Cinemax bringing “The Keep” to the 3DS eShop this summer

Cinemax has announced “The Keep” for the 3DS eShop with a release planned for summer.

The Keep is a new, old-school dungeon crawler. Players will experience real-time combat set in a first-person view.

Cinemax says the game’s core idea is “to bring the essence and dark atmosphere of RPGs from the past to a new platform with touch screen based controls for newcomers and fans of the genre alike.”

The Keep has players taking on a quest “to explore caves and mines filled with monsters to slain and puzzles to solve underneath and surrounding tower of evil sorcerer.” Apparently, you should expect to die quite a bit.

Cinemax has been working on The Keep for over 15 months. Why? The company explained:

Cinemax are trying to pour all their love for old-school games into the game and proving themselves that they were wrong saying after the release of the Inquisitor: “We will never ever make a RPG game ever again!”