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Build a refuge on barren land, then train a four-person party to scavenge a shifting dungeon in pauseable real-time combat.
Released 04 Sep 2026
Design Settlement Rooms
Lead Four-Person Expeditions
Pause Tactical Battles
A colony sim based dungeon crawler where you manage your expedition to build a settlement in barren land, provide food and shelter for your people, lead them deep into the merciless dungeon, overcome challenging combat by your strategy.
Developed by CanOpener · Published by CanOpener, WhisperGames









As the leader of a Guild expedition, you build a settlement in barren land and venture into the dungeon, the source of the region’s calamities. Your aim is to explore its depths, overcome its threats, and bring resources back to prepare for further expeditions.
Design rooms by placing walls and doors, and build facilities such as bedrooms, dining areas, and workshops. Gather resources, grow crops, prepare food and camping supplies, craft equipment, and research new buildings and gear to support your people.
Recruit members with varied traits, abilities, and combat skills, then develop them through leveling and equipment choices. Take up to four into real-time tactical battles that can be paused for commands; dungeon layouts and environmental effects vary, and characters who die do not return.
In this helpfulness-selected sample, players who enjoy the game often praise the loop of preparing at the settlement, exploring for resources, and returning to develop their party and base. They also value pausing combat to issue tactical commands and the danger of expeditions. Recurring criticisms describe the current experience as short or unfinished, with difficulty and character-growth randomness that can make progress feel punishing or grind-heavy; some also find the settlement systems shallow and the controls or information hard to use.
Dungeon Settlers is a dark fantasy strategy game that combines colony simulation and dungeon crawling. As the leader of an expedition sent by the Guild, your mission is to explore, conquer, and destroy the dungeon which is the source of all calamities. To do so, you’ll need to build a settlement in the barren land and prepare your people for the dangers ahead.
This is a ‘Hardcore Strategy’ game. Train your members strategically by considering their equipment, skills, and traits, then form a party of up to four. In real-time with pause tactical combat with no turn or round limits, analyze enemy traits and patterns to outmaneuver them and achieve victory. But remember once dead, there is no coming back...

Build a settlement in the desolate land, isolated by magical erosion. Design rooms freely by placing walls and doors to meet your members’ needs—create bedrooms and dining areas, and set up a forge with anvils and smelters. Cultivate fields to grow crops. Manage your resources efficiently to survive, and produce rations and camping supplies for the next expedition. Unlock new buildings and equipment through research.

Each member has six major abilities and talents, along with dozens of combat and life-related stats. They also possess various traits based on race, background, and personality—such as a curious Lizardman with a drifter’s past. Recruit promising candidates and help them grow through leveling. Equip them with powerful equipments and carefully build a four-member expedition party with synergistic skill trees such as sword/mace/bow/fire magic.

Combat takes place in real time, but you can pause at any moment to think strategically. Plan your tactics using a variety of effects and mechanics—stun, bleed, burn, provoke, vulnerable, charge attacks, summons, and more. Position your party wisely, exploit enemy weaknesses, and utilize your skills at the right time. Even hopeless battles can be overcome with the right strategy.

Each dungeon expedition is randomly composed, with floors and rooms changing each time. Regions apply different random environmental effects. The deeper you go, the rarer and more valuable the resources become—but so do the threats. You’ll encounter the remnants of magical experiments, such as towering golems or acid-spitting monsters. Secure wood logs, herbs, gemstone veins, and mysterious mandrake. Trade with dungeon merchants, and face ancient tree that demand blood to bear forbidden fruit.
| Platforms | Windows, macOS |
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| Controller required | No |
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| AI disclosure | Generative AI was used for the game's localization. Some languages were translated or reviewed by human translators. |
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