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The most popular 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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Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss

DOS1992protected4.2/5 Blue Sky Productions
Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss is one of the first free-roaming first-person 3D ARPG (action RPG) ever created. The Stygian Abyss is the dungeon of the same name, part of the land of Britannia, and it's set in the Ultima universe created by Richard Garriott. Ultima Underworld was designed by Paul Neurath, developed by Blue Sky Productions and...
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Eye of the beholder 3: Assault on Myth Drannor

DOS1991protected3.9/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
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Hack

DOS1984freeware3.8/5
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Moria

DOS1992freeware3.9/5
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Castle Adventure

DOS1984freeware4.2/5
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ZAngband

WindowsMac OSDOSLinux1999freeware4.2/5
Zangband is a variant of the popular roguelike game Angband. Zangband, short for Zelazny Angband, was developed by Chris Weisiger and first released in 1994. The game features a fantasy world with diverse races, classes, and monsters. Players explore dungeons, caves, and other environments in a quest to reach the bottom level of the dungeon, d...
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Stonekeep

DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac OS1995protected4/5 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...
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Gauntlet 2

DOS19894.1/5 Atari
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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...
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WaxWorks

DOSMac OS1992protecteddemo4.2/5 Horror Soft
Waxworks was a horror-themed first-person role-playing game developed by Horror Soft, a subsidiary of Adventure Soft, published in 1992. The game is set in a wax museum where players must travel through different historical periods, each represented by a wax exhibit. Each exhibit serves as a portal to a different time and place, featuring vari...
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Telengard

DOS1985freeware3.4/5 Avalon Hill
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Wizardry 6: Bane of the Cosmic Forge

DOSLinuxMac OS1990protected4.1/5 Sir-tech Software
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TomeNET

Windows XP/98/95Linux2003freeware4.4/5
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Anvil of dawn

DOS1995protected3.8/5 DreamForge Intertainment
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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.
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The Immortal

DOS1991protected3.7/5 Sandcastle
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Shadow of Yserbius

DOS19933.8/5 Sierra On-Line
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Dark Designs 1: Grelminar's Staff

DOS19903.9/5 Softdisk Publishing
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Legend of the Silver Talisman

DOS1996freeware3.9/5 Inter-Active Arts
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ICON: Quest for the Ring

DOS19843.6/5 Macrocom
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Moraff's Dungeon of the Unforgiven

DOS19933.9/5 Moraffware
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Larn

DOS1986freeware3.9/5
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Moraff's Revenge

DOS19883.7/5 Moraffware
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Moraff's World

DOS19913.5/5 Moraffware
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Oubliette

DOS19833.3/5
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Dark Designs 2: Closing the Gate

DOS19904/5 Softdisk Publishing
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Obitus

DOS19913.4/5 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 ...
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The Summoning

DOS1992protected4/5 Event Horizon
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Darkstone

Windows XP/98/951999protected3.8/5 Delphine software
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Fates of Twinion

DOS19933.6/5 Sierra On-Line