Fang was once a proud and rich city, until Baron Sukumvit took over. Under his rule, the city is known as the City of the Lost Souls. Deep inside the mountains surrounding the city, Baron Sukumvit built a labyrinth, named Deathtrap Dungeon, and used it to imprison his enemies. Filled with vulgarities, traps and disgusting monsters, the dungeon is a very dangerous place. With his enemies gone, the Baron now has opened up the dungeon to sport and sends willing heroes down into it's depths, betting on the likelihood of their survival. If anyone could survive all levels of the dungeon, and slay the red dragon Melkor, they would receive 10.000 gold pieces and Baron Sukumvit would renounce his rule over Fang. Two brave heroes: Red Lotus and Bandog, agree to these terms and enter the Deathtrap Dungeon...

Deathtrap Dungeon is a 3rd person action game. Controlling either Red Lotus or Bandog, the player controls the character from behind with a camera mode like in Tomb Raider. To deal with the enemies encountered, there are three different kinds of attacks: melee weapons, range weapons and magic. The melee weapons include basic fists to normal swords to a magic enhanced war hammer. In the range weapons department are goodies like bombs or a flame-thrower. In terms of spells are magicks such as fireballs or rather crazy spells like the exploding pig. But the real challenge are of course the riddles, traps and abysses that are everywhere throughout the dungeon.

During the journey, players will encounter many locked doors, that require the finding of keys and devices. There are also potions that regenerate health or provide immunity against fire for a limited amount of time. There are also several treasures hidden in the dungeon, finding them will increase the player's score at the end of the level. The player can save this game during a level by finding the various save points.

The game also features the two multiplayer-modes: Deathmatch and Last Man Standing.

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Screenshots

Ian Livingstone's Deathtrap Dungeon PlayStation Level start

Ian Livingstone's Deathtrap Dungeon Windows the final scenario

Ian Livingstone's Deathtrap Dungeon PlayStation Game start

Ian Livingstone's Deathtrap Dungeon Windows loading selected level

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Promo Images

Ian Livingstone's Deathtrap Dungeon Screenshot

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Trailer

Alternate Titles

"Deathtrap Dungeon" -- GOG.com re-release title

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User Reviews

Tomb Raider Goes Fighting Fantasy	Windows	wampyrii (9)

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Critic Reviews

Mega Fun	PlayStation	May, 1998	86 out of 100	86
Privat Computer PC	Windows	1998	82 out of 100	82
Gameplay (Benelux)	Windows	Jun, 1998	81 out of 100	81
Adrenaline Vault, The (AVault)	Windows	Jul 19, 1998		80
Gamezilla	PlayStation	1998	73 out of 100	73
Game Over Online	Windows	Jun 28, 1998	63 out of 100	63
Computer Gaming World (CGW)	Windows	Dec, 1998		60
Computer Games Magazine	Windows	Aug 24, 1998		50
GameSpot	PlayStation	Apr 22, 1998	3.7 out of 10	37
The Video Game Critic	PlayStation	Jul 08, 2012	D+	33

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Lots of screenshots and a few videos	11	Sciere (779279) Mar 01, 2009

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Trivia

Advertising

When the game first came out, one of the ads was about an average looking gamer being chained to the wall in a dungeon, a dominatrix standing near with a whip, and a computer with Deathtrap Dungeon just out of reach. The ad blurb was "The only thing worse than Deathtrap Dungeon is... Not being able to play it." Eidos eventually withdrew the ad.

One of the characters in the game is a female swordsmen, except she was in a thong leather bikini in the preview pictures! Due to ratings concerns, Eidos gave her some 'proper' armor (chainmail bodice) before the game went gold. The female character, in subsequent beta screenshots, also had a 'chain bra'. Basically, the only things it covered were her nipples, with the chain attached only by her nipples.

Inspiration

Based on the multi-million selling Fighting Fantasy gamebook series by Ian Livingstone & Steve Jackson. The original Deathtrap Dungeon gamebook was released in 1984.

Information provided here also contributed by CaptainCanuck and KnockStump.

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Related Web Sites

Deathtrap Dungeon gamebook info (Some historical info on the gamebook that inspired the game.)
Wikipedia: Ian Livingstone's Deathtrap Dungeon (Information about Ian Livingstone's Deathtrap Dungeon at Wikipedia)

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