Lord of the Dark Castle
Turn-based dungeon crawling against monsters that loot and buy equipment
Craze Creative Studios · Published by Conglomerate 5 · Released Aug 13, 2015
- Reviews
- Mostly Positive
- 74% of 129
- Recent reviews
- Not enough recent
- Players
- 0
- daily peak, Oct 30, 2026
- Steam Deck
- Unsupported
- Last update on Steam
- Unknown
- no patch notes on Steam
What is Lord of the Dark Castle?
This retro-style roguelike follows a hero descending through randomized dungeon levels. You move and attack in alternating turns with monsters, facing new enemy types as you go deeper. Death is permanent, and there is no save system.
For you if...
- +you enjoy experimenting with skills without following prerequisite trees
Not for you if...
- −you prefer real-time combat to planning individual moves
What players say
74% of 129 reviews are positive
Players praise the simple rules and demanding survival. Complaints focus on luck-driven deaths, enemies that repeatedly immobilize the hero, and missing resolution settings that make playing on high-resolution monitors difficult.
Screenshots and trailer
Lord of the Dark Castle system requirements
Minimum: 2 GB RAM, 0.3 GB of disk space.
As published by the developer.
Can my PC run Lord of the Dark Castle?
The published requirements do not name a graphics card we can compare.
Set up my PC →Minimum
- OS
- XP/ Vista / Windows 7 / Windows 8
- Memory
- 2 GB RAM
- Storage
- 350 MB available space
- Notes
- JRE is bundled with the game. Steam Achievements only supported for 64 bit systems.
Recommended
- OS
- Windows 7
- Processor
- Intel i5
- Memory
- 4 GB RAM
- Storage
- 350 MB available space
- Notes
- JRE is bundled with the game. Steam Achievements only supported for 64 bit systems.
Does Lord of the Dark Castle have co-op or multiplayer?
No: single-player only, no multiplayer modes declared.
Does Lord of the Dark Castle run on Steam Deck?
Unsupported No: Valve rates it Unsupported on Steam Deck.
- Not supported on SteamOS
PC version details
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Keyboard and mouse
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux
- Achievements
- 25
- Steam features
- Family Sharing, Trading cards
- Languages
- Text only: English.
Does Lord of the Dark Castle use AI-generated content?
No AI-generated content is disclosed on the game's Steam page.
Self-reported by the developer under Steam rules: it covers AI content that ships in the game, not tools used to make it. Steam page checked on Oct 27, 2026. How to filter AI games on Steam
