Dungeon Crawler is a term of Fantasy Role-playing games, where the player explores the labyrinthine landscapes, battling brutal monsters, and looting treasure chests he may find during navigation. Due to its simplicity, the dungeon crawler video games can be more accessible for the players to run more complex adventure and experience the hack and slash play style focus on combat and action. The first computer-based dungeon crawling video game was Pedit5, developed by Rusty Rutherford in 1975. It was the part of wargame, in which the invading force get into the castle of the enemies through a former escape tunnel drug from the dungeon of the fortress. Miniature figures, maps, and models are often used to offer the environment of the dungeon crawler games. First-person Party-based dungeon Crawlers focus on Role-playing games, where the player has to guide a team of adventurers from a first-person view in a grid-based environment.

10 Best Dungeon Crawler Games for Linux

#1 The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth

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The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth combines the elements of Rough-like, Dungeon Crawling, Shooter, Action-Adventure and Horror developed and published by Nicalis. The game supports both single and multiplayer modes and offers an exciting story of the Binding of Isaac inspired by the childhood of McMillen growing up in a religious family. You take on the role of the young boy known as Isaac whose mother locks the protagonist in his room and convinced she is doing the job of god. His mother wants to sacrifice Isaac to prove here faith, Isaac becomes scared and escapes to the basement and lock himself. The game takes place in the fictional underground world full of monsters, and strange creatures. Explore the game world, fight against monsters, and other creatures to complete several missions and earn points that you can use to unlock upgrades. You have to gather items and power-ups to enhance your abilities and take down foes. With addictive gameplay, superb mechanics, and brilliant visuals, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is the wonderful game to play and enjoy.

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#2 The Binding of Isaac

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The Binding of Isaac is an exciting Action-Adventure, Rogue-like Puzzle-Platform and Dungeon Crawl video game by Edmund McMillen. The game offers an amazing Puzzle and challenge based game-play that is about Adult Subjects such as Child Abuse, Gender Identity, Abortion and Suicide etc. The game offers a story deeply inspired by a Biblical writing about a boy named Isaac whose mother gets tested for her Faith in god and to prove herself she gets demanded to sacrifice her Son (Issac). After this the Boy, Isaac descends into the basement of his house all filled up with a number of different types of Monsters, and his ultimate goal is to survive. Your task is to control the character of Isaac along with six other unlock-able characters, traverse through a procedurally generated world made up of countless Dungeons with Rogue-like aesthetics. With a brilliantly designed, The Legend of Zelda inspired environment and visuals, Epic real-time Combats, loads of challenging puzzles, thrilling encounters with enemy bosses, and all the mind-bending scenes, The Binding of Isaac is one amazing Action-Adventure, Rogue-like puzzle-Platform, Shooting and Dungeon Crawling video game to play and enjoy.

#3 Tallowmere

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Tallowmere is an Action-Adventure, Dungeon Crawling and Side-scroll Single-player video game with Rogue-like elements developed and published by Chris McFarland. You can take on the role of the protagonist with a task to run, jump and fight your way through the randomly generated level to score the highest points and survive. There are different floors in the dungeon, and each is full of traps, obstacles, enemies and treasure chests. Your character equips with traditional weapons that can be used to kill enemies while exploring the environment. Raise your shield using power-ups to block the enemy attack and jump to avoid the traps and obstacles. Unlock new weapons, outfits, headgear, shields, and a variety of items to aid your character in his journey. It offers challenging gameplay, as you proceed through the game. Tallowmere offers prominent features such as Survive as long as possible, Raise your Shield, Jump to overcome an obstacle, new Weapons and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.

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#4 Crowntakers

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Crowntakers is an intriguing blend of Tactical-RTS, Adventure-based Action-RPG and Roguelike elements and provides with an engaging game-play. Crowntakers tasks you to find your king and defeat your enemies on a hexagonal platform settlement. You must defeat your enemies in order to free your king and restore order in the kingdom. To complete the tasks you can hire different mercenaries to help you out in battles and combats, build different structures such as workshops, caves, cottages etc. to accommodate your people and assign them their tasks. Crowntakers behaves like an open ended game world and allows you to explore the available area on the hexagonal land and interact with objects and NPCs (Non Player Characters) etc., buy upgrades and enjoy. With all the beautifully created environments, fantastic visuals and cool game mechanics, Crowntakers is a fun Action-RPG and RTS video game to play and enjoy.

#5 RPG MO

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RPG MO is a Sandbox Styled MMO-RPG video game created by Marxnet. The game provides with a highly inspired and similar game-play to Swords Art Online and RuneScape and provides with options such as building and decorating your own houses in a huge game world and raising, petting and breeding animals etc. This simple yet addictive and engaging video game lets you fight against some epic monsters, enemy bosses and level yourself up to a more advances tier. Multiplayer gaming mode allows you to invite your friends to the game world, engage yourself into the most epic activities, combats, PvP and PvE events and enjoy the ultimate fun. With a whole amazing variety of Unique Skills, Epic Quests, Dungeons to Explore, a lot of fun Mini games, different kinds of enemies, Great Crafting system that helps you craft Weapons, Spells, Pets, Food, etc. and an addictive game-play, this game is quite fun to play and enjoy.

