About the Game #
Okay, anyone who knows me knows I love chonkers, landwhales, fatasses, whatever you want to call them. BIG characters. Eat the Dungeon is a game by Bewildered-Angel that gives you just that. There are currently 21 different characters, 4 damage types, 5 food types, and several different attack patterns. The main idea behind the game is your characters eat food-based enemies in the dungeon. They get fatter, stronger, and slower as they go on, and the game lets you extract their weight to use like experience points.
Platform Support #
It’s a web game, available to play at https://bewilderedgames.com. It’ll run on a potato.
Building Your Party #
You can choose four different characters to be in your party at a given time. You’ll start with the Warrior, Thief, Priestess, and Witch, and the Bard will join you very early on. You’ll have to pay attention to what damage types various monsters take, shown before you start the level. This will help you decide which four you will take in order to clear the area.
The favorite foods are less meaningful. With the wrong damage type you can only hit for 1 damage, with the wrong favorite food you do full damage just not double damage. It’s not worth the time to figure out in battle, but if there’s a lot of Meat, the Warrior is probably worth bringing, etc.
Range is also important for some levels, as some “midrowers” you face in the dungeon attack or flee. They can even heal the other enemies, preventing you from breaking through the front row to take out the healers.
You’ll have the opportunity to unlock new party members, each with their own uses.
Upgrading Characters #
At the end of each level, you can extract the weight of one character to buff your characters. It’ll be fairly easy to get the first few stat boosts to your characters, but the required weight to upgrade gets higher and higher. For your heavy-hitters, the DPS characters, my suggestion is to not worry much about speed. They are going to get really fat and take forever to recharge naturally. For support charactes like the Bard, you are going to want more speed and extract from them when they get too fat.
Eventually, you’re going to find characters that are inherently more effective across the board, and it’ll make sense to pump them up to extreme levels. For anything that takes Magic damage, the Witch can do mass damage. I found the Spellblade, which does Sword and Magic damage, to be practically useless. In my opinion, the most useful damage dealers in the game are the Illusionist, which does Magic and Sneak damage, as well as the Necromancer which does Sword and Spirit damage. Both of them are a full area attack that hit all enemies at once. For these, you’re going to want tons of capacity and metabolism just to keep up with the amount of damage they do. For support characters, the Engineer and the Magus are powerful because they can restore all other party members.
My Impression #
First of all, the dialogue is silly, but honestly the whole concept is pretty silly itself. I like the fact they just ran with it rather than trying to play it serious. Some of the levels are downright challenging, some of them are challenging until you unlock a more powerful characters. All of the characters are cute, and more than a couple are based on dragons, but if you’re looking for mostly furry content you’re not going to be too satisfied. The game is heavily time oriented, the faster you complete the level the higher ranking you get and the more bonus weight you gain. There’s no death, only a temporary K.O. state which eats up time. If you like something fast-paced without a lot of time to plan out actions, you’ll be right at home.
In my opinion, it was definitely a worthwhile game. My only two real gripes with the game are the relatively limited good party configurations, and the lack of keyboard controls. A few of the bonus levels get close to my limits in terms of dragging with the mouse. (The Witch Yukia’s Bonus Round, and Feaster of Heroes’ Bonus Round, I have still yet to S-rank)