Labyrinth Of The Demon King comes out

niche game has a niche audience

How could this possibly happen?

How short is it?

Umm that isn't a good game because I can't virtue signal by buying it or use it as my personality

my playthrough took 8 hours total (including being lost and all the backtracking associated with being lost)

game nobody knows about is not talked about

wow

Oh
i was expecting a manly tears joke but ok..

Unironically, where are the graphics? The whole screen is brown and there's no contrast, so it's impossible to make wtf I'm looking at lmao

another dime a dozen indie jank no one ever heard of

maybe you should shill it harder

damn you must be blind

So about the average length for a game
Idk why everyone expects games to be bloated ubislop, most games are like 5-12 hours max and people never really complained about it
Same with how I saw some niggas complain how dying is not "le punishing", probably because they expected some dark souls shit slapped into the game instead of just respawning at a save point

drpgs are MUCH longer than 8 fucking hours.

How is it compared to Tower of Mask?

fun combat

If it was good you wouldn't feel the need to be a faggot over it.

It's good and I bought it but I have a fucking backlog to finish

Everything is either grey, brown or black,
Combat is extremely mediocre for a game that seems to want you to constantly be fighting monsters. A somehow worse version of Oblivion's combat
Enemies respawn when you re-enter rooms. Not resurrect, just new random pack of enemies spawn. I literally started avoiding fights near the end, since it's just a waste of time. And avoiding them takes absolutely no skill.
99% of enemies are slower than you and stop in their tracks to deal damage. So you can just outwalk them while spamming heavy attack.
It's the same story with bosses too. All bosses. I didn't even spend time learning their attack patterns, I just strafed around them while spamming left click and killed all of them in one try in less than a minute.

I bought it but haven't had the time to play more than trying out the tutorial. Not sure if KB&M or controller is the way to go.

Warwick learning how to play the guitar

This game is more technologically advanced the the nu-doom games.

first person melee combat

Automatically dogshit.

filtered

king's flied inspired :DDDD

into the trash it goes.

drpg

A what now?

Isnt kings field like 10 hours long?

dungeon role playing game

Deep rock plunging game.

ANOTHER king's field/shadow tower clone

fuck off already

From software ruined gaming.

looks alright

I actually agree with everything you've said.

Name 5.
Please.

i can't even name the game in the op without scrolling back up

I never heard of it before and it's a niche genre besides, fuck off with your "waaah you're ignoring my game" whinging

Kings field
Kings field 2
Kings field 3
Kings field 4
Jackie chan

Correct.

OH MY SCIENCE IS THAT AN INDIE HORROR GAME?
WITH PS1 GRAPHIX???? THOSE ARE THE SCARIEST ONES!!!

looks like shit, you can keep it

strongly inspired by muh grorius nipponu

I find it cringy as shit when non-Japanese games employ Japanese text for cheap aesthetics, but I guess if it's actually set in Japan it's slightly less cringe
maybe

buy it for me then

Good on deck?

The first tower is great, but then you realize the game already showed you everything it has to offer

The bathhouse has an awful gimmick which forces you to backtrack through the same handful of rooms like 6 times

The status effects are so weak they feel bugged

The game keeps throwing you weapons but its design incentivizes you to stick to a single one (upgrade system, lack of quick swapping)

The talismans feel weak as fuck

I still had fun, but man it has a lot of wasted potential

Longer, unless you use a guide. The first one took me 13 hours. KF2 I stopped playing at 6 hours and sure as hell didn't feel like I was near the end.

The setting and general vibes are great, but the combat isn't the best, and you already know what to expect after the first tower. Also, the English texts and dialogues feel really off - either they have been written by an ESL or by a native speaker who doesn't know his own language well.

The Demon King was a huge disappointment, I was expecting something much scarier and harder, and instead got a slow fat guy with a few silly lines

Isn't the game like $15?
How is 8 hours too short for that price?

Labyrinth Of The Demon King

Glad to find one more nigger who knows about it

Anon Babble doesn't play video games

It has been true since 2003

As usual a thread like this makes Anon Babbleermin squeak and act defensive lol

Anon Babble is "acting defensive" because they think I'm retarded for squealing that they haven't played an obscure, mid game with niche appeal that released less than a week ago

Act like a retard, get labeled a retard

I actually liked the English text because it felt like an English translation of a low-budget Japanese game from the 90s

no penalty for dying

enemies spawn at complete random and can show up in nonsensical places that kill the atmosphere

It was pretty shit.

