About the Game
Crawl is the dungeon crawler where your friends control the monsters! Battle through randomly generated dungeons full of cruel traps and horrid beasts- all controlled by the other players. If a friend kills you they take your place and it's their turn to crawl! It's a race to gain enough XP and loot to face them all as they control the flailing limbs of the hulking final boss!
A NEW SPIN ON DUNGEON CRAWLING
TURBO CHARGED ROLE PLAYING
A NEW SPIN ON DUNGEON CRAWLING
- Every trap and monster can be controlled by your real-life buddies!
- Play solo or with up to 4 in local-multiplayer.
- Vicious single player AI, challenges to master, and items to unlock.
TURBO CHARGED ROLE PLAYING
- Level up and amass a huge variety of weapons, spells and items in each 30 minute game.
- Evolve over 60 unique monsters from mere vermin into powerful demons and undead warriors.
- Play with Controllers, Keyboard or Mouse
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Version Information
Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
On the site: Build 8121616
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Crawl 1.0 is here and 20% off all week!
The ancient golden colossus Tezekcal has awoken, brought to life by an evil shaman’s still beating heart. Take possession of his limbs with your ghostly companions to crush intruding heroes into dust.
Check out the insane new trailer.
New features include:
The official soundtrack is finally available as well. Get it here!
Enjoy!
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Crawl 1.0 is here and 20% off all week!
The ancient golden colossus Tezekcal has awoken, brought to life by an evil shaman’s still beating heart. Take possession of his limbs with your ghostly companions to crush intruding heroes into dust.
Check out the insane new trailer.
New features include:
- New Boss: Tezekcal
- New playable monsters:
- Demonic scorpion queen with devastating projectile attacks.
- A flying beast with a disembodied eye that can attack from the opposite side of the room.
- A poison spitting snake.
- A Powerful high priestess that teleports and summons seeking runes.
- Demonic scorpion queen with devastating projectile attacks.
- Hymns enable heroes to steal from other players. Take their gold, weapons, even swap all their equipment.
- Achievements/Quests.
- Steam trading cards.
- Loads of tweaks, balancing, bug fixes, and more!
The official soundtrack is finally available as well. Get it here!
Enjoy!
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We're here with another Crawl update to bring in the new year! If demonic bat-winged flying eyeballs are your jam we've fleshed out their monster upgrade tree. Then there's new traps, special christmas treats for your hero as well as a horde of tweaks and bug fixes.
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As usual, you can check out the full list of changes on the community forums, and leave us comments in there to tell us what you think!
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We're here with another Crawl update to bring in the new year! If demonic bat-winged flying eyeballs are your jam we've fleshed out their monster upgrade tree. Then there's new traps, special christmas treats for your hero as well as a horde of tweaks and bug fixes.
Here's the biggest changes:
- Monsters
- An eyebat bomber who fires powerful explosions
- A cluster of three eyebat hatchlings, who work together and can heal eachother
- An eyebat bomber who fires powerful explosions
- Traps
- The Double Beam Trap fires in two directions, bisecting the battle with its violent searing light
- The Homing Spike Block is magically drawn towards living flesh
- The Dart Spout Trap fires a fast and deadly dart in front or behind
- The Small Spike Block triggers more quickly than its larger brother
- The Double Beam Trap fires in two directions, bisecting the battle with its violent searing light
- Christmas pressies for your hero
- And more!
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As usual, you can check out the full list of changes on the community forums, and leave us comments in there to tell us what you think!
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Wreak havoc on the living with oodles of new haunting opportunities for spirits. Farm ectoplasm by rattling chains and bringing paintings to life, or possess stray barrels and furniture to throw at unsuspecting heroes! If you're feeling fishy, we have a turret-spawning fish-like wizard, and a gargantuan fish with a horribly powerful bite to play with.
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Check out the full list of changes on the community forums!
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Wreak havoc on the living with oodles of new haunting opportunities for spirits. Farm ectoplasm by rattling chains and bringing paintings to life, or possess stray barrels and furniture to throw at unsuspecting heroes! If you're feeling fishy, we have a turret-spawning fish-like wizard, and a gargantuan fish with a horribly powerful bite to play with.
