DROD: King Dugan's Dungeon

Caravel Games describes the DROD (Deadly Rooms of Death) series as "dungeon crawls for thinkers," and that's what they are--an oddly compelling combination of puzzle solving and the dungeon experience.

We won't go into too much detail here--for more information, see the listing for DROD: Journey to Rooted Hold.

King Dugan's Dungeon has been around in different forms for years. It is the original game that started many DROD players' careers. Now it has been upgraded it to make full use of the latest DROD engine. King Dugan's Dungeon now has better graphics, new rooms, new secrets, complete voice acting for Beethro and other characters, and is fully integrated into Caravel's online score and progress-tracking system. The old version is still available, but for the best experience, we recommend this version of King Dugan's Dungeon. To give you a sense of what lies in store, this level collection is roughly the same size as Journey to Rooted Hold, with over 350 rooms!

The full version of DROD: King Dugan's Dungeon also contains Neil Frederick's excellent hold, The Choice. This is a challenging series of rooms organized such that each room must be completed in one of two ways, depending on an initial decision.

So... Which game should you buy? Well, Rooted Hold has gotten more attention recently, because it's newer--but they're both excellent games. Either way, really--but it's good to know that once you've exhausted the puzzling goodness of one (which will take quite a while), the other awaits.