

Pedit5
1975PLATO, mainframe computer
Also known as pedit5, it is the earliest known dungeon crawler role-playing game.
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276 games like Dnd · 1975 – 2025


PLATO, mainframe computer
Also known as pedit5, it is the earliest known dungeon crawler role-playing game.
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Nintendo console exclusive
FM-7, MSX, NES +2
Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei is an action RPG developed by Telenet Japan, based on a manga of the same name. Despite sharing a name and source material with the Atlus developed Famicom game, it is an entirely different game. The play
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Richard Garriott · Apple II, Commodore 64, MS-DOS
In the game, the player character visits Lord British and is instructed by him to kill certain monsters. The final mission is to kill a balrog, and after this has been accomplished, Lord British proclaims that "thou hast proven thyself wort
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Windows, macOS
GayBlade is a video game developed by Ryan Best and released in 1992. It has been thought to be the earliest LGBT-themed video game, but was preceded by 1989's Caper in the Castro. In the 2020 Netflix documentary, High Score, Ryan Best clai
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PLATO
Avatar is an early graphics-based multi-user highly interactive role-playing computer game, created on the University of Illinois' Control Data Corporation PLATO system in the late 1970s. It has graphics for navigating through a dungeon and
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Epyx · Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore C64/128/MAX +4
Dunjonquest: Temple of Apshai is a dungeon-crawl role-playing game set in a sprawling underground complex. Create an adventurer, equip them at the inn, and explore more than 200 rooms filled with monsters, traps, and treasure. It is conside
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Epyx · Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64 +6
Dunjonquest: Temple of Apshai is a dungeon-crawl role-playing game set in a sprawling underground complex. Create an adventurer, equip them at the inn, and explore more than 200 rooms filled with monsters, traps, and treasure. It is conside
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Mojang Studios · Switch, PS4, Windows +1
"Brave the dungeons alone, or team up with friends! Up to four players can battle together through action-packed, treasure-stuffed, wildly varied levels, all in an epic quest to save the villagers and take down the evil Arch-Illager! Disco
71 rating8 lists5.5 h main story
PlayStation exclusive
Acquire · PS3, PlayStation Portable
Class of Heroes is a role-playing dungeon crawler game. As a student of Particus Academy, you will learn the ups and downs of dungeon spelunking, with each quest solved and monster slain a step towards graduation.
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Drinkbox Studios · Switch, PS4, PS5 +3
Nobody Saves the World is an action role-playing game played from a top-down perspective. The game can be played solo or in a cooperative multiplayer mode. In the game, the player controls a blank-state character named Nobody, who is equipp
83 rating5 lists17 h main story


