Controls

While playing Dungeon of Weirdos, the player posesses a set of different controls to direct their character to success. These include movement controls, placing Bombs and using skills. There are several different control arrangements which can be switched between while the game is paused. Choosing a certain set of controls changes the way the game is played drastically: it's important to try out what controls suit you the best before you begin playing the game.

### Control arrangements

#### Swipe

These are the default controls that are set when you begin playing the game. The control set's icon in the pause menu is a hand swiping to the right. While these controls are active, swiping in any direction causes your character to move in that direction, and the buttons for Bombs and skills are at the bottom and quite large.

This control set is effective since you do not need to press a specific (and rather small) button to move but can instead input at any area of the screen, and the other two buttons also have more space, meaning they are larger and easier to press, but these movement controls are slow and can sometimes be finnicky, especially if you start making diagonal swipes. This control set is, however, very intuitive and thus suitable for people who have just begun playing the game.

#### D-Pad

This control set can be selected from the pause menu. Its icon are four directional buttons. While this control set is selected, four arrow buttons appear at the lower left corner of the screen, and pressing every arrow makes your character move in that direction. The buttons for Bombs and skills are at the lower right side the Bomb button is also much larger than the skill button.

This control set has many buttons to remember, and the Bomb and skill buttons are much smaller, but it allows for precise and consistent movement. If you can master this control set, it can serve you very well.

X-Y axis

This control set can be selected from the pause menu. Its icon are two groups of left-right and up-down arrows respectively. While this control set is equipped, two buttons that move your character to the left and right respectively will appear on the lower left side of the screen, and two buttons that move you upwards and downwards will appear at the lower right side. The Bomb and skill buttons are in the middle of the two groups of arrows and are very small.

This set is somewhat like a worse D-Pad, since the arrows are all over the place. It's very unintuitive, and the buttons for Bombs and skills are very small. This control set is not very practical and should generally be avoided.

Apart from the default control sets, you can make yourself your own custom controls. In the pause menu, to the very left of the screen, one can see a button with a controller on it. Tapping that button allows you to customise your current controls. From there you can toggle between the different arrangements, but also tap any button of those controls and make it larger or smaller through a slider or move the button by dragging it around. You can press the reset button to reset your controls to default. If you want to leave the menu, you can simply press the X button. The default controls, are, however, already rather good, so you generally won't need to use this menu much.