Dungeon crawlers sorted by release date

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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Hexx: Heresy of the Wizard

DOS19944/5 Psygnosis

Anvil of dawn

DOS1995protected3.8/5 DreamForge Intertainment

Dungeon master 2: The legend of Skullkeep

DOS19954/5 FTL

Mordor: The Depths of Dejenol

Windows 3.x1995protected4/5

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...

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...

Ancient Domains of Mystery (ADOM) v1.1

Windows XP/98/95DOSLinux1996freeware3.9/5

Diablo

Windows XP/98/951996protecteddemo4.2/5 Blizzard Entertainment

Legend of the Silver Talisman

DOS1996freeware3.9/5 Inter-Active Arts

An Elder Scrolls Legend: Battlespire

Windows XP/98/951997protected4/5 Bethesda Softworks

Dungeon Crawl

Windows XP/98/95DOSLinux1997freeware4/5

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).

Slash'Em

Windows XP/98/95Linux1997freeware4.1/5

Darkstone

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

ZAngband

WindowsMac OSDOSLinux1999freeware4.3/5

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...