Death Fungeon similar games & best alternatives

Death Fungeon

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2018

Should you play it?

A puzzle platform game, with both stealth and parkour elements. Use your wits, cunning and agility to escape this deadly prison. Take the stealthy approach, progressing slowly, hiding and staying out of sight. Or utilise your athleticism to wall jump, ledge grab and speed run your way to freedom.

What works
  • Challenging and skill-based platforming
  • Multiple paths and stealth options
  • Retro pixel art style
  • Short and affordable
  • Tight level design
Things to keep in mind
  • Frustrating and sometimes unresponsive controls
  • Lack of replay incentives and collectibles impact
  • No story or narrative depth
  • No multiplayer or social features
  • Repetitive music and minor bugs

What to play next

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  • Schein

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Hidden Gems

Less popular games with surprisingly high similarity

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  • Schein

  • Voyager-19
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Recommendations by what you enjoyed most

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  • Competence

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  • Value

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Similarity map

Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the same motivation profile as in the “Why this game works” section below. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

  • Purple star: this page’s game — everything on the map is relative to it.
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot for a screenshot preview, score, and top score gaps; click to compare in the panel on the right.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.

Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers (hidden on purpose).

Death Fungeon: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Exploration, Story, Creativity, Expression. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Fantasy. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Relaxation, Status.

Why this game works

A motivational profile of the game, with the closest similar game for each player motivation.

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  • Competence

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  • Status
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    No nearest game available

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