Quest of Dungeons

Background

Quest of Dungeons was developed by Portuguese studio Upfall Studios, with development starting in June 2013. Initially planned as a tablet-only game, it was ported to PC before its initial release after being approved via Steam Greenlight. The game was built using an in-house game engine.

It was first released on March 25, 2014 for Windows, Mac, and iOS, then ported to Linux and Android, and later to Xbox One via ID@Xbox on September 7, 2015. In February 2016, a Wii U and Nintendo 3DS version was announced, releasing on September 29, 2016. A PlayStation 4 version followed on January 17, 2017, and on August 2, 2017, a Nintendo Switch version was announced.

The game's plot does not take itself seriously, making fun of traditional stories: an Evil Dark Lord steals all light and traps it in a magical lantern, and four heroes decide one should enter alone—a nod to illogical B movie plots. The player chooses from four character classes—Warrior, Wizard, Assassin, or Shaman—and enters a Mansion on the top floor, progressing downward through increasingly difficult floors by leveling up.

The entire game is randomly generated, with monsters, traps, and loot placed differently each time. The world is a tile-based square grid viewed from a top-down perspective, with turn-based movement and actions. Permanent death is central: if the player loses all HP, the game restarts from the beginning with a new dungeon, and while saving is allowed at any moment, death cannot be undone.