Games Like Dungeon of Departure

Trapped in a mysterious cave system, four dungeon explorers struggle to find a way out before the light fades forever...

Dungeon of Departure is an independently developed, pixel art, visual novel set in an original universe. The story follows the silent, player protagonist and three companion characters as they face difficult decisions, strange occurrences, and seek a path forward and out of an increasingly puzzling, underground world.

Choices matter as your decisions can lead you through four unique story paths. Plus, throughout the journey, your fellow explorers will be relying on your way-finding and map-making abilities, which will determine the success or failure of these paths, resulting in eight unique endings. You might need pen and paper.

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ADDITIONAL INFO

SPOILER-FREE PLOT INTRODUCTION

You control an unnamed, silent protagonist from whose perspective the game is presented. You have received a letter from an old friend, Akari, requesting your map-making abilities for an upcoming dungeon exploration. Dungeons are underground living complexes built to house a population during the two-hundred year long warming periods where surface temperatures are too extreme for human survival. Akari is part of an Explorer's Guild, a union of professional cavers and dungeon scholars that oversee all official exploration of unknown dungeons.

You accept the task and travel to Tivanna where you meet Akari and the other four members of the Tivanna Explorer's Guild. After a night of preparation, the guild heads to the dungeon and begins their expedition. You must carefully map out the rooms and passages in the dungeon as described to you by the other members of the guild, who will rely on you to guide them back to the surface, should anything go wrong.

Along the way, your group finds two cavers, Duro and Keiva, who adventured into the dungeon without authorization and became stuck in the darkness. After a series of unfortunate events leaves you trapped in the dungeon, you will be tasked with navigating a mysterious cave system with Akari, Duro, and Keiva as the four of you struggle to find a way back to the surface before the light fades forever.