Dungeon Settlers

Dungeon Settlers is a dark fantasy strategy game combining colony simulation with dungeon crawling. As the leader of an expedition sent by the Guild, you build a settlement in barren, magically eroded lands, prepare its members and explore, conquer and destroy the dungeon said to be the source of all calamities. Death is permanent.

Build your settlement

Design rooms by placing walls and doors to meet your members’ needs. Create bedrooms and dining areas, set up a forge with anvils and smelters, and cultivate fields for crops. Manage resources to keep the settlement alive and produce rations and camping supplies for expeditions. Research unlocks new buildings and equipment.

Recruit and prepare

Recruit promising candidates and develop them through leveling. Each member has six major abilities and talents, dozens of combat and life-related stats, and traits shaped by race, background and personality. A curious Lizardman with a drifter’s past is one example. Equip your members and form a party of up to four, building synergies between skill trees such as sword, mace, bow and fire magic.

Real-time tactical combat

Combat runs in real time, with no turn or round limits, and you can pause at any moment to plan. Study enemy traits and patterns, position your party, exploit weaknesses and time your skills. Use effects and mechanics such as stun, bleed, burn, provoke, vulnerable, charge attacks and summons to outmaneuver opponents; the right strategy can turn even a seemingly hopeless battle around.

Explore the dungeon

Each expedition is randomly composed, with floors and rooms changing each time. Regions bring different random environmental effects, and threats grow as you descend, alongside the rarity and value of the resources you can find. Face remnants of magical experiments, including towering golems and acid-spitting monsters, while gathering wood logs, herbs, gemstone veins and mysterious mandrake. You can trade with dungeon merchants and encounter ancient trees that demand blood to bear forbidden fruit.