Desktop Dungeons
Fair · Roguelike · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 50% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$14.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$7.4950% off
- Cost per hour
- $0.78/hr
- Reviews▼
- 84% of 2,370
- Critics
- 82 players 2 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 34% Roguelike
Holding it back: Reviews, Reach
Watch this gameOne alert at $7.49 or less.
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 19.3h
- To 100%
- 144.2h 7.5x the story
- Achievements
- 35
Price and sales
- Sales
- 61 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $3.74 April 2023
- Sale every
- 57d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 5 now
- Cheaper than
- 27% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 62% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
53% start to 3% rarestA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 61 times in the 13 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 34 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 73 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 62 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Crown Trick ($4.99, scores 65) beats it on value, while it beats You Must Build A Boat ($4.99, scores 56).
More about Desktop Dungeons
This site sampled 239 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026.
HowLongToBeat players log 19.3 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 144, 7.5 times as much.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $7.49 (50% off). Predictions like this were right 87% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
So much depth for such a simple-looking game. And so much content - you're not just doing dungeon runs; there are special challenges, puzzles, and tremendous variability in how the classes and dungeons play. A dungeon run takes only 10-30 minutes, so it's really nicely paced gaming, and you feel super-smart when you beat a hard dungeon. The visual style is perfect, and the humour throughout feels right - corny but...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Desktop Dungeons is an exceptional hybrid of role-playing, strategy, puzzle-solving, and roguelike design developed and published by QCF Design. What initially appears to be a simple dungeon-crawling adventure quickly reveals itself as one of the most intelligent and carefully crafted strategy games available. Instead of focusing on lengthy campaigns or endless exploration, it condenses the entire RPG experience...
Played this for a while a long time ago, don't really remember what happened with it. Tried it again many years later and got stuck in the weirdest way. I beat a mission with 570ish gold, it said I was over the limit and couldn't keep more and suggested I buy something. Everything I could buy at this point was 1,000. And some of the buildings were not upgradable at all. Just in case it'd fix itself I kept going and...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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 in this award-winning quick-play puzzle-roguelike.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, any Direct3D 9 card, 348 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Desktop Dungeons scores 59/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/226620/desktop-dungeonsReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.