New release: Bit Dungeon

KintoGames recently released Bit Dungeon, a Zelda-style top-down dungeon crawler, on iPad–and that’s as good an excuse to write about it as any. (The original game was actually released back in September, but hey–it’s new to me.)

The premise:

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!

So, uh, you know: not exactly a Nabokov-level narrative, but sufficient to give one an excuse for running around a dungeon and sword-slashing things to death.

Bit Dungeon is available for free in browser (Newgrounds, Kongregate), or for $0.99 if you want to play it on iPad.