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[Evil Calvin]

I love dungeon crawlers (Wizardry and other first person 'blobbers') of the 80's and 90's. Also like top down western RPG games like Ultima, Skald, Baldurs Gate…etc…

Are there any level based RPG dungeon crawlers, whether top down or first person, where it is endless? Like…explore, get loot, kill monsters and go to the next dungeon level?

I'm looking for an RPG which even if I die I can continue on and keep delving. Not really rogue like but just endless exploration, getting better gear and leveling up.

Edit: not necessarily a recent game but that would be good.

 

[ReyBrujo]

You could ask at the dungeon crawler thread. I've crossed a few long ones but I can't remember right now out of the top of my head. There is a tower at Labyrinth of Galleria which has over 3000 floors you need to beat before finishing the game which is the largest one I've ever played but after a while it becomes somewhat repetitive. However once your characters reach level 99 you can "reset" them to earn some attribute extras and continue accumulating levels, by the time I ended the game my characters were about level 1300 or 1400 IIRC. I guess you will have more luck with a rogue-like game than with a wizardry-like game.

 

[Here]

Caves of Qud hits some of those notes. Can play with permadeath on or off. Probably not considered endless but pretty open ended.

Disgaea item world?

Unendless wizardy-likes : Etrian Odyssey had a rerelease recently. That's probably 300 hours of gameplay if you 100% the first 3 games.

 

[John Bilbo]

ROGUE-FP

ROGUE-FP is a blend of old school classic roguelike gameplay with new school first pers

www.gog.com

Check this out

 

[Evil Calvin]

You could ask at the dungeon crawler thread. I've crossed a few long ones but I can't remember right now out of the top of my head. There is a tower at Labyrinth of Galleria which has over 3000 floors you need to beat before finishing the game which is the largest one I've ever played but after a while it becomes somewhat repetitive. However once your characters reach level 99 you can "reset" them to earn some attribute extras and continue accumulating levels, by the time I ended the game my characters were about level 1300 or 1400 IIRC. I guess you will have more luck with a rogue-like game than with a wizardry-like game.

It seems to be a JRPG which I find light in exploration and loot. And lots of repetitive random battles. Probably looking for more WRPG style exploration. Hard to explain. Even a top down ARPG (even Zelda-like) with lots of cool, different loot and upgrades. Could be turn based battles or action.

 

[Evil Calvin]

I was looking at Caves. Is it similar to Ultima or Moonring?

 

[Evil Calvin]

ROGUE-FP

ROGUE-FP is a blend of old school classic roguelike gameplay with new school first pers

www.gog.com

Check this out

Just added the demo to my Steam Deck. Thanks.

 

[ReyBrujo]

It seems to be a JRPG which I find light in exploration and loot. And lots of repetitive random battles. Probably looking for more WRPG style exploration. Hard to explain. Even a top down ARPG (even Zelda-like) with lots of cool, different loot and upgrades. Could be turn based battles or action.

Galleria and Labyrinth of Refrain (the first game) don't have random encounters, they are blobbers. They got a large amount of items to get, in four categories (like common, unusual, epic, legendary, etc), you can reforge them, and you can build teams of up to 15 playable characters (40 with the supporters) per battle. I find it got one of the deepest gameplays, and the story is very good. But yes, it's "cutesy" (even though the stories include suicide and sexual abuse). For "westernized" I would go with Ultima Online, Dwarf Fortress, Caves of Qud or Moonring DX, as I mentioned more "roguelike" which are more bound to generate infinite mazes.

 

[Sgt.Asher]

Caves of Qud hits some of those notes. Can play with permadeath on or off. Probably not considered endless but pretty open ended.

I was coming to say this. Just recently came out for the Switch as well

 

[John Bilbo]

This could also interest you even though it does not have turn based combat.

 

[ClanOfNone]

Dungeon Hack is what you're lookin for.

 

[Guilty_AI]

You could look into stellar tactics, full release is in 2 days

Basically space exploration game with thousands of systems where you can ""land"" on planets and stations that work like a dungeon, with xcom gameplay.

 

[amigastar]

Cralon looks really interesting from the ex Gothic devs, coming soon

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

This game has a beautiful protagonist. The same artist who draws Haruhi Suzumiya.

 

[simpatico]

Try this if you're into crack. I don't know the genre really well, but I'm addicted to their other game, and this was a good demo for me.

 

[Guilty_AI]

The same artist who draws Haruhi Suzumiya.

>Draws.
>Present tense.
>Implies Haruhi Suzumiya still gets made.

Dont break my heart

 

[ReyBrujo]

Dont break my heart

Isn't a movie coming this year?

 

[ClanOfNone]

You could look into stellar tactics, full release is in 2 days

Basically space exploration game with thousands of systems where you can ""land"" on planets and stations that work like a dungeon, with xcom gameplay.

Holy crap, this is finally coming out. Now I just need an Exanima full release and a pc to play them on!

 

[Guilty_AI]

Isn't a movie coming this year?

EDIT: Its a re-release from the 2010 movie