dungeon
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It’s a gauntlet made thornier whenever Murashige, who believes in mercy over violence, engages with Kanbei, chained in a dungeon but with a dangerous mind nonetheless.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
The show is part travelogue, part adventure quest with monsters, magic battles and dungeon exploration.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2025
The catacombs beneath a crumbling city have cracked wide open, revealing a vast, spiraling dungeon teeming with strange beasts and stranger plants.
From Salon ● May 12, 2025
The dungeon is full of weird, pulsing, half-sentient creatures — more slime than steak.
From Salon ● May 12, 2025
As May’s grandmother—Eudora—moved to climb the stairs, Jack couldn’t help noticing how her time in the dungeon had seemed to weaken her.
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
It’s weird to be alive at a time when much of contemporary warfare comprises literal laser beams, flying robots and dungeons full of nerds at computer terminals, but that’s really what’s happening.
From Salon ● Mar. 25, 2026
Long-running series like The Legend of Zelda tout the Hyrule kingdom’s mysteries, rife with dim dungeons and vast wetlands observed from mountaintops.
From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2024
Mr Hamaguchi says the developers want the open world to work as "one single space" with "all of the towns, all of the dungeons and everything linked together seamlessly in one space".
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2023
Harris descended into the dungeons of the facility, toured the cells where enslaved people were kept and walked through the so-called door of no return, choking back tears, her hand over her mouth.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 28, 2023
"Ser Cadwyn, take these men to the dungeons."
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
