Tunnel of Doom is an action rogue-lite that mixes tower defense mechanics and top-down melee and ranged combat developed by Antti Vaihia. Step into the shoes of Angel the wife of a miner living in a small mining town, everything seemed to be going well until an unknown accident forced the mayor to shut down the mine until further notice, with your husband still inside, determined to find rescue him you venture forth against all warnings down to the abandoned mine but she soon finds out that there are more than rocks and stones lurking in the darkness.  

• Ghouls and monsters are crawling everywhere you need to use everything you have at your disposal to defend yourself; setting up traps and barricades before the battle begins are an effective way to funnel the hordes, cannons are also an effective means of destroying them directly.
• But in order to build those barricades, you need to gather the right materials to craft them smash lamps, blow up rocks, and search the mines for the right materials that can be used as a makeshift weapons and ammunition for your traps.
• The game is all about making effective use of what you have if your revolver runs low, throw rocks and glass, swing your pickaxe at the enemy, or even use the explosives the minders left behind, do everything to make sure you don’t get mobbed.
• There are also useful perks that you can find, there are 50 in total that can improve Angel in different ways, she can be more effective at setting up traps or directly attacking monsters, all of these factors change after every run allowing hours of repeatable fun.

Reviews

The gameplay is pretty good, but it is sadly sullied by a lack in all other areas. The story is almost non-existent, the graphics and audio are merely adequate, and there is a definite lack of replayability. A real shame, but there is potential for more in the future.

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