Paper Dungeons

Paper Dungeons is a fantasy board game played across dungeons represented as a tabletop of tiles, dice and tokens. You uncover new tiles as you explore, revealing monsters and items; you can also destroy walls to open up different routes, at the cost of health. The game includes four single-player modes, online player-created content, and editors for making dungeons and campaigns.

Game modes

• Boardgame mode: Play through an adventure made up of 125 levels, with each dungeon forming a new board. Your character returns to level 1 at the start of each dungeon, but keeps their inventory. Fog of war hides unexplored areas, while monsters and items appear at random. Combat uses your statistics and dice rolls; two six-sided dice determine damage and effects, and you can mitigate the results. Choose an attribute to favor when you level up, and unlock and collect common, uncommon, rare and epic dice sets. Monsters use dice of their own, and an awareness system makes them move toward you when you are in their line of sight. You can dig through walls to escape, at the cost of health.
• Campaign mode: Play an adventure of up to 10 linked dungeons, with an introduction, dialogue between dungeons and a conclusion. Your character does not reset and keeps their inventory between dungeons. The game includes two official campaigns.
• Rogue mode: Keep your character and inventory between dungeons, leveling up until you are defeated. Your name remains in the Hall of Fame, and you can take more powerful dice sets into your next run.
• Puzzle mode: Tackle hard campaign levels where luck has no part. The dungeon layout, including monsters and items, is visible, fog of war is absent, and monsters stay still. The game has 31 puzzle levels.

Create and share levels

The map editor lets you build dungeons and publish them online, while the campaign editor lets you create and post your own stories. Online levels made by players can be played in Adventure or Puzzle modes.

Characters and equipment

Choose from five classes—warrior, archer, priest, mage and thief—with male and female characters and distinct gameplay for each. You can collect dozens of dice sets to improve your character, along with more than 50 unique pieces of equipment, 30 scrolls and eight potions. The game contains over 80 monster types, four starting zones with their own monsters and bosses, three dungeon sizes and special boss stages.

Other features

A codex lists the elements of the game. The Void is a hard difficulty mode that gives monsters alternate colors. The game also offers five zoom levels and native 1080p graphics.