Dungeons & Donuts

Dungeons & Donuts is a party-based action RPG for one to four players. You take quests from the Guild’s board, prepare at the tavern and explore a hand-built world of goblin war camps, drowned ruins, haunted forests and blizzard passes. You bring back loot to use as gear or ingredients, then spend time between expeditions cooking, farming and developing a settlement.

Quests and combat

Three combat styles use cursor-based attacks: heavy melee that shoves and staggers enemies, a bow for long-range single-target attacks, and a mage kit with chain lightning and a force push that launches groups. Bosses have phases, telegraphed attacks and mechanics to learn. Chaining kills builds a Blood Bounty streak, which you can cash in for gold, buffs and strongboxes before its timer expires.

Gear and abilities

Found gear is cosmetic and remains yours permanently. Gems you socket determine your stats, while essences grant effects such as healing on a kill, healing when you block, vanishing when you stand still or doubling every fifth hit. You can buy essences with parts, earn them through milestones or pursue them from bosses at long odds. The Guild Bestiary lists every drop rate.

Cooking and farming

More than 100 recipes cover potions, meals and donuts. Potions are lost when you die, while meals survive; donuts change the rules with effects such as exploding corpses, gaining speed with kills or detonating shields. You can have one of each at a time, making them part of your loadout for each run. Most recipes are found in the world rather than bought from a menu.

Between expeditions, you can grow crops and fruit trees and raise animals to supply your kitchen. You can also develop a settlement, buy and upgrade property, assign workers and earn while you are away. A merchant will haggle when you sell gems.

Co-op and progression

Drop-in online co-op supports shared quests, revives instead of respawns, party wipes instead of individual deaths, and reconnects that preserve your bag, gold and place in the run.

The game also includes a faction system, where you run dungeons to earn reputation, and an Adventurer Rank System. Completing dungeons raises your rank and unlocks abilities and activities. Its property management system lets you buy and rent properties across available districts, attract NPCs to the city, and hire or house them.

Available content

The world, combat, kitchen, farm and village are playable. Current content includes five fully featured levels, working ranged and mage combat styles with progression through equipment, spells and skill-tree unlocks, and a farming and cooking system with animal husbandry, crop growing and watering, crop automation, and progression through new farm plots and tree types. Farming provides ingredients for cooking, and the game has over 20 recipes for potions, meals and desserts. Desserts grant roguelite power-ups, and recipes must be unlocked by looting in-game items.

Hundreds of equipment items are available to pursue through a global looting system, including items with special mechanics and features. The game also has dungeons tied to factions and the Adventurer Rank System.

Planned story and dungeons

The game’s two story campaigns are marked Coming Soon on the quest board and are planned as free monthly chapters. The planned 1.0 content also includes a melee combat style with progression, additional cities with new equipment and upgrades, more than 15 additional dungeons, and hundreds of additional equipment pieces and legendary items with new powers.

Planned dungeon features include an Endless Dungeon with visually distinct biomes, where you try to survive as long as possible while building your loot chest, and Dungeon Delves, whose layouts change as you explore and which have a lower level with a new permanent boss. Dungeons are also planned to connect into themed story arcs, with several dungeons forming a short narrative.