Indie developer Cinemax has revealed that its dungeon crawler game The Keep is making its way to Nintendo Switch next month, just in time to give it a spin on Christmas morning.
The Keep is designed to be a modern take on old-school dungeon crawlers like Dungeon Master and Etrian Odyssey, with the basic concept seeing you explore its dungeons in a first-person perspective, fighting off the many troublesome monsters with magic and weapons. You'll also need to solve puzzles along the way and evolve your character.
The game actually came to Nintendo 3DS a few years ago (we enjoyed our time with it back then, awarding the game an eight out of ten in our review). This Switch version is said to come with "a lot of improvements in graphics and gameplay", with lots of work going into this edition's control scheme; as the 3DS version focused on using the stylus with the touchscreen, this updated version has been reworked for use with the D-pad and analogue sticks.
The Keep launches on Switch on 20th December in the US and 24th December in Europe; you'll find it on the eShop for $17.99 / €17.99 / £15.99. You'll be able to grab a copy a little cheaper if you pre-order, though, with a discounted price of $13.99 / €13.99 / £11.99 being offered.
Did you play this one on 3DS? Are you tempted to try it out on Switch? Tell us below.
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It would be interesting to see more 3ds games come to switch.
This game depended quite a bit on the touch screen, I wonder how's it been adapted.
I played a bit of the Keep on the 3ds, the stereoscopic 3D looked quite nice. I imagine its likely better on the 3DS than Switch, despite the Switch having the nicer graphics.
Legend of Grimrock 2 is the only ever game like this that I have played, and I bloody loved that game. I'm interested to see if this is on the same level of quality, although tbh it doesn't look like it from screenshots.
Looks OK, but I'd like to see Legend of Grimrock/LoG 2.
@jcvandan Hah, your comment appeared just as I hit the post button!
I didn't care for the touch screen controls on the 3ds. Like dungeon crawling though so was alwsys interested in this. Price is a bit steep so will wait for a sale.
I enjoyed playing this on the 3DS, after picking it up on a whim when it was on sale. The spell casting system was fairly creative, and added an interesting element to battles. I'd have to see how the magic runes work without a touch screen before I'd consider getting this on the Switch
@Kalmaro I want to see a Switch Ultimate with the "Everyone is here!" tagline and it has every game ever released on any Nintendo system available. But yeah...a couple more 3DS remasters couldn't hurt in the meantime.
@Sammich I guess if you already owned it, the price is steep, but I thought that was a good price point, especially the preorder price. Is it really not worth $14? Yikes.
So do we get a Physical as well?
@aaronsullivan on the 3DS it is a fairly short game. About 6 hours tops.
@aaronsullivan knowing the design of the game and reading up on the length and content, yeah. To me it is a bit steep.
@Sammich @Yosheel Fair enough. 6 hour games are fine with me, but for this type of game that seems really short!
@jcvandan I will say, there is no dungeon crawler that can even come close to touching Grimrock...but I would not ignore other dungeon crawlers because of it.
I would give any dungeon crawler attention as long as there was a decent amount of effort put into making the game and this looks like one of them I will be getting and trying out. There needs to be more dungeon crawler love!
@Slib no, I am definitely up for trying another dungeon crawler if it gets positive reviews, but I the thing I really loved about Grimrock 2 was the lovely world. It all fit together beautiful and I really enjoyed exploring it, in fact it's one of my favourite game-worlds of all time thinking about it. It doesn't look to me like this game would offer anything along those lines.
I had a great time with this on the 3DS and it has been long enough not it will be fun to replay. Definitely worth the price IMO. About as much as a movie ticket but more hours of entertainment.
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