Game file / ROGUE BY ROGUEDungreed
Dungreed is a 2D side-scrolling action game with 2D Rogue-LITE elements. You become an adventurer exploring a continuously evolving dungeon to prevent the town from being destroyed. Eliminate enemies, use a variety of weapons and magic, eat food, and defeat evil in the dungeon!
Why this score?
Original text · Simplified Chinese
食物预算与装备协同为快速地牢战斗增加策略，控制设置、掉落波动和末期弹幕可读性是主要短板。
Core gameplay
Weight 25%8.0 / 10Original text · Simplified Chinese
冲刺和武器攻击构成快速清房循环，快照肯定操作爽快；鼠标指向冲刺和较慢敌人前摇有适应成本。
Builds & strategy
Weight 25%8.0 / 10Original text · Simplified Chinese
食物饱腹预算与武器饰品协同形成有效取舍，但传奇和普通物品强弱不一致，部分组合过度滚雪球。
Replayability
Weight 20%7.5 / 10Original text · Simplified Chinese
随机地图、不同武器和角色提供路线调整，反复出现的商店物品及相似区域降低实际变化。
Randomness & fairness
Weight 20%6.5 / 10Original text · Simplified Chinese
无接触伤害降低走位误伤压力，快照仍有弱掉落局、后期弹幕与背景混色导致不易判断的反馈。
Polish & usability
Weight 10%6.5 / 10Original text · Simplified Chinese
移动动画流畅，但改键菜单、控制器识别和攻击可视性有明确投诉，不能只凭整体美术判定完成度。
- Reviewer
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Rogue by Rogue · AI 资料评测- Version reviewed
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具体构建未知；以所引资料描述的版本为准
Scope and limitations
Original text · Simplified Chinese
基于收录资料与官方页面的主观归纳，未进行试玩。未实际检测不同手柄或改键故障，Steam Workshop 内容不作为本体评分加成。
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收录评论与社区资料（2026-10-01 快照）
使用 作者观点摘要 的 Tier list Part 1 (2023) 及 玩家好评与批评 中的机制、交互、重复与易用性反馈；未将外部分数或旧等级用于计算。
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Dungreed 官方产品说明
2026-10-08 访问。确认随机地牢、死亡失去装备、训练成长、食物强化及多类武器。 官方页面不单独证明平衡或稳定性。
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Community discussion
A 2D side-scrolling, mouse-aimed action roguelite by TEAM HORAY (Steam, Feb 2018) where you dash and jump through procedurally assembled dungeons, collect weapons and accessories, manage a hunger/food system, and buy permanent stat upgrades between runs.
Dungreed is a long-running indie favourite on PC: Steam shows roughly 9,600 reviews at about 93% positive (Very Positive), and the positive reviews come from players with very high playtime (often 50-250 hours) who praise weapon and build variety, snappy dash-based combat and the Workshop mods. Critic coverage is thin: Metacritic has no Metascore (only one Nintendo Life review of the Switch port, 80) and a tiny Switch user score of 7.2 from 5 ratings. The complaints are consistent: awkward keyboard/mouse and controller handling, repeated items and thin area variety, RNG-driven balance where lucky builds trivialise the game and unlucky ones are stuck, and bullet-hell late bosses. Steam reviewers say the developer has moved on to Sephiria, so content updates appear to have slowed, but the modding scene keeps it alive. Note: this research was done with WebSearch unavailable (session search budget exhausted), so critic/community coverage relies on Steam data, Metacritic, and the Steam community pages rather than Reddit or major outlets.
What players praise
- Huge weapon and accessory pool that synergises into many different builds; several reviewers cite 'god runs' from item combinations
- Fast, snappy dash-based movement and combat that feels good once a build comes together (one reviewer likens the movement approach to Rogue Legacy)
- Character customisation per run, with many valid playstyles and a difficulty curve that adds new content gradually
- Food/hunger system: buying food for buffs fills a hunger meter that drains, forcing you to budget stat gains against saving room for better food
- No contact damage from enemies, which one reviewer singled out as a relief
- Active Steam Workshop: custom weapons, characters and even items imported from Sephiria extend replay value (reviewers call the Workshop community 'legends')
- Strong value at about $10 and good long-tail engagement, with many players returning every few months
- Pixel-art style and movement praised by several reviewers (one calls it a personal favourite 2D roguelike)
What players criticize
- Controls draw the harshest complaints: aiming and dashing follow the mouse pointer so keyboard players dash the wrong way, and keybinding/settings menus were reported as broken by some
- Controller support is inconsistent: one PS5-controller user reports the game flipping between Xbox and 'Undefined' input mid-run; others say it plays best on a gamepad
- Item and loot rotation feels repetitive: the same items recur in shops and chests, so the large library feels smaller than it is, and there is low visual variety across areas
- Balance is swingy: lucky weapon/evasion/block combos make you near-invincible while a poor-loot run leaves you with weak items; some legendary items are reported weaker than commons and some characters feel underpowered
- Late bosses are bullet sponges that flood the screen with projectiles; one complaint notes a boss using red/orange/brown projectiles in a red/orange/brown hell stage where attacks blend into the background
- Enemy attack timings feel slow compared with the very fast player and spam-attack weapons, making dodging feel jarring (detailed in one long negative review)
- Bland, minimal story and lore according to several reviewers
Distinctive features
- Food/hunger meter as a build-management resource: buffs are bought and limited by stomach capacity, which is unusual for the genre
- 2D mouse-aimed shooter/melee hybrid platformer with a dash-centred movement kit and no contact damage
- Town-rebuilding and training meta layer: permanent stat training plus unlockable vendors and NPCs rescued from the dungeon
- Active Steam Workshop scene adding custom characters and weapons to a game with a simple pixel-art pipeline
