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Text Dungeon: The Ring of Life

64% positive of 17 Steam reviews

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Released
2026
Steam Deck
Not tested
Platforms
Steam

Made by Tawashi Works.

About the game

No graphics, No tiles. Just text-RPG adventure! Explore a shifting labyrinth, regain the Ring of Life from the wizard Shingor. Classic roguelike-style messages guide your journey, with narrative scenes evoking the spirit of MUDs and gamebooks. Death is permanent. Every run brings new discoveries.

Tagged by players

  • Traditional Roguelike
  • Turn-Based
  • Dungeon Crawler
  • Text-Based
  • Roguelike
  • Interactive Fiction
  • Perma Death
  • CRPG
  • Dark Fantasy
  • Roguelite
  • Turn-Based Combat
  • RPG

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What players say

  • Not recommended
    Bland. Not really good, not really bad. The English translation is incomplete and sometimes inaccurate, with some menu text left untranslated. Basic conveniences are missing, including a shop where you can sell unwanted loot. You collect equipment, but dealing with it becomes a chore. The menus are cluttered, and mixing regular keybinds with Shift + key combinations makes them harder to learn. Equipping a weapon…

    54 min played when written. 21 found it helpful.

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  • Not recommended
    I hoped for a solo MUD or text RPG, but this actually has very little text. The rooms do not have descriptions. You are not in any particular place; every new room is just "you go to a new place." There's no character to anything. ASCII roguelikes are more evocative, more interesting, give your imagination more to hold on to. The preview screens are misleading. There is less than one per floor with something…

    11 h played when written. 5 found it helpful.

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