Wow, what a great game. Are there any other games like this?

[Rykmentti]

Never played dungeon crawler before and decided to try this one out.

And well.... Yeah, I've been playing this for 28 hours now and I'm absolutely loving it, great soundtrack, great story, lots of dialogue choices with main character (even thought, they probably don't affect anything, would be nice if they would thought), a main character that is up to player to define what kind of person he is, it's a "true" dungeon crawler, Type A art is absolutely gorgeous and the game is also heartbreakingly hard while being satisfying to play.

On top of it all, it's also a visual novel.

I checked Experience Inc. other works on steam like operation babel and abyss, but it seems they went with the "Type B" art which looks like the shounen side anime art, which is probably not that bad but I love the dark fantasy art that the Type A is in this game, is there "Type A" dark fantasy art option in any other games made by Experience? Or better yet, are there more games like this?

It's huge pain trying to find "Dungeon Crawlers" on the search engines, all they keep showing me is Diablo 3, Torchlight, Skyrim or even ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ World of Warcraft, which are not the type of Dungeon crawlers im looking for.

Anyone know?

[solthusx]

Well, there's Elminage Original and Elminage Gothic. If you don't mind older games, there's also the Wizardry series. I've also heard good things about Legends of Grimrock, but have never played it myself.

For the record, I'm pretty sure nearly all games by Experience Inc. use the anime-esque art style. SOSC is fairly unique in offering two different art styles to choose from.

[Mauno]

Other than Elminage games I guess Paper Sorcerer and Heroes of the Broken Land might interest you. Also I think I'd recommend playing through some Wizardrys before getting it but there's Grimoire Heralds of the Winged Exemplar that you could check out.
It's more of just an RPG but Realms Of Arkania trilogy is old but still very nice set of games.

Of course there's a bunch more with cuter graphics like Frayed Knights, Moero Chronicle and Etrian Odyssey games for Nintendo handhelds.

Also blobber is a term some people use for these games and RPGCodex is probably the best website for finding these types of games, I don't think there exists game in this genre that hasn't been mentioned there somewhere.

[AH-1 Cobra]

Wizardry: Tale of the Forsaken Land for PS2.

Dark themed, anime art style. Difficulty wise, it's harder than SoSC. You could literally be wiped out in some situations regardless of your level/gear/stats. I don't believe the later is true in SoSC. By the time you get into NG+ or NG++ a well built/leveled/geared party is unkillable in this game. In Wizardry, you can get ambushed by 20 spiders who use a rush attack and combine their offense to AOE your party, GGS. Or get ganked by a crapload of samurais and ninjas who have % chance to instakill. Getting ganked by 8 of either usually meant at least 2 of my front row die, if not all 3. If the retreat fails, you're ripped. Any decent quantity of mobs with breath attacks could easily rip you if they ambush.

Instead of divinity actions, you got allied actions. These were basically combination moves using several party members and class types. Few notable ones:

Offensive:

- 3 front row melee combine to attack an enemies' front row.
- Some kinda cross slash multi-hit move that used 2 melee.
- 2 mages could cast one spell for double damage. This was god tier!
- Melee + a ninja had a ninja attack allied action. This was very late game, but very strong.

Defensive:

- Some formation to mitigate enemy breath attacks.
- Some formation to mitigate enemy rush attacks.
- Something that kept enemies from hitting your back row, but your melee couldn't attack.

Misc:

- Use 2-3 ranged to protect 2 front row melee from normal attacks. This was basically like a counter-shot move. Enemy moves to attack you, archers unload, the mob takes damage from up to 3 archers, and gets their attack interrupted. One of the best allied actions.
- Similar to above, archers could combine to #rek a mage who's casting a spell.

+ others.

You had several classes, and classes like Ninja, Bishop (mage + cleric), Samurai, Knight were tier 2 classes. I remember an exploit you could use by using class change orbs for the tier 2 classes that would allow you to equip katanas on a knight, or shurikens on a bishop. Shurikens were OP, because they had a % chance to inflict death on hit. And that allowed mages to be more effective in ranged based allied actions.

Tons of really strong katanas, and katanas had a % chance to inflict death on hit, and were generally better than the swords that knight could use. But knight otherwise had superior offensive and defensive stats to samurai.

[Rykmentti]

Thank you for answers people. I'll probably try them out in when I have time, especially wizardry series.

[Thenais]

i can recommand some good dungeon crawlers on steam beside "stranger of the sword city":

i'm currently playing "The Fall of the Dungeon Guardians". This one is in full 3D, you can look around all you want even during movement. it's really gorgeous, and the art is in the grimdark style. can't play with a controller thought. 4 classes, 3 tree skills by class. you can pause during the real time combats, a bit like baldur's gate.

"tales of winds tomb of the sol empire" is a little game with gorgeous art, old super NES styled. Fresh, but the ending is disappointing.

