There are very few gamers who grew up in the 1980s who didn’t play Bubble Bobble. Originally an arcade game in 1986, it became one of the most popular co-op games on the original Nintendo Entertainment System. The franchise has endured through the decades, never straying too far from its simplistic formula of controlling cute little dragons named Bub and Bob. The next entry in the franchise is Bubble Bobble: Sugar Dungeons, and it’s going to have roguelite mechanics when it launches sometime in winter 2025.
At this point, so many games are incorporating roguelite or roguelike mechanics that the two words are starting to carry the same meaning for most gamers. We won’t debate the true nature of roguelite versus roguelike in this post, but just know Bubble Bobble: Sugar Dungeons’ focus is on having players grow stronger as they go deeper into the ever-changing dungeon. Heading to the PlayStation 5, Switch, and PC, Bubble Bobble: Sugar Dungeons takes the franchise’s traditional formula but adds abilities and upgrades for a new Bubble Bobble experience.
To add a bit of strategy to it, the number of items players can take to the dungeon at once is fixed, so they’ll have to decide which kind of skill items and useful items they want to take, and how many.
