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  "textContent": "---\n_Tower Dungeon by Tsutomu Nihei_\n\n\n\nI was trying to get together some other new posts, but those are slow going so here is something that has been rattling around in my brain- how much recent media there is that is based in a dungeon.\n\nI listed a chunk of it in the _Why Megadungeons_ post, but at the risk of repeating myself, I did want to separate it out into its own thing. I also tried to limit the media to roughly the last ~10 years. I think benchmarking the last decade also helps illustrate how much new popular media there is that will be most people's first contact with the genre.\n\nWorth noting that none of these give a 1:1 experience of playing an RPG dungeon, of course, but most include scenes which match common elements in good pen & paper dungeons.\n\nAnything missing?\n\n**Appendix N(_ew Dungeon Crawl_)**\n\n**Video Games**\n\n  *  _Darkest Dungeon_(2016)\n  * _Hollow Knight_ (2017)\n  * _Dead Cells_ (2018)\n  * _Minecraft Dungeons_ (2020)\n  * _Hades_ (2020)\n  * _Hollow Knight: Silk Song_ (2025)\n  * _Marathon_ (2026)\n\n\n\n**Movies, TV, & Animation**\n\n  *  _Dungeon Meshi_ (2024, _manga 2014-2023)_\n  * _Backrooms_ (2026)\n\n\n\n**Fiction & Manga**\n\n  *  _Piranesi_ (2020)\n  * _Scholomance_(2020)\n  * _Dungeon Crawler Carl_ (2020)\n  * _Tower Dungeon_ (2023)\n  * _The West Passage_ (2024)\n\n\n\n**Art & Installations**\n\n  *  _MeowWolf_ (2016)\n\n\n\n\n\n---\nMeow Wolf, Santa Fe\n\n\n\n\n\n",
  "title": "APPENDIX N(EW DUNGEON CRAWL): Modern Media For Delving Deep Down",
  "updatedAt": "2026-06-23T04:38:30.078Z"
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