History VideoGame / DeathtrapDungeon

* SarcasmMode: Once you're nearing the end of the game, it will tell you in a text log that (paraphrased) : "All you have to do now is defeat a bloodbeast and three dragons. Easy-peasy, ain't it ?"

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Strongly averted. At low health, the heroes' faces can appear absolutely shredded.

''Deathtrap Dungeon'' (or ''Ian Livingstone's Deathtrap Dungeon'') is an action-adventure game released in 1998 for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation and Microsoft Windows. It is based on the adventure gamebook ''Literature/DeathtrapDungeon'' (the sixth in the ''Literature/FightingFantasy'' series) written by Ian Livingstone, and published by Puffin Books in 1984.

%%* MadScientist: The hat of the Alchemists Of Chaos.

* ActionBomb: This game contains exploding ''pigs'', one in the opening FMV which took down a previous Dungeon contestant.
* AdaptationExpansion: The overall theme of the original gamebook stays, altough the backstory changes a bit, several villains are added as boss characters, and Baron Sukumvit himself recieves a bit of an AdaptationalVillainy (See below).

* AmazonBrigade: Agrash's Warrior Priestesses
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: The Pit Fiend, a Tyrannosaur-like monster.

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Strongly averted. At low health, the heros' faces can appear absolutely shredded.
* BigRedDevil: Agrash, The Necromantic Demon, one of the main villains of the game.

* BreakableWeapons: ALL the magic weapons, even the ones that dont use ammo. This puts you in a precarious situation in the Quarry, where you simply dont have enough hits on the Magic Warhammer to take out all the Rockmen you encounter.

* EvilWeapon: The Black Spirit Sword, a powerful weapon that does damage to the user as well as the target.

** The Orc Sergeants and Rat Ogres, larger, stronger versions of their lower ranked cousins.
** Juggernauts are plus-sized mechas that dwarves the players.

* GiantSpider: Spiders are another reoccurring enemy in the dungeon.

* {{Gorn}}

* HolyHandGrenade: The Silver Sword, a weapon specifically created to combat the undead.

* InfinityPlusOneSword: The Red Sword, a weapon specifically forged to combat firebased creatures like Melkor or Agrash, as well as the Magic Warhammer, the only weapon that can harm the Rockmen.
* TheJuggernaut: The Knackerer automaton, a mindless machine resembling a medieval steamroller with spikes, is completely unstoppable and invulnerable, but only follows its preset route. There's also Carborundum, the Rockmens leader, who is completely invulnerable, and can only be defeated by luring him into a trap.
* MadScientist: The hat of the Alchemists Of Chaos.
* MechaMooks: The Automatons, mechanical enemies created by Alchemists, which can blast you with fireballs. There's also the [[HumongousMecha Juggernaut]] that towers absolutely over you.
* {{Medusa}}: Three of them in the game, part of the Orc army. The oldest of the three have the Stone Gaze power.
* MonsterClown: The Hell Clowns, Death Jugglers and Hell Kings Jesters from The Circus of The Damned.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent
* OurGhostsAreDifferent
* OurMinotaursAreDifferent: Creations of the Alchemists of Chaos, and fittingly enough, are encountered in the Labyrinth level.
* OurOrcsAreDifferent
* OurZombiesAreDifferent
* PoisonedWeapon: The Venom Sword, one of the first magical weapons you will encounter.

* SteamPunk: The Automata enemies, steampunk automatons created by the Alchemists Of Chaos, as well as some of the obtainable weapons of the game such as the Blunderbuss and the Flame Lance. There's also some of the technology used by the Ratmen.
* StockScream: There are plenty of these (including the Howie Scream).

* TheUnfought: Carborundum is never actually fought, due to him being invulnerable. Instead, you get past him by collapsing the floor he's standing on, plunging him into the abyss.

* HornyDevils: Implied with Agrash and his tendency to crossbreed with his cultmembers.

* AWinnerIsYou: What do you get for painstakingly fighting your way through Deathtrap Dungeon and defeating Melkor the Red Dragon ? [[spoiler: A less-than-a-minute long cutscene, depicting a giant blue goblin emerging from behind Melkor's corpse and creepily laughing at the player. It does not bring any closure, you don't get to see your character getting their reward, and you just end up wondering who the ''hell'' that giant goblin is, how he ended up there, and what his purpose is.]]

* {{Golems}}: The Rockmen, a race of golems created by an overambitious mage centuries ago. Theyre invulnerable to all weapons except the Magic Warhammer. Their leader, Carborundum, isnt even vulnerable to that.

* ALoadOfBull: Creations of the Alchemists of Chaos, and fittingly enough, are encountered in the Labyrinth level.

* HolyWeapon: The Silver Sword, a weapon specifically created to combat the undead.

* DemBones

* GiantMook: The Orc Sergeants and Rat Ogres, larger, stronger versions of their lower ranked cousins.
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: If you arent aware of the games connection to the original gamebook, The Pit Fiend and The Bloodbeast comes off as this, as they dont really fit in with any of the other villain groups, and kinda come out of left field.

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* {{Minotaur}}: Creations of the Alchemists of Chaos, and fittingly enough, are encountered in the Labyrinth level.

* BreakableWeapon: ALL the magic weapons, even the ones that dont use ammo. This puts you in a precarious situation in the Quarry, where you simply dont have enough hits on the Magic Warhammer to take out all the Rockmen you encounter.

The game is a third-person adventure, with the player taking the role of an adventurer (either the Amazon "Red Lotus" or the Barbarian "Chaindog"), who have answered the challenge of Baron Sukumvit to try and defeat his deadly dungeon of traps and monsters, with the prize for the winner being untold riches and the freedom for the town of Fang.

''Deathtrap Dungeon'' (or ''Ian Livingstone's Deathtrap Dungeon'') is an action-adventure game released in 1998 for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation and Microsoft Windows. It is based on the adventure gamebook of the same name (the sixth in the ''[[Literature/FightingFantasy Fighting Fantasy]]'' series) written by Ian Livingstone, and published by Puffin Books in 1984.