Video Games Encyclopedia

This subgenre consists of RPGs where the player leads a party of adventurers in first-person perspective, typically through a dungeon or labyrinth in a grid-based environment. Games of this type are sometimes called “blobbers”, since the player moves the entire party around the playing field as a single unit, or “blob”.
Most “blobbers” are turn-based, but some titles are played in real-time. Early games in this genre lacked an automap feature, forcing players to draw their own maps in order to keep track of their progress. Environmental and spatial puzzles are common, meaning players may need to, for instance, move a stone in one part of the level in order to open a gate in another part of the level.