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bit Dungeon – Entertainment Game Review
bit Dungeon is a Entertainment/Action/Roleplaying game from Kinto Games LLC, first launched in 14th December 2012.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 152+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes bit Dungeon Stand Out
"It's a smartly and elegantly designed game that's not afraid to permakill you" –IndieGames.com
"The distilled essence of every 8-bit action role-playing game ever. Love it." –Kotaku
"Bit Dungeon brings together The Legend of Zelda’s top-down dungeon stomping, Diablo’s loot lust, and the unforgiving difficulty of roguelikes within a slick retro-style quest." –Mac|Life
"It’s great fun, made even more entertaining by the retro visuals that bring to mind classics like The Legend of Zelda on NES." –Game Trailers
√ 16-bit Graphics
√ 8-bit music from STRESS_TN
Known Issue
Warning, it is best to re-install the game when applying this update. There is a known save issue on some devices if you update with out re-installing.
Instructions
You and your wife were captured by demons…
You wake up trapped in a cell, grab your sword and let the quest to find your wife begin!
•The "Save Rune" feature is only there to stop playing and pick it up later.
•If you die you lose all items and start over.
•Extra Life: at Level 4 you receive a Soul after the boss instead of more magic. When you die this soul gives you a second chance.
•“Touch” to control the character.
•Hold down “Touch” to charge up and use a STUN ATTACK.
•Once CHARGED your next attack will be a POWER ATTACK dealing the total [Attack Damage+Critical Damage+Armor]
•Hold Down “Touch” to BLOCK any attack.
Stats
LifeRegen – Regens life slowly over time.
LifeSteal – Steals life and heals you per hit.
DeathStrike – Chance to instant kill normal enemies.
Chop – Chance to take off 25% of total life in one hit.
Cleave – Chance to do "Double" attack Damage.
Proc – Chance to shoot a magic bolt on hit.
Crit – Chance to do a Critical hit (Critical Damage3).
Defend – Chance to block all enemy Damage on hit.
RunSpeed – the movement speed of your character.
Attack Damage – Normal hit Damage.
Critical Damage – Critical hit Damage.
Armor – Reduces Damage by a percent.
Life – Increases max life.
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This Entertainment game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, bit Dungeon is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 2nd June 2020
Recent improvements include:
Fix for 64 bit iOS.
Download & Availability
bit Dungeon is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
This game is great! Leveling choices (damage, crit, health) needs to be easier to chose the one you want. We cant tell when Im going to gain a level, and if you are standing near one of the choices the game essentially picks it for you. It should be moved to an area of the map where you cant accidentally choose the wrong stats. Other than that and some lag, this is one of our favorite games.
Love it. Great game. Addicting rouge like dungeon diving. Reminds of Zelda dungeons. Originally a pc game, the movement mechanics work perfect for touch devices. At some point in the past it stopped working because of the 64bit change to iOS. Glad we never deleted this game so we were reminded that we had it (even though it didnt work). The devs finally updated it!!! So happy again. Thanks.
Wow where do we even start. We used to play this game on our little iPhone 5 a couple years back but when we got a new phone we never could play the game again :( we downloaded the game again today and honestly we forgot how much fun it is. If we were to give feedback Id definitely start by saying it would be nice to have a settings menu that could allow you to be able to change the way you play for example, if you could have HD graphics or even make the graphics more pixelated, and to change the way you control your character like a D-pad or joystick mechanic also if its possible to make the resolution of the game bigger so its easier to see that would make the game even more enjoyable. Well thats basically all we have to say :) this game is amazing and we hope someone whos behind the creation of this beautiful game sees this.
Ahhhh!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH for updating this, as well as the sequel!!! Also – THANK YOU for III!!!! Such FANTASTIC games.
This and the second one are our 2 favourite mobile games. They are so engaging, and the monsters are super fun to battle. Will this ever be updated so people will be able to play it again on the newest IOS update.
