Descend. Battle. Fall. Return stronger.

Dungeonbound is an incremental first-person dungeon crawler where the fighting runs itself. Pick a hero, lock in a loadout, and start the descent. Attacks, dodges, crits, counters and status ticks all resolve on their own in speed-driven turns, watched through a PS1-era CRT.

Death costs you the floor and nothing else. Every trip home is a chance to spend your gold, buy upgrades, merge your gear and walk back in meaner than you left.

Two ways to descend

The Long Haul (incremental, 3 heroes). Warrior, Mage and Rogue, each with their own gold, their own levels and their own permanent upgrades. Progress on one is never lost while you play another. Dying is a setback measured in floors, not hours. You keep the loot, the levels and the upgrades, and go again.

The Climb (roguelite ladder, 10 characters to unlock). A self-contained run with a roster of specialists, each built around a tag affinity and a passive that fires between floors. Five hearts, shop-first rounds, and a rank that carries between climbs. Lose your last heart and the build is destroyed. The rank is the only thing that comes home with you.

Somebody else's build is waiting

Every floor of the climb ends with a challenger standing between you and the ladder down, and that challenger is a real build somebody actually played. Clear a floor and your own loadout is snapshotted into the pool, stat for stat and item for item, to block somebody else's descent later.

No turns to wait on and nobody to matchmake with: you fight the ghosts of other people's runs, and yours goes back in to haunt theirs. Ranked climbs promote you at floor 8 and demote you when a run dies out.

The same dungeon for everyone, once a day

One seed, one endless descent, everyone in the same corridors. The Endless Delve doesn't have a bottom. It scales past the point of survival and asks how far you got. Same enemies, same drops, same rooms for every player that day. Bragging rights are the only prize.

Combat with real teeth

Turn order runs on speed: act first, act more often, and outpace slow enemies for extra swings. Fights layer dodge, crit, multistrike, overkill damage that spills into the next enemy in the rank, and a full status game of poison, burn, bleed, freeze and stun, each stacking and ticking on its own clock.

Over 200 hand-painted enemies wait across the descent, and they don't all fight fair: thorns that punish every hit you land, berserkers that grow stronger the longer you take, bloodthirsty things that heal off your wounds, thieves that flee with your gold. Nine elites guard the deeper floors and five bosses hold the bottom of each dungeon.

Loot worth dying for

Everything down there pays out. Over 200 items across five rarities drop from regular enemies, elites and bosses: weapons that scale off your missing health or your gold, gear that triggers the moment your armour breaks, cursed pieces that hand you a fortune and a real drawback.

Duplicates aren't dead weight: merge two identical items into a stronger one, all the way to level 10. And at the forge, any two pieces fuse into a hybrid that inherits abilities from both parents. Over 21,000 different first pairings, before you count that hybrids fuse again, and again, and level up afterwards. Nobody else is running your weapon.

Build the hero you want to send below

Gold and skill points buy from a list of over 160 permanent upgrades, sorted into Damage, Defense, Sustain, Economy and Unlocks: more weapon slots, more gear slots, better luck, cheaper shops, statuses that chain, immunities that shut a whole enemy archetype down.

The Mage picks a subclass of Lightning, Frost or Fire, and each keeps its own purchases, so you respec by switching, never by starting over.

Five descents and one that doesn't end

• The Mudking Warrens: kobolds, orcs and brutefolk in the mud

• The Bonevault Crypts: the restless dead, curses and cold

• The Chittering Deep: beasts with deep health pools

• The Infernal Court: demons that hit hard, crit often and burn everything

• The Wyrmroost: the dragons at the bottom

• The Endless Delve: the daily run, and it never ends

Chart your route on the floor map, pick your fights, and choose when to spend at the shop and when to push your luck one room deeper.

A dungeon from another era

Dungeonbound wears its retro heart on its sleeve: a first-person corridor view, chunky pixel-filtered art, and a full PS1-style CRT presentation with scanlines, dither and chromatic flicker. Adjustable battle speed and a readable turn timeline keep it legible while it cooks.

Features

• Auto-resolving, speed-driven turn-based combat. Set up the build, watch it cook

• 3 heroes in the incremental campaign, each with separate gold, levels and upgrades

• 3 Mage subclasses (Lightning / Frost / Fire), each keeping its own progression

• A 10-character roguelite ladder with hearts, ranks and asynchronous PvP challengers

• A daily delve on a shared seed, endless and unwinnable by design

• Over 200 hand-painted enemies, 9 elites and 5 bosses across 5 escalating dungeons

• Over 200 items in 5 rarities. Merge duplicates to level 10, fuse any two into a hybrid

• Over 160 permanent upgrades across Damage, Defense, Sustain, Economy and Unlocks

• Deep status system: poison, burn, bleed, freeze, stun, thorns and more

• Death-friendly loop. Every defeat banks progress for the next run

• Authentic PS1/CRT visual style