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#6 Anna: Extended Edition

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Anna: Extended Edition is a Psychological Horror video game takes place in the abandoned sawmill in the mountains of Italian. It mixes the elements of First-person Perspective, Puzzle, and Exploration. The story revolves around the protagonist who dreams of a mountain near his village. He attempts to go on an adventure to locate its connection to his missing memories and a strange woman known as Anna, who seems in his dreams and calling out for him. The protagonist enters in the house where he has to solve complex puzzles by finding clues in the garden and soon he comes to know that the house is haunted after a horrific event. The player takes on the role of the protagonist, and as the player start exploring the world, he hears strange voices which are belonging to him and the Anna. Anna assigned the task to the player to unearth the horrific clues and solve complex puzzles by using them related to the protagonist’s past. The behavior of the player doesn’t affect only his mental health but can change locations and reveal new mysteries leading to one of eight ending. Anna: Extended Edition offers core features such as Physics-based Environment, Enhanced Graphics, a Haunting Tale Terror, Eight different Ends, and more. Try it out to enjoy.

#7 WazHack

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WazHack is an Action, Role-playing, Turn-based Strategy, and Dungeon Crawling video game with Rogue-like elements developed and published by Waz Games. The game takes place in the randomly generated environment and introduces Perma Death feature. There are more than 300 unique items to discover, and the game features a variety of playable characters with unique abilities and skills. The player must select his favorite one to get into the world where can take his time to solve multiple issues. The environment of the game is populated with enemies, and the player must explore it from a side-scroll perspective, interact with non-player characters and struggle to solve problems using his wits. He can upgrade his character, once collect all 300 items by completing puzzles and complex problems. During the gameplay, the player can interact with the environment, fight monsters and creatures and kill those using different items. The game rewards the player with HP points for complete and kills enemies, and the player can use to upgrade his weapons and characters. WazHack offers core features such as lots of Quests, Procedurally Generated Levels, Exploration, Interaction and more. Try it out.

#8 Heroes of Loot

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Heroes of Loot is an Action-Adventure, Role-playing video game with Rogue-like and loot elements developed and published by Orangepixel for multiple platforms. The game brings the action, twin-stick shooter and dungeon crawling gameplay, in which you find yourself in the middle of waves of zombies, skulls, cyclops, ghosts, and monsters. It takes place in the procedurally generated world and your primary objective is to survive as long as possible to score the higher points while fighting against enemies and unknown entities to prevent death. The game features a variety of challenging quests and you can manipulate the world from top-down perspective. There are four different characters available such as Wizard, Warrior, Elf, and Valkyrie each with unique abilities and skills. Use the combination of attack and kill several enemies to reach the end of the level. Each level is full of traps, objectives and enemies, you must overcome all difficulties and complete a variety of random quests to earn rewards, experience and loot. Heroes of Loot includes prominent features such as Four Playable Character Classes, Special Mysterious, Insane Obstacles, Collection of Loot and Items, and more. Try it out.

#9 Siralim

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Siralim is a Role-playing, Fantasy-based, Turn-based Strategy and Single-player video game with an emphasis on Rogue-like and Dungeon Crawling elements developed by Thylacine Studios. It offers procedurally generated dungeons where the game setting takes place and offers different character classes with customization options. To enter the dungeon, you choose your character and customize it using tons of options. Each character in the game has its unique playing style, abilities, and skills. The primary goal of you is to find the treasure into the depth of the dungeons and use it to upgrade your character and castle, empower your minions, craft powerful items and artifact, learn new spells, and more. The game mainly focuses on turn-based strategy combat against bosses, and other enemies. There are more than five-hundred crafting materials available to collect and use. Siralim includes key features such as Randomly Generated Dungeons and Quests, 300 Unique Creatures, 100 Powerful Spells, Challenging Battles, Upgrade your Castle, Craft Eggs, Infinity Playability, and more. Siralim is the best Rogue-like game to play.

#10 Pixel Dungeon

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Pixel Dungeon combines the elements of Dungeon Crawling, Adventure, Rough-like, and Role-playing with Pixel Graphics created and published by Retronic Games. The game takes place in the under the ground and cast you in the role of the protagonist to explore the environment. Your ultimate task is to navigate the world, collect useful items and fight against vicious monsters. The game consists of twenty-five procedurally generated levels with various setting like caves, abandoned prison, and more. Explore the world, use different weapons to fight against monsters and other creatures and defeat them to progress through the game. The game looks easy, but hard to master. To unlock further content in the game, you must fulfill its requirements and improve your character abilities. Interact with NPCs and explore the world from top-down perspective. Pixel Dungeon includes prominent features such as Twenty-five Levels, various Character Classes, Power-ups, different Weapons and more. Try it out and you’ll enjoy it.