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About This Game

Caverns of Evil is a dungeon crawler with guns and fast action. Its an action roguelite that plays like a '90s first-person shooter, but is meant to be played in the spirit of an arcade game. Fight through ever-increasing hordes of monsters while the gathering ever more powerful weapons you'll need to survive. This is a simple game, designed for some good old-fashioned violent fun. Play as long as you like and can stay alive, there are always more levels -- how many levels can you get through?

Backstory

"You remember a time before the world changed, a time of strange magics like horseless carriages, moving painting, and little boxes that could house whole worlds. Then they came and reality shifted, the old magics began to disappear to replaced by ones now that now seem familiar. A little of the old world remains, like your strange black wand that shoots out pieces of hot lead -- and has gotten you out of some tight situation...but will it be enough to save you from the monstrous hoards you now face?"

Gameplay

This is not a game you try to beat -- there is no final level, always another one when you finish the one you're on. So technically it is unbeatable, as well as having permadeath. The goal is to see how many levels you can get through before dying, and not sweat your inevitable demise. Its basically how the dev played classic arcade games as a kid who assumed there would always be another maze or wave of invaders.

Each level is a new and unique, generated once and never seen before or again -- unless you supply a custom seed, in which case you can use that seed as many times as you like to get the same sequence of levels. Caverns of Evil does not use pre-fabricated rooms or level sections, but generates the layout and geometry of each room and level, creating some truly unique rooms on every run.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

This game contains violence and blood.