Dungeon crawlers sorted by release date
Popular dungeon crawlers are Diablo, Legend of Grimrock, Dungeon Master, Eye of the Beholder.
Most popular dungeon crawl games
Dungeon crawl games
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DOS1991protected4.3/5 Westwood StudiosEye of the Beholder 2: The Legend of Darkmoon is an old DOS fantasy RPG set in the Dungeons & Dragons universe, developed by Westwood Studios and published by SSI Strategic Simulations Inc. in 1991. Eye of the Beholder 2 (also called EotB2) is one of the most popular party-based dungeon crawlers every released for PC.
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DOS1991protected3.9/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc. -
DOS19913.9/5 Gremlin Graphics / Gremlin Interactive -
DOS19913.5/5 Moraffware -
DOS1991protected3.6/5 Sandcastle -
Windows XP/98/95DOSLinux1992freeware4/5 -
DOS19923.8/5 Mindscape -
DOS19924.2/5 FTLDungeon Master, released in 1987 by FTL for Atari ST and later for Amiga and DOS, is a classic dungeon-crawling role-playing game (RPG) that holds a special place in the hearts of many nostalgic gamers. Dungeon Master is considered the father of first-person, 3D, grid-based dungeon crawlers.
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DOS1992protected4/5 Event Horizon -
DOS1992protected4.1/5 Blue Sky ProductionsUltima 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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DOSMac1992protected4.1/5 Horror Soft -
Windows 3.x1993freeware4.2/5 SaadaSoftCastle of the Winds (1993, by Saadasoft) is a perfect example of an atypical roguelike (no ASCII, runs in Windows) turned into a liberated game. Surprisingly Castle of the Winds is still very playable to this day, if you can make it run under a recent version of Windows.
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DOS1993protected4.2/5 DreamForge IntertainmentDungeon Hack, based on Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, is a first person dungeon crawl. You can create your one-man party and generate a random the dungeon everytime you start from scratch. Dungeon Hack gameplay is very similar to the Eye of the beholder series.
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DOS19933.5/5 Sierra On-Line -
DOS1993protected4/5 Westwood StudiosLands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos is a fantasy RPG published in 1993, very similar to other dungeon crawlers like EotB or Dungeon Master. Lands of Lore was developed by Westwood Studios who wanted to start a new franchise after the success of the Eye of the Beholder series.
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DOS19933.9/5 Moraffware -
DOS19934.2/5 Frontline Software -
DOS19933.9/5 Sierra On-Line -
DOS19944/5 Psygnosis -
DOS1995protected3.8/5 DreamForge Intertainment -
DOS19954/5 FTL -
Windows 3.x1995protected4/5Mordor: 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...
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DOS1995protected4/5 Interplay Productions -
Windows XP/98/95DOSLinux1996freeware4/5 -
Windows XP/98/951996protected4.1/5 Blizzard Entertainment -
DOS1996freeware3.9/5 Inter-Active Arts -
Windows XP/98/951997protected4.1/5 Bethesda Softworks -
Windows XP/98/95DOSLinux1997freeware3.9/5Dungeon Crawl (also known as Linley's Dungeon Crawl from the name of the original programmer: Linley Henzell) is a classic roguelike: an RPG with permadeath, procedural generation and high replayability. Dungeon Crawl was released on 1997 but it's not maintained anymore. The spiritual successr of Crawl is DCCS (Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup).
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Windows XP/98/95Linux1997freeware4.2/5