Popup Dungeon

Popup Dungeon is a tactical roguelike RPG inspired by tabletop games. You can create abilities, items, heroes, villains and entire games, or play the included campaigns and runs. The Wizard, voiced by John de Lancie, challenges humanity to a duel of creativity: to face him, you climb his tower through 25 campaigns of increasing difficulty, from dungeons to the furthest reaches of space.

Create your own games

Popup Dungeon’s creation systems let you connect nodes to build adventures, from classic RPGs and dungeon crawls to dating simulators, without programming knowledge. You can turn pictures into 3D cutouts for enemies and equipment, edit sounds in the game, and add images to ability cards. Creations are automatically balanced, and the AI is handled for you. As Dungeon Master, you can make adventures and control the enemies.

You can also add modes to games you have beaten, changing enemies, adding companions or abilities, setting a hardcore challenge, and customizing the experience. The game includes tile sets for starships, haunted houses, deserts, Japanese villages and castles, steampunk airships, post-apocalyptic landscapes and more. Interactable props, including treasure chests and Vendi-Machines, can reveal secrets and affect your crawl.

Campaigns and content

The included games range from branching, story-driven campaigns to gameplay-focused runs, as well as the 25 campaigns in The Wizard’s Tower. The game also offers procedural content and supports handcrafted content created with its tools, which players can download.

Its built-in content includes over 1,500 abilities, over 420 items, over 200 fully voiced enemies and 36 playable characters. You collect and combine charms to strengthen your party and climb higher on subsequent attempts.

Party and remote play

You can challenge a dungeon with one to five characters at a time. Multiplayer is handled through Steam Remote Play; the turn-based gameplay suits this format, and gold codes at the end of a run reward all participants. Full multiplayer integration is described as a long-term goal.