The best Dungeon Crawler games 2023
Dungeon crawler board games are derived from dungeon crawl scenarios in role-playing games. A dungeon crawl is a type of scenario in fantasy role-playing games where heroes navigate a maze environment (a "dungeon"), fight various monsters, avoid traps, solve puzzles, and loot all the treasure they can find.
Dungeon crawlers are tactical, cooperative, explorative.
So dungeon crawlers are tactical-combat, cooperative game with player(s) against environment (player vs. environment) or overlord game with exploration and a story-based goal (e.g. escape, kill a monster).
Common elements of dungeon crawler games:
- Character progress/Leveling.
- Equipment/loot
- Solving puzzles
- Random events
- Traps
List of the best dungeon crawler games 2023
Cthulhu: Death May Die
Nominated for 6 awards and won 1.
More details for Cthulhu: Death May Die- 1 - 5 Players
- 90 - 120 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Easy to learn
👍 Good price!80€ at.de
Clank!: A Deck-Building Adventure
Nominated for 11 awards and won 3.
More details for Clank!: A Deck-Building Adventure- 2 - 4 Players
- 30 - 60 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Easy to learn
Mansions of Madness: Second Edition
Nominated for 9 awards.
More details for Mansions of Madness: Second Edition- 1 - 5 Players
- 120 - 180 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Medium difficulty
Karak
Nominated for 1 award and won 1.
More details for Karak- 2 - 5 Players
- 45 Minutes
- 7+ years old
- Immediately playable
The Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-Earth
Nominated for 4 awards.
More details for The Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-Earth- 1 - 5 Players
- 60 - 120 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Medium difficulty
Zombicide: 2nd Edition
Nominated for 1 award.
More details for Zombicide: 2nd Edition- 1 - 6 Players
- 60 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Easy to learn
👍 Good price!83€ at.de
Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion
Nominated for 13 awards and won 5.
More details for Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion- 1 - 4 Players
- 30 - 120 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Hard to learn
Zombicide: Black Plague
Nominated for 2 awards.
More details for Zombicide: Black Plague- 1 - 6 Players
- 60 - 180 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Easy to learn
Chronicles of Avel
Nominated for 3 awards and won 1.
More details for Chronicles of Avel- 1 - 4 Players
- 60 - 90 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Easy to learn
Gloomhaven
Nominated for 22 awards and won 10.
More details for Gloomhaven- 1 - 4 Players
- 60 - 120 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Hard to learn
👍 Good price!143€ at.de
Video reviews for Gloomhaven
Nemesis
Nominated for 8 awards and won 3.
More details for Nemesis- 1 - 5 Players
- 90 - 180 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Medium difficulty
Arcadia Quest
Nominated for 1 award.
More details for Arcadia Quest- 2 - 4 Players
- 60 Minutes
- 13+ years old
- Medium difficulty
Mini Rogue
Nominated for 1 award.
More details for Mini Rogue- 1 - 2 Players
- 30 - 45 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Easy to learn
Arcadia Quest: Inferno
- 2 - 4 Players
- 60 - 120 Minutes
- 13+ years old
- Easy to learn
Zombicide: Invader
- 1 - 6 Players
- 60 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Easy to learn
Descent: Legends of the Dark
Nominated for 2 awards.
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More details for Descent: Legends of the Dark- 1 - 4 Players
- 120 - 180 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Medium difficulty
🔥 Great price!77€ at.de
HeroQuest
Nominated for 1 award and won 1.
More details for HeroQuest- 2 - 5 Players
- 90 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Easy to learn
Zombicide: Green Horde
- 1 - 6 Players
- 60 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Easy to learn
Claustrophobia
Nominated for 5 awards.
More details for Claustrophobia- 2 Players
- 45 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Easy to learn
Stuffed Fables
Nominated for 4 awards.
More details for Stuffed Fables- 2 - 4 Players
- 60 - 90 Minutes
- 7+ years old
- Easy to learn
Video reviews for Stuffed Fables
Massive Darkness 2: Hellscape
- 1 - 6 Players
- 60 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Medium difficulty
Star Wars: Imperial Assault
Nominated for 11 awards and won 2.
More details for Star Wars: Imperial Assault- 1 - 5 Players
- 60 - 120 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Medium difficulty
Video reviews for Star Wars: Imperial Assault
Catacombs (Third Edition)
- 2 - 5 Players
- 60 - 90 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Easy to learn
Four Against Darkness
- 1 Players
- 45 - 75 Minutes
- Easy to learn
One Deck Dungeon
Nominated for 4 awards.
More details for One Deck Dungeon- 1 - 2 Players
- 30 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Easy to learn
Catacombs
Nominated for 3 awards and won 1.
More details for Catacombs- 2 - 5 Players
- 30 - 60 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Easy to learn
Warhammer Quest: Shadows Over Hammerhal
- 2 - 5 Players
- 60 - 120 Minutes
- Easy to learn
Wonder Book
Nominated for 1 award and won 1.
More details for Wonder Book- 1 - 4 Players
- 60 - 90 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Easy to learn
👍 Good price!62€ at.de
Space Hulk (Fourth Edition)
- 2 Players
- 60 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Medium difficulty
Conan
Nominated for 4 awards.
More details for Conan- 2 - 5 Players
- 90 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Medium difficulty
Video reviews for Conan
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