“Heroes of the Monkey Tavern” (“HMT”) is the inaugural (and so far only) game by French Indie developer, Monkey Stories Games. Released in 2016 on Steam, before being ported to Switch and PlayStation 4 the following year, this retro-style Dungeon Crawler came to my attention through my membership in the ‘Grid-Based Dungeon Crawlers’ Steam Group, which aims to promote a wonderful RPG subgenre that doesn’t get any respect in this day and age of Open-World Sandbox games masquerading as Role-Playing titles.
As a Dungeon Crawler fan dating back to the SNES port of “Dungeon Master” and the ‘Eye of the Beholder’ trilogy by Westwood Associates, I was quite pleased to see this waning subgenre make something of a comeback in the public eye with the much-spoken-of releases ... |
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