Adventure · April 18, 2023
Desktop Dungeons (2023)
FREE GAME UPDATE! Desktop Dungeons: Enhanced Edition. More ways to die horribly in 10 minutes or less. The award winning quick-play puzzle roguelike is now packed with new content, 2 new classes and a new way to play: Compete against your friends in the seeded Daily Dungeon! The perfect coffee-break game for genius tacticians and chilled clickers alike: Fight your way through fantasy dungeons in 10 minutes or less. We’re busy people too. Prize-winning game design awesomeness (13th Annual IGF Awards) Classic roguelike play re-imagined as a unique single-screen puzzle game sort of thing! Reviewers have a hard time with genres. Explore unrevealed terrain to regain health and mana. Game hook! 6 hours of gameplay? Try 6 billion... You can (and will) play Desktop Dungeons for the rest of your life. Randomly generated dungeons are different every time you play. Build your Kingdom to unlock hordes of new classes, races and challenges. Daily Dungeon allows you to compete against your Steam friends! Amazing soundtrack by the improbably astounding team of Danny Baranowsky and Grant Kirkhope.
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Peer Adventure titles
Comparable titles in the same genre and review-volume band — ranked by Steam positive percentage.
Community Tag Signals
Tag weights reflect how many Steam users voted each descriptor — larger pills = stronger consensus.
- Rogue-like · 260
- Turn-Based · 135
- Puzzle · 129
- RPG · 103
- Singleplayer · 81
- Fantasy · 73
- Resource Management · 67
- Difficult · 63
- Casual · 61
- Great Soundtrack · 43
- Rogue-lite · 42
- 2D · 36
- Comedy · 35
- Dungeon Crawler · 29
- Addictive · 28
Position in Adventure
| Metric | This title | Genre position |
|---|---|---|
| Review volume | 2.3k Steam reviews | Top 89% in Adventure |
| Positive rating | 84% positive | Genre average: 87% — this title sits in top 75% |
| Metacritic | 82/100 | Genre average 77 — top 31% of Adventure titles |
| Engagement hours | 8 h average | Top 39% for session depth among Adventure |
Reception Metrics
Steam community
84%Mostly Positive · 2.3k reviews
1.9k positive · 364 negative
Metacritic
82/100 critic aggregate
Metacritic user score
7.6/10
Curator recommendations
1.1k
Press Quotes
“... a creative, rewarding and utterly addictive game that will keep you raiding goblin lairs until the small hours.” 4.5/5 – USgamer “There are eight puzzles about pushing trolls.” 9/10 – Objective Game Reviews “... as well-balanced as God’s own see-saw, and as unforgiving as the fast food jobsworth faced with someone ordering a breakfast muffin at 12.01” Rock, Paper, Shotgun
Release & Availability
| Release date | Apr 18, 2023 |
|---|---|
| Developer | QCF Design |
| Base price | $7.49 -50% |
| DLC / Add-ons | 2 released |
| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
| Estimated owners | 100k–1M |
| External links | Official site · Metacritic page · Support · [email protected] |
Engagement Profile
All-time avg
8h
short (5–15 hours)
Median
2h
Typical completion time
Achievements
35
Steam unlocks available
Features & Capabilities
Community
- Steam Achievements
- Steam Trading Cards
Other
- Single-player
- Family Sharing
Localization Coverage
Interface / Subtitles (2)
- English
- Simplified Chinese
Editions & Packages
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