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lilithkismet rated The Dark by Eric Koziol

A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

An easy and simple audio-only (yep, no graphics) short dungeon crawler that takes under and hour to complete. You are a hero who is cursed with blindness upon entering the dungeon. You need to stumble around in search of the boss monster and defeat it, all without the aid of vision. The game is just a black screen. Like a classic dungeon crawler, you can only move in four directions. You'll have to figure out the layout of the dungeon using only audio cues - various noises are used for item pickup, attack by or defeat of an enemy, or bonking into a wall. Unless you have a strong natural ability to make mental maps, I suggest drawing a diagram as you feel your way along. While the concept is sort of gimmicky, the dungeon is small enough that feeling your way around to map isn't drawn out to the point of becoming tedious. If you know the floorplan, it only takes a minute or two to beat. That does mean, however, that there's not much in the way of replayability. Another downside is that although there are various sound effects for item pickup or enemy defeat, they don't actually do a very good job of communicating what it is that you picked up (other than the sharp metallic noise for a sword), and the background cave sound effect is on an obvious loop with an unmissable pause every time it restarts.