Labyrinth of Galleria: The Moon Society is a wonderful way to while away the hours

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There are a lot of reasons I play video games. Sometimes it’s to escape. Other times, I just want to feel challenged, to feel like I accomplished something for the day. Then there are the games I play out of habit having been introduced to the franchise in my youth. But mostly, I play games to stave off boredom. Because when I’m bored, I eat, and I don’t want to boredom eat anymore. So I keep my hands busy with a controller, and my eyes distracted with the colorful images of whatever game I have loaded up on my console. Years ago, I would turn to games like The Sims to keep myself preoccupied, but over the last decade or so, I’ve found myself turning to a completely different genre of game to beat back the boredom: first-person dungeon crawlers.

Starting with Etrian Odyssey II and continuing with games like The Dark Spire, Legends of Grimrock, and Stranger of Sword City, I have gleefully spent dozens of hours slaughtering my way through dungeons on days I would have otherwise been vegging out on the couch, watching “The One with the Embryos” for the umpteenth time. There is just something about the genre that is perfectly suited for my downtime, so it’s a good thing NIS America has just dropped a lengthy new dungeon crawler in Labyrinth of Galleria.

Labyrinth of Galleria: The Moon Society is the successor to 2016’s Labyrinth of Refrain: Coven of Dusk. Like its predecessor, it’s a first-person dungeon crawler rife with fearsome monsters, valuable loot, and customizable parties. In Galleria, you play as the wandering spirit Lantern de Fantasmagorie — Fantie for short — who guides a team of puppet soldiers into the depths of a dungeon that resides below the Galleria Manor. Eureka is a young noblewoman who tags along on your