Castle Grimhold: Dungeon Crawl

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About this game

Castle Grimhold: Dungeon Crawl is a hardcore offline turn-based roguelite RPG built around tactical combat, deep character progression, brutal bosses, and loot worth hunting.

You will die. A lot.

Every skill, stat, item, and resistance matters. Build carelessly and the dungeon will punish you. Build intelligently and you may survive long enough to challenge the horrors waiting deeper inside Castle Grimhold.

Tactical Turn-Based Combat

Every move counts. Choose your skills, manage your resources, exploit enemy weaknesses, and know when a fight is no longer worth the risk. Castle Grimhold is a true turn-based dungeon crawler—your decisions matter more than your reflexes.

Explore Dangerous Dungeon Floors

Descend through procedurally generated floors filled with traps, strange events, treasure rooms, ambushes, elite enemies, and deadly bosses. Boss-gated progression lets you push forward without being forced to clear every floor one at a time.

No dungeon crawl plays exactly the same.

Hunt Bosses and Target Their Loot

Unlock powerful enemies in the Boss Codex, inspect their available loot, and hunt the bosses most likely to drop what your build needs.

Face Bonegrim the Relentless, Skullrek the Bone Warden, Malzorak the Tormenter, Gormoth the Insatiable, Grondar the Frostrend, Zurgoth Bonebinder, and other monsters hiding within the castle.

Certain bosses carry exclusive weapons, armor sets, and unique items that cannot be found anywhere else.

Create Your Own Character Build

Shape your hero through attributes, equipment, passives, skills, and spells. Build a heavily armored warrior, an elemental spellcaster, a life-stealing battlemage, or a hybrid that ignores traditional RPG roles.

Skill synergy matters. Armor matters. Resistances matter. Loot matters.

Chase Rare Items and Elemental Sets

Hunt more than 80 named and set chase items, including boss-exclusive weapons and powerful unique equipment.

Collect seven elemental armor sets built around Cold, Death, Disease, Fire, Holy, Lightning, and Poison. Combine set bonuses, item effects, skills, and elemental damage to create builds capable of surviving the deepest floors.

Alter the Dungeon with Aeon Conduits

Discover Aeon Conduit recipes that modify dungeon floors and change the challenges and rewards waiting inside. Learn new recipes, experiment with modifiers, and reshape future runs around the items you are hunting.

Hardcore Mode

One life. Permanent death. Real consequences.

Create a hardcore character and see how far you can descend before one bad decision ends the run permanently.

Play Fully Offline

Castle Grimhold can be played without an internet connection. Take a complete turn-based RPG and dungeon crawler with you wherever you go.

Built by a Solo Developer

No giant studio. No focus-group-designed auto-battler. Castle Grimhold is an independently developed RPG made for players who miss difficult games, meaningful character building, and loot that actually changes how they play.

Enter Castle Grimhold, build your hero, hunt its bosses, and see how deep you can survive.

Ratings and reviews

Overall, this game would probably be fun once I got used to the mechanics; they're just so unintuitive that I don't want to bother. Pity. I'll come back after there are some more updates and fixes. Edit: Yes, I went through the tutorial three times. It didn't include anything about gameplay--just the intro stuff about spells and rests. And then the actual gameplay (i.e., being in the dungeon) is unintuitive. It took me multiple attempts to figure out battling and equipping armor.

It's alright, though one thing is frustrating is the riddles as they put multiple answers that can be correct or the actual correct answer is wrong, one said something that doesn't move and some other stuff and I chose the only thing that doesn't move and it was wrong everything else on the options moves in some way or another. Also the "easy" mode I set max enimies and events and died so many times at the start I could not get enough coins to progress, floor7 max minions still extremely hard!!!

This game has come a long way since I last played. The dungeons have become a great deal more interesting! For those struggling: keep your skill point spending focused, at least for a while. At least some of those points should go into armor. Grab plenty of health up scrolls, too. This kind of game is a grind fest. Stick to easy fights (skulls) till they're too easy, move on to harder fights (red eyed skulls), and so on. Don't go down levels till you can cream everything. There's no rush.

What’s new

Minimum cooldown balance pass on most skills/spells.
Added player Stash to town, in the Tavern. You can now store up to 250 items for safe keeping!
Bug fix: Spell reflect should now correctly reflect any non physical damage.
Bug fix: Increased player allowed max dodges from 1 to 3. This is the limit for guaranteed dodges.
Bug fix: Fixed duplicate skills/spells when spamming the Unlock button.