Shadowcrawl: The Dark Pilgrimage

I recorded much of my experiences with ShadowCrawl, if you prefer an Audio/Visual review of the game. Take a look for a more complete picture. https://youtu.be/fWzICHaKvSo I did not like ShadowCrawl. Why? Well, for MANY reasons. As always, I will strive to be Productive in my critiques, in the hope that perhaps the dev will address these simple to correct problems that really tanked my perspective of the game. A reexamination of the numbered issues below, & corrections to them, would REALLY help this game, & might cause more people to review it favorably, which may in turn result in more sales if paired with a promoted discount. Here we go. [h1]1. Please add volume options off the main screen[/h1], the music is too loud, I can barely think straight with it blaring in my ears. Worse, there are no volume options in the game, period, so not great. Hell of a first impression game! So, after I exited the game in a panic due to the loud repetitive crap blaring in my ears, I adjusted my desktop volume & restarted the game, and [h1]2. I Could not initially complete the character selection! [/h1] After MUCH clicking around, I finally found out that you have to press “E” to confirm your…

Really great game for damaging the fabric of reality and unleashing horrors across all universes!

great dungeon crawler game! i picked this game up at this expo i went to back in 2018. you guys are still great!

When I spoke with the developer of Shadowcrawl at a games convention a few years back, his vision for this game was pretty simple: make it a complete ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. He had worked as a programmer and creative team member in the games industry for some time and was completely annoyed with how much got cut from a game to save time and meet release deadlines. Shadowcrawl is less of a game on its own and more of an experiment. How many of those weird, one-off ideas can you shove into a game system before it becomes convoluted and annoying? Turns out, not many. But despite that, Shadowcrawl is surprisingly easy to pick up and play and obviously has quite a bit of depth because there are so many weird, disparate system mechanics clashing with one another that for those of you that can survive the initial headache, you're gonna have one helluva time. However, there is quite a bit of Shadowcrawl content that has fallen by the wayside (I mean, seriously, what the hell happened to that card game concept?), so it's kind of disproven its own point of "you can put as many systems and whimsical ideas into the game as long as you have enough time."

At first, it will look like a very, very simple game, with little mechanics. But oh boy ..... Things will get really messy as you progress throughout the dungeons. Companions, betrayals, cults ... And lot's of loots !!! Don't forget Michael, you'll probably get killed by Michael ...

got this game as a gift during COVID-19. By the author. This should be enough for me to give a thumb up, even if I wasn't the one who got the game. BUT. BUT the game is also good if you are into rouguelike. I've played a couple of run and It's weird, it's random and it's dark in a way you can understand if you have played games back in the days when some combination of graphics and sounds evoked sensation close to an acid trip. Or to a Dark Pilgrimage.