"Beware of the mysterious dungeons that have appeared all over the region. Something seems to have corrupted them into becoming... a more dangerous place."
-Notice board at the guild
Pocket Dungeon is a Pokémon game with animated scenes and the dungeon roguelike style of the mystery dungeon games. In this game, the MC is Lucario, a Pokémon and you can choose its gender at the start. The goal of the current demo is going through every floor of the dungeon until the end, which is the 35th floor without you becoming too corrupted to continue from either losing or submitting to the other mons. All enemies currently are either male or genderless. It also contains several kinks that can all be disabled, preventing anything tied to it from appearing and the scenes are replaced by ones without it.
v0.3.1
Bug Fix
v0.3.0
Added corruption researcher, the ability to change controls, reworked the mission systems, added lots of new items, fixed bugs and rebalanced stuff
v0.2.0
Pocket Dungeon 0.2.0 is here and it finally adds a town to the game filled with several NPCs you can talk to! Each of them allows you to prepare for your runs and use the items you've found inside of the dungeon. In addition to that, they might need you to bring them some items for passive upgrades.
Note that there are no new NSFW scenes added in this update. This update only adds gameplay content with the NSFW part of it being added in the next one.
The town includes the following features:
Runes
: Select a rune that'll give you a passive effect while you're exploring the dungeon.
Shop
: Buy items you might need on your next mission or sell ones you don't need anymore!
Storage
: Store items that you don't need, but might come to for a later mission.
Bank
: Money can now be found in dungeons and earned through missions. You might want to store it in a bank!
Move Tutor
: You can now change your moveset and try out new combinations or interesting interactions. (Note that TMs now only change your moveset for the current exploration only)
Chests
: Chests can now be found or gotten as a rare reward. They can contain quite a lot of interesting items!
In addition to that, you can now do missions to gain rewards and rank up your explorer rank. Doing so allows you to further upgrade the 6 different NPCs, allowing you to use more runes, increase bag space, learn more moves, etc. There are Delivery, Outlaw, Curse and Recon Missions that can be done. The first three can be acquired from a mission post in the south of the town, while Recon Missions can be done when simply leaving the town without another mission set.
The higher your explorer rank, the harder the mission and the stronger the enemies in the dungeons become. At the same time, however, having a higher rank makes more rare items and structures spawn. Due to more options being unlocked in the town, a lot of items and different strategies can be unlocked by progressing this way as well
Next to the town, there are also these following additions/changes to the game:
Held Berries: Berries can now be held like equipment, automatically being used when it would make sense to do so
11 new runes
9 new items
9 new moves + some enemy or rare Smeargle exclusive moves can now be permanently gained
Special treasure chests appear in dungeon and need to be opened with a key
Each equipment with a sole negative effect now also has a second positive effect
Lots of new dark trader options
Smeargle now changes all of your moves instead of only 1 when encountering them in the dungeon
Oh and there's also sound and music now.
v0.1.3
Small update that adds three different difficulties to the game, (hopefully) allowing everyone to have more fun with the game. These difficulties change the spawn rates of different items, traders, traps and enemies while also increasing the enemies' level scaling.
Playing on a higher difficulty not only makes the game a bit harder, but might also make it easier to search for certain endings as some effects needed for those can be encountered here more often.
Another mechanic added is the Endless Mode that is automatically active once the demo mission of reaching floor 35 is completed. Every run started after that doesn't end anymore, most likely making the dungeon generation go crazy after 100 floors or so. Have fun!
In addition to that, a few moves have been slightly altered to be more viable. Submitting now also has an almost guaranteed chance of the enemy accepting your "offer".
v0.1.2
Initial release
morty23012023-09-22★★★★★
I like the whole idea of the game don't get me wrong, I guess I'm just not a fan of the way it plays and that it's probably not getting better since the dev said they've stopped working on this. like the few scenes I've seen in game just didn't really look good to me because they were either just a lot of male ones where you can't tell whether the pokemon you submit to will be female or male, and the one scene I did that was male x female, the ninetales swapped my bodies or something, and I could barely see the good parts, and the parts that you can see are too low scaled that they don't do anything for me.
FlinkRixxx2022-07-22★★★★★
The game has an absolutely fantastic artstyle, the animation is superb, the level desing could use some work but the game is hot as hell! This is really nostalgic, really helps you remember the old days of Pokémon. 10/10
Kit1612022-07-13★★★★★
Good potential and pretty close to the play style of the original Mystery Dungeon games. Would like to see some variety with male/female enemies, but I definitely want to keep an eye on this one and see which direction it takes.
Lafuelle2022-06-05★★★★★
The base of a game is all there and well-programmed, and I think that's a huge plus over other games that are just a glorified gallery with little to no gameplay. I might consider picking up a mystery dungeon game just to see how well it compares and because this kind of gameplay is interesting enough to try for more. It pads out the content in ways well enough that it could keep you playing. Although I personally don't really care to unlock all the gallery scenes right now, as some are tedious to get, luck dependant (looking at you, down-leveling ending?) and conditions aren't exactly clear. My biggest struggling point is probably the low res of some of the scenes leaving a bit too much the imagination. It does provide the opportunity to churn out a lot more scenes and that kind of variation could also be a huge boon. So I'm undecided on whether a change on that would be for the better. Perhaps a combination of descriptive text to spurn the imagination together with the images could enhance the scenes a bit further. ... and as an enthusiast of cookies, I am very glad the creator went with that route instead of 2 boring pink pixels. Keep it up champ. I hope I can see some more updates in the future.
TouchFluffyTail872022-05-17★★★★★
Pros: Competent Mystery Dungeon clone Gameplay is mostly good and engaging, you have to use your brain at least a bit instead of grinding through levels on autopilot Sex animations are well done Sex stuff has gameplay effects Cons: Item management can get tedious Getting certain scenes and endings can take many lengthy attempts due to RNG No option to skip scenes you've already seen Overall, a pretty good game.
zerinis2022-04-27★★★★★
For what it is it is great overall, especially as such an early build apparently. A good implementation of the mystery dungeon games from dungeon generation through the items. H items and status effects are also well integrated as well, surprisingly. Has a variety of scenes with user control over several themes in it. Haven't even noticed any bugs. Definitely shows the effort put into it, and hope to see more. I should note this game is lacking sound, but that is hardly a negative for me atleast.
Philthylizard2022-04-26★★★★★
Game is pretty boring , lewd scenes are lacking and really unfullfilling since janky 8 bit graphics , combat is super bland all in all pretty lazy game and Lucario is way over represented in pokemon stuff , final verdict: there are way better games on this site dont waste your time
Playfulpetfox2022-04-25★★★★★
Very cute little dungeon crawler that holds pretty true to a certain DS game, but with a lewd bonus. The biggest flaws come from gameplay, which is in a style that just hasn't aged very well, and feels especially janky when paired with what I assume to be custom code. Lining up attacks doesn't feel great, and the control scheme is dreadful. The lewd content is relatively lacking, but is decent enough to give this game 3 stars. It gets 4 because there's a submit button if you want to skip the pretty bland combat and get the scenes. It allows for Male or Female play as well, and has a kink blacklist, which is just a fantastic thing. If the scenes get more well rounded (They're short, and the 8-bit quality does make it a bit...strange to view), this will be a solid game. If the combat gets more polish on top of that, this has some real potential.