Desktop Dungeons

Desktop Dungeons

Released Apr 2023

Each step into the unknown heals you and reveals new obstacles as you guide fresh heros to glorious retirement or ignominious death. Master tactical spells, appease ancient gods and get rich through taxidermy in this award-winning quick-play puzzle-roguelike.

83% positive · 2,356 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence

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Steam $14.99
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Evaluation

Desktop Dungeons originally launched and received its last major content update — the Enhanced Edition — as a free update on April 19, 2015, adding new classes, quests, and the Daily Dungeon feature. That update was followed by a small patch in June 2015 and a bug fix in May 2015, with no further content development after that point. In August 2022, QCF Design announced Desktop Dungeons: Rewind, a separate, fully remastered version of the game (App ID 1976950), which launched on April 18, 2023. As a thank-you to existing owners, the studio gave Desktop Dungeons: Rewind away for free to anyone who already owned the original. The final post on this game's news feed — dated April 29, 2023 — was a compatibility patch to fix a save file bug introduced by the Rewind launch. All DLC for this version of the game was released back in November 2013 (the soundtrack and Goatperson DLC), and no new DLC or content updates have been announced. The developer's attention has clearly shifted to Desktop Dungeons: Rewind as the successor product. There are no outstanding content commitments, no roadmap, and no developer communications since April 29, 2023 that suggest further updates to this edition are planned. The game is a complete, finished product.
Evidence
Desktop Dungeons: Rewind launched as a separate, remastered successor. Existing owners of this game received it for free. Developer focus shifted to the new title.
news post · Apr 18, 2023 source development ending
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Enhanced Edition launched as a free update, adding new classes, quests, and the Daily Dungeon mode. This was the last major content release for this version of the game.
news post · Apr 19, 2015 source content shipped
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Content

2 of 2 released · no outstanding content

Media

Details

Developer
Publisher
QCF Design
Achievements
35
Platform
Windows, macOS, Linux
Controller
—
Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player

About this game

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.
Last evaluated Jun 28, 2026
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