Matthew BaileyThis evening Jack(7) and I played “Dungeon Scrawlers.”
Firstly I have some questions about yourself and your kids…
1) Do you like games that can be played in real-time?
2) Do you like roll n writes? Mainly the writing part?
3) Do you like mazes? like the type, you got in kids’ puzzle books?
4) are you trustworthy?
If you answered yes to all or at least most of these then “Dungeon Scrawlers” may be the game for you.
Essentially “Dungeon Scrawlers” is a real-time maze game. you both draw a line through the maze as quickly as possible having to complete small mini-tasks room to room as you go. for example, monsters need to be defeated by completely colouring them in, there are shapes that need to be traced perfectly and groups of numbers where you need to play dot to dot as fast as possible.
As you go through the maze you also must not touch a wall.
While this all sounds easy on paper doing this under pressure while racing someone else is surprisingly difficult and a lot of fun.
What works well is you can allow more leniency with younger players (eg how perfect the tracing needs to be etc).
The game comes with 10 dungeons to explore many with extra tasks such as portals and keys to find.
It’s a simple game and definitely isn’t for everyone (Toby(4) hates it) but Jack and I adore this game.
My only negative is that its a pretty big box and while this is because of the fairly large wipeable dungeon mats this is the kinda thing I would like to take on holiday so maybe if they folded out and the box was half the size that might have been better (but this is a massive knit-pick).
You will know if this is for you and your kids but with the right group, there is nothing else like it.
