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Once Upon A Tile

85% positive of 21 Steam reviews

Released: 2025
Steam Deck: Not tested
Platforms: Steam

Made by KnotHorn Studio.

About the game

Once Upon A Tile is a rogue-lite strategic dungeon-builder, where you don't control the hero! Instead, you cleverly place dungeon tiles to guide your hero to victory - or to their demise, if you are careless. You will need to be tricky and clever in this dungeon-building puzzle game!

Tagged by players

Board Game
Dungeon Crawler
Turn-Based Tactics
Roguelite
Isometric
Turn-Based Strategy
Family Friendly
Puzzle
Tactical
Roguelike
Fantasy
Cute

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Positive

What players say

Not recommended
I loved the demo of this game and looked forward to its full release, but it feels unfinished, buggy, and lacking in features. First, the performance: In a couple hours of *attempting* to play this game, it's crashed three times, hangs up frequently when placing tiles, and freezes and stops responding while on very long loading screens. I timed the last one, it took 3 minutes 27 seconds to load and looked for a…
3.5 h played when written. 17 found it helpful.
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Recommended
It's very nice! Even if a little rough around the edges. The core mechanic here is that you connect dungeon pieces together and the character will move in to the closest tile on the piece. The character picks up items they walk over and fights (or takes damage from) on encounter tiles, so fitting pieces to pick what you might walk over first / later / preferably never adds some depth. Also the music is very good!
12 h played when written. 12 found it helpful.
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