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Desktop Dungeons

Each step into the unknown heals you and reveals new obstacles as you guide fresh heros to glorious retirement or ignominious death. Master tactical spells, appease ancient gods and get rich through taxidermy…

86 7 November 2013

Desktop Dungeons is an adventure developed by QCF Design, released 7 November 2013 on Android, iOS, Linux and Mac.

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What Desktop Dungeons is

Desktop Dungeons is an adventure game developed by QCF Design and released in 2013. It is available on Android, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Desktop Dungeons is a single-player roguelike-like puzzle video game developed and published by QCF Design. Released in November 2013, the game underwent a lengthy public beta phase, during which it was available to customers who pre-ordered the game. In the game, players navigate a dungeon filled with monsters before battling a final dungeon boss. The game has qualities of a puzzle as players must find the best methods to use items, spells, and upgrades to reach the final boss without losing too much of their character's health. Desktop Dungeons has been compared to a roguelike but with condensed gameplay. Desktop Dungeons received an award for Excellence in Design at the 2011 Independent…
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 35 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

Desktop Dungeons holds a critic score of 86 out of 100. That places it above 86% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored 16 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for 1.2GHz, 1 GB RAM and any Direct3D 9 card. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.

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What it launched against

Desktop Dungeons launched on 7 November 2013, within three weeks of Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag, Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut and The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag, Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut, The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds.

Cheats and codes

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Quick answers

Desktop Dungeons — frequently asked questions

When did Desktop Dungeons come out?
Desktop Dungeons was released on 7 November 2013 for Android, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for Desktop Dungeons?
At minimum, Desktop Dungeons needs 1.2GHz, 1 GB RAM, any Direct3D 9 card graphics, 350 MB available space of storage.
How many GB is Desktop Dungeons?
The PC version needs about 0.3 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("350 MB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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