New Stuff:
- New Monsters:
- A gargantuan mutated fish with a mighty chomp and a deceptively agile roll
- Magic wielding monks hide their fishlike bodies beneath hooded robes, hurling water spells and summoning beastly fish turrets
- A gargantuan mutated fish with a mighty chomp and a deceptively agile roll
- New Object Haunting System:
- Ghosts can farm ectoplasm by animating props around the dungeon
- Many props can be levitated and thrown as makeshift traps
- Ghosts can farm ectoplasm by animating props around the dungeon
- New Usable Objects:
- Paintings, mirrors, shackles, bleeding grates and haunted stocks for ghosts to animate
- Trees can now be drained by heroes to gain Vitality
- Heroes can find bonfires, to rest and regain health
- Paintings, mirrors, shackles, bleeding grates and haunted stocks for ghosts to animate
- Mimics: Some of our chests can now be inhabited to turn them into vicious monsters
- Halloween Pumpkins! Don't try to eat them, I'm pretty sure they're full of bats
- Loads of tweaks and bug fixes Yaaay!
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Check out the full list of changes on the community forums!
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Hack and skewer with the vermin soldier's blighted halberd, or spawn a writhing rat army to command with our rodent summoner. New ways to trick your friends await in the murky depths, with devious artifacts and powerful new magics.
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And as usual there's a whole heap of smaller tweaks and bug fixes this time too, see the full list of changes on the community forums!
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Hack and skewer with the vermin soldier's blighted halberd, or spawn a writhing rat army to command with our rodent summoner. New ways to trick your friends await in the murky depths, with devious artifacts and powerful new magics.
Major changes:
- New Monsters:
- The vermin soldier wields a vicious halberd
- The rodent summoner commands a writhing rat army
- The vermin soldier wields a vicious halberd
- Reworked Store Teleporter system helps new heroes get to the store for upgrades
- Expanded Magic Weapon system with magic all magic now displayed in weapon art, and new magic types:
- Cosmic Strikes
- Explosive Strikes
- Life Steal Strikes
- Cosmic Strikes
- New Artifacts:
- The Medal of Honour makes your spells recharge faster on a kill streak
- The Monster Hand makes your monsters' special attacks recharge faster
- The Hymn of Betrayal robs the leading hero of a random artifact
- The Medal of Honour makes your spells recharge faster on a kill streak
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And as usual there's a whole heap of smaller tweaks and bug fixes this time too, see the full list of changes on the community forums!
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Grind heroes in your beak as the hulking bird abomination, hurl flesh-seeking skulls as the skeletal magelord, inhabit fish, squids and gargoyles or just soak in the stories from our new intro sequences, complete with voice-over from our unhinged narrator.
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Check out the full list of changes on the community forums!
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Grind heroes in your beak as the hulking bird abomination, hurl flesh-seeking skulls as the skeletal magelord, inhabit fish, squids and gargoyles or just soak in the stories from our new intro sequences, complete with voice-over from our unhinged narrator.
Main Changes:
- Hero Battle Intros: The starting hero is no longer up to chance. Players battle it out in short randomized intros featuring our ghastly narrator.
- New Monsters:
- The gigantic bird abomination grinds heroes in his beak
- The mind squid draws hulking tentacles from the earth
- The gargoyle defends by turning to stone
- The skeletal magelord throws flesh-seeking skulls
- The tiny fish is... kind of useless. Or is he?
- New Artifacts:
- The Vampire Tooth drinks health from striking enemies when you're bleeding
- Cadaver Burst triggers a last-ditch explosion from your monster's corpse
- The Emerald Signet heals you when poisoned
- New Traps
- The Dart Array spits a sequence of darts from an array hidden in the decaying walls
- The Spike Train triggers a course of spikes that pierces the sod, and the flesh of any who stand upon it
- The Dart Trap fires a cruel dart at any intruder that dares to cross in front
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Check out the full list of changes on the community forums!
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Spend some time with the Challenge Mode to practise your monster skills, wield powerful new artifacts, and try not to be torn apart by our vicious new traps!
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Check out the full list of changes on the community forums!
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Spend some time with the Challenge Mode to practise your monster skills, wield powerful new artifacts, and try not to be torn apart by our vicious new traps!
Main changes:
- Challenge Mode: Practise with any monster you've discovered, battling a stream of increasingly powerful AI heroes
- Boss Helper Spirits: Bosses have full funcitonality across 2 and 3 player games now, with AI helper spirits spawning to help when necessary
- Four new traps to dodge
- Four new artifacts to choose
- Loads of monster improvements
- And of course tweaks, fixes and balancing across the board
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Check out the full list of changes on the community forums!
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Tear apart unsuspecting heroes with the Dark Yurei lightning attack, spawn an army of deadly chomping Demon Mouths, and keep track of everything you've seen in The Vault!
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Check out the full list of changes on the community forums!
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Tear apart unsuspecting heroes with the Dark Yurei lightning attack, spawn an army of deadly chomping Demon Mouths, and keep track of everything you've seen in The Vault!
Main changes:
- The Vault: Keep track of all the monsters and items you've seen
- Two new beasts to inhabit: The Dark Yurei and the Demon Mouth
- Five new arcane artifacts to grief your friends with
- New weapon art
- Loads of tweaks and fixes
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Check out the full list of changes on the community forums!
