Deathtrap Dungeon: The Interactive Video Adventure

Deathtrap Dungeon: The Interactive Video Adventure

released on Apr 30, 2020

Deathtrap Dungeon: The Interactive Video Adventure

released on Apr 30, 2020

Deathtrap Dungeon is an interactive video realisation of Ian Livingstone's multi-million selling classic gamebook starring Eddie Marsan (Fast & Furious presents Hobbes & Shaw, Deadpool 2, Atomic Blonde) as narrator.


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I'm enjoying this enormously. Eddie Marsan is very soothing. I could play a hundred games like this one, with various great actors appearing as my own personal DM. I can go either way with FMV in general but this formula really hit the spot, in part because Eddie is just intimately telling me a story and not trying to awkwardly engage me as a fictional character through the 4th wall.

Based on the gamebook of the same name written by Ian Livingstone but instead of reading through the pages it is all narrated to you by Eddie Marsan with images from the book appearing on screen at times. Well voiced, with appropriate sound effects added as well to fit the situations, and the art shown from the book is good. Entertaining and fairly well written as most of these tend to be. But the actual context and plot isn't as good as many of the other similar game's that have had PC versions made of them.

Like many of these has random instant death situations, luck (even a luck stat that influences things that it would have made more sense for your skill to), and choices with no real information to help you, but a lot of save points are made that you can go back to to try other paths. A lot of the instant death moments just seem to come from your character suddenly being written as an idiot. Poor ending, both just because your actual prize and the overall plot aren't interesting and because you suddenly are required to have found three specific gems out of the six you can find and lose instantly if you don't have them, even having them requires you to play an odd puzzle where you need to place them in the correct order while taking damage when you are wrong.

Cool that it was acted out well, though they could have done better with subtitles and a pause feature, but it seems more to hide the lower quality of this book and what I believe was also a shorter length to make it to the end compared to some similar titles. Worth checking out for the fairly low price though if you like these kind of games or find it on sale.