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 and some need a few turns to recharge.

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, step onto the stairs to go down, and each hero levels up and picks a reward.
• 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. Each turn you're asked 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).
• 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.