Fit check
Is Popup Dungeon worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Tabletop RPG fans who want to build custom adventures
- Solo players who want authored campaigns alongside user-created content
- Strategy players who prefer turn-based party combat with adjustable rules
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking a tightly authored RPG with little customization or user-created content
- Players who prefer real-time combat or short, fixed scenarios over turn-based runs and 25 connected campaigns
- Players seeking fully integrated multiplayer rather than Steam Remote Play
Our take on Popup Dungeon
Rather than keeping players inside a fixed campaign structure, this RPG makes construction part of the genre. Its node-based tools let players assemble adventures, alter completed games with custom modes, and create abilities, items, heroes, and villains.
What is Popup Dungeon?
Popup Dungeon combines turn-based tactical combat with roguelike progression and ideas drawn from tabletop gaming.
It offers branching narrative campaigns, run-based challenges, and 25 scenarios in The Wizard’s Tower. Initial content provides more than 1,500 abilities, 420 items, over 200 enemies with full voice acting, and 36 selectable heroes. Players can link nodes into custom games, design abilities and equipment, import their own images and audio, and direct opposing forces as the dungeon master. Teams support 1–5 characters. Charms grant lasting party improvements, while sandbox modes can alter finished games through randomized foes, added companions, new abilities, or stricter rules. Multiplayer operates through Steam Remote Play, with gold codes awarded to participants when a run ends.
How Popup Dungeon plays
- 01Custom Game Building
- Players connect nodes to assemble adventures without programming, including RPG quests, dungeon crawls, and dating simulators.
- 02Large Starting Roster
- The base content includes 1,500+ abilities, 420+ items, 200+ fully voiced enemies, and 36 playable characters.
- 03Wizard’s Tower Campaign
- The Wizard’s Tower contains 25 campaigns with increasing difficulty and settings that range from dungeons to space.
- 04Flexible Party Size
- Each dungeon can be challenged with between 1 and 5 characters.
- 05Persistent Charms
- Collected charms can be combined to power up the party across runs.
- 06Steam Remote Play
- Remote multiplayer uses Steam Remote Play and gives participants gold codes at the end of a run.
Popup Dungeon compared to similar games
Shogun Showdown centers on positioning, attack tiles, combos, and deck building before a boss encounter. Popup Dungeon instead combines turn-based party combat with authored campaigns and tools for creating abilities, equipment, enemies, and complete games.
Popup Dungeon: platforms & release
Is Popup Dungeon worth it?
It is worth it if: tabletop RPG fans who want to build custom adventures. Skip it if: players seeking a tightly authored RPG with little customization or user-created content.
Where can I download Popup Dungeon?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Popup Dungeon's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Popup Dungeon on?
Windows only.
