Adventure Time – Explore the Dungeon Because I Don’t Know!

Adventure Time – Explore the Dungeon Because I Don’t Know! (stylized as Adventure Time: Explore the Dungeon Because I DON’T KNOW!) is a 2013 action-adventure game developed by WayForward Technologies and published by D3 Publisher in North America and in PAL regions by Namco Bandai Games for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Windows, Nintendo 3DS, and Wii U. It is the second game based on the animated television series Adventure Time, following Hey Ice King! Why’d You Steal Our Garbage?!! (2012).

The game includes voice acting from major characters and four-player cooperative multiplayer, except in the 3DS version, which has no multiplayer. The game begins with Princess Bubblegum entreating the player (as one of the various playable characters) to investigate the large and secret Royal Dungeon that lies below the Land of Ooo. Several prisoners have been escaping, but as the prison is supposed to be impossible to escape, Bubblegum is stumped as to how the prisoners are escaping and entreats the player to explore the dungeon because “I don’t know”.

As the game progresses several characters are unlocked and become playable characters through various situations. It is briefly suspected that Ice King is releasing the prisoners, but he is shown to have only been in the dungeon to create large Fionna and Cake ice statues. The game eventually leads up to a battle between the player(s) and a giant pink blob that is revealed to be Princess Bubblegum’s parents.

The game is a top-down, isometric hack and slash dungeon crawler, similar to games in the Diablo franchise. Players can collect treasure while in the dungeon that they can later use to upgrade the stats of the various playable characters, interact with other characters, and purchase goods from the game’s ubiquitous item vendor; in this case played by one of the cartoon’s minor characters, Choose Goose.