An isometric dungeon crawler

Paper Heroes and the Dungeons of Despair

A dragon has carried off the princess, and something darker is pulling its strings. Fold up a hero, pick up a sword and fight your way down a hundred floors to bring her home.

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100Floors

10Biomes

7Playable races

100+Enemies

20Floor bosses

What's inside

Cut out for adventure

Every hero, monster and boss is an animated paper doll, built from the same skeletal rig and drawn in crisp pixel art.

Explore

A hundred floors down

Every floor is a fresh maze of rooms and hallways. Doors hide pitch-black rooms you light as you go, and the camera follows you into the dark.

Build

Seven races, 25-tier skill trees

Wizard, ogre, skeleton, cleric, elf, knight or dwarf. Each race climbs its own skill tree to signature abilities like Meteor, Ground Slam and Shield Bash.

Fight

100+ monsters, 20 bosses

Skeletons, spiders, vampiresses, trolls and much stranger things, each with its own art and tactics. Bosses like Medusa, the Minotaur and the Cyborg Chicken guard the way down.

Solve

Gates, traps and puzzles

Ring the bells, light the fireplaces, mend the statues and read the runes. Watch out for exploding barrels, poison spikes, falling stalactites and chests with teeth.

Craft

The forge

Fuse three items into one of a higher rarity, all the way up to mythic. Gear wears down as you fight, so keep it mended, and keep an eye out for the wandering merchant.

Play anywhere

Touch, keys or controller

Floating-stick touch controls on phones and tablets; keyboard and mouse or a controller on PC.

Wizard
Ogre
Skeleton
Cleric
Elf
Knight
Dwarf

Ten biomes, ten floors each

The road to the Dragon's Keep

Every ten floors the dungeon changes: new stone, new light, new hazards underfoot and new monsters at home in the dark.

Floors
1–10

The Crypt

Bone piles and funerary urns. Skeletons, zombies, ghouls and banshees.

Floors
11–20

The Fungal Caverns

Glowing mushrooms and drifting spores. Sporelings, flytraps and spiders.

Floors
21–30

The Flooded Sewers

Slime, drains and pools of sewage. Rats, leeches and lurkers.

Floors
31–40

The Frozen Depths

Frost-rimed stone and ice spires. Frost knights, trolls and ice sorceresses.

Floors
41–50

The Sunken Temple

Gilded sandstone and quicksand. Scorpions, gargoyles and burrow wyrms.

Floors
51–60

The Overgrown Ruins

Roots, ivy and fireflies. Goblins, orcs, harpies and nightshade rangers.

Floors
61–70

The Molten Forge

Lava in the cracks and embers in the air. Hellfire knights and fiends.

Floors
71–80

The Blood Halls

Crimson stone and a red mist. Vampiresses, blood acolytes and executioners.

Floors
81–90

The Shadow Abyss

Glowing runes and a pall of shadow. Fiends, ghosts and hierophants.

Floors
91–100

The Dragon's Keep

Obsidian and gold. The dragon, the princess, and whatever holds the dragon's mind.

Screenshots

From the dungeon

Captured in the game. Tap one to see it full size.

Screenshot: The threshold of the Dungeons of Despair — The threshold of the Dungeons of Despair

Screenshot: The Crypt: a knight against the Bone Colossus — The Crypt: a knight against the Bone Colossus

Screenshot: The Flooded Sewers: Gnaw, the giant rat — The Flooded Sewers: Gnaw, the giant rat

Screenshot: The Frozen Depths — The Frozen Depths

Screenshot: The Sunken Temple: an elf faces the Lamia — The Sunken Temple: an elf faces the Lamia

Screenshot: The Overgrown Ruins: the Cyclops — The Overgrown Ruins: the Cyclops

Screenshot: The Molten Forge: an ogre meets the Minotaur — The Molten Forge: an ogre meets the Minotaur

Screenshot: The Blood Halls: the Hog Butcher — The Blood Halls: the Hog Butcher

Screenshot: Create your hero — Create your hero

The story

A different tale every run

Night falls over the kingdom, and a dragon crosses the moon to carry the princess off to the mountain. But its eyes burn with a light no dragon's should hold.

As you descend, the story unfolds in hand-painted pixel-art scenes: a scrap of her gown, words scratched into a cell wall, a sigil burning in the dark. Every run rolls a new princess, a new dragon and one of six overlords pulling the strings, from the Lich to the Clockwork King.

Strike the dragon down and the spell may break. Then the real fight begins.

Cutscene: a moonlit tower balcony over the kingdom

Get the game

Choose your platform

Android

Google Play

Free to play. A short ad plays before you save, load, start a new game or head down a floor. A one-time Remove Ads purchase turns them off for good.

Coming soon

Windows

No ads, with keyboard and mouse or controller, and support for downloadable content packs.

Coming soon

iPhone & iPad

iOS

In development, with the same touch controls as Android and no ads.

In development

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