The best dungeon crawl games

Dungeon crawlers are RPGs in which the player has to explore one or more dungeons, fight monsters one after another, looting treasure, advance to higher levels and so on. Usually, dungeon crawlers have simple storylines and linear progression. A lot of roguelikes can be described as dungeon crawlers.
Popular dungeon crawlers are Diablo, Legend of Grimrock, Dungeon Master, Eye of the Beholder.

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Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos

DOSMac OS1993protected4/5 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...

Mordor: The Depths of Dejenol

Windows 3.x1995protected3.9/5

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...

Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord

DOS19813.9/5 Sir-tech Software

Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord is a role-playing video game that was first released in 1981. It's one of the pioneering titles in the dungeon-crawling genre and one of the first computer role-playing games (CRPGs).Developed by Andrew C. Greenberg and Robert Woodhead, and published by Sir-Tech, Wizardry was initially released for the ...

Stonekeep

DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac OS1995protected3.9/5 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...

HeroQuest

DOSMac OS19913.9/5 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...

Captive

DOS19923.9/5 Mindscape

Moria

DOS1992freeware3.9/5

Eye of the beholder 3: Assault on Myth Drannor

DOS1991protected3.9/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

Legend of the Silver Talisman

DOS1996freeware3.9/5 Inter-Active Arts

Moraff's Dungeon of the Unforgiven

DOS19933.9/5 Moraffware

Larn

DOS1986freeware3.9/5

Ancient Domains of Mystery (ADOM) v1.1

Windows XP/98/95DOSLinux1996freeware3.9/5

Dark Designs 1: Grelminar's Staff

DOS19903.9/5 Softdisk Publishing

Cosmic Soldier: Psychic War

DOS19893.8/5 Kogado Software Products

Wizardry 2: The knight of diamonds

DOS19823.8/5 Sir-tech Software

Hack

DOS1984freeware3.8/5

Shadow of Yserbius

DOS19933.8/5 Sierra On-Line

Bloodwych

DOS19893.8/5

Bloodwych is an abandoned RPG set in the fantasy world of Trazere. Two players can play at the same time in split screen mode, a feature that was unusual at the time, especially for an RPG. Bloodwych was released in 1989 by Image Works for DOS, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, C64, ZX Spectrum.

Wizardry 3: Legacy of Llylgamyn

DOS19833.8/5 Sir-tech Software

Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn is a classic role-playing video game developed by Sir-Tech and released in 1983. It is the third installment in the Wizardry series. Originally released for the Apple II, it was later ported to other platforms, including the Commodore 64, IBM PC, and various Japanese computers. The game is set in the fant...

Anvil of dawn

DOS1995protected3.8/5 DreamForge Intertainment

NetHack - Falcon's Eye

Windows XP/98/952001freeware3.8/5

Darkstone

Windows XP/98/951999protected3.8/5 Delphine software

DarkSpyre

DOS19903.8/5 Event Horizon

NetHack

DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac OSLinux1987freeware3.7/5

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...