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Upgrade your monsters in style with an overhauled evolve menu and two brand new beasts. Take your Minotaur charges to the next level with our cleaver-wielding Horned Beast, or up the worminess with the vicious new Greater Spikewurm!
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Check out the full list of changes on the community forums!
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Upgrade your monsters in style with an overhauled evolve menu and two brand new beasts. Take your Minotaur charges to the next level with our cleaver-wielding Horned Beast, or up the worminess with the vicious new Greater Spikewurm!
Also new this time around:
- New music for the mines
- Hero Info GUI- Your Stats and equipment are now displayed when you're in the store. No more trying to remember what you have!
- Weapon trade in - Your current weapon gives you a discount on a new one, so you can upgrade your weapons more.
- Boss kills tally- For every boss you've killed you get a skull on name select menu, and a different title on win screen.
- Plus loads more tweaks and bug fixes!
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Check out the full list of changes on the community forums!
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Stalk the brand new Crypt level with our vicious new Eye Bat or revamped Flame Skeleton. Wield savage new spells and weapons, or search out and battle the all-powerful Gaben!
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Check the full list on the community forums!
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Stalk the brand new Crypt level with our vicious new Eye Bat or revamped Flame Skeleton. Wield savage new spells and weapons, or search out and battle the all-powerful Gaben!
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Check the full list on the community forums!
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Delve into long forgotten mines, discover rare new rooms, and evolve your skeletons into a new monster- the Bone Warden. There’s a new music track from Alex Yoder and a bunch of bug fixes too!
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Check out the full list of changes on the community forums!
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Delve into long forgotten mines, discover rare new rooms, and evolve your skeletons into a new monster- the Bone Warden. There’s a new music track from Alex Yoder and a bunch of bug fixes too!
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Check out the full list of changes on the community forums!
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Strange new monsters and gods have been summoned to the catacombs. Ready yourself with powers from our new interactive props – a second hulking boss creature has been discovered!
Among the huge list of changes:
- New boss battle– cooperate with your friends to walk a giant hydra around the battle field, firing ice, flame and goo, while the hero works to chop off your heads!
- Control 5 new monsters– be a spear-wielding servant, a putrid mushroom, a gluttonous tentacled abomination, a possessed priestess, or a magical hooded haunt.
- Worship 4 new deities, each with new a unique hero buff.
- New Interactive Scenery– read from magic tomes, risk a drink from an ancient fountain, or deface a tombstone to enhance your abilities.
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We’ve rebalanced existing monsters based on your feedback, and there’s a huge number of other tweaks, improvements and bug fixes - check out the full list of changes on the community forums!
Have fun!
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The first big update is here! New monsters to control, deities to worship, and ways to grief your friends!
Among the huge list of changes:
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There's also a crazy amount of minor features, bug fixes, tweaks and balancing changes, check out the full list of changes on the community forums!
Have fun!
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The first big update is here! New monsters to control, deities to worship, and ways to grief your friends!
Among the huge list of changes:
- New monsters to control! A powerful flying demon, a venomous scorpion, a ghost girl slinging a magic flame, and an undead lord able to summon zombies at will!
- Each deity you worship now gives you a unique buff, and there are 4 more to choose from!
- Inhabit the blobs you've spawned as a ghost. (Experimental!)
- Improved controls for bows and crossbows - Hold down attack button to aim, then release to fire.
- New traps, new items, and a revamped potion system.
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There's also a crazy amount of minor features, bug fixes, tweaks and balancing changes, check out the full list of changes on the community forums!
Have fun!
Current Release
Build 8121616
Uploaded Sep 19, 2026
System Requirements
OS
N/A
CPU
1.66 GHz Dual Core Processor or equivalent
RAM
2 GB RAM
GPU
NVIDIA since 2006 (GeForce 8), AMD since 2006 (Radeon HD 2000), Intel since 2012 (HD 4000 / IvyBridge)
How to Install
1
Download all files
2
Extract the .ZIP file to a folder (use WinRAR or 7-Zip)
3
Run Crawl.exe to play
Troubleshooting tips
• Run Redist/_CommonRedist installers if game won't start
• Add folder to Windows Defender exclusions
• Run as administrator
Download
Direct link available
Archive password
Needed when extracting (WinRAR / 7-Zip) — not a site login.
CRC32
09DB5D5B
SHA-256
5c7de1afe02d7248df493d590fa4342517a8dcb13dddbeeb4fe4568383d0a0fb
How: Right-click the downloaded file → 7-Zip / WinRAR → CRC SHA → compare with the values above.
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