Hack-and-slash fun of Oceanhorn: Chronos Dungeon returns to the App Store

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Adventurers can once again enjoy Oceanhorn: Chronos Dungeon, a dungeon crawler RPG with a 16-bit feel. Players battle their way through monsters on ever-changing levels.

Oceanhorn: Chronos Dungeon roguelike game playable on iPhone and iPad again

Role-playing games are a classic and very popular genre in which players level up their characters to be able to fight increasingly tough monsters. Oceanhorn: Chronos Dungeon is part of a subset of roguelike games, harking back to a classic, in which a team of characters takes on a quest, and the player changes characters to meet various challenges.

In the returning title from Cornfox & Brothers, players become a Knight, a Huntress, a Mage or a Grandmaster. Each one wields different weapons and has its own strengths and weaknesses. Their goal is to explore the Chronos Dungeon to find the Paradigm Hourglass, an object powerful enough to alter the course of history. There are many monsters for fight, plus challenging bosses to conquer.

Because Oceanhorn: Chronos Dungeon is divided into many levels, it’s well-suited to play on iPhone. A level can be completed in a few minutes of spare time — it doesn’t require hours.

I thoroughly enjoyed this game when it was part of Apple Arcade, and I’m thrilled that it is once again available. It’s a well-made light RPG with immense replayability. Be sure to read my review of it.

Availability and price

Oceanhorn: Chronos Dungeon hit the App Store on Tuesday, June 24, for iPhone and iPad. It’s also on Google Play for Android users.

The game is free to play, but with advertisements. A $1.99 in-app purchase removes ad breaks, or put down $3.99 to take out all advertising.

Ed Hardy

Ed Hardy has been writing full-time about tech for 26 years, and using it for much longer than that. His intro to Apple was a Macintosh SE/30 (which he still has), but now he uses a 13-inch iPad Pro as his primary computer.

That’s because he’s a “tablet first” type of guy. Rather than use a Macbook, he connects a keyboard case to the iPad. And instead of a desktop Mac, he connects his tablet to a 27-inch display and full-size keyboard. (So don’t try to tell him that everyone has to use a Mac to be productive.)

Before coming to Cult of Mac, Ed wrote for NotebookReview, TabletPCReview and Brighthand, as well as other sites.