I paid one dollar for this game and enjoyed the nearly ten hours that I played it. I'd call that a win!

There are sexy goblins.

If you love crypts, serpents, or kings, you're in for quite the treat. This is essentially the epitome of gaming.

My favorite game of all time

Phenomenal game play and one hell of a great way to waste some time when you've got nothing else to do.
Plenty of challenging achievements and perfect potential to speedrun, just set a timer and have a good time trying to beat the top ranks.

Only bug I've encountered was falling through the map a couple times, but that only happened in my earlier runs so maybe it was just the game punishing me for being a pleb, who knows. Would also request they add some kind of multiplayer arena or map creator mode like Farcry.

11/10 would recommend to any fans of For Honor, Dark Souls I-III, or good games in general, this is a masterpiece

Absolutely astonishing. Crypt of the Serpent King is a true masterpiece crafted by a mechanical-coding genius. The amount of flexibility there is in the combat system is like none other. With the 100 keys on my keyboard, having the option to bind all 6 controls was a task, but I got used to it after slaying a few rats and goblins. There are plenty of combos to choose from, like: "Kite back-and-forth then swing after the enemy does" "Strafe around the enemy and hit them in the back, cancelling their attack animation" and of course, the very powerful, "Hold the S key and click mouse 1 with the crossbow and/or bow & arrow equipped and win the game".

I'd recommend perfecting every CS:GO surfing map before even opening the application, because movement in this game is CRITICAL, especially in those closed-corridor boss fights.

Needless to say, I enjoyed my couple of hours playing this game and plan on earning all 21 achievements the next time I'm mindlessly bored.

goblin feet

Ever since the world started to exist and humanity began to evolve, people have been asking themselves one question: "Why? Why do we exist? What purpose do we serve? Are we just a form of amusement to a higher being? Are we here just to one day vanish into nothingness? Why? Truly, why do we exist?"

With this game, we finally know the answer. Every person born up until December 17th 2016 only existed so that humanity may potentially create something resembling a higher life form. With this game we have achieved the peak of what we are capable of. Only play this game if you are prepared to experience the best moment of your life because after you are done, your life will only go downhill.

I PRAY TO THE SERPENT KING!

Well that was disapointing...
>All the levels were nearly identical
>All enemies had only one attack
>You only have one attack and no block
>All weapons are essentially identical except for damage with pointless ranged weapons thrown in.
>There was only one single enemy type per level and than a boss
>Game has 7 levels which are easy and took me 90 minutes to finish on Easy

Overall for 3$ I'm not saying don't buy it if you want to help the dev out but this project is pretty bad imo.

I noticed this game when the developers released a demo, which I really appreciate - so if you're wondering if you'll like the gameplay, go check out the first 2 levels for free. Just don't expect the rest of the game to offer anything different. I did enjoy the demo; but made the assumption that the full game had more depth. This is not the case.


The gameplay is fairly standard for this sort of dungeon crawler, it's a real-time action game, so you walk around and you explore, kill creatures and pick up keys in order to level up and progress to the next level. The movement is simple and well executed, and the animations are smooth and swish.

Unfortunately the levels are extremely repetitive, to the point where most of them feel the same, and the selection of monsters very poor. There is a mini-boss guardian between each level, but they didn't seem to do anything special. There are also only 7 levels to the entire game (repeatable on 3 difficulty levels), so it's really rather short. There's not a great deal of loot (only gold and health in game, and a very small selection of weapons you can purchase at each level start, no armor or skills or special abilities), and stats don't seem to make a whole lot of difference (and you can max them out by level 5 on casual). There are also no puzzles, and the mapping is standard and predictable, which unfortunately makes this game lack in much of the intellectual variety.

So, you get where I'm going with this, there's just not enough. It's just shallow. Not enough depth, length, variety or gameplay at all. What is there is done well, and I understand it's a £2 game, but it really feels like the entire game is a Unity demo or concept - and it just needs more more more of everything. Since the levels, monsters and environment lack variety, I was thoroughly bored by the end of casual (approximately 90 minutes). I have no doubt that the harder difficulties are much more challenging - but without any additional monsters, loot or mechanics, I just couldn't find any fun in a further grind.


If there is a mega epic battle around the corner, then the music ramping up in intensity and tone is great. However, the music in this seemed to be slightly confused, as on many occasions it got all excited over absolutely nothing, which really didn't help the tone at all. That wall I just walked into? Yeah, that's not a threat. Sometimes there would be no change in music (there are also no footsteps or noise indicators until you're being stabbed in the back by a goblin), which I suppose added an element of "jump scare horror" to the game when I turned around and realized three orcs were all up in my face.

• Smooth animations and reasonable graphics.
  
• Low price.
  
• Increasing difficulties for those who enjoy the game and want a challenge.

• Incredibly simple and shallow gameplay.
  
• Boring, due to the lack of mechanics and similar environments.
  
• Weird music issues.
  
• Very short (90 minutes on the easy difficulty).

Crypt of the Serpent King is a first person dungeon crawler in which you aim to gather keys to unlock a final room (per level) to fight a boss entity. This game is fairly simple, which isn't inherently bad... It should be noted that the developer actively listens to the voice of the community and addresses concerns with frequent updates.

I don't recommend purchasing the game for the average consumer; It feels incomplete. The game is playable and I am personally interested to see if new features might be added to spice up the game a bit. At present, the game is just a bit bland. However; I DO recommend that if you have found your way to this page, keep an eye on this game!

Some things I liked:
> music can create a tone of tension and anxiety
> creature models look pretty good

Some things I didn't like so much:
> stats don't seem to impact the game all that much
New weapons seem more important than allocating stat points

> lack of depth ( no puzzles or interesting lore objects )
Who is the player? Why are they in the crypt? There is no attachment to the game world

> Every room looks the same