I lost interest as soon as I realized dying has no consequence

because they are fucking retards. I saw this horrendous low effort cover so I assumed it's the usual steam indie slopware made by one guy. I didn't even bother pirating it which I will do now. Thank you anon

Anon Babble ignores it in favor of the latest astroturfed "epic goty masterpiece" marketing campaign and recycled arguments

translation:

"game I personally like got ignored and I'm coping"

"game I personally dislike is slop because uh... because... it just is OK!? No, of course I haven't actually played it but... just trust me man!!!"

t. J. R. Hudepohl, well known developer of "Labyrinth Of The Demon King" (2025)

no penalty for dying

Dropped

How is it not?

check steam page

GeForce GTX 660 or better for ps1 graphics

holy shit kill yourself

Answer the question first.

It should be at least 15 hours if I'm expected to pay $15 for it.

Heeh

that's a 13 year old card, anon...
likely more related to the graphics api requirements, or some shader model bullshit, than actual hardware performance necessity.

base price is 20 so thats actually worse

making a horror game where dying doesn't matter

how retarded do you have to be to fuck up this badly

Anon it's called "safe horror" and it's the new paradigm of video games for the tastes of the modern audience.

This game is 10x better

And what, exactly, is supposed to happen when you die?

1.5 gigabytes for the demo

It has PS1 graphics, what in the holy fuck?
Guess I should commend the developer for actually including a demo, even if it's bloated as fuck

Even worse, it helps you since you get a free health refill when you die. There's no reason to use healing items when I can just let myself die and get all my health back.

This game is 10x better

It sounds pretty cool. Shame about the pronouns and the spitefulness behind their inclusion. No buy.

I bought it I just don't feel the need to talk about what I play

its made in unreal just like other slop of its kind

if it doesn't run on win7 it is worthless.

It's not. Lunacid was a huge disappointment.

This might be what pushes me to buy. Had it on my wishlist but idk. Can’t get myself to play anything

Nah, it was pretty great.

It's the definition of mediocre. All style (even though there's barely any) and no substance.

looks extremely indian jeet slop, Anon Babble doesnt play any garbage like that.

this, I don't know why troons latched onto yet another thing I like but its irritating

lmao

Game made by a tranny.

added pronouns to the game so they could "own the chuds" instead of fixing actual problems in the game itself.

Sequel/prequel releases and is constantly praised by morons all over Anon Babble and all over the steam forums.

I can't stand playing Lunacid, it's just so boring
At least with Labyrinth I had fun figuring out the game even if it ended up being pretty mediocre overall

if it doesn't run on win7 it is worthless.

It does run on windows 7
or the demo does at least

Then I will pirate it and give it a try.

has anyone tried Devil Spire ?

So do i kill this lil nigga or not?
it do run on win7

Lunacid was fun. Making a crossbow build and maxing out speed and jump just turned the game into Tribes which was awesome. I pirated it once I found out the dev was a troon though, never supporting those freaks with my hard earned money

rape

big issues:

can't advance text, every time I examine or get a mini-cutscene I have to wait for the game to take the text off screen

it keeps unequipping my sword between areas and there's no quick key to re-equip it (1 just uses your healing, lol)

when you run for too long you don't slow down, you just stop dead like you've hit an invisible wall, until you let go of shift

minor issues:

dark as fuck even after I got a torch

big ass empty area with lots of non-functional doors when I'm just trying to get to the meat of the stupid demo so I can decide if I like the game

the tutorial pop ups that explain the controls are a horrible mismatch for the visual tone of the game

your dialogue responses don't update until the moment they become clickable, meaning you could be trying to click on "next" and advance before you see what the actual response is

It needs work, and if the reports of dying having no consequence are true, it needs a LOT of work. Some of these issues are ridiculous and should not be occurring in a commercial product..It speaks of laziness or incompetence.
I also suspect it's a little too expensive for what it is, but whatever, fix your game and I'll probably buy it

spoole...

combat is slow, annoying, unresponsive and stamina takes forever to come back, but I've spent 5 seconds with it so maybe I'm missing something

copies resident evil first person loading segments, but it's not actually masking loading, you watch the little scene and THEN the game loads

1 dollar 1 hour

I'm a normalfag!

