![]() ![]() Slight spoiler warning, but any discussion of Boyfriend Dungeon will inevitably touch upon the discourse surrounding its villain and his stalker behaviour. When paired with the fact that there are only two dungeons in town, I couldn’t help but feel like summer in Verona Beach finished just as I was getting into the swing of it. Cut the time down even further if you’ve just come off the back of a Hades binge – you’ll find this combat a breeze. The runtime is around 6 to 8 hours, meaning some players will be able to play through the entire game in a single day if they’re feeling so inclined. While I enjoyed the story and the maturity displayed, I would have loved for it to be longer. Boyfriend Dungeon asks you to accept these risks in the hope that you’ll meet someone who makes it all worth it. Maybe you’ll be rejected maybe you’ll meet someone who hurts you. The thematic consistency in Boyfriend Dungeon comes instead from the experience of putting yourself out there and meeting new people. In human form they vary as wildly as a university student, to a witch, to a K-Pop star. Beyond all being able to turn into weapons, of course. But in Boyfriend Dungeon? I couldn’t pick it. Many dating sims have an overlaying theme tying together potential dating partners groups of dads, groups of pet-owners, groups of gender-bending fairy-tale characters. They’re light, trendy bops that both capture the rush of summer hook ups with an underlying emotional depth. The full soundtrack by Marskye and Madeleine McQueen is available on Spotify, and even if you don’t end up picking up the game, I recommend you have a listen. For example, you can pick your drink of choice and your healing potions will show up in the world as that drink. The Boyfriend Dungeon package is wrapped up in some very slick UI that’s easy to use and has lovely personal touches. Now if only I could slice up my student-loan with a sabre… The wielder’s insecurities take the form of anthropomorphic monsters, allowing your character to literally fight their fears. The dungeons themselves are both quirky and thematically apt. The laser sabre was both my favourite playstyle and my favourite boy, so I was happy. Some are quick, some hit hard, some are great at handling trash mobs. ![]() The combat in Boyfriend Dungeon doesn’t take too long to figure out, with each weapon (Date? Weapon? What’s the polite terminology here?) a different riff on the same basic theme. Most characters are openly comfortable with polyamory, asexuality, or keeping things platonic. Thankfully “Boyfriend Dungeon” is a misnomer in that a girlfriend and two non-binary cuties are in the Verona Beach dating pool. ![]() If you’ve ever played Dream Daddy or Best friends Forever, you’ll be familiar with the visual novel date format where you can enjoy the fruits of your dunj-delving, gift-giving labour. Your relationship meter increases by fighting together in the dunj and buying affection with expensive gifts. Naturally, the hottest thing to do in town is for swords and wielders to explore the local dungeon (“dunj”) together in a rogue-like dungeon-crawling format.ĭon’t think too deeply about this – Boyfriend Dungeon certainly doesn’t.Īs mentioned, Boyfriend Dungeon doubles as a dating sim with seven different weapons to date. However, this isn’t a normal Tinder dating scene, as everyone at Verona Beach is either able to transform into a blade or wield one. Summer lovin’Īfter a quick character creation scene where you can choose your looks, pronouns, and drink of choice, your summer of love at Verona Beach begins. Just your standard roguelike dungeon-crawler that doubles as a dating-sim visual novel where your weapons are the dates. Eighteen months later, I’m reviewing another dungeon themed game on Switch – Kitfox Games’ Boyfriend Dungeon.ĭon’t let the clickbait title of Boyfriend Dungeon give you the wrong idea. ![]() As I write this during a pandemic-induced lockdown, I am reminded that this time last lockdown I was reviewing Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX. ![]()
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