Shadowgate 64 is a very specific fogged-over depressive medieval look that I’m really into. I don’t have good ways to describe it but I think the recent Dungeon Synth scene is going for the same thing - a knowing naivete, wrapped in a somber tone?
In fact, the soundtrack could totally pass for it:
And poking around, it looks like it’s been taken up by the scene, even:
It’s not difficult or challenging and it peters out in the back third but it is dim and rotting and I like being there.
Some off-tv screenshots from playing it through in my last period of unemployment:
You’re a weak, small person, kidnapped into a dying castle town to be sacrificed by a wizard. But there are only a handful of people here; any threat from this cult is forgotten by the rest of the world, just like you are. You spend your time poking around what used to be a college that dissipated because everyone seemingly lost interest in magic. The people that live in the town either murder you on sight or look past you when they talk to you.
In the end, you save the world, but leave with the distinct impression that nobody will know, and if they did, they wouldn’t care
