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The most popular dungeon crawl games

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.
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Wizardry 6: Bane of the Cosmic Forge

DOSLinuxMac OS1990protected Sir-tech Software
Wizardry VI: Bane of the Cosmic Forge is a role-playing game (RPG) developed by Sir-Tech and released in 1990. It's the sixth installment in the long-running "Wizardry" series. The game begins with the player's party investigating a castle where the Cosmic Forge, a powerful magical pen capable of rewriting reality, was once used by a mad king ...
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Captive

DOS1992 Mindscape
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Eye of the beholder 3: Assault on Myth Drannor

DOS1991protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
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Gauntlet

DOS1986 Mindscape
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Wizardry 4: The Return of Werdna

DOS1988 Sir-tech Software
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Hack

DOS1984freeware
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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 ...
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ICON: Quest for the Ring

DOS1984 Macrocom
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Gauntlet 2

DOS1989 Atari
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The Summoning

DOS1992protected Event Horizon
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Angband

Windows XP/98/95DOSLinux1992freeware
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Fates of Twinion

DOS1993 Sierra On-Line
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Larn

DOS1986freeware
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Dark Designs 1: Grelminar's Staff

DOS1990 Softdisk Publishing
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The Immortal

DOS1991protected Sandcastle
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Wizardry 3: Legacy of Llylgamyn

DOS1983 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...
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Dungeon Crawl

Windows XP/98/95DOSLinux1997freeware
Dungeon 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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Beneath Apple Manor

DOS1983freeware
Beneath Apple Manor is a pioneering game in the roguelike genre, originally developed and released in 1978 by Don Worth for the Apple II and later re-released for DOS as a "Special Edition". It's one of the earliest known role-playing video games (RPGs) with procedurally generated dungeons.In Beneath Apple Manor, players take on the role of an adve...
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Ruins of Cawdor

DOS1995 Ybarra Productions
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Darkstone

Windows XP/98/951999protected Delphine software
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Cosmic Soldier: Psychic War

DOS1989 Kogado Software Products
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Anvil of dawn

DOS1995protected DreamForge Intertainment
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Shadow of Yserbius

DOS1993 Sierra On-Line
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ZAngband

Windows 10/11Mac OSDOSLinux1999freeware
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 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...
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Moraff's World

DOS1991 Moraffware
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NetHack - Falcon's Eye

Windows XP/98/952001freeware
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IVAN (Iter Vehemens ad Necem)

DOSWindows 10/11LinuxMac OS2001freeware
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Evets

DOS1988freeware SAck Enterprizes
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DarkSpyre

DOS1990 Event Horizon