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2014 · Bloober Team · Action · Strategy

Basement Crawl

PlayStation exclusive

Weird PS4 title from Bloober Team.

Released
25 February 2014
Platforms
PlayStation 4
Genres
ActionStrategy
Developers
Bloober Team
Publishers
Bloober Team
Modes
MultiplayerSingle-player
Perspective
Bird view / Isometric
Themes
Action
Country
Poland
Age ratings
ESRB T

About

Basement Crawl is a maze action game developed and published by Bloober Team. The game was released for the PlayStation 4 on 25 February 2014 in North America and on 26 February in Europe. It received extremely negative reviews from critics for its lack of content.

Keywords

  • online
  • digital distribution
  • platform exclusive

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Gameplay

Basement Crawl is a maze-based action game with some strategic elements. Bloober Team's main inspirations were Spy vs. Spy and Bomberman, and gameplay revolves around setting up traps (self-detonated or activated by characters approaching it or stepping on it without noticing) to hurt other players. Despite being primarily multiplayer-focused, basic single player campaigns with bots to fill in for missing characters will be available too.

Basement Crawl is a 2.5D game with dynamic cameras – to the game modes, characters and mechanics. "We felt that many games nowadays are dependent on character development or luck and randomness, so we designed Basement Crawl to exclude the luck factor and remove the dependence on leveling-up characters. We want to make Basement Crawl as skill-based as possible and focus on hardcore players instead of casual or ‘middlecore’ players."

Reception

Basement Crawl received "generally unfavorable" reviews, according to review aggregator website Metacritic.

Jeremy Peeples of Hardcore Gamer gave the game a 2.5/5, criticizing it for lacking content and being too similar to Bomberman, while praising it for its basic gameplay mechanics.

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
PlayStation 429 January 2014Europe · North America 25 February 2014

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