Ive been waiting for them to update the app so It works on iOS 11. We payed for this game and now we cant play it until they update their game.
We love this game we would play it for hours but Im sad because we cant play it because it needs to update to iOS 11.
We wanna try the game, dont give up, just one update for iOS 11.
We love this game. Super fun. Wish it had optional virtual joystick control. Ipad controls work great. IPhone is hard to control. The panning becomes hard to control. Wish this game would update for 64 bit.
This is one of our favorite retro style dungeon games,but since iOS 11 launched we cant play it anymore :/ please update it if at all possible we payed for the game and cant play anymore.
Short answer: you found it. We've been playing this for nearly a year. The controls are so smooth, the levels progress at a steady, but rewarding pace. The aesthetic of the game is top knot here. Thank you Tom Heinecke and to everyone behind bit dungeon.
It's amazing and if you're unsure get it it's.
This game is very very fun but at first we had absolutely no idea how to play we recommend a how to play even just something to read to find out how to play thanks must buy game.
This game is amazing and extremely addictive. We play it a lot and wanted to waste the little money we had on our account to buy some coins. We purchased 20,000 coins, but when we left the game and came back, all our coins were gone. That's $8 of ours completely gone. Can this please be fixed.
We can't stop playing this deceptively simple action RPG. Highly recommended for fans of the old Zelda games or anyone looking for a dungeon crawler. We were always hesitant to download this to our iPhone because the screenshots make it appear as though it doesn't fill the screen but it does for us on the iPhone 6.
Bit dungeon is a great game but please fix the frame skip that occurs when the music loops and when entering through doors.
Ok, so this game is flat out amazing. Everything about it is fantastic. The art style is charming, the controls are very unique and very easy to learn, and the enemies are all very cool. We're gonna say this now, don't buy the game unless you want to rage. Some people don't understand the saving system, so we'll explain to you guys. The saving systems works like this, when you save, you can leave the game and spawn in that area. But, if you die, then You have to start over. That's the point of the game guys… It's supposed to be a perma death game. Anyways, this game is very addicting and we always find ourselves playing when we get the chance. This game has randomized loot drops. This makes each playthrough unique in itself. But also, the shops are randomized too. (Not gonna spoil how to get to the shops.) so, if this type of game.interests you, then you should definitely buy it.
Coolest game ever, tons of loot different environments and monsters bosses shops freaking GENIUS.
On our Iphone 4 when we try to get an item in a chest we end up just moving the chest. We guess we will just try bit dungeon on the ipad.
This game is worth buying. It's extremely fun and addicting with its awesome boss battles, cool armor sets, and different styled dungeon floors. Not to mention all the crazy loot.
This game is a super addicting roguelike game. Its like zelda but with items like diablo. The controls are perfect for Ipad, and it has a very satisfying combat system. This is a must have.
Every time we die we have to start over. Its still an amazing game and well worth the small price they are asking for.
It's like Zelda meets binding of Isaac meets diablo. We know those games are pretty similar but you'll understand what we mean when you play. Music is amazing. Too bad it only plays after battles.
We have always wanted this for iPhones and apple devices!!!! So glad it finally came out.
Awesome game guys! It would be even better with 4 player multiplayer. The monsters are cool, and each and every dungeon randomized and unique. The use of retro graphics is amazing.
Awesome game but on iPad we had issues picking up chests it glitches and we couldn't them up anymore.
This is a gem. We fell in love with this game the second we started playing. The music, the challenge, the enemies, controls, even mixing magic and armor set buffs. This game is AMAZING and worth every penny. Can't wait to see what's next. Great Job man :).
Its a great game but it dowsnt save anymore.
This game is freaking awesome and actually has more depth than it appears on its surface. If you don't understand the controls or how to get to the final boss, try Google guys geez! We'd much rather the developer spend the time making the gameplay awesome like it is than creating some in-app tutorial or training. You will figure it out. Very excited to see a bit dungeon II may be on the horizon :-).
