I ought to have recognized right away that Rizz Dungeon: Skeleton Key to My Heart was from the identical crew behind Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion. Ridiculous identify? Check. Deeply brainrotted humour? Double verify. Ridiculously enjoyable to play regardless of its comparatively easy premise? Check, verify, and verify.
Rizz Dungeon (eurgh, I’m nonetheless getting used to the identify) is chronically on-line girlypop deluxe—unironically utilizing “chat” to handle the room regardless of not being wherever close to a Twitch stream, foolish little sleepovers, and consistently flirting with all the opposite girlies you cross paths with. It’s as if a nightclub lavatory was truly a sequence of dungeons stuffed with cute monsters. I imply, generally it is like that, however you get my level.
Instead of being put within the footwear of some battle-hardened dungeon crawler, I’m as a substitute piloting Taffy—a ditzy flirt who’s significantly better at hitting on monsters than she is at combating them. She can “rizz” her manner by way of encounters, utilizing pick-up strains and honing in on what every monster lady likes in an effort to recruit them and have them struggle on her behalf. Make love not conflict, and all that.
Girldom is ceaselessly finicky, although, and I really like Rizz Dungeon’s little techniques that every one play off one another. Certain monster ladies will sulk if they are not positioned the place they prefer to be within the get together—reducing their stats—whereas some will both turn into jealous or empowered in the event that they witness you hugging one other monster lady in entrance of them.
Figuring out what every monster lady likes and the way that straight interacts with and influences the others looks as if it’ll be a ton of enjoyable in relation to maximising get together synergy. I solely acquired to play with it a teeny bit in the course of the demo, however discovering methods to offer everybody a stat increase proper from the get-go with selection placements and interactions was ridiculously satisfying.
And on the finish of a protracted day dungeon crawling, you possibly can provoke sleepovers along with your recruited monster ladies. Gossip away to construct friendship or romance—you recognize, as all of the girlies do. I did discover a few of these dialogue selections frustratingly obtuse in each the sleepovers and battle encounters—I fumbled the baddies on a number of events as a result of the context clues weren’t fairly loud sufficient for me to choose up on, with the textual content “L rizz bozo” flashing throughout the display screen, taunting me.
Although Rizz Dungeon’s demo is only a small snippet of what is to return, I’m already obsessive about its tackle what’s normally a brutal and infrequently unforgiving style. With its vibrant pixel artwork and cutesy decorations, it is very a lot the reverse of what I’ve come to count on from dank and darkish dungeon crawlers.
Rizz Dungeon: Skeleton Key to My Heart is at the moment slated to launch on September 17.