Roguecraft DX

Roguecraft DX is a dungeon-crawling game where you choose one of three heroes and descend through freshly generated floors, fighting monsters and searching for riches. Each run reshapes the dungeon with new rooms and routes, and death sends you back to the top. Most runs last 30–40 minutes, though the game takes about five minutes to learn and longer to master.

Heroes and familiars

The Warrior, Rogue and Wizard each have a distinct play style, special abilities and difficulty level. The Warrior delivers crushing blows, the Rogue blinks behind enemies for deadly backstabs, and the fragile Wizard fires powerful magic missiles, so your hero choice determines the challenge.

A cage somewhere in the dungeon holds a familiar. Free it and it joins your inventory; when summoned, it fights beside you and fetches loot you cannot reach, but only for a handful of turns. Choosing when to summon it can help you escape a tight spot. One familiar is a badger.

Game modes

• Classic Mode: Explore the original procedurally generated 15-level dungeon and defeat the boss at its end.
• Endless Dungeon Mode: Face challenges that grow progressively tougher as you descend.
• Chicken Run Mode: Play as a Chick Un and see how far you can get.

The dungeon

The dungeon contains unlabelled potions, secret rooms and surprises, with dangers and riches to discover. Its story follows Zendar, a warrior, wizard or rogue, in search of a dungeon said to hold unimaginable riches and a magic amulet. Ancient scrolls tell of a dark presence and horrors to come; riddles lead Zendar across the world to the dungeon entrance.

The game uses hand-crafted isometric pixel art, with monsters, shadows and flagstones placed deliberately. Roguecraft DX brings the original game, developed in Assembly for the Commodore Amiga, to PC.