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If you love Dungeon Crawlers, 2022 is going to be your favorite! There’s a whole host of new dungeon crawlers coming out this year, so we’re here to break them down!
Disclaimer: Endless Dungeon, Wizard with a Gun, Path of Exile 2 and Spark in the Dark removed as the games are now slated for 2023.
#16 Bravery and Greed
Developer: Rekka Games
Publishers: Team17
Platforms: PC
Release date: November 15, 2022
How will you shape your character as you fight monsters and claim gold for yourself? In Bravery and Greed, you’ll choose from one of four classes of characters. Each one is unique, and their various moves will help you fight the monsters you battle in the dungeons you go to.
As you traverse the dark paths of your quest, you’ll get or “steal” gold and can use it to upgrade your character to insane power levels.
But the question is how you’ll handle your teammates during your journey. Will you help them when they call for aid? Or will you race ahead to get gold and ensure your power grows?
#15 Tiny Rogues
Developer: RubyDev
Publishers: RubyDev
Platforms: PC
Release date: September 23, 2022
Sometimes the challenge in a game is merely getting through the battle you’re facing at that moment. In Tiny Rogues, you’ll endure a roguelike dungeon crawler that has you trying to clear floors full of enemies.
Each room will present a different challenge, and you’ll need to withstand the onslaught of attacks to make it to the next floor. Once the smaller enemies are dealt with, you’ll face off against the boss of the floor!
With ten floors full of enemies, each one different from the last, and twenty different bosses to fight, you’ll need to outfit your character to be as powerful as possible to take them down!
#14 Ascend: Reborn
Developer: Outer Heaven
Publishers: Outer Heaven
Platforms: PC
Release date: December 01, 2022
Let’s tell you a story about a world ruled by Titans. Their reign was absolute, but a prophecy came alongside that rule. When they were to fall, one of the three remaining gods would seize power and become the ultimate being in the universe.
The time for that conflict has arrived, and you will be the champion to one of these gods to secure their victory. You’ll pick the god you want to serve and then outfit yourself to be their perfect champion by selecting various weapons, armor, and skills to take on threats that come for you.
The more you fight and die, the more your power grows! So do what needs to be done to please your god!
#13 Torchlight: Infinite
Developer: XD
Publishers: XD
Platforms: PC
Release date: October 11, 2022
When you hear the word “infinite” in a title, you sometimes don’t get the literal definition of the word within the story or gameplay. But with Torchlight: Infinite, it’s a different story.
The game is based on you having endless possibilities and opportunities to make your characters whatever you want them to be.
For example, there are numerous characters you can be. Once you pick the one you like, you can outfit them with plenty of talents, gear, and skills to make the playstyle you want.
With all those options and no restrictions holding you back in battle, you’ll have a blast trying to find the “right form” for your hero.
#12 Cursed to Golf
- Release date: August 18, 2022
- Developer: Chuhai Labs
- Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows, Xbox Series X and Series S, PlayStation 5
- Publishers: Thunderful Publishing, Thunderful Group
This is a dungeon crawler that might just be a little too weird even for video games. Because in Cursed to Golf, you play as a golfer who dies literally seconds before winning the biggest tournament of their lives. But, they have a chance to make it back to the land of the living. All they have to do is win some games of golf…in the underworld.
…surely that can’t be too difficult, right?
Well, it is, and in this game, if you miss par on a whole, you have to start ALL OVER AGAIN!!!! So ready your irons and woods, because if you don’t win this game, it’ll literally be something to die over…again.
#11 Ember Knights
- Developer: Tiny Titan Studios
- Publisher: Asmodee Digital
- Platform: PS4, Xbox One, PC, Switch
- Release: Spring 2022
Ember Knights is a multiplayer roguelite that relies on your teamwork. You customise your loadout and your skills while hunting for relics to change the course of the game. It’s up to you to divide these between your friends and the best part is, there’s even a free demo currently available on Steam!
#10 Achilles: Legends Untold
- Developer: Dark Point Games
- Publisher: Dark Point Games
- Platform: PC
- Release: Q2 2022
Achilles: Legends Untold is an isometric roguelike game greatly inspired by Soulslike games of recent years. In it you get to fight gods, monsters and experience mythological tales of old. It’s your job to end the fight between Hades and Ares, so get ready to hack and slash through this deadly world.
#9 Loot River
- Developer: Straka Studio
- Publisher: Straka Studio
- Platform: PC
- Release: 2022
If you like mazes, you’ll love Loot River. It’s a game that combines real-time combat with block-shifting amid a sea of eldritch creatures. There’s horrors unspoken in these mazes, so strategize and die repeatedly before you have the perfect plan to escape this goddamn maze.
#8 Conan Chop Chop
- Developer: Mighty Kingdom
- Publisher: Funcom
- Platform: PC, PS4, Xbox One, Switch
- Release: March 1st 2022
Conan Chop Chop is a roguelite for a party of up to four players. It’s a take on Conan The Barbarian that allows you to loot and pillage your way to victory with your friends, facing a cacophony of danger and enemies along the way in an absolutely ridiculous world.
#7 Core Keeper
- Developer: Pugstorm
- Publisher: Sold Out
- Platform: PC
- Release: March 8th 2022
Core Keeper is a roguelite base-building game that demands you figure out the best way to survive while being swarmed with slimes, skeletons and huge bosses that tear through the landscape around you. Plant crops, build lights and huge structures in an attempt to survive as you discover abandoned underground bases from long ago.
#6 Soulstice
- Developer: Forge Reply
- Publisher: Modus Games
- Platform: PC, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, PS5
- Release: 2022
Judging by the name, you’ll be able to guess the type of game you’re getting into here. You get to inhabit the forces of two sisters with fast-paced action and huge boss fights. It’s a coming-of-age fantasy story in which it’s up to you to fight to survive, or die trying.
#5 Nobody Saves The World
- Developer: Drinkbox Studios
- Publisher: Drinkbox Studios
- Platform: Xbox One, PC
- Release: 18th January 2022
In Nobody Saves The World you play as Nobody, a strange human that wakes up without pants or their memories. Nobody is a complete blank slate that you can manipulate and change to your hearts desire. Wanna be a wizard with a bow? Sure, why not. There’s endless creative potential here.
#4 Cult Of The Lamb
- Developer: Massive Monster
- Publisher: Devolver Digital
- Platform: PS4, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, PS5, Switch, PC
- Release: 2022
Cult Of The Lamb was revealed last year and it looks incredible. It’s a dungeon crawling game that revolves around a lamb building a terrifying army, and you take on the role of that lamb.
#3 There Is No Light
- Developer: Zelart
- Publisher: HypeTrain Digital
- Platform: PS4, Xbox One, PC, Switch
- Release: 2022
In There Is No Light, be prepared to be horrified by a world scarred. It’s up to you to exterminate entire hordes of enemies, cleaving a path in which you can travel through and making it to the final boss before likely dying and doing it all over again.
#2 The Unliving
- Developer: RocketBrush Studio
- Publisher: Team17
- Platform: PS4, Xbox One, PC
- Release: 2022
The Unliving is a dynamic dungeon crawler that reacts to how you play it. Bring back the dead and turn them into your army, giving yourself an infinitely expandable horde while casting spells to make them as strong as possible, taking the world over by storm.
#1 The Iron Oath
- Developer: Curious Panda Games
- Publisher: Humble Games
- Platform: PC
- Release: Spring 2022
In this turn-based tactical dungeon crawler, you’re tasked with going through medieval fantasy and recruiting your own mercenaries. Without help you’re doomed, so pick the best of the best and get going, warrior!
