The Escape From Dungeon Keep

The Escape From Dungeon Keep is a text adventure with typed commands and turn-based fights. You wake in a cell beneath Dungeon Keep on the forty-first day of your imprisonment; the guards are gone, and forty-one tally marks score the wall. You escape the keep, travel through the wilds of Thornwick and decide what the mountain beneath the rock has been fed for a hundred years.

Explore Thornwick

The campaign spans the keep, the valley and caves under the mountain. You take on side quests, read lore and fill in a map as you travel. Along the way, you meet innkeepers, merchants, hermits and a blacksmith who can sharpen more than your blade if you bring the right materials.

You enter commands such as look, go, take, examine, talk and fight. The adventure log presents text in a typewriter style, and shortcuts are available when you already know your next move.

Turn-based combat

Fights proceed turn by turn. You can attack, guard, focus, use heavy strikes and drink potions; loot can also supply materials for weapon upgrades at the forge.

Endings and New Game+

Your choices lead to more than one ending at the summit. New Game+ takes you beyond the mountain into distant lands, with contract paths and a harder secret finish for players who dig further. The Expanded Edition also adds a second continent of rooms, bosses and endings.

Expanded Edition features

• Dozens of achievements, including hidden ones
• Chronicle and lore fragments for players who examine everything
• Difficulty options, high-contrast mode, large text and volume control
• Local Workshop and JSON mod support for add-on content and standalone maps
• Save slots that preserve your run and display preferences