inXile entertainment · Linux, PS4, Windows +2
The Bard's Tale IV: Barrows Deep takes players to an astonishing adventure packed with puzzle-filled dungeon-crawling and turn-based strategy combat. Blending classic RPG gameplay and fantasy storytelling with modern design and visuals, The
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Liquid Entertainment · Windows
Dungeons & Dragons: Dragonshard is a real-time strategy role-playing video game, developed for Microsoft Windows by Liquid Entertainment, and published by Atari in 2005. It takes place in Eberron, one of the official Dungeons & Dragons camp
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PLATO
Moria is a dungeon crawl style role-playing video game first developed for the PLATO system around 1975, with copyright dates listed as 1978 and 1984. It was a pioneering game, allowing parties of up to ten players to travel as a group and
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PlayStation console exclusive
PlayStation Vita, Windows
Play as Pupuru, a young, ambitious girl on a quest to obtain ingredients for the legendary curry to save her friend’s restaurant. With the help of the moody creature Kuu and the noncommittal Puni, she’ll have to defeat the host of weird, so
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Atari ST
BSS Jane Seymour: Federation Quest 1 is a 1990 science fiction role-playing video game published by Gremlin Graphics for the Amiga, Atari ST, and MS-DOS. For the North American release and DOS release in Europe, the game was co-published by
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Timed PlayStation exclusive
Nippon Ichi Software · Switch, PS4, PlayStation Vita +1
Labyrinth of Refrain: Coven of Dusk is a first-person dungeon-crawler RPG using a party of 5 characters chosen from 6 classes. Later it seems like you can have 5 groups of 3 characters acting as one party with a mix of classes together. "B
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Blizzard Entertainment · Nintendo Switch 2, PS4, PS5 +3
Endless demons to slaughter. Deep customization through Talents, Skill Points, Runes, and Legendary loot. Randomized dungeons contained in a dynamic open world. Survive and conquer darkness—or succumb to the shadows.
83 rating8 lists26 h main story
Nintendo exclusive
Nintendo DS
Developed by Sonic Powered, From the Abyss allows players to explore the vast world of Rubenhaut through a unique world creation engine exclusively created for From The Abyss. The game also features an intuitive control scheme, lavish artwo
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Switch, PS4, PS5 +2
Venture through the Labyrinth Of The Demon King, solving puzzles and fighting fearsome monsters in an epic quest to track down the demon who betrayed your lord and end it’s life.
73 rating1 list8 h main story
Nintendo exclusive
Stonekeep: Bones of the Ancestors is a video game developed by Alpine Studios and published by Interplay Entertainment for the Nintendo Wii in 2012. The game is the second game released in the Stonekeep series, although it is not Stonekeep
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Airship Syndicate · Android, Linux, Switch +5
Battle Chasers: Nightwar is an American made JPRG and dungeon-crawler, based on the best-selling Battle Chasers comic series by Joe Maduriera and inspired by JPRG greats such as Final Fantasy, Suikoden, Chrono Trigger, and Phantasy Star. It
78 rating4 lists29 h main story


Webfoot Technologies · Linux, Windows, macOS
Deadly Rooms of Death is a puzzler. The idea is simple: you control a man with a sword that can point in 8 directions. On any turn you can either move the man or rotate the sword. You have as long as you want to plan each action, but it had
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PlayStation console exclusive
Sting · PlayStation Portable, PlayStation Vita, Windows
Dungeon Travelers 2: The Royal Library & the Monster Seal is a dungeon crawler role-playing video game and the sequel to To Heart 2: Dungeon Travelers within the To Heart franchise.
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Timed PlayStation exclusive
Nippon Ichi Software · Switch, PS4, PS5 +2
From the creators of Labyrinth of Refrain: Coven of Dusk comes a new chapter in the dungeon-exploring adventure filled with charm and mystery! Summoned by the magnificent Madame Marta, you are but a wandering spirit awaiting your next comma
76 rating2 lists86 h main story
PlayStation console exclusive
Acquire · PlayStation Vita, Windows
Mind Zero is an action-packed dungeon-crawler RPG. Play as Kei, a high school student whose life turns upside down when he forms a contract with a “MIND,” a weapon/being with deadly powers. With the government and other forces trailing him
53 rating3 lists29 h main story


Krafton · Switch, PS4, Windows
''MIST-ical' RPG with expeditions for finding the key to survival. Choose your next step wisely and keep in mind that your every move will change the future.
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Nintendo exclusive
GungHo Online Entertainment · Nintendo DS
Ragnarok DS, known in Japan as Ragnarok Online DS, is a Nintendo DS video game based on the MMORPG Ragnarok Online and was released in Japan on December 18, 2008. It was announced that publisher Xseed Games had teamed up with developer Gung
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Ve stínu magie is a 1996 dungeon-crawler, grid-based, fantasy RPG video game developed by Czech company Division and published by JRC Interactive for the Amiga. The Division team created a number of demos in the early 90s. Their next projec
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Jindřich Rohlík · Android, Linux, MS-DOS +2
Gates of Skeldal is a dungeon crawler with a rather unique graphical style and originally only released for the Czech market. The game has never been officially released in English but has been translated by fans as a result of crowd-fundi
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PS4, PS5, Windows +2
Say anything in this bizarre dungeon adventure where words control everything. Fill in the blanks with text or voice to uncover lost abilities, solve strange quests, and play unexpected mini-games. Use your words to conquer the crypt and un
81 rating1 list12 h main story


