The Best Dungeon-crawler RPG Games for Linux

Update : Crossing The Sands added at rank #34.
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Siralim Ultimate (2021)

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Siralim Ultimate is an RPG with over 1200 monsters to collect and customize to your liking. With randomly generated dungeons and post-story content, this game offers a never-ending adventure. The game's specializations and teambuilding options give an insane amount of choice to the player. If you're an RPG fan who loves discovering something new each time you play, Siralim Ultimate delivers.

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What we like:
  • Endless teambuilding and tactic optimisation potential
  • Engaging and streamlined grind
  • Castle customization and skins/avatars/transmogs are well done
  • Turbo mode and the ability to program macros to deal with any situation automatically
What could be improved:
  • Can be too grindy to progress into the cooler parts of the game
  • Simplistic story
  • Sound is average

  • collector
  • creature
  • rpg
  • dungeon-crawler
  • party
  • turn-based
  • collectathon
  • procedural
  • pixel
  • loot
  • character
  • retro
  • isometric
  • battle
  • dungeon

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The Enchanted Cave 2 (2015)

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The Enchanted Cave 2 is an addicting dungeon crawler RPG with randomly generated layouts and familiar elements from other dungeon crawlers and RPGs. You can explore the city, visit taverns, craft spells, enchant weapons and battle monsters. With a great replay value and no IAPs, it's an instabuy for the fans of the genre.


What we like:
  • Intuitive controls and layout
  • Plenty of content
  • Familiar yet refreshing experience
  • Eye-pleasing visuals
  • Great replay value
  • No IAPs
What could be improved:
  • No visible change in character look when changing clothes or armor
  • Enchanting system is not intuitive at first

  • dungeon-crawler
  • rpg
  • rogue-like
  • dungeon
  • classic
  • pixel

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Darkest DungeonA (2016)

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Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against unimaginable horrors, stress, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Can you keep your heroes together when all hope is lost?

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  • dungeon
  • turn-based
  • rogue-like
  • dungeon-crawler
  • rpg
  • gothic
  • battle
  • fight
  • psychological
  • narration

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Tower of Time (2018)

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Tower of Time is a story-rich dungeon crawler with innovative real time combat. Set in the world of Artaria, you play as an anonymous character who has no name and seemingly little history. Explore the Tower with your party, discover various narrative threads that tie back to the present and foreshadow the future. With RPG tropes such as upgrading buildings to level up your heroes, finding blueprints and crafting special equipment also included, Tower of Time offers an incredibly varied gaming experience.


What we like:
  • Innovative real time combat system
  • Story-rich narrative
  • Varied team members with unique skills
  • Deep exploration encourages full discovery
  • RPG tropes included
What could be improved:
  • Occasional graphical hitches
  • No shortcut to select all heroes at once

  • rpg
  • real-time
  • pause
  • combat
  • dungeon-crawler
  • tactical
  • story
  • old-school
  • classic
  • strategy
  • battle
  • exploration
  • fight

5

Vaporum: Lockdown (2020)

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Experience the danger and secrets of the steampunk world as Ellie Teller in Vaporum: Lockdown. With challenging combat, puzzle-solving, and RPG-style upgrades, immerse yourself in the intriguing world of the tower of Arx Vaporum. Uncover hidden secrets, unique enemies, and thrilling adventures in this first-person game. Are you ready to escape and survive?


What we like:
  • Fun and rewarding gameplay with dynamic combat and exploration
  • Simple skill tree system that allows for unique builds
  • Engaging story with interesting collectibles
  • Accessible to players unfamiliar with the genre
  • Great style and graphics
What could be improved:
  • Puzzles can become tedious and repetitive
  • Boss fights can be long and dissatisfying
  • Use of present-day language clashes with the game's historical setting
  • Character progression options can feel experimental and not worth investing in

  • dungeon-crawler
  • steampunk
  • grid
  • rpg
  • old-school
  • gadget
  • real-time
  • reflexes
  • puzzle
  • tactical

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Dungeon Drafters (2023)

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Dungeon Drafters is a tile-based dungeon crawler with rogue-lite elements. Explore ancient ruins, loot rare cards and employ clever combos to defeat your foes and build the legendary spell deck that could save the world.


  • deckbuilder
  • card
  • dungeon
  • rpg
  • dungeon-crawler
  • procedural
  • tile
  • movement
  • deck
  • rogue-like
  • grid
  • tactical
  • turn-based
  • pixel
  • japanese

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The Bard's Tale IV: Director's Cut (2019)

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The Bard's Tale IV: Director's Cut is the triumphant return of one of the most iconic RPG series of all-time. Delve into a tactically rich combat system that rewards creativity, solve puzzles to gain treasure and advantages, and discover a beautifully crafted world.


  • rpg
  • dungeon-crawler
  • dungeon
  • old-school
  • grid
  • turn-based
  • fantasy
  • classic
  • combat
  • party

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7 Mages (2016)

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The epic RPG 7 Mages in the tradition of the greatest classics of the genre takes you around the magical island of Roven.

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  • rpg
  • dungeon-crawler
  • turn-based
  • dungeon
  • instrument
  • grid
  • inventory
  • combat
  • classic
  • tactical
  • first-person
  • old-school

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Vaporum (2017)

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Vaporum is a grid-based dungeon crawler RPG in an original steampunk setting, inspired by old-school classics of the genre. Stranded in the middle of an ocean, in front of a gigantic tower, the hero has to find out what the place is, what happened there, and most importantly, who he is.


  • dungeon-crawler
  • steampunk
  • rpg
  • single-character
  • old-school
  • grid
  • gadget
  • fantasy
  • tactical
  • character
  • real-time
  • movement
  • dark
  • classic

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Barony (2015)

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Barony is the premier first-person roguelike with cooperative play! Adventure alone, or gather a party with iconic and unusual RPG classes to face off against the brutal dungeons. Test your resourcefulness, wits, and friendships, on your quest to lift the evil lich's curse!


  • cooperative
  • rogue-like
  • campaign
  • dungeon-crawler
  • rpg
  • local
  • immersive
  • voxel
  • split-screen
  • 4-player
  • moddable
  • first-person
  • dungeon

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