Adventure
You Cannot Go Back
You Cannot Go Back is a quick-to-play adventure game which will test your memory, skill and reflexes.
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Description
You Cannot Go Back is a quick-to-play adventure game which will test your memory, skill and reflexes. Updated for Catalog ! With five more chambers (20 total) and a global high scores table . Can you make it through all three levels of the dungeon alive and escape with the treasure? Or will a nasty fate befall you? Just remember dungeoneer - the only way is onwards; You Cannot Go Back! Quick to play: each game lasts around 5 minutes. Randomly generated three-level dungeon . Three-button control scheme . Playable in both Landscape or Portrait mode. 20 different chamber types, including: Puzzle Chambers. Action Chambers. Memory Recall Chambers. Puzzle Chambers. Action Chambers. Memory Recall Chambers.
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Music & Sounds: Kevin MacLeod: 8bit Dungeon Level and 8bit Dungeon Boss [CC BY 3.0], AaronGNP: Buzzsaw Addiction [CC BY 3.0], Little Robot Sound Factory: 8-Bit Sound Effects [CC BY 4.0], soundslikewillem: Fuse [CC BY 4.0], qubodup: Walk Down Stairs [CC0], kgeshev: Bell [CC0] Art: Frank Martinez Jr.: Promo material, Buch: Top down dungeon tileset [CC BY 3.0], Clint Bellanger: Gold treasure [CC BY-SA 4.0] and Powers icons [CC0], Umz: Blocky animated classic hero [CC BY 3.0], William.Thompsonj: Stone Wall [CC0], Julien: Spike Ball [CC BY 3.0] Fonts: Bitmore [CC BY 4.0], Roobert [CC BY 4.0], Blackwood Castle [1001Fonts FFC]
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This game only uses the Up, Right and Down buttons. It's best played with the Playdate rotated into a portrait orientation.
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High Scores
- 1 thegoodgurmain 5,608
- 2 MashPotassium 5,527
- 3 Ukraine 5,506
- 4 dwfp 5,235
- 5 timboe 5,221
- 6 pika 5,072
- 7 Jem.A.Gibbon. 5,062
- 8 Circadex 4,926
- 9 hugobros 4,922
- 10 aperson 4,875
Age note: This game contains mild hazards in the form of cartoony dungeon traps. We think that it is appropriate for everyone.
AI: This game's developer created it without the use of generative AI.