Linux, Windows, macOS
Cube World is a voxel-based action RPG with a focus on exploration. It takes place in a procedurally generated fantasy world made up of entirely of cubes.
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R.O. Software · MS-DOS
DND is the seminal mainframe classic, which started computer role-playing games. The name of the game clearly comes from the Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) pen and paper role playing systems, and it uses D&D rules. Further inspired by Pedit5, t
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Nintendo console exclusive
Namco · Arcade, MSX, NES +4
A 1984 arcade platformer with action RPG elements, Dragon Buster is notable as the first game to feature a double jump. It was also one of the first games to include a life meter (along with Flash Boy and Punch-Out), known as vitality in th
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Nintendo exclusive
Nintendo 3DS
"A royal decree from Princess Persephone has prompted the gathering of the realm’s greatest explorers to the floating city of Maginia. Their goal—uncovering the mysteries of the archipelago of Lemuria, home to a great Yggdrasil Tree. Recrui
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Golden Era Games · Windows
Cleveland Mark Blakemore's Magnum Opus! The ultimate classic style turn-based roleplaying game in the tradition of Wizardry, Might&Magic, Lands Of Lore and Eye of the Beholder! A game that took over 20 years to produce! As much as 600 hours
50 rating1 list140 h main story
PlayStation exclusive
A hybrid dungeon crawler/dating sim in which the player splits their time between making friends at their new high school and exploring the mysterious ruins hidden beneath it.
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PlayStation exclusive
PS3
Legasista is a PlayStation 3 game published by Nippon Ichi Software. It was released in Japan on disc in March 2012 then in North America and Europe exclusively as a downloadable game through the PlayStation Network in August 2012. It is a
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Nintendo console exclusive
Spike Chunsoft · Switch, Windows
Shiren the Wanderer and his companion, Koppa the talking ferret, return for an all-new roguelike dungeon crawling adventure on Serpentcoil Island! After receiving a vision of a mysterious girl held captive by a terrible monster, Shiren and
86 rating3 lists13 h main story


Dinamic Software · ZX Spectrum
Yenght is the first text-adventure game ever published in Spanish. It is also the first game developed by Dinamic Software, the most important Spanish company in the 1980s.
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Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum
You have to track down five treasures that were stolen by an evil wizard - you only have until the crowning of the princess takes place.
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MS-DOS, Windows
Czech-made mix between adventure game and dungeon-crawling RPG, that was rendered in 3D but each screen was then redrawn by hand. Game setting is fantasy world, that is under the threat of return of ancient devil Asmodeus. Hero embarks on a
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ZX Spectrum
Blade the Warrior is a text adventure game written by British author Shaun Watts and published by Cable Software in 1984 for the ZX Spectrum. The fantasy themed game tells of a quest to slay an evil witch. It was Cable's first title to be r
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ZX Spectrum
Curse of the Seven Faces is an interactive fiction video game published by Classic Computing for the ZX Spectrum in 1984. It was re-released later in 1985 by Imperial Software. The game was included in a compilation titled Assemblage in 198
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NEC console exclusive
ELF Corporation · MS-DOS, MSX, PC-8800 Series +4
The Dragon Master, Darklarza, has been terrorizing the kingdom for many years. The king was forced into exile by this threat. He retreated, with the bravest knight in the kingdom, named Garaden. Darklarza stages an attack on the king's fort
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Level 9 Computing · Amstrad CPC, Atari 8-bit, BBC Microcomputer System +3
Trying to dodge the Bermuda triangle you parachute out of a plane and land on the mysterious Emerald Isle. But now you have to find a way back home...
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Bright Software · Apple II, Apple IIGS, macOS
Gate is an action-adventure game for the Macintosh. It blends action, adventure, and brain-teasing challenges into an addictive fast-action game with smooth animation, exciting music and sound effects. Escape the castle's prison, battle ene
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Gremlin Interactive · Amiga, Amiga CD32
The isometric role-playing game engine of the original Hero Quest license is reused in this sequel, set in the evil-infested land of Rhia. There are now 9 large missions to take on, with a largely linear progression in the order these are p
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