6.4 /10 1 Votes
2.9/5 GOG | 7/10 Steam Initial release date 19 March 1998 Publisher Eidos Interactive | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Release date(s) PlayStationNA: 19 March 1998EU: April 1998Microsoft WindowsNA: 31 July 1998 Developers Eidos Interactive, Asylum Studios Similar Eidos Interactive games, Shooter games | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Deathtrap Dungeon (or Ian Livingstone's Deathtrap Dungeon) is an action-adventure game released in 1998 for the PlayStation and Microsoft Windows. It is based on the adventure gamebook of the same name (the sixth in the Fighting Fantasy series) written by Ian Livingstone, and published by Puffin Books in 1984.
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Gameplay
The game is a third-person adventure, with the player taking the role of an adventurer (either the Amazon "Red Lotus" or the Barbarian "Chaindog"), who at the invitation of a wizard explores a series of dungeons and must overcome both monsters and traps to find riches.
Reception
The game was a bestseller in the UK. IGN praised the variety of monsters and sound effects, but criticized "the glitchy, mediocre graphics, the unintuitive camera angles, the sluggish control, and the appallingly weak and abrupt ending". GameSpot stated "Deathtrap Dungeon turns out to be at the low end of games for the Sony PlayStation".
