You take the role of Angel, a woman from the local town, whose husband was in the mine. The town has bordered up the mine for safety reasons. So you take matters into your own hands, you can not see these people suffer and leave your husband in there. The mine is currently overrun by monsters and creatures, so you will have to fight your way through.

Sadly though this is pretty much the whole story, There is a “Main” character that we will not spoil of course but there is literally no interactions with the characters or miners really, I could count them on my hands on how much story was giving to me. It is a shame i get that there was heavy focus on the gameplay aspect, but crawling through a dungeon with no meaning, or reason behind it can feel kind of dull.

If you want a good roguelite or even tower defense game for that matter, it is all about variety. Without variety the game can become very numb quickly as it feels repetitive and a chore. Tunnel Of Doom seems to lack it in either department.

While the game itself is appealing if you are a fan of pixel art style, it can only hold you for so long when you have only a handful of different enemies, and a few tracks that are on loop in the background. I found that out the hard way during my playthrough. I really like the aesthetics of this game. I find them quite pleasing and the art direction matches the theme of the game. I can get over the fact of seeing a few different enemies, like in traditional tower defence games that usually is the case. The problem still remains for the slew of traps and cannons you can use, and the weapons on the rouglite side, I think if the developer spices things up by adding more weapons and traps for us to try It would greatly increase the retention rate of the game.

Tunnel of doom is very shortly sadly, and you can easily complete normal mode in a few hours. You have multiple different difficulties that add a harder challenge, but it still feels like the same gameplay. Once it came to re-playability, it was kind of sub-par as once you have 3-4 cannons you will be able to cheese your way through the game in a breeze.

Do not let this take away from your own opinion of this game, the developer has done a great job trying to incorporate multiple genres to try something new. If you are a tower defense fan i think this would suit you for a new way to try out the levels, but as for roguelite i was left wanting more in that department. The developer is also adding updates so we hope to see the game evolve because the foundation is there just needs to be tightened up in a few places.