bit Dungeon II Review

bit Dungeon II is a pixelated rogue-like action adventure game. Your goal is to return the soul of your "loved one" to her grave.

The life of a newbie.

Gameplay is extremely simple, you just move around and as you touch the enemies your character automatically attacks. The only other thing you can do is holding a button to block and activate your weapons power. Power aside, when health is limited blocking becomes fundamental to survival. It is also not a procedural world. The world itself is fixed, only the enemies and loot are proceduraly generated. Dungeons are randomly picked from a set of layouts.

Huge level and attribute gap,
but still better due to the bonus.

Speaking of loot, as you slash the creatures in your path you will rack up experience and tons of loot. Rule of thumb is that the higher the rarity of the item, the better it is, even if of lower level. If you manage to reach the final boss you will get one or two drops of the very best rarity of the game, which is the only place where you can get it. Fret not, once you beat the final boss you will go to back to the beginning of the game for a repeat. You can keep this cycle until you die, leveling up and getting better and better gear. Unfortunately there are a couple of items that have secret attributes or the display just doesn't scale with how powerful they are. So make sure to thoroughly compare rare items.

Black Coin trader.

To lightly wrap things up we have the Black Coins that you will gather from defeated enemies and crates. You can only use them to buy gear and is the only thing in the game that remains after a full death. So if you had a good run and accumulated plenty of coins, you can kick start your next run by buying near state of the art gear.

Overall is a great little game that can entertain for couple of hours or dozens of hours depending on how power hungry you are. A great feature that it has is that you do get ONE chance to die and not loose your progress. If you manage to reach your death spot you can gather your life again and keep that peace of mind for some more time. The art style is simple but well done, with decent soundtrack. There are many quality of life improvements that could make the game better, but the one thing that really lacks is a clear explanation for the bonuses. Even the community couldn't figure out what Super Proc is. Simple yet enjoyable, bit Dungeon II is a great example of a neat game that a small team can produce.

PS: You can lock your inventory so even if you are frenetically pressing the button, you won't swap gear by mistake. Took us a long time to stumble upon it, but definitely made a much more enjoyable experience. Open your inventory and press "X" on the controller.

If you'd like to explore more on item rarity and bonuses we definitely recommend reading the guides on the Steam Community page. One of them we used as a base to make our own path run map that we share with you all. Enjoy.

Path Run Map

And here is our best run so far, we dare you to beat it: