Dungeon

Locations theme

A labyrinthine place riddled with traps, home to monsters and villains, and place to find various treasures. Often pillaged by dungeon delvers, heroes and adventurers.

235
games
49
platforms
For actual dungeon, see prison.

See also: labyrinth, dungeon crawler

The labyrinthine bit is very important, as even places used for meaningful things becomes dungeons when their design becomes a nonsensical labyrinth. Commonly dungeons are either underground or tall towers, windows if they exist either do not offer escape from the dungeon and there's usually no good shortcuts back to safety outside.

Most egregious examples of dungeons is when the location is completely unidentified as anything specific (not a cave, not a stronghold, not anything).

The first Dungeon video game was released in 1974.

Blizzard, SSI and Soldak Entertainment published most of these games.

Platforms

Windows 68
Linux 40
Mac OS X 22
MS-DOS 13
Mac OS Classic 9
3DS 7
PS3 5
PS4 5
Amiga 4
X360 4
BSD 3
Amiga AGA 3
Tandy Coco 3
Apple II E 3
Pandora 3
Switch 2
iOS 2
Xbox 2
BeOS 2
C64 2
Android 2
NEC PC9801 2
Xbox One 2
PS Vita 2
Amiga CD32 1
Mega-CD 1
Atari ST 1
Amstrad CPC 1
Sol-20 1
DEC PDP-1 1

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