Deck Box Dungeons

Ariah Studios LLC

About this game

*** This is a companion app for a board game. Please note that the physical game is required to play the game. ***

Deck Box Dungeons is a fantasy themed dungeon crawler with a companion app that fits in a deck box.

Each player builds their adventurer by selecting a character card, equipment card, and special abilities card. Builds can range from a standard stealthy rogue with daggers, to a mage that wields a greatsword. Players must work together to slay monsters, complete encounters, and achieve the goal of their quest. Each quest has a different goal, from escorting a priest to complete a ritual to killing a giant troll that has been terrorizing a nearby town.

This companion app handles the quests and encounters allowing for quick setup times and streamlined gameplay. Random encounters and quest generation provides variety and replayability even when playing the same adventures.

Ratings and reviews

This is pretty bad. Bare bones and it doesn't save the next room you explore automatically or provide you with a way of altering the room. This means that if you exit the app accidentally (a likely thing if you're trying to swipe over to the digital rule book which also, bafflingly, isn't included inside the app itself) you'll erase your progress. This can be mitigated by exiting to the main menu every time you spawn a room but that doesn't change the fact that this is incredibly janky.

I think the app is great. My only complaint is I was doing a quest and my screen timed out which reset the app. The quest did not autosave and must not restart the entire quest due to the system not continuing my quest.

This is an app to a physical game, for anyone unaware. The game overall is a good idea. My complaint is that the rules are unfinished and unrefined. This came out in 2019 and there has not been an expansion. The community around it, who are all still confused by the rules, have done a better job maintaining this game. You have to spend $50 to play 4 players. I'll give 3 stars, because the app is good.

What's new

- Saves quest progress when exploring new rooms instead of only saving when going back to main menu
- Bug fixes