Desktop Dungeons
Turn-based fantasy dungeon puzzles where exploration restores health and mana
QCF Design · Released Apr 18, 2023
AdventureCasualIndieRPGStrategy
- Reviews
- Very Positive
- 84% of 2,361
- Recent reviews
- Not enough recent
- Playing now
- 11
- right now
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Last update
- 3 years ago
- Apr 29, 2023
Metacritic: 82/100 (critic reviews)
What is Desktop Dungeons?
Desktop Dungeons is a single-screen, turn-based puzzle roguelike set in fantasy dungeons. In each randomly generated run, you uncover terrain to restore health and mana while fighting enemies. Between runs, you build a kingdom to unlock classes, races, and challenges.
For you if...
- +you like short runs that reward careful planning
- +you enjoy difficult, turn-based dungeon puzzles
- +you want varied classes and unlockable challenges
Not for you if...
- −you want forgiving dungeon exploration without careful resource management
- −you prefer open-ended adventures over compact puzzle runs
What players say
84% of 2,361 reviews are positive
Players praise its strategic depth and the variety of classes, dungeons, and challenges in short runs. They most often complain that mistakes can make a run unwinnable much later, while some find the play repetitive.
Screenshots and trailer
Desktop Dungeons system requirements
As published by the developer.
Minimum
- OS
- Windows XP
- Processor
- 1.2GHz
- Graphics
- any Direct3D 9 card
- Memory
- 1 GB RAM
- Storage
- 350 MB available space
- DirectX
- Version 9.0c
PC version details
DRM, required accounts, controller support and Steam features.
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Keyboard and mouse
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux
- Achievements
- 35
- Steam features
- Family Sharing, Trading cards
Steam Deck: Playable
- Sometimes shows mouse, keyboard or non-Deck controller icons
- Some text entry requires manually opening the on-screen keyboard
- Some in-game text is small and may be hard to read
- All functionality is accessible with the default controller configuration
- Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck
Tags
- Roguelike
- Turn-Based
- Puzzle
- RPG
- Singleplayer
- Fantasy
- Resource Management
- Difficult
- Casual
- Great Soundtrack
- Roguelite
- 2D
- Comedy
- Dungeon Crawler
- Procedural Generation
- Addictive
Recent updates
- Apr 29, 2023 · Patch Notes 2023-04-28
- Jan 20, 2023 · Behind the scenes update.
- Aug 4, 2022 · Desktop Dungeons: Rewind
- May 12, 2017 · Desktop Dungeons Localization Update!
- May 12, 2017 · Desktop Dungeons Localization Update!
2 DLC available.
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