🗡️  Text Dungeon — A Pure Text-Based Roguelike

A roguelike told entirely through text. No tiles. No ASCII. No graphics at all. Only words, imagination, and a dungeon that reshapes itself every time you enter.

Text Dungeon blends the fast, log‑driven clarity of classic roguelikes with vivid, atmospheric scene descriptions reminiscent of MUDs and gamebooks. Most rooms play with traditional speed and precision—but scattered throughout the labyrinth are special encounters: hand‑crafted scenes, unique events, and narrative choices that bring the world to life without a single pixel of art.

Your mission is simple to state and difficult to survive: descend into the depths, steal the Ring of Life from the evil wizard Shingor, and return to the surface alive.

🧱 A True Roguelike, Without Compromise

Permadeath When you die, your save file is deleted. Every run is a story you only get once.

Procedural generation Dungeon layouts, items, creatures, and events change every time.

Turn-based tension Every action advances time. Enemies act when you do.

Streamlined interface A clean text UI with full mouse support for movement, selection, and interaction.

📖 A Dungeon Told Through Words

While combat and exploration rely on concise, traditional roguelike logs, certain rooms contain rich, atmospheric descriptions. These special encounters introduce:

• Unique events

• NPCs and conversations

• Choices with consequences

• Hidden lore and worldbuilding

A dungeon that lives entirely in your imagination—shaped by words, not graphics.

🧙‍♂️  Deep Character Building

Create a new adventurer with randomized stats, unique traits, and meaningful choices.

• Six types : Fighter, Rogue, Cleric, Mage, Magefighter, Citizen

• Homelands with bonuses : Each origin grants different starting advantages

• Dozens of skills : Combat, stealth, magic, survival, and more

• 100+ spells : Multiple schools, casting times, interruptions, and Vitality -based costs

• Mutations and rare abilities : Strange powers that help—or complicate—your survival

• Classic-inspired attributes : Vitality (VIT), Battle (BTL), Luck (LUK), reimagined from classic gamebooks

🐉  Over 200 Creatures—Each With Personality

Encounter more than 200 unique creatures with distinct behaviors:

• Some pursue you relentlessly once they spot you

• Some wield a wide variety of spells, from direct attacks to disruptive magic

• Some inflict poison, disease, paralysis, and other dangerous conditions

• Some steal your items and flee

• Some offer quests with strict time limits

Even creatures that seem friendly shouldn’t be trusted. They may simply not be hungry for you… yet.

📜  Items, Magic, and Mystery

A dungeon filled with secrets and surprises:

• Hundreds of items : weapons, armor, scrolls, potions, wands, food, keys, artifacts

• A classic identification system with cursed items and unknown potions

• Shops, quests, hidden rooms, traps, and special events

• Powerful artifacts with unique abilities

• Dangerous magic that can backfire—or save your life

Every item holds both possibility and a story waiting to unfold.

🎯  Made for Fans of Traditional Roguelikes

If you enjoy:

• Rogue

• NetHack

• ADOM

• Angband

• Dungeon Crawl

• Classic MUDs

• Text-driven games with deep mechanics

…then Text Dungeon is built for you.

Every step matters. Every choice has weight. Every death is final.

🔥 Your Adventure Begins

Your story is written in your actions. Your mistakes are permanent. Your imagination is the only graphics engine you need.

How deep will you dare to go into the Text Dungeon?