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dungeon

[duhn-juhn] / ˈdʌn dʒən /
NOUN
prison
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But for prisoners like Sam and Mike, and for the haunted souls I encountered in the dungeon, official policies hardly matter.

From Slate • Oct. 20, 2024

Not another cooking game, but instead a new take on a dungeon crawler where you can team up with your friends to survive in a twisted reality show competition.

From BBC • Aug. 21, 2024

Despite being a dungeon crawler, the series has an unusually explicit focus on food.

From Salon • Jul. 22, 2024

When Supergiant Games was wrapping up Hades, a mythologically rich hack-and-slash dungeon crawler it had spent more than three years developing, the studio concluded it was not quite done.

From New York Times • May 13, 2024

Anya smiled, but then the memory of the creature in the dungeon snuffed her smile out.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack