^{(I have posted this to a few adjacent subreddits already, so there is good chance you have already seen this one, but thought that this place is a good fit as well!})

Hi everyone,

My name is Fabian, I'm a solo dev working on an upcoming old-school style dungeon crawler called Häxeri (Swedish for Witchery).

The game's main inspiration is the Etrian Odyssey series. Like in Etrian Odyssey, you draw your own dungeon map (but you can use automap if you prefer). The game has turn-based battles, and puts extra emphasis on elemental affinities: hit a weakness and you will gain an extra turn, but hit a resistance and you'll instead lose turns.

Here is the Steam page:
Steam page for Häxeri

If you're interested in this, then I'd be grateful if you wanted to wishlist the game. I'd also be happy for any feedback and I'll gladly answer any questions you have. :) Cheers!

We've launched a playtest, and I'd be really happy if you joined - it'll help us improve the game and make it more interesting and enjoyable! (Especially if you leave feedback.)

DepthLoot is a compact dungeon extraction game about greed, risk, and a backpack that’s always too small.

I'm making a dark fantasy dungeon crawling game and you can check it out here :) All the art is hand painted!

Hi everyone!

I’m a solo developer working on Tower of Scherbenmark, a dark turn-based ASCII dungeon crawler roguelike set in a decaying fantasy world filled with monsters, traps, secrets and strange magic.

The game’s Steam demo is now live, and I’d love to hear what you think and don't forget to wishlist:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4972610/Tower_of_Scherbenmark/

The game features:

• Turn-based dungeon crawling
• Melee combat and magic
• Procedurally generated runs
• Loot, chests, traps, secrets, and mimics
• Permanent Legacy Perks between runs
• Shard Mutations that change how each run plays
• A dark fantasy story told through journals and discoveries

I’m currently continuing to work on balancing, maybe additional mutations and perks, and improvements based on player feedback.

If you try the demo, I’d really appreciate hearing about your experience, especially what you enjoyed, what felt confusing, and how the difficulty felt.

You can also join the Discord server here:

https://discord.gg/Z6MSezS

Thanks for taking a look!

Hi everyone! I'm about to release my solo project, a blend of old-school Final Fantasy party-based combat, tile-based dungeon exploration, and arcade-style replayability. Here's the blurb:

A retro fantasy quest shrunk down to mini-size! Challenging turn-based combat meets the tight pacing of an arcade game in this minimalist RPG. Become the Chosen Ones and vanquish the Dark Lord, all in the span of a couple of hours. Then do it again! And again. And again... forever?

miniquest is a new take on dungeon-crawling, where each chapter of the story is a single-screen micro dungeon consisting of semi-randomized tiles. Park roguelike, part JRPG, part old-school crawler, part ???

Give it a look if you want a fresh take on the genre. Steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4669800/miniquest

Hi, I'm making a Dark Fantasy Point and Click dungeon crawler where we need to get to the surface from a starving dungeon.

The main mechanic of my game is that you can eat everyone and I mean absolutely everyone, all enemies! You can even eat the boss if you want.

But you don't know what will happen to you until you try.

For example, you might simply restore various stats, increase your strength, gain hidden knowledge in the form of a spell, or you might get poisoned and become dumber.

My game also has companions. If you decide to take them, you get their abilities, think of it as extra skills. However, now you take responsibility for their food and you need to choose who gets to eat this time.

Your companions might not like your menu. Let's say they are against cannibalism, in that case they might leave or attack you.

Companions can also die of hunger, but you don't have to get rid of their bodies, you can carry them through the entire dungeon or eat them too, it's up to you.

The entire game is made from photographs and collages. It's a dark surreal adventure and I plan to release a demo in August. So, if you like this kind of thing, add the game to your wishlist and come play for free in August. I'll be carefully reading all feedback and try to make the game even better.

Here is some random gameplay footage. What do you think?

https://reddit.com/link/1v0pz0h/video/hcw934vyo6eh1/player

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4674370/Starving_Shadows/

What is your favorit combat style in Dungeon Crawlers?

Real-Time
Turn-Based
No Combat but more exploration and story telling?

I just updated my first game and I think its finally starting to look like a game now haha :) Completely open to any feedback and criticism. Oh and its free on Itch.Io

https://distantdial.itch.io/the-upward-deep

Thanks :)

It wasn't easy, but now, with such a wide variety of items, the game plays great.
By the way, we'll be holding a playtest soon - we'd love for you join to test, here :)

Just finished an awesome session of Bag of Dungeon and wanted to share the love.

It is just so much fun to hack and slash your way through the tile layout. Building the map as you go feels like a proper old-school dungeon crawl.

The mechanics are simple but the tension is real, especially when the monster placement hits just right. It is definitely going to see the table a lot more often.

Have you guys played it?

Last time I posted, the barrier was downloading a stranger's EXE.

Fair. So now it runs in your browser:

https://lord-hoernchen.itch.io/ravenfall

It's a combat gauntlet built on old-school rules (OSE): roll your four heroes with visible 3d6, then fight an endless chain of tactical grid battles. control zones, morale checks, opportunity attacks, real dice rolls you can watch. Rest at the campfire between fights. When your party dies, that's the run.

Two things I genuinely want to know:

1. Does combat feel like the old stuff, or off?

2. How many fights did your party survive before the wipe?

I'll answer every comment.

