Overview
About this game
🗡️ Text Dungeon — A Pure Text-Based Roguelike
No graphics. No ASCII. Just words, choices, and imagination.
Descend into a dungeon that reshapes itself every run.
Fight, explore, …and face narrative encounters brought to life through words and imagination.
🎯 Key Features
Permadeath: every run is unique and final
Procedural generation: layouts, items, and creatures change each time
Narrative encounters: NPCs, quests, and lore told entirely through text
200+ creatures, 100+ spells, and countless items to discover
🔥 Steam Next Fest Demo
Play the free demo now and experience a roguelike told entirely through words.
🏰 Special Rooms — Narrative Encounters
Beyond the fast-paced roguelike exploration and combat, certain rooms transform into story-driven events.
At places like the Troll’s Bridge, the Miasma Swamp, or the Silver Temple, you’ll face vivid, gamebook-style descriptions and meaningful choices. These encounters break from traditional roguelike logs, offering narrative depth, unique rewards, and consequences that shape your journey.
Every special room is a story waiting to unfold.
🧙♂️ Deep Character Building
Create a new adventurer with randomized stats, unique traits, and meaningful choices.
Six types: Fighter, Rogue, Cleric, Mage, Magefighter, Citizen
Homelands with bonuses: Each origin grants different starting advantages
Dozens of skills: Combat, stealth, magic, survival, and more
100+ spells: Multiple schools, casting times, interruptions, and Vitality-based costs
Mutations and rare abilities: Strange powers that help—or complicate—your survival
Classic-inspired attributes: Vitality (VIT), Battle (BTL), Luck (LUK), reimagined from classic gamebooks
🐉 Over 200 Creatures—Each With Personality
Encounter more than 200 unique creatures with distinct behaviors:
Some pursue you relentlessly once they spot you
Some wield a wide variety of spells, from direct attacks to disruptive magic
Some inflict poison, disease, paralysis, and other dangerous conditions
Some steal your items and flee
Some offer quests with strict time limits
Even creatures that seem friendly shouldn’t be trusted. They may simply not be hungry for you… yet.
📜 Items, Magic, and Mystery
A dungeon filled with secrets and surprises:
Hundreds of items: weapons, armor, scrolls, potions, wands, food, keys, artifacts
A classic identification system with cursed items and unknown potions
Shops, quests, hidden rooms, traps, and special events
Powerful artifacts with unique abilities
Dangerous magic that can backfire—or save your life
🎯 Made for Fans of Traditional Roguelikes
If you enjoy: Rogue, NetHack, ADOM, Angband, Dungeon Crawl, classic MUDs, or text-driven games with deep mechanics… then Text Dungeon is built for you.
🔥 Your Adventure Begins
Your story is written in your actions. Your mistakes are permanent. Your imagination is the only graphics engine you need.
How deep will you dare to go into the Text Dungeon?