"elminage gothic" is a bit too old for me. the game system is clunky, i got bored fast. i would much prefere to play good old wizardry.

i'm rather disapointed by "operation abyss" and "operation babel". they are direct ancestor of stranger of the sword city, so the gameplay is enjoyable, but the story ... is cringy. Saved by its art, i guess.

i will not speak about the "legend of grimrock" series, because i have to retry it a bit. it didn't hook me the first time.

"paper sorcerer" is fun, you should give it a try. really dry, though.

"Ray Gigant" : dumb, slow and boring. And easy. Like Really Easy, care bears level. the only difficulty is to not get bored to death before reaching the end.

and yes, it's pretty annoying to use the tag dungeon crawler on steam, as a lot of diablo style games are referenced by this tag too.

[Mauno]

Since it's very anime and still in developement with only a demo out(but supposed to be out soon) I forgot to mention that Serment - Contract with a Devil is a thing.

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and yes, it's pretty annoying to use the tag dungeon crawler on steam, as a lot of diablo style games are referenced by this tag too.

If you aren't interested in real-time blobbers it's somewhat easier to find them by adding either turn-based of turn-based combat tag and maybe a first-person tag to the search.

[Play Metaphor]

If you can, check the whole Wizardry series, especially the original trilogy (there's also a SNES fan translation around the internet).

The Wizardry series was (alongside Ultima) what sparked the JRPG genre. Look it up.

Edit: But don't you dare playing them without at least reading their game manuals.

[Nemo, Forevermore]

Infinite Adventures maybe

[Ghaleon]

Lots of dungeon crawlers on the PSVITA, not to mention the vita has a revised version of this game (which I've waited and waited and waited for a sale. IT NEVER COMES AGHAGHJAGHJ), most notable feature that I know of is that it makes the mimic king far more accessible, which is nice. Oh and 3 more classes, one of which is some non combat class that seems pointless to have as a class, could have just as easily been some kinda town upgrade buff thing, oh well.

That said Dungeon Travelers 2 on the vita is very good (if you don't mind the super kawaii anime desu waifu art). Granted most of the crawlers on vita have that 'issue' if it matters to you (oddly enough the vita revised version of stranger gets RID of alot of the anime art, wut lol). I wouldn't push someone to buy a console they don't want but I find you can get a vita for pretty darn cheap via craigslist (just try to get one with a decent memory card, you do NOT want to buy a bigger one of those).

[Rykmentti]

Even thought this is such a old threat, thanks for replies people.

I really can't seem to find another game like this. Stumbled across a PSP game called Battle Tactics Ogre: Let us cling together. Not really a Dungeon Crawler but I like the art in that game and the battle system is mostly fantastic and it plays out a bit like VIsual Novel with lots of choices.

I think second best FF Tactics like JRPG for me.

Been thinking about buying Wii or Vita at some point to check out some of their JRPG:s, lets hope there are good Dungeon Crawlers as well for those platforms.

[Ghaleon]

My fave dungeon crawler is actually labyrinth of Touhou (there's a part 2 as well which is good but I prefer the 1st for balance/challenge reasons, not to mention the dungeon navigation is more interesting and complex). But I woulnd't say it's more like this game than other dungeon crawlers.. it's top down, not first person, it's all anime art (and poor at that (though 2's is decent)), and other things, and its story is pretty throwaway (kinda thought htis game was too, but yeah, labyrinth's is even more basic no doubt). But the combat in that game is quite possibly the best turn based rpg combat ever imo. Just don't use the basic attack/fight command until you know the game very well, and yes, floor 2 is dumb (mostly the shadowcats though, they're horrible an d don't belong on floor 2). That and evasion doesn't work. ignore it. It shoul dhave been patched out completely but they didn't. not sure why, it's a flaw for sure, but as long as you ignore it, game is guud.

[Mauno]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/566540/Labyrinth_of_Refrain_Coven_of_Dusk/

and

https://store.steampowered.com/app/837610/Mary_Skelter_Nightmares/

have been released recently.

[Nemo, Forevermore]

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Even thought this is such a old threat, thanks for replies people.

I really can't seem to find another game like this. Stumbled across a PSP game called Battle Tactics Ogre: Let us cling together. Not really a Dungeon Crawler but I like the art in that game and the battle system is mostly fantastic and it plays out a bit like VIsual Novel with lots of choices.

I think second best FF Tactics like JRPG for me.

Been thinking about buying Wii or Vita at some point to check out some of their JRPG:s, lets hope there are good Dungeon Crawlers as well for those platforms.

Have you tried the Banner Saga series? Not a dungeon crawler, but you may enjoy it.

[Tegga21]

Banner saga is NOTHING like this. Try Labyrinth of Refrain, just came out recently.

[Nemo, Forevermore]

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Banner saga is NOTHING like this. Try Labyrinth of Refrain, just came out recently.

If you read the post I quoted, you would understand why I recommended Banner Saga. Of course it is nothing like Stranger of Sword City. Try reading next time and avoid the ridiculous knee-jerk reactions.