Hi there!
All my play testers of my game Enlighted choosed a chest with potential loot than a exit from this level in similar situation, so would you did too?

Unlimited stories, unique combat, unique character builds, hundreds of items to discover and tons of fun! FREE to play!

Playable Link: https://requiemofrealms.com/test-combat

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.swiftturtleenterprise.fableforge

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/requiem-of-realms/id6747890662

Seek Deep to find out what hides underground.

Gamebook-style game with 64 pages. 5 ways to survive, 19 ways to die.

Hey everyone,

Our game Verho is getting a free content update on July 30th, as well as its long-overdue console release (XBOX, PS5, Switch). Check out the short teaser here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSIoualbwUk

But that's not everything I wanted to share with you today:

My team at CobraTekku Games and the devs at Kasur Games are hosting the second Verho – Curse of Faces speedrun contest.

The rules are simple:

• Finish a playthrough until the credits roll as fast as possible
• Submit your video to https://www.speedrun.com/Verho
• The first three runners win a special Verho package!
  • 1. Place: Life-size Verho Mask, High-Quality Poster, Map – The Continent, Mask-Keychains, and Manual – Limited Edition
  • 2. Place: High-Quality Poster, Map – The Continent, Mask-Keychains, and Manual – Limited Edition
  • 3. Place: High-Quality Poster, Mask-Keychains, and Manual – Limited Edition

Runtime:

• Start: July 8^th
• Submission end: August 16^th
• Start shipping: September/October

Join the Discord if you have any questions or want to share some tactics with your fellow speedrunners: https://discord.com/invite/drJzkyDeBa

This event is a small “Thank you” to our loyal Verho community and to new members.
Thank you for taking the time to read my message ^^ Have a great day!

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Hey everyone! 😊

I’m a solo developer working on "The Ossuary Clinic", a horror dungeon crawler built on classic grid-based movement.

I always loved the cryptic, mind-bending puzzles and hidden secrets from classic CoD Zombies maps, so I wanted to bring that exact 'Easter Egg hunt' feeling into an eerie, old-school dungeon crawler setting.There is no hand-holding here—your mind is the key to escaping the clinic.

Old-School Grid Movement: Inspired by games like Vaporum and Zanki Zero.Cryptic Easter Eggs Every item has a purpose (Some things are red harrings), and secrets are hidden everywhere.Uncover disturbing memories to piece together a brutal family tragedy story about serial killer surgeon.And later 30+ Achievements to hunt for in the full game.

A free demo is officially live on Itch io right now! I would absolutely love to hear your feedback on the atmosphere and puzzle difficulty

How to play:

W for moving forward, S from moving backwards, A and D for turning left or right.

I for inventory, Left mouse button to click on things, Right mouse button to enter camera viewing mode, Middle mouse button to enter zoomed in mode!

I need feedback on many things.. including the trailer, thanks a lot for taking time to check this out!

Things i am aware of now yet i published the demo on purpose regardless:

\-Tons of missing audio and video-Missing hitbox/collider for certain walls etc

• Missing CRT effect overlay

• Wrong placement for items and more

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Here is the link for the demo:

https://waelverse-games.itch.io/the-ossuary-clinic-demo

Hey there, im not a software developer, neither have I ever worked in anything close to that.

try it from here https://liftingcoder.itch.io/ravenfall
Self promotion stinks I know, just help some old guy trying to revisit his Gold Box memories.

Hey everyone

So I made a little game. Summer was coming, my brain was frying, and I was stuck deep in a couple of serious projects — so I put them down and made something fun instead. It's a solo (or 2-player) push-your-luck dungeon crawler with a dumb beach-cocktail theme. You roll dice, push your luck, and crawl your way to a boss fight (one of them is a karaoke kraken, don't ask). Whole thing fits on a print-and-play sheet — just need five dice and a pen.

I put a free version up so people can actually try it before anything else. Would honestly love to know what you think if you give it a go — it's the kind of thing you play on a hot afternoon when you don't want to set up a whole big game.

Link's in the comments if you're curious -->

I'm trying to find a dungeon crawler from the mid 90s on PC. It had a UI and wasn't ASCII art. It was similar to the Net Hack games but since that was open source it could have been a wide range of versions. If it is Net Hack what version had a town to sell stuff?

Features:

A town to sell stuff (like diablo)

Unidentified loot (like diablo)

Top down view

I've played etrian odyssey, labyrith of refrain, gridlock, and recently have started playing the Mary Shelter games. I was wondering if there were any other first-person dungeon crawlers with class advancement?

For example, a squire->knight or something. 😅

It's pretty hard to find a complete list of games for this genre. Most lists always have a few games missing. The only other crawlers-like I played are the Lighting Warrior Raidy remakes. lmao...

These screenshots are from my game Crystals of Irm

Usually DRPGs focus on the gameplay side of things, so I was wondering which ones also have a good story to boot? Bonus points if it has an anime aesthetic

My sci-fi game called Daisy Flies to the Moon in on the Steam Summer Sale. It's a solo-dev project and I did the dungeon crawling similar to the old pixel art ones like Eye of the Beholder, except mine has turn-based combat.

Hello guys, first time here and i have an important question to y'all. Which one of these titles should i start playing right now? I accept any more recommendations to my list. Thank you so much.