First Person Dungeon Crawler Games

[NRVNQSR]

Or "Blobbers" might be the specific term for the games I'm looking for.
I've played Touhou Artifical Dream in Arcadia, a dungeon crawler that's heavily based on the old megaten games. Which I really really liked, I'm about to play through SMT IF next.

I'm currently interested in the following games:
Etrian Odyssey
Labyrinth of Galleria
Mary Skelter
SMT1-2, Strange Journey, and Soul Hackers

Any recommendations close to this game genre will be appreciated!

 

[Eclipse14]

Shining the Holy Ark on the Saturn
Wizardry: Tale of the Forsaken Land for the PS2

Those two come to mind, immediately.

 

[Onicat]

Dungeon Hack! Great built-in randomizer

 

[Bloodshed]

The first Lands of Lore, was a fantastic Dungeoncrawler on PC. you can get it real cheap on GoG. Also Might & Magic and Legend of Grimrock Games could be interesting, which you can also find there.

 

[random0nonsense]

The first two Elder Scrolls and the Ultima Underworld games leap immediately to mind.

 

[Mahopon]

The Dark Spire on nds, I've only played until 2nd floors so can't really talk about the gameplay, but I love the visual.

Experience inc is the company that made a lot of that type of games.

Elminage series are often recommended, though I haven't played any of them so can't really say anything about them.

There also 7th Dragon, its traditional rpg instead of "blobbers"/drpg, but it's made by (I think) the producer/director of Etrian Odyssey and has EO DNA, so if you like EO maybe you also would like them.

 

[Tonberry]

I always recommend the Wizardry game for PS2 (Tales of the Forsaken Land)
It's got god-like atmopshere and is super tense combat wise, and has a pretty neat teamwork system that both you and your foes can take advantage of, and it's got that lovely beliggerent/edgy 2000s Atlus translation, similar to SMT3

It's among the more popular "hidden gem" type games on PS2 but I can't pass up an opportunity to talk about it

The music is just insane as well, makes exploring cool and scary as hell

 

[brettd94]

Labyrinth of Refrain: Coven of Dusk- Game has a very dark and yet rich atmosphere, great dungeons and combat, fairly difficult
Wizardry 8- Famous for it's difficulty but the game has so many options for character creation and practically every character is useful. I've never played a game that truly felt like I was on an epic quest with a close band of adventurers. The game's plot is also insane.

 

[DanCalibur]

Gotta second Shining the Holy Ark(SAT) and the previous Shining in the Darkness(SMD). The trilogy The Eye of the Beholder for PC (available on GOG) is also fun, especially with the All Seeing Eye automap mod.

 

[Eduardo2010]

Demon Gaze is really really good.

 

[Jdan-S]

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[mlastes1987]

the mainline series of Wizardry has nearly all titles (with the exception of 8 as it was pc exclusive) translated for console, with only one entry being on the Sega Saturn (Wizardry VI), the rest on PSX.