Dungeon crawlers
Dungeon crawlers are a subgenre of RPGs in which the player explores one or more dungeons, battles successive monsters, collects loot, and progresses to higher levels. Typically, dungeon crawlers feature simple storylines and linear progression, though some offer branching paths or open-ended exploration. Many roguelikes share characteristics with dungeon crawlers, incorporating procedural generation, permadeath, and randomized loot to enhance replayability.
Notable dungeon crawlers include Diablo, Legend of Grimrock, Dungeon Master, and Eye of the Beholder.
Notable dungeon crawlers include Diablo, Legend of Grimrock, Dungeon Master, and Eye of the Beholder.
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HeroQuest
DOSMac OS1991 Gremlin Graphics / Gremlin Interactive
HeroQuest is a classic video game adaptation of the popular board game HeroQuest, released in 1991 by Gremlin Interactive. HeroQuest faithfully recreates the turn-based, dungeon-crawling, and role-playing gameplay of the board game. Players take on the roles of different heroes, including a barbarian, dwarf, elf, and wizard, as they explo...
Hexx: Heresy of the Wizard
DOS1994 Psygnosis
ICON: Quest for the Ring
DOS1984 Macrocom
Incursion
Windows 10/11LinuxMac OS2007freeware
IVAN (Iter Vehemens ad Necem)
DOSWindows 10/11LinuxMac OS2001freeware
Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos
DOSMac OS1993protected Westwood Studios
Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos is a classic role-playing video game released by Westwood Studios in 1993. It is the first installment in the Lands of Lore series and is known for its immersive gameplay, storyline, and impressive graphics for its time. Lands of Lore is an first-person party-based role-playing game (RPG) that combines elemen...
Larn
DOS1986freeware
Legend of the Silver Talisman
DOS1996freeware Inter-Active Arts
Moraff's Dungeon of the Unforgiven
DOS1993 Moraffware
Moraff's Revenge
DOS1988 Moraffware
Moraff's World
DOS1991 Moraffware
Mordor: The Depths of Dejenol
Windows 3.x1995protected
Mordor: The Depths of Dejenol is fantasy RPG game released in 1995 for Windows 3.x, but it runs flawlessy even Windows XP (see this faq if you want to play Mordor in a virtual machine). Mordor: The Depths of Dejenol is a mix of first-person and top-down perspective dungeon crawler; the game shows the dungeon in by both perspectives at onc...
Moria
DOS1992freeware
NetHack
DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac OSLinux1987freeware
NetHack is an open-source roguelike game that's been around since the early 1980s. It's a single-player dungeon exploration game where you navigate your character through a randomly generated dungeon filled with monsters, traps, treasures, and various items. The goal is to retrieve the Amulet of Yendor, located deep within the dungeon's lowest leve...
NetHack - Falcon's Eye
Windows XP/98/952001freeware
Obitus
DOS1991 Scenerio Software
Obitus is a role-playing video game developed by Psygnosis and released in 1991 for various platforms including the Amiga, Atari ST, and DOS. It combines elements of role-playing games (RPGs) and action-adventure games and is set in a fantasy world.In the game, players control the protagonist who finds themselves transported to the realm of Obitus ...
Oubliette
DOS1983
Reaping The Dungeon
DOS1993 Frontline Software
Rogue
Windows XP/98/95DOSLinuxMac OS1984 Artificial Intelligence Design
Rogue is one of the first RPGs in the history of video gaming. It's a text-based dungeon crawler in which you have to fight your way in the dungeon to recover the Amulet of Yendor. Rogue became popular around 1980 on mainframes and later ported to various platforms, including DOS in 1984. Rogue is simply the father of all the roguelike games that c...
Ruins of Cawdor
DOS1995 Ybarra Productions
Shadow of Yserbius
DOS1993 Sierra On-Line
Slash'Em
Windows XP/98/95LinuxMac OS1997freewareremake
SLASH'EM (Super Lotsa Added Stuff Hack - Extended Magic) is a roguelike game based on NetHack, one of the most famous dungeon-crawling games of all time. It expands upon NetHack 3.4.3, adding new monsters, items, spells, roles, and challenges while keeping the core mechanics of exploration, permadeath, and turn-based combat intact. SLASH'EM is...
Stonekeep
DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac OS1995protected Interplay Productions
Stonekeep is a first-person role-playing game (RPG) developed by Interplay Entertainment. It was released for MS-DOS in 1995 and later for other platforms such as Windows and Macintosh.The game is set in the fantasy world of Britannia, where the player takes on the role of a hero named Drake. The story revolves around the protagonist's quest to def...
Telengard
DOS1985freeware Avalon Hill
Telengard is one of the earliest computer role-playing games, released in 1982 for various home computers like the Commodore 64, Apple II, and TRS-80 and later for PC. It was developed by Daniel Lawrence and was heavily inspired by DND, a 1970s mainframe game that itself took influence from Dungeons & Dragons. Telengard is a dungeon crawle...
Temple of Apshai Trilogy
DOS1985 Epyx
The Temple of Apshai Trilogy is a series of classic role-playing games developed by Automated Simulations (later known as Epyx) in the late 1970s and early 1980s. These games were among the earliest examples of computer-based RPGs and were influential in shaping the genre.The "Temple of Apshai Trilogy" was notable for its depth of gameplay and intr...
The Bard's Tale
DOS1987 Interplay Productions
The Bard's Tale: Tales of the Unknown was developed by Interplay Productions and published by Electronic Arts for DOS and other systems. The game takes place in the fictional city of Skara Brae, which is overrun by monsters and under the control of the evil wizard Mangar the Dark. Your goal as the player is to assemble a party of adventurers t...
The Bard's Tale 3: Thief of Fate
DOS1990 Interplay Productions
The Bard’s Tale III: Thief of Fate is the third and final installment in the original The Bard’s Tale trilogy, developed by Interplay and published by Electronic Arts in 1988. It is a classic turn-based dungeon crawler RPG with first-person exploration.After the defeat of Mangar in The Bard’s Tale, and his master Tarjan in The Bar...
The Immortal
DOS1991protected Sandcastle
The Summoning
DOS1992protected Event Horizon
TomeNET
Windows XP/98/95LinuxMac OS2001freeware
TomeNET (Troubles of Middle Earth, Net) is an online, multiplayer rogue-like game set in the world of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-Earth. It’s a persistent-world game inspired by Angband, a single-player dungeon-crawler based on Tolkien lore. You can play as familiar fantasy races like Elves, Dwarves, Humans, or Hobbits, as well as more obscu...