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SanctuaryRPG: Black Edition
SanctuaryRPG: Black Edition is a humorous and strategic turn-based dungeon crawling ASCII adventure. Drawing heavy inspiration from both Roguelikes and Japanese RPGs, the game offers a robust action-RPG inspired combat system.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-10-22 · quoted reviews as of 2026-10-16.
“Great writing, Excellent Gameplay and a Great developer with community involvement. PLUS it's the perfect game to play while you make dinner for the kids (no joke, ive set up a PC on my kitchen bench just to slay leg's, robots and blobs between dicing vegies and straining pasta…”
— a player, Steam review · 6 hrs played“My biggest (smallest?) gaming discovery of 2015. I'm too young (or better: not old enough) to have a first-hand experience with terminal-based cRPGs of their era. So initially I was just curious. Then I became addicted. It's a wonderful sensation to feel your imagination start…”
— a player, Steam review · 11 hrs played“Pros: - Very nice fighting system: you can't just spam your preferred skill until the enemy is dead, but you have to actively respond to his attacks and pay attention to his bonus stats. - Has a lot of humour in it. (a lot of potatoes as well) - The music really fits with the…”
— a player, Steam review · 10 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players, self-collected from the Steam API since Aug 2026.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Rogue Potato DLC has just been released!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/683610/SanctuaryRPG_Black_Edition__Rogue_Potato_Collection/
Rogue Potato DLC has just been released!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/683610/SanctuaryRPG_Black_Edition__Rogue_Potato_Collection/
SanctuaryRPG is 90% OFF during the Steam Summer Sale!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/328760/
SanctuaryRPG is 90% OFF during the Steam Summer Sale!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/328760/
Update 2.3.1 has been released!
* Added a new unique passive ability for level 300 characters * Added several hundred lines of new dialogue * Doubled Augment drop chance across the board * Cleaned up the display of several text elem
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-12.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Casual, Indie, RPG, Strategy |
| Player tags | RPG · Indie · Text-Based · Action Roguelike · Retro · Adventure · Rogue-like · Great Soundtrack · Dungeon Crawler · Rogue-lite · Strategy · Loot (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Trading Cards · Captions available · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English |
| Official site | http://sanctuaryrpg.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows XP Processor: 1.0 GHz Memory: 512 MB RAM Graphics: Integrated Graphics Storage: 200 MB available space Sound Card: Integrated Audio Additional Notes: Toaster-Compatible! (But not really)