Crypt of the NecroDancer Reviews

IT's incredible fun and the music bangs. Defenetly one of the best dungeon crawlers ever. also cadence has cured my depression. NYAHDAFUABFIAGFIUAFB

An absolute gem of a game. Well designed and challenging. Having to move to the beat really constrains your movement options and forces you to think on your feet.

So far, it's been a very enjoyable game. It's helpful for practicing hand coordination and reaction times, since that's something I struggle with. 9.5/10

Here I start my journey at 07/01/2025. I will bring atualizations of my progress and my sanity kkkk. First of all, I want to beat the game, and maybe one day, 100%(I know how impossible is).

This is such a fun and creative game, but excess of light effects, even when turned off really triggers my epilepsy all the time

Crypt of the NecroDancer is a short rhythm game consisting of 4 levels, with a boss in between each of them. I found the gameplay fun and enjoyable, but had wished for something a tad more challenging or lengthier, as I found levels 1–3 quite easy and only really found full enjoyment of what the game could offer in level 4. Ideally, I’d love to have just seen more levels with unique monsters or tricky traps, further enhancing the replayability instead of having more characters with different weapons. The songs are good, and the story is kinda redundant but serves as a minimalistic gateway to the gameplay. I’d recommend the game if you feel like wanting to play a good rhythm game, though.

I like the game conceptually, but the core dungeon-crawling gameplay itself isn't that great, which is apparent if you practiced with the bard, who removes the need to move to the beat. Most battles (especially bosses) comes down to memorizing dance steps, and learning those steps isn't particularly intuitive in the main game (e.g. the optional tutorial for the dragon dance). I conceptually like that the controls only involves directional buttons, and thus can be played on a DDR pad if you like, but in reality, looking up and inputting randomly assigned directional combinations for item activation is a pain in the @ss, in conjunction to the pressure to move to the beat. Having attacks happen automatically by moving in a direction also feels weightless and unsatisfying. The game could use better customization options, I'd prefer the beat indicator to be semi-transparent at the middle at the screen, rather than at the bottom, which is awkward to glance at; I'd prefer to be able to pause, open the inventory screen and set custom binds to activate-able items; I'd also love to be able to read actual useful item descriptions, rather than having to pause and open the wiki.

Game so good Nintendo gave the devs the rights to make a Zelda spin-off based on it (Cadence of Hyrule). Definitely a must-buy for all fans of roguelites and rhytm games

this game is extremely fun, but if you are a completionist, this game hates your guts and wants you to suffer

The amount of joy and frustration I have gotten out of this game is extremely high, and I'm always coming back for one more run! For such a simplistic-looking game there's an incredible amount of complexity here, and I'm a huge fan of it. If you aren't huge on the rhythm side of things, there's a beatless mode that works very well (though I do think it helps to be familiar with the way beats work in game)