Popup Dungeon
Released Aug 2020
A tactical roguelike RPG inspired by our favorite tabletop games that lets you create any ability, item, villain, hero, and game imaginable.
74% positive · 1,047 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
Medium confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
Medium confidence
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Evaluation
Popup Dungeon launched on August 12, 2020 after a seven-year development journey. In the first several months post-launch, the developer was quite active: two major seasonal free content drops arrived in quick succession — a Halloween expansion on October 21, 2020 and a Krampus/holiday campaign on December 2, 2020. Several feature patches also shipped through early September 2020. After that burst of activity, the pace slowed considerably. Two more feature patches arrived in July and August 2022, adding quality-of-life improvements and new creation tools, but no major new campaigns or content packages. The last developer communication of any kind was the August 13, 2022 patch (Patch 1.04). There have been no news posts, patches, or announcements since that date — a silence stretching from August 13, 2022 through today, June 27, 2026. The two major content drops both occurred within the first four months of launch, establishing no sustained long-term cadence. There are no unreleased DLC listings, no announced future content, and no developer statements promising additional updates. The developer's own launch post said "loads of content to give you all in the future," but that was followed by only two seasonal expansions in 2020 and then maintenance-level patches through 2022. With nearly four years of silence since the last patch and no outstanding commitments, the game appears to have reached its final state as of the last patch on August 13, 2022.
Evidence
Major free holiday/Krampus campaign added, with new character, tileset, mechanic, and enemies.
Major free Halloween expansion shipped with new campaign, characters, enemies, equipment, and charm.
Media
Details
Developer
Publisher
Balor Games
Achievements
65
Platform
Windows
Controller
—
Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player · Multiplayer · Co-op · Local/Split Screen
About this game
Popup Dungeon is a tactical roguelike RPG inspired by our favorite tabletop games. Make your own abilities, items, heroes, villains, and games easier than ever before. Create and share anything you can imagine.
Key Features
- Out of the Box: 1500+ abilities, 420+ items, 200+ fully-voiced enemies, 36 playable characters
- Games included: Branching story-driven campaigns, gameplay-focused runs, and the 25 campaigns of The Wizard's Tower
- Endless Content: Lots of games have procedural content, but Popup’s easy-to-use creation systems allow for limitless handcrafted content. Just hit the download button!
- Game Creation: Tie nodes together to create your own games; from classic RPG adventures to grueling dungeon crawls and dating simulators, you can do it all, no programming knowledge necessary!
- Persistent Gains: Collect and combine charms to power up your party and climb higher than before.
The enigmatic Wizard, voiced by John de Lancie, has challenged humanity to a duel of creativity. But to defeat him, first you’ll have to climb his tower: 25 campaigns of ever-increasing difficulty that will take you from the depths of dungeons to the furthest reaches of space and everything in between.
Additional Information
- Creation Systems: Popup turns game design into a game. Turn your pictures into 3D cutouts to use as enemies and equipment, clip and fade sounds in engine, add your own images to ability cards, everything you create is automatically balanced and the AI is handled for you.
- Dungeon Master: Try on The Wizard’s hat. Create your own adventures and take control of the enemies.
- Flexible Party Size: The dungeon can be challenged with 1 to 5 characters at a time.
- Sandbox-like: Create and add Modes to any game you've beaten to randomize enemies, add companions, grant abilities, go hardcore, or customize your experience in any way you'd like!
- Additional Tile Sets: Go beyond the dungeon! Explore Star Ships, Haunted Houses, Deserts, Japanese Villages and Castles, Steampunk Airships, Post-Apocalyptic landscapes, and more...
- Great for Remote Play: Multiplayer is handled through Steam's Remote Play. The turn-based nature of the game makes it a great fit, and we've added gold codes at the end of run so all participants are rewarded. However, full multiplayer integration is a top long-term goal.
- Accessible Game Play: Very easy to play, deviously hard to master.
- Interactable Props: From Treasure Chests to Vendi-Machines, discover props and secrets that will help shape the course of your crawl. Custom interactables coming soon!
Are these done yet?
Last evaluated Jun 27, 2026
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