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CanOpener · 2026 · Windows, macOS

Steam: 78 % positive of 1,446 reviews, as of Oct 28

A colony sim based dungeon crawler where you manage your expedition to build a settlement in barren land, provide food and shelter for your people, lead them deep into the merciless dungeon, overcome challenging combat by your strategy.

24 games that play like Dungeon Settlers and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Going Medieval, Dwarf Fortress and Dungeons 3.

Player tags

  • Dungeon Crawler
  • Colony Sim
  • Strategy
  • Management
  • Base-Building
  • Survival
  • Simulation
  • Medieval
Map region: Colonies & Settlements
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Steam reviews

What players say

Players mostly recommend this early access colony and dungeon-crawler hybrid for its loop of dungeon runs and base building, though balance, onboarding and UI are widely criticised.

Many players enjoy the loop of sending a party into randomly generated dungeons, bringing resources back to camp and upgrading gear and the settlement before going deeper. The pausable real-time combat, with positioning and skills, draws praise, as do the pixel art, the character portraits and the Rimworld-style sim layer. Many players complain that the tutorial overwhelms and that important mechanics are only explained in the in-game wiki or videos. Balance is a frequent complaint: the early game on hard feels unforgiving, some enemies are over-tuned, and characters fall without warning. Random character generation, with no custom creation or point-buy, frustrates some. Storage limits, gear durability loss and a thin base-building layer are also raised. Recent reviews are more critical than the helpful older ones, with several players calling the game unfinished and thin for the price, though the strong premise keeps many hopeful for updates.

Praised

  • Dungeon-and-base loop

    Players like sending parties into random dungeons, returning with loot and upgrading the camp and gear.

    Many players
  • Tactical real-time combat

    Pausable real-time combat with positioning, healing items and skills is seen as tactical and satisfying.

    Many players
  • Art and sound

    Players praise the pixel art, character portraits and atmospheric sound design.

    Some players
  • Character building

    Varied skill trees, traits and races let players build distinct party members.

    Some players

Criticised

  • Harsh early balance

    Early combat and hard difficulty feel unforgiving, with enemies that punish any mistake and some over-tuned foes.

    Many players
  • Overwhelming, unclear onboarding

    Tutorial text boxes interrupt play, and many mechanics are only explained in the wiki or by videos.

    Many players
  • Random, uneven characters

    Recruits are randomly generated with no point-buy or custom creation, so good characters are rare and frustrating.

    Many players
  • Thin settlement and storage

    Settlement management feels shallow, storage is too small so items decay, and gear durability drops too fast.

    Some players
Who it suits
Players who like Rimworld-style base building paired with party-based dungeon crawling, and who accept early access rough edges.
Who should skip it
Players who want polished onboarding, deep settlement systems or fully controllable characters should wait for more development.

Short vs. long playtime: Players with over 20 hours mention durability, storage and late-game grind more often, while newcomers focus on the tutorial and early difficulty.

Summarised by AI from 63 Steam reviews (English, helpful and recent), as of Oct 28, 2026.

Best matches

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By gameplay

Plays like Dungeon Settlers

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By look

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At a glance

What games like Dungeon Settlers have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Dungeon Settlers: Strategy (19 of 24), Management (16) and Colony Sim (12).
  • They came out between 2014 and 2026, none of them after Dungeon Settlers (2026).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Against the Storm (94 % positive of 33,589).

How these matches work

Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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