- Available on PC, Switch, PS4 and iOS
Divided opinions
- Difficulty and balance: some call it 'pretty easy' and relaxing, others call it punishing and skill-only with poorly balanced RNG
- Depth and longevity: fans put in 100-250 hours and call it a gold-standard roguelite, while others see a generic, shallow, cheap-feeling roguelite that falls flat after 15-20 runs
- Controls and game feel: praised as crisp and snappy (especially on controller) by many, described as awkward or unintuitive by others, partly due to the 2.5D perspective and mouse-relative aiming
- Item pool: 'massive loot library' versus 'same items keep showing up'
Repetition and friction
- Achievement hunting and the optional true final boss: reviewers describe completion as long, repetitive and in places annoying (one says the true boss looked more annoying than satisfying)
- Repeated runs through the same few areas, with a lack of area variety, leads to fatigue after dozens of runs
- Spending runs with only low-rarity gear and no healing is frustrating once meta-progression is maxed out
- Bullet-hell late stages and projectile-spamming bosses become a slog rather than a skill test for some
- Keyboard controls and cursor-relative dashing cause cheap hits, making the keyboard experience a chore
Hoped-for improvements
- Better input handling: a working rebinding menu and reliable controller detection (PS controllers especially)
- More permanent upgrades or meta-progression to help struggling players, since progression tops out and later success is skill plus RNG
- Better item rotation/pool management so shops and chests do not keep showing the same items
- More area and visual variety, and more enemy/boss diversity to reduce repetitiveness
- Rebalancing rarity and weak characters so legendary items and unorthodox builds are not punished; clearer guaranteed healing rather than mostly RNG healing
- Fix or clarify achievement bugs (one 100% player reports the final food-eating achievement not unlocking) and quest progress not carrying across a single run
Launched on Steam on Feb 14, 2018 from a small Korean indie team and built a durable audience through word of mouth and content updates; later ports reached Nintendo Switch, PS4 and iOS (per Metacritic). Critics barely covered it: Metacritic shows only one critic review (Nintendo Life, 80), so no Metascore, and the Switch user score of 7.2 is based on 5 ratings. Steam's all-time rating sits around 93% positive on roughly 9.6k reviews, with recent reviews also positive. Reviewers in 2025-2026 say updates have largely stopped as the developer shifted to Sephiria, but the Workshop community continues to add content. Recurring technical issues reported in negative reviews include input/keybinding bugs and controller misdetection. SteamSpy-style data in the local file lists roughly 200k-500k owners, which, together with the revenue estimate, is order-of-magnitude only. No OpenCritic page could be found (OpenCritic fetches failed or returned an unrelated game).
Community sources
- Top helpful positive and negative English Steam reviews (primary source for bullets on controls, balance, item repetition, food system, Workshop) ↗
- Local Steam metadata: appid 753420, developer TEAM HORAY, release date, 93.3% positive of 9,605 reviews, tags, owner and revenue estimates ↗
- Steam store page: description, features (training, town rebuilding, weapon variety), tags, platforms, languages ↗
- Steam community top-rated reviews: themes of snappy combat, build variety, item repetition, minimal narrative, limited content ↗
- Steam discussion forum topics: mod support, boss difficulty, co-op, feature requests ↗
- Metacritic: no Metascore, one Nintendo Life critic review (80, Switch), user score 7.2 from 5 ratings; platforms PC, Switch, PS4, iOS ↗
- Metacritic user review breakdown (3 positive, 2 mixed, 0 negative) ↗
- Estimated gross and net revenue for Dungreed (Boxleiter method, no copies count) ↗
Archived creator commentary 1
Third-party summaries based on automatic captions may contain transcription or interpretation errors.
Tier list Part 1 (2023)
Dungreed is a 2D action roguelite dungeon crawler where you explore rooms, fight enemies and collect weapons and items. He calls it a hidden gem that looks basic on Steam but turns out to have a huge amount of content and polish. He praises its smooth controls, weapon variety, food mechanic, bosses and music. He places it at the very top of A tier, just short of S.
What the creator praises
- Controls and movement feel very smooth, with good dashes and a lot of player control
- Large weapon pool where each weapon feels very different, with many unique synergies
- Food system lets you eat different foods during a run to gain stats and focus on one stat
- Items and passives all change gameplay mechanically rather than being plain number bumps
- Bosses are phenomenal and the music is hilariously good
- Multiple characters and lots of customization
- Developers released a big free update years later with a hidden boss, new area, new weapons and a hard mode with unique enemies
Issues raised by the creator
- Nothing explicitly criticised; he only says it falls just short of S tier, which he reserves for the very best
- Looks basic on first impression, which hides how much depth it has (hidden-gem problem)
Design observations
- Food mechanic moves basic stat adjustments like attack speed onto food choices, leaving items free to be mechanics-changing
- Surprise large free post-launch update years after release for fans, including new boss, location and hard mode
