Goal

Complete the quest shown at the top right. If the quest is done and any hero survives, you win. If every hero is knocked out of the adventure (or the person you came to rescue is hurt too badly to go on), you lose.

Grabbing the relic or freeing the prisoner is only half the job: getting out is dangerous! The ceiling may start to fall (cracked spots on the map show where rocks will drop next, so step off them), more monsters may come after you, or the way you came in may shut, so you'll need the hidden door that opens instead.

Rounds & Action Points

Every round, each participant takes a turn in initiative order: heroes, monsters, freed allies, and finally the Dungeon itself (fire vents, stinky gas, and other hazards).

Heroes gain 4 AP each turn and can bank up to 6. Moving costs 1 AP per few tiles (your speed); attacks usually cost 2 AP; spells and skills cost 1–3 AP. Bigger powers need a few turns to recharge (a power's tooltip says how often it can be used), but cantrips like Fire Bolt, Sacred Flame, and Ray of Frost can be cast every turn.

Vision

You only see what your heroes can see. Torches light the way but also make you easy to spot. Darkvision lets some races see without light. Some monsters can't see in the dark at all (hover over a monster to check), so putting out your torches lets you sneak past them. Shooting arrows or casting at something standing in the dark is harder (roll twice, keep the lower), and traps are easier to notice where there's light. Places you have explored are remembered, but monsters and items vanish from view once out of sight.

Controls

• Click a tile to move (the AP cost is shown on hover).
• Click an enemy to attack it (you'll step in if needed).
• Click a chest, fountain, door, lever, or prisoner to use it.
• Ability buttons or keys 1–9, then click a target. Right-click or Esc cancels.
• Space ends your turn, or skips the narration.
• ☰ (or Esc) opens the menu to start over, pick a new dungeon, start a new game, or quit.
• Your adventure saves automatically every turn. Quit any time and pick Continue Adventure on the title screen to keep playing on this device.
• T toggles your torch. C centers the camera.
• Drag to pan; mouse wheel to zoom; WASD/arrows pan.
• Tablets & phones: tap a spot to see the path, cost, or info, then tap it again to do it. Drag with one finger to pan, pinch to zoom, and use the ＋ － ◎ buttons on the map.

