
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
Media
The articlegameplay, story, development, reception
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.
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Collections3 collections
Platform libraries
Years
- Games released in 2014List › January–March
Series and characters
- Bomberman gamesClones
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