We lost our coins/character when we reinstalled the game (following the dev's advice to do a fresh reinstall for this update), but we don't mind it so much considering you can gain coins rather fast! The new enemies/boss is rather difficult, even for us who has beaten the game several times over previous to this patch! The difficulty is refreshing, and we guess it teaches you to put some points into HP eventually rather than stacking just one stat. Looking forward to seeing what else is new.
Best rogue-like RPG on the App Store.
Thank you for the dlc and for the update. We can tell the future updates will exceed the every time.
This game, is one of the best 8-bit style games we've played in a long time and with the Dlc update makes is 100X better. Keep up the good work :).
This game is one of the best games on our ipad. With so much content, and great controls, this app is sure to stay on our ipad for a while.
We would like to know if you guys are going to update this game so we can play it again. Apparently it needs to be compatible with ios 11.
We think it could use a update for bugs and crash fixes and it could be better if added multiplayer on local or game center or both it would be amazing.
This game is great, but there are a few things to point out: 1. Saving, maybe save your items. 2. Making this iPhone Compatible.
The game itself is amazing with the retro graphics and music but the one thing we hate is when you die.The ghost guy who sells the the extra life is cool and all but why start from the beginning when u die? You should just start from where the level began with the gear and stats u had before u died.
We used to play this on PC but now we can play it anywhere we want to! It sometimes does not save but not very often. You can keep playing over and over again, each time getting new weapons and armor. We recommend this game.
Awesome game actually a fantastic one but when we play say we die and we're on level two when we get to level two it says it's saving but when we die game over we have to start all over again! There should be a save button and a pause one because this games do addicting our dads always yelling to get us off so make a pause and save button.
Hahah! You looked! It's a great game. We like the little things added that were missing on the PC. But what would be cool would be an option menu so we can have a small analog stick to control our guy. And a button to for magic/shield. An OPTION so everyone that does not like does not have to use it ^_^ that happens and we'll give 5 stars. Maybe even buy some coins if we could.
We like this game a lot, but we think it would be much better if there was a pause screen, and controls over sound and music. Also, fix the chests so they pick up more easily. Make instructions as well so that people know about the spirit world.
We would like to see extra game modes and more purpose. There just isn't really any depth to it but it is still amazing.
Every time we exit the game completely it doesn't save our character. Which means we have to start new every time. Black coins and all it's like it just resets everything. Kind of annoying.
The last thing we'd consider is being able to rotate the screen with the device then the game would be great in our book (:.
We bought and played this game a lot a while ago with no lag or anything. Now It resparked our interest but it seems to lag and freeze up at random points for no reason. A fix for this would be really appreciated, otherwise very fun game, wish youd return to working on it. Also – a major problem is the innability to exit the coin buying menu. Thats just tricking people and wrong.
Its fun to play. But we last about 30 minutes before getting bored. If you die you restart, we dont mind but it kinda freezes every now and then. Probly just us but yeah.
Freezes in-game frequently on our ipod touch 5g with ios7. Better controls are needed such as virtual joystick or gamepad.
This game is great, however in the last update for the iPhone it erased our save! Now we can't save any games either, really disappointing :( we hope the update that fixes this comes out soon! We are beginning to lose all hope.
This update deleted our characters. Twice we put black coins on a toon and both times they were deleted. This is one of our favorite mobile games, but we can't play it if our toons are perma deathed for no reason.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 3.63
- Size: 41.30 MB
- iOS: 8.0 or later
- Languages: CS, DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, EL, HE, ID, IT, JA, KO, MS, NB, PL, PT, RU, ZH, ES, SV, TH, ZH, TR, VI
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes, Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes
- Developer: [Kinto Games LLC]()
Last updated: 2nd June 2020 | Genre: Entertainment, Action | Developer: Kinto Games LLC