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Dungeons of Noudar 3D
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About the game
Dungeons of Noudar 3D is a dungeon crawler built the way they were built for the PCs of the early 1990s: a first-person view of stone corridors and grassy courtyards, rendered in 3D in VGA's 256 colours, with the whole game small enough to fit on a single 1.44 MB floppy disk.
You play a former priest and crusader sent to a sacred citadel that is once again falling into demonic hands. The journey is split into chapters, each opened by a short passage of text: the citadel itself, a monastery, a graveyard by a lake of lava and further down from there, until the last confrontation. The writing is sombre and a little mystical, closer to a medieval sermon than to an action game.
Under the 3D view there is a roguelike. The world is a grid, and the monsters move when you move, so every step is a decision rather than a reflex. Your health is your faith, shown on the right-hand panel along with the item in your hand and the direction you are facing. Weapons, a crossbow, a shield and other relics lie around the levels, and choosing what to hold matters as much as where to go.
The game began as a text-mode roguelike and an Android VR experiment before its author rebuilt it for real DOS machines in 2018. This is version 1.2, from 2022.
Playing it here
Click Play. The title screen lists the credits and the controls; press Enter to continue, read the chapter introduction and press Enter again to step into the level. Music plays through the emulated AdLib card.
Controls
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| Up / Down | step forward / step back |
| Left / Right | turn |
| Z / X | sidestep left / right |
| A | pick up an item |
| S or 1 to 3 | cycle through the inventory |
| Space | use the item in your hand |
| Enter | continue past text screens |
| Esc | quit the game |
A few things worth knowing
Every move is a turn. Nothing happens while you stand still, so take the time to look around before walking into a room.
Watch your faith. It is your health. When it runs out, the journey ends.
Use the right item. Space uses whatever you are holding, so switch to the weapon before a fight and to the other relics when the level asks for them.
Esc really quits. The title screen jokes about it, but it closes the game instead of opening a menu.
Credits and licence
Dungeons of Noudar 3D was designed and programmed by Daniel "MontyOnTheRun" Monteiro, who releases the code under the BSD licence. The textures and sprites come from Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup's tile set, which its artists dedicated to the public domain under CC0, and the two large interlude images reproduce paintings by Juan de Valdés Leal from the 1670s. The licence text is linked from this page.