Spelunker Party!
One night, a great rumbling sound awoke Spelunkette with a fright. A comet had hit the earth and strange things had been happening ever since. The Faerie Chief said that they were caused from something deep underground. What lies in its depths? Spelunkette hurried off to Base Camp, excited for an adventure!
Explore and solve mysteries in the depths of the caves! A variety of traps, creatures and even wicked ghosts will stand in your way! Jump over dangerous pitfalls! Use bombs to blow up boulders that block the way! Use flares to scare away the bats! Blow away spooky ghosts with your portable fan! There are many ways to use your items.
You can obtain new costumes and items by collecting the Litho-orbs hidden in the caves! These items will improve your abilities and change your look as well!
KEY FEATURES
Online and Offline Co-op multiplayer! Work together with your friends and maybe you will find a new path. Iconized chat will help you with easy and casual communications with your buddies, so don’t worry about language!
Complete new items by collecting Litho-orbs! Each item has a special ability to help you on your adventure! They can also change your look, so equip them as you like and show off to your friends!
Adorable pets are your reliable partners in this adventure! Each pet has a special ability, like finding a hidden item or rescuing your friends, so take them with you and your exploration will be more advantageous and fun!
There are more playable characters as you move forward in the cave and meet new buddies!
Good luck and have fun!
Game Discussion
Steam User 0
A sequel to the original rage game (could Spelunker technically be a souls-like, even?). It's pretty good, though I do have some gripes with it:
- Multiplayer is pretty much dead. This means a lot of the items, some achievements, some map secrets, heck, even just a good amount of the experience -- all of that is gone. The game is "playable" in single player, but I won't lie -- it feels hollow. The game was clearly designed with more than one player in mind for the best possible experience in a lot of ways.
- The game's difficulty has definitely been nerfed. Granted, the classic Spelunker "I FUCKING HATE YOU AND HOPE YOU DIE" aura is kinda still here, but it feels like it's taken a bit of a backseat. Also, Rope Assist from Spelunker HD is back -- and you're forced to use it. While I think Rope Assist is a good thing, at the same time, I still feel as if it should've been a choice like it was on Spelunker HD.
- This game clearly has roots in the gacha game Spelunker World, and it shows. Of course, you're not going to be gambling your money away anymore as the folks at Tozai decided to turn World into an actual game -- that "actual game" version being this game, but the remnants are still very much there.
- There's a... "story" I guess? Not a bad thing, but I've barely been paying attention to it. Sometimes I don't even know what the heck is going on tbh.
If you can get this on sale, I feel like a fun time can be had -- but for the typical price of $30-40, I'd only buy if you breathe Spelunker games (which likely means you're a masochist)
Now with that out of the way -- I want a port of Spelunker HD to PC. That would be wonderful. The likelihood of us getting that is pretty minimal, but I can dream. This is good and all, but I still think Spelunker HD is better and I'd really want to be able to buy it on PC. I'd best want a port of the PS4/Switch "Deluxe" version but I'd take anything, really.
Steam User 3
It's Spelunker, the legendary kusoge with niche appeal that you either love for its deliberate and precise approach to platforming or that you despise because you break your ankles and die if you fall from a height greater than one foot. This entry's a bit more accessible in terms of difficulty, though some of the levels and their respective challenges can be particularly cruel (looking at you, Ninja Suit).
... There's really not much else to say about it.
Outside of the addition of a roster of characters and an equipment system that introduces very light replayability in the form of combing old levels for previously inaccessible secrets, reviewing this is like reviewing any entry in the Bomberman series; what're you really gonna say other than, "It's Bomberman."
Recommended, so long as you understand that it's still Spelunker. If you hate Spelunker, then Spelunker Party isn't going to change your mind, but if you kind of liked Spelunker HD, this one might push you over the edge thanks to its more tolerable difficulty curve.
Steam User 1
Holy crap I did NOT expect to like this as much as I did!
Spelunker is an infamous old platformer about a cave explorer who dies from... well pretty much everything! Even falling the tiniest bit too far which you will soon find out is not far at all! It's so infamous for this that pretty much all memory most people have of the game is memes about all the silly extremely easy ways you can die.
The games used to be brutal due to the mechanics, but this game does a good job of more slowly easing in players to the more complicated concepts.
In fact I'll get ahead and say it. This game is a steal when it's on sale and I also think it's a good stepping stone before you move onto even more difficult games like the Spelunky series
The only sad thing is? 100%ing this game seems impossible on single player and I doubt this has much of an online community outside of the nintendo switch :(