Review: The Keep (Nintendo Switch)

Review by Matt S. 

The Keep is a real-time dungeon crawler with a very old-school sensibility to it. It revels in the simplistic, retro B-grade narrative and design that it brings to the table, and is just self-aware enough to have fun with it. It's the kind of game that can so easily fail by being so earnest that it's joyless, or so focused on nostalgia that it fails to understand that many of the features of older games are best left in the past. The Keep manages to sidestep these potential downfalls, and hits all the right notes in just about every area. It very nearly gets away with everything that it attempts, but a dismal UI hurts it right at the end.

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