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Desktop Dungeons: Rewind
Desktop Dungeons: Rewind bestows bites of tactical roguelike action, which will quickly fester into a deep, lingering, and strategic obsession. Bargain with gods, equip your spoon and pick your battles, before retreating into the healing darkness. But beware… there are still many monsters to face!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via SteamSpy as of 2026-05-13.
“Desktop Dungeons hasn't changed - it's still brilliant, and will make you feel like a complete idiot when you finish the tutorial. It's possible you might bounce off the writing (it is, however, entirely skippable), but "finger-crossbows" absolutely destroyed me and made me…”
— a player, Steam review · 5 hrs played“TLDR; A fun game ruined by having to calculate every single action if you want to have a hope of clearing a level and earning any real rewards. I'd like to love it, however it just takes too much thought process to enjoy it much. Even on the normal difficulty levels you need to…”
— a player, Steam review · 16 hrs played“Ugly and hard to read UI. Cheap 3D graphics instead of well made 2D graphics. What happened to the easy to read and simplistic UI of the original game?!”
— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-08-02 19:27 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Desktop Dungeons: Rewind is now playable on Controller!
Controller support We've been hard at work bringing Controller support to Desktop Dungeons: Rewind. Let's have a quick peek at how controller gameplay works while I prattle some marketing speech: Navi
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Desktop Dungeons: Rewind now playable in Japanese!
Hello Administrators! We’re excited to announce that Desktop Dungeons: Rewind has been updated with Japanese language support! The great and illustrious Bliz volunteered to translate the game, all 65,
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Adventure, Indie, Strategy |
| Player tags | Turn-Based · Rogue-like · Puzzle · Fantasy · Comedy · Difficult · Rogue-lite · Isometric · Tactical RPG · Resource Management · Top-Down · Replay Value (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Cloud · Steam Leaderboards · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Spanish - Latin America, Spanish - Spain |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 35 |
| Estimated owners | 100,000 – 200,000 (SteamSpy) |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 SP1 Processor: Dual Core 2.0 GHz+ Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: 1GB VRAM Storage: 600 MB available space