Tiny Dangerous Dungeons is a fun platformer inspired by classic gameboy games, the visuals and sounds are just how they used to be. Explore a huge, open dungeon! Solve puzzles, defeat creepy creatures.

The game is also great on a steam deck: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3HCQuLmcLA

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

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!

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Really the only knock I have against short games is that there’s not more of them to enjoy. I’m not a believer in any arbitrary dollar-to-hour formula, and I prefer compact, complete experiences to meandering, padded-out ones. Games like Tiny Dangerous Dungeons are a great example of the quality you can wring from short romps, in part by limiting the potential for frustration and confusion. It’s a game that’s over as soon as it feels like it’s getting going, but if that’s the worst thing you can say about a game, I’d call that a keeper.

True to form, you are a tiny person in a tiny dungeon. There are tiny monsters and tiny traps standing between you and your tiny goal, and you’ll need to do some careful jumping and dodging to outwit these tiny threats. Along the way you’ll pick up tiny power-ups that grant some sharp new abilities, and tiny keys that open the few tiny doors in your path. It might be a tiny dungeon but it has plenty of twists and turns to test your tiny sense of direction, and a final tiny challenge to overcome to claim your tiny victory. There’s even a few tiny secrets to turn up, if you find yourself in need of further tiny adventures.

As far as gameplay goes, Tiny Dangerous Dungeons will feel instantly familiar to anyone who’s ever played a platformer. Your modestly-sized character moves at a good clip and has a refreshingly high jump, all tied to very tight controls. You won’t start with an attack but you’ll pick up two ways to dispatch enemies as you progress, both quite useful and satisfying. That’s true of all the upgrades you’ll score in the game, including one that cleverly makes backtracking through areas much easier without upsetting the overall challenge of the adventure. There are only four upgrades total, however, as well as four keys you’ll need to score to reach the end.

And that’s it, really. It’s a perfectly solid platformer with a dozen or so items to find total and a tight little maze of hallways to navigate to find them. There’s some backtracking involved that could become tricky if you can’t recall the layout of the dungeon, but that’s about as challenging as the game gets. Obviously the classic GameBoy aesthetic isn’t going to appeal to everyone but it does to me in a big way, making the most of its 4-color palette to deliver some chunky, detailed environments to run around in and pleasant bleepy-bloopy sound design. Your adventure will clock in at less than an hour, and I guarantee you those minutes will be better spent here than on a great many of the platformers rounding out the Steam catalog. For a short, straight-forward platforming romp, Tiny Dangerous Dungeons is a charming little pick indeed.



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Welcome to Tiny Dangerous Dungeons. In this Gameboy-inspired Metroidvania dungeon crawler, you will control a young boy named Timmy on a journey through dungeons full of traps and enemies. You will have to travel back and forth through many areas of the dungeons to locate hidden power-ups for your character, and keys that are required to open the various locked doors. As keys may only be used once, you will need to locate another key when you locate more locked doors. Not only are there hidden power-ups, there are also hidden health upgrades scattered across the play zones. Find them to increase your total hit points. There are shrines scattered throughout the game world that allow you to save and top up your health, and may be used as often as wanted.

Released and self-published on Mar 1, 2019, by the developer Adventure Islands, it is an indie, action, adventure, dungeon crawler with a retro design. The title was originally a browser game; it has been ported as an extended edition with additional features for the Steam release. These include full controller support, an additional mode (time trial), more hidden upgrades, and new content and tweaks. It has a monochrome graphics style that is well done. As I am very colorblind (Deuteranopes) I often have issues seeing in this type of release without a colorblind mode. But I had no issues seeing in the title for my type of colorblindness. There are a few settings you can modify: delete your progress, music, and sounds on/off, fullscreen on/off, also customizable controller and keyboard settings,

We begin our play on the starting level. A tutorial is built into the game via drawing on the walls in the areas where new mechanics are added to the title. We learn here how to move and jump; these are your only abilities in the beginning. We will parkour around the dungeon avoiding the beasties that inhabit it and avoiding the pitfalls that mean certain death. We come to a locked door, so we return to search for the key in a different area. Along the many rooms we must pass, there are hidden areas where you'll find upgrades that will increase your character’s power and health. What these powers are I will let you discover on your own. We continue searching for keys to open all the doors until we reach the boss level. He is not an easy battle to be won! Can you defeat him and get the treasure of the dungeon?

I found the game to be a very cute and fun platformer. It is rather short, only about 45 mins to complete your first time. But with the included achievements there is a lot of replay-ability to get them all. Achievement hunters will want to note that the achievements can be difficult to acquire. I am at 50% of the achievements of my first playthrough. I am currently at the boss area (he is a pain in my butt lol). I got a little frustrated with him and have had to pause for now. Going back and seeking out the last 2 heart upgrades I haven't found, hoping it will give me the edge I need to beat him.

Tiny Dangerous Dungeons: Help Timmy to Defeat the Dungeon Boss & Escape with the Treasure!

7/10

Pros
+Nice Monochrome Graphics
+Cute Retro Gameplay
+Fun Platforming
+Steam Achievements.
+Full Controller Support

Cons
-A Little Short
-No Trading Cards

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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

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.

short but sweet. slight metroidvania vibes.

Fantastic little metroidvania lite game! Controls great, has good enemy layout and the world is fun to explore. I liked this game much better than Super Dangerous Dungeons.

Keep in mind this is a "tiny" little game and it won't take long to finish, but what it offers in the short playtime is all very well done.

Not much a story at all and very basic. Guy exploring a dungeon to find treasure. It works though as it's whole design is based around how GB games were.


Definitely plays like a GB title but far smoother of an experience. A platformer game where you avoid enemies and obstacles by jumping over them and landing on safe areas with great control of the character. You get upgrades to your character as you progress to continue the natural progression of the game. There are health upgrades but you'll have to seek them out.


It's on the lower end of difficulty being an enjoyable title for many so long as they like platformer titles. Only time it will jump up in difficulty is if you are going for the "under 15 min." achievement on the time trial mode but even that can be made easier by saving at the statues and reloading a save from the main menu if you screw up.


The visuals are definitely based around old GB games and it fits the theme. Beautiful in its retro style and that's hard to pull off with only the original GB colors. Since it is green and black I highly suggest playing with lights on (as you should be doing anyways). Otherwise it could mess with your eyes after playing for some time.


The sounds and music are tailored to what you'd expect to hear in an old GB game and fits well in this game.


Runs very smoothly and never encountered any issues. Older computers should be able to run this without any issues.


Tiny Dangerous Dungeons is a great game to dive into. A fairly short title even if you go after all the achievements but worth the price and time. If you love old games, especially GB titles, then you'll enjoy this. A hidden gem in Steam's pile of games.



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