Every single day, I’m introduced to new games through social media, and September 22, 2025, was no different. Except it was a little different, because I was thoroughly marketed to via the debut marketing event of The Dungeon Experience. 

In case you haven’t seen it, here is that debut marketing event, so that you can be marketed to alongside me:

Having seen that, I’m sure you’re probably wondering what on earth you just watched, but you’re also probably already downloading the demo through Steam. Eh.

The Dungeon Experience is a comedy–packed, satire RPG from Bone Assembly, aka Jakob Janerka (developer of Paradigm), and Simon Boxer (developer of Ring of Pain). It is filled with the type of humor that is impossible not to laugh at, and I mean truly laugh out loud, and the newly released demo has left me wanting more of this little crab. 

A singularly hard-working crab

The Dungeon Experience is set in a ‘theme park’, set up and executed entirely by one little crab with big dreams and, apparently, a lack of budget for special effects. This little crab is, in my eyes, an absolutely incredible role model in many ways. Not only has be created this delightful cardboard and drone-based ‘theme park’, but he also single-handedly controls the ‘animatronics’, applies ‘special effects’, supplies voice-overs, and guides you through the experience while acting out various roles. 

Like I said, he’s a very hard-working crab, and I can only dream of being so entrepreneurial.

According to the crab, not only do you get to experience the joy of The Dungeon Experience, but going through his creation will also enlighten you to the ways of financial freedom. Now, I don’t know about you, but that’s something that I would love to have, so I’d go through this bizarre little world even if only for that reason. 

Laugh out loud, weirdly funny

While playing through the demo of The Dungeon Experience, there were multiple moments that had me giggling to myself. The humor is bizarre, off-the-wall, and at times unexpected, but it always lands in a way that should be commended. 

Take, for instance, your entrance into the dungeon itself. After talking to an animatronic warrior (once an actor becomes available, of course), you have to press some buttons to open the trap door. Except these buttons are the warrior’s bizarrely long and surprisingly sensitive nipples. Cue a Ren and Stimpy-style (or Spongebob, if you’re not old enough to have watched the OG cartoon), unexpectedly graphic change in art style, and you have to gently push both nipples back into their sockets. 

Then, after you’ve buried a man with dramatically broken legs in trash to prevent an issue during a possible health and safety inspection, you enter a reception area where a man is literally a table. Table Man eats food out of a dog bowl, and I think he has a crush fetish. 

There are plenty more moments that inspire shocked laughter that only devolves into child-like giggles at the gross or bizarre humor, and like I said, it always lands. There wasn’t a single groan from me during the entire demo, and that’s almost unheard of. 

Can’t help wanting more

At the end of the demo, as promised in the debut marketing event, you can indeed have a private saxophone performance from the crab. He’s surprisingly talented, and he even lets you pick his finishing move. Then, you’re invited to leave, and you get your first introduction to a giant green ball with many arms and supple red lips. 

Which is weird, but I guess we’ll see more of him in the full game. 

That’s the thing, though. The humor and absolutely unhinged moments of The Dungeon Experience leave you wanting more, and short of playing through the demo again (which I probably will, because it’s fun), the only way to get more is to get the full game once it arrives. In that sense, the demo of The Dungeon Experience has nailed the objective. I’m oddly proud of the crab. 

The Dungeon Experience demo is out now and available to download through Steam. Sadly, there’s no release date for the full game just yet.