Tips

• Attacking unaware monsters gives advantage.
• Longer adventures have more than one level. Defeat the guardian of the stairs and step onto the stairs to go down. The party rests and earns bonus XP on the way.
• Clever monsters: on Normal and Hard, monsters gang up, shout for help, and use their powers: shamans heal, sergeants shout orders, Bone Callers raise skeletons, wolves hunt in packs, and archers back away to shoot. Fierce monsters (spiky gold ring) are extra tough. Point at a monster to see what it can do.
• Experience (XP): defeating monsters (shared by the party), disarming traps, finding secrets, side quests, and going deeper all earn XP. The purple bar under your HP shows how close you are. With enough XP, your hero levels up right away: more HP, a reward to pick, and at levels 2 and 3 a new power (spellcasters choose their spell).
• Gear and the bag (🎒 or I): every weapon and armor has its own stats, and each class can only use what it is trained for. Open the bag to switch gear (free when it's calm, 1 AP in a fight, and armor can't be changed with monsters nearby) or give gear, gold, and potions to a friend. Chests sometimes hold gear.
• Search (1 AP) can uncover traps, treasure hidden under loose stones, secret levers, hidden doors to treasure rooms, and secret passages. If it gives you a "funny feeling," something is close: search again! If nothing is nearby, you'll get a clue about which way to go.
• Sometimes the way into the last room is blocked by a gate, a stone slab, or a river of lava. Something in the dungeon opens it: look closely, Search, and try things out! (On Easy, the game tells you how.) The monsters inside won't just stand there to be shot: they hide out of sight, and if they can't, they pull a lever on their side and charge out!
• Some traps go off a few steps ahead of the stone that sets them: the floor can crumble into a pit, or rocks can fall. Heroes can climb across a pit (2 AP), and there's always another way around. A hero who falls into a pit is stuck until someone outside it uses Help Up. If every hero is stuck in a pit, the mission fails!
• Chests, treasure, and the relic's pedestal can be trapped. Search first, and use Disarm on traps you find.
• Cave Trolls heal every turn unless they were burned by fire since their last turn.
• Rogues deal Sneak Attack damage when an ally is next to the target.
• Rest when no monsters are around to heal up: +1 HP on the first turn, +2 the next, then +4, +8, doubling each turn until fully healed. One hero or the whole party can rest, either one turn at a time or until everyone is healed (press Stop resting & take turns to get up early). One turn at a time asks each turn whether to keep resting; if you get up, choosing Rest again before moving or using AP carries on where you left off. An attack ruins the rest, and resting too long in one place may bring wandering monsters!
• Knocked-out heroes make wake-up rolls. Three misses and a guardian spirit carries them home to Emberglen. Potions, Cure Wounds, or Help Up get them back on their feet. Watch out: monsters can keep hitting a knocked-out hero, and every hit counts as a missed wake-up roll (a close-up hit counts as two).
• Campaign: start at level 1 and play a story in chapters: a fixed story everyone shares, or a Wandering Tale made up just for you. Between chapters your heroes rest in Emberglen Village, shop, recruit new heroes, change the difficulty, and pick their next quest from the Quest Board. Heroes go up a level each time they finish a main chapter (optional side chapters give a magic treasure instead). Some chapters end with a choice that changes what happens later. Heroes sent home meet you again at the inn, and if you lose a chapter you can simply try it again.
• Saved adventures: every adventure saves by itself as you play, each in its own slot. Open Saved Adventures on the title screen to continue any of them, or to Export one as a file and Import it on another device. Sign in with Google there to keep your adventures in your own Google Drive, so they follow you to any device or browser.
• Rays and darts: Scorching Ray and Magic Missile can hit different monsters. Click a monster for each ray or dart (the same one again to double up), or pick one and press Fire now (Enter) to send them all at it. If a monster goes down first, the rest jump to the next one.
• Smart clicks: click a monster to attack it, a trap you have found to disarm it, or a friend to swap places (or pull them out of a pit). Point at something first to see what the click will do and its AP cost.
• Hall of Heroes (🏛️ on the home page): save heroes from the party screen, from Emberglen Village, or at the end of an adventure, then bring them on new adventures that fit their level with Choose from the Hall. They keep their level, gear, and gold, and come back to the Hall with everything they gained when the adventure is over. On Hard, a hero who is sent home retires for good and leaves the Hall (and, in a campaign, the party).
• Conditions like 🤢 Poisoned or ✨ Blessed show on a hero's panel with what they do and how many turns are left. Ability buttons they change get a small badge: point at the button to see how.
• Battle Royale: 2 to 4 teams of heroes, campaign characters, and monsters fight in an arena; the last team standing wins. Each team spends the same points, and can be played by you or the computer. Rough ground slows you down (unless you fly), and items are hidden in the ground: step on one to find it, then use it now or keep it. Hold a capture point for 2 rounds to give your whole team its boon. In a Point Battle, score points for holding capture points, knocking out heroes, and sending enemies home: reach the target or have the most when the rounds run out.
• Play style: Simple (usual on Easy and Normal) keeps choices quick: Magic Missile and Scorching Ray send everything at the monster you click. Advanced (usual on Hard) lets you aim each dart or ray.
• Advanced heroes: in the Advanced play style the hero builder adds the Barbarian, Bard, Druid, and Paladin classes, Gnome and Half-Elf heroes, and more backgrounds and traits (marked ✦).
• Chronicle: click a line to highlight who it's about on the map; double-click to see and hear it again.
• Character sheets: right-click a hero or monster (on the map, in the turn bar, or in the party list) to see their gear, abilities, and stats. Pointing at a monster shows whether it is hostile and how big a threat it is: Easy, Moderate, Hard, or Deadly.
• Back to a hero (B): if the hero just before you still has action points and no monster you can see has moved since, you can hand play back to them. When they finish, it comes back to you with everything you had left.
• Swap Places (1 AP) trades spots with an ally next to you, even a knocked-out one. Use it to get a fighter to the front of a narrow tunnel, or to pull a fallen friend back out of danger.
• Glowing vents will erupt when the Dungeon takes its turn. Don't stand on or next to them.