You restart at a checkpoint, lose items you used and have to try again while monsters are back
Souls niggers get the rope

I guess literally every game before dark souls is for the "modern audience" then
Niggas like this will squeak how any game with quicksaves "doesn't penalize you for dying" and is for "the modern audience"

It's very much style over substance, ripping off SH down to the silly grainy boss cutscenes

You'll wish you couldn't see them, they're spastic/glitchy as fuck

>I'm a normalfag!

Sadly for you I've seen this sales tactic before, and you're woefully transparent.
Make a better game if you want people to buy it. I just played it for about an hour and all the interesting parts are buried under piles of shit

You restart at a checkpoint, lose items you used and have to try again while monsters are back

The monsters are constantly respawning anyway, so what exactly is the penalty for dying again?

That you're back at the save point and have to try again to get back to where you died while enemies are back.
I swear to got, From unironically mindbroke some people, they will now cry if your game doesn't have some forced souls 'penalties' when you die.

I am a massive normalfag!

Losing consumables really. Reloading is preferable to respawning if you somehow managed to die to a boss.

I am a massive normalfag!

I would actually feel slightly bad for shitting on your game (which despite its flaws would have required some effort and passion) if you weren't being such a tremendous faggot with this dumbass shame-based sales pitch
There's the core of a decent enough game in there. Fix the stupid amateurish problems it has, and it'll probably sell better. Also stop being such a faggot, that'll help too

Losing consumables really.

I'm given to understand they're not exactly in short supply, and losing them isn't a huge deal if you can just die to get your health refilled at any point. In fact that just makes you less likely to use them in the first place
Some people are saying the combat is so obnoxious and pointless they just ended up running past shit, and I can see why

You're thinking of Troonacid, not this.

it's quite mediocre. the trailer sold me on it and then playing it unsold me very quickly.
the cool visual style is largely the result of filters slapped on top and it looks much worse in-game. the attempt at a PS1 aesthetic doesn't land at all - it feels like a modern unreal engine game with some inconsistently sized crusty textures and out of place bloat like cloth physics on the banners which sometimes spazz out when you load into a scene. hitting an enemy up close and seeing a stock HD blood particle effect just makes the whole thing seem lazy when the game is built around combat.
the movement feels very stock UE to the point that it plays more like Condemned than anything in the actual genre it's aping.
the presentation is absolutely all over the place. the opening text crawl is inches away from achieving the atmosphere it's attempting but poor writing and an amateurish choice of font kills it. the huge hub area full of identical dummy doors was a poor choice, as was introducing the sword in the same area as a flimsy tattered paper wall which the sword bounces off like it's solid wood. the poor choices just continue from there.

Fuck you, I actually DO feel bad for shitting on your game, even though you're being a faggot
It is actually a breath of fresh air to get a game that's not full of stupid wokeshit, and it's a pretty cool premise and would likely be a buy for me if it was cleaned up a bit
Just stop this stupid marketing pitch, it's only making people like me want to dig their heels in

The combat filtered me, but it's cool that enemies can kill each other

Enemies respawn when you die though

They respawn every 20 seconds even if you don't die.

Really? There's no exp system either as far as I'm aware. What's the point of killing enemies instead of just kiting them around?

Die

Respawn at save point with full health

The demo didn't work like this, did it? Dying is practically beneficial now.

I swear to got, From unironically mindbroke some people, they will now cry if your game doesn't have some forced souls 'penalties' when you die.

Forced souls penalties like "loading your last save"?

I expected a King's Field/Shadow Tower like game, but somehow the combat is even worse and the filters make it look worse than an actual ps1 game. Refunded.

Why do you have 6000 hours in Dead by Daylight

I am not the dev, retards.
Funny how usually instead retards bitch and moan that they can't just quicksave anywhere they want and have to use save points, now the game is "not punishing" because you go back to a save point I guess.

I am not the dev, retards.

Of course you're not, sweetie

Farming them for Mon

might as well use cheat engine for money because the drop rate is awful