Tiny Dangerous Dungeons Reviews

As the game's title says, this is a very small game that does a good job at recreating the style of GB games. It can be beaten in less than 30 minutes which makes it more like a demo of sorts than an actual game, although the achievements encourage a few extra playthroughs to extend longevity. I found a few bugs which the developers said they'd fix years ago but apparently they just forgot about the game's existence. I'd give it a neutral recommendation but since that doesn't exist here I'll leave it as positive since at least the gameplay/controls are fine. Score: 6.5 out of 10

Tiny Dangerous Dungeons is a simple but fun game!

A short, easy Metroidvania. The control is nice, the music is nice, the level design is nice, the graphics are nice (given that they're deliberately designed to look like a Game Boy game). Overall, it's ... nice. Good for a short while's entertainment, though you probably won't go back to it.

An interesting but very short little MetroidVania game. The game Boy aesthetic won it for me. Lovely.

It's a port of a mini-Metroidvania made for a jam, and while I do think it's rather good with that restriction in mind, there are a few moments which could probably have been further tweaked for optimal experience. I'm glad I grabbed it and financially supported a developer that gave me a great time for free back in the good ol' days of Flash and certainly dug a few of the moments as a MV fan, but it wouldn't be my first pick for a newbie, at least not this version (the game is also on mobile, and it played surprisingly smoothly there, if memory serves me right). Look out for its upcoming remake: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3179810/Tiny_Dangerous_Dungeons_Remake/

Pretty good port of great android game. + Great level design. + Challenging, yet fair. + Great progression system + Great nostalgic graphics style. + Great music. - Way too short. ≈30 minutes long. - The dungeon itself could have had more secrets and explorative areas. As of now everything is very linear and anythere you go is for progression. No sideways or anything besides secrets. - Configuring controls is a bit painful. Mouse does not work and changing controls changes controls of how to change controls... 7/10

Pretty short, but still entertaining. The "single level" format makes it different from the rest of the Adventure Islands games.

[i]Tiny Dangerous Dungeons[/i] is an enjoyable 'Metroidvania' game with a Gameboy aesthetic, albeit fairly simplistic and, true to its name, short (easily beatable within an hour). Upgrades are fairly typical - the ability to push blocks and a couple of different weapons, for example - but well-used and the controls in general are tight. There's some good level design here, alongside a handful of well-hidden secrets, and a series of achievements encourage replay with different approaches, from a careful, no-deaths attempt to a speedrun.

Pretty short, from start to finish it only took me about an hour (about 20 minutes of it was just backtracking to find all the hearts). Not a bad little bite-sized game. Some things that I think would could improve the experience: -The entire dungeon just has the one track. It's by no means a bad song but after listening to it for an hour straight it was really starting to get on my nerves. I feel like the sewer rooms and lava rooms could have different tracks to break the monotony. -Something I'd like to see is the ability to teleport between save points. It would make backtracking around the dungeon for hearts a lot less frustrating in casual play. -It would be neat if the jumping frogs telegraphed their jump a couple of frames early to to make it easier to time your knife throw for a midair hit. This is all just QoL stuff, the game as is is still definitely well worth the 5 dollars. Great job!

[b]Tiny Dangerous Dungeons[/b] is [i][b]fine[/b][/i]: it hits the [b][i]retro[/i] spot[/b] as promised [b]graphically[/b] and [b]mechanically[/b] but it is also [b][i]considerably[/i] shallow[/b], with a [b]linear progress[/b], [b]no story[/b] and a [b]one-track soundtrack[/b]. Thankfully, because the [b]areas[/b] are...[i]well[/i], [b]tiny[/b], it is [b]quick[/b] and [b]easy to replay[/b] too, whether you choose the [b]normal mode[/b] to explore the map for any missing [b]secrets[/b], or you feel like testing yourself with the [b]time trial mode[/b]. If you want [b]no depth, [i]all gameplay[/i][/b], [b]Tiny Dangerous Dungeons[/b] [i]may[/i] be a good match for you.