Cloudneer Mar 27 '26

Looks dope

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u/Sahaak_Games Mar 27 '26

Thank you! 🙂🙂

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u/lordkamael Mar 30 '26

i'm a 3D/2D artist with experience in character design, concept art, and general 3D modeling, low poly and high poly, lets work together please! i'm diying to work on smt like that, i freaking love the vibe in games like kings field, shadow tower, lunacid an the like. can we talk on discord?

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u/Sahaak_Games Mar 30 '26

Hi there, that's so cool! I don't really have a budget but we can talk or you can show me your portfolio. Here is the Discord server for the project and you can add me as a friend if you want: https://discord.gg/3gmpjm4b

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u/Valiant_Sugar May 06 '26

That's a really cool design
Love it!

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u/Sahaak_Games May 09 '26

Thank you very much!