About the Game
Dungeon Settlers is a dark fantasy strategy game that combines colony simulation and dungeon crawling. As the leader of an expedition sent by the Guild, your mission is to explore, conquer, and destroy the dungeon which is the source of all calamities. To do so, you’ll need to build a settlement in the barren land and prepare your people for the dangers ahead.
This is a ‘Hardcore Strategy’ game. Train your members strategically by considering their equipment, skills, and traits, then form a party of up to four. In real-time with pause tactical combat with no turn or round limits, analyze enemy traits and patterns to outmaneuver them and achieve victory. But remember once dead, there is no coming back...

Build a settlement in the desolate land, isolated by magical erosion. Design rooms freely by placing walls and doors to meet your members’ needs—create bedrooms and dining areas, and set up a forge with anvils and smelters. Cultivate fields to grow crops. Manage your resources efficiently to survive, and produce rations and camping supplies for the next expedition. Unlock new buildings and equipment through research.

Each member has six major abilities and talents, along with dozens of combat and life-related stats. They also possess various traits based on race, background, and personality—such as a curious Lizardman with a drifter’s past. Recruit promising candidates and help them grow through leveling. Equip them with powerful equipments and carefully build a four-member expedition party with synergistic skill trees such as sword/mace/bow/fire magic.

Combat takes place in real time, but you can pause at any moment to think strategically. Plan your tactics using a variety of effects and mechanics—stun, bleed, burn, provoke, vulnerable, charge attacks, summons, and more. Position your party wisely, exploit enemy weaknesses, and utilize your skills at the right time. Even hopeless battles can be overcome with the right strategy.

Each dungeon expedition is randomly composed, with floors and rooms changing each time. Regions apply different random environmental effects. The deeper you go, the rarer and more valuable the resources become—but so do the threats. You’ll encounter the remnants of magical experiments, such as towering golems or acid-spitting monsters. Secure wood logs, herbs, gemstone veins, and mysterious mandrake. Trade with dungeon merchants, and face ancient tree that demand blood to bear forbidden fruit.
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Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
- Added options to lock individual character elements during the 'Expedition Founding' scenario, including portraits, ability stats, Major Traits(which determine skilltrees), and Sub Traits.
- Changed the default difficulty from Hard to Normal.
- Limited the number of times Gloths can use their summoning skill from unlimited to a maximum of three.
- Gloths now move to an empty tile within one tile of their target after charging.
- Removed the item drop quantity penalty on Very Hard and Devastation Management difficulties.
- Reduced the weight of various items, including armor, helmets, bones, stone, clay, hard shells, silver and copper ores and ingots, bricks, and pottery.
- Increased the maximum arrow stack size from 100 to 200.
- Added a guide for Auto Skills.
\[Features & Improvements]
- Added a Portrait Lock option to Recruit Expedition Members
: You can now keep the current candidate’s portrait and appearance when selecting Recruit Again.
- Added a Mute in Background option
: When enabled, the game is muted while its window is inactive. This option is enabled by default.
- Improved save version compatibility warnings
: Compatibility warnings now appear only when loading a save from a different version series, such as v0.3.x → v0.4.x.
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- Reworked Explosion
: Its base damage remains unchanged at 400% of Magic Attack Power.
: Removed the additional damage based on the target’s Burning stacks ×10.
: It now applies 5 stacks of Burning for 10 seconds to affected targets.
: Reduced its casting time from 2.88 → 1.88 seconds and its related VFX duration from 4 → 3 seconds.
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- Camera zoom tutorial objectives can now be completed using the keys assigned to Camera Zoom In and Camera Zoom Out.
- Fixed an issue where the Recruitment refresh confirmation pop-up would not close properly when using the key assigned to Confirm Notice.
- Increased the repeated tutorial notification interval from 18 → 24 seconds. Tutorial notification sounds are now suppressed while the Skill window is open.
\[Bug Fix]
- Fixed an issue where inspecting a Female Gloth displayed an empty skill entry.
- Replaced the Guard Captain character sprite.
- Updated the Vampire Potion description to clarify that attacks drain a fixed amount of Health for a limited time. Its actual effect remains unchanged.
- Corrected the Carapace Processing research tiers displayed in some Expedition Resolutions.
- Updated the Inventory guide with the following controls:
: Ctrl + Drag: Move half of an item stack.
: Shift + Drag: Choose the quantity to move.
: These controls already existed; this update only adds them to the guide.
- Corrected several translations and text entries, including Spanish and German localization.
Fixed an issue where NPCs could become hostile even when they dodged an attack.
Fixed an issue where clicking Confirm could be ignored when multiple confirmation pop-ups overlapped.
- Fixed an issue where Healing Touch took priority over First Aid when right-clicking a downed ally.
- Fixed an issue where Bubble Toad’s Basic Attack animation would occasionally fail to play.
- Fixed some VFX and particle effects not properly adjusting their playback speed when the game speed was changed.
- Fixed an issue where the settlement BGM would not resume after the credits ended.
\[Fix and Improvement]
Fixed an animation conflict that occurred when a unit was affected by both Near Death and Severely Exhausted. Near Death now takes priority, and the sleep animation resumes correctly after the unit recovers.
Fixed an issue where Chinese and Japanese unit names were not displayed correctly when creating an Expedition Team.
The Create Campaign window can no longer be closed by pressing Esc or clicking outside the window.
Fixed an issue where the Recreation construction category displayed the Defense tooltip.
Fixed an incorrect tooltip displayed when hovering over the data collection consent toggle in the notice shown at game startup.
Reduced the number of Cog Wheels provided at the start of Devastation difficulty from 2 → 1.
Fixed an issue where the recruitment refresh confirmation pop-up would remain open when using the key assigned to Confirm Notice.
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Abyss Chest rewards have been rebalanced(reward quantities increased)
\[Content & UI]
Removed the Wishlist button from the Title menu.
Adjusted Lycan profile data so their in-game facial decals match their portraits. Previously recruited Lycans are unaffected, while newly recruited Lycans will appear without facial decals.
Corrected several incorrect text entries.
Fixed an issue where TEST key bindings appeared in Key Settings.
Fixed few missing/misleading texts
Fixed few event illustration not showing as intended
Improved Simplified Chinese localization.
Fixed several Chinese font typos.
Fixed placement/configuration issues affecting the Large Planter and Staff Workstation.
Added a screen edge scrolling option.
Improved tooltip descriptions for random stats on necklaces and rings.
Improved zoom in/out support when using a trackpad.
Fixed a missing minimum HP requirement check in the Cliff of Thorns event.
Fixed an issue where storage tasks were not refreshed promptly after destroying a storage container.
Fixed an issue where units would not automatically switch to another target during combat.
Current Release
Build 25284551
Uploaded Sep 14, 2026
System Requirements
How to Install
DungeonSettlers.exe to play
Troubleshooting tips
• Run Redist/_CommonRedist installers if game won't start
• Add folder to Windows Defender exclusions
• Run as administrator
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Needed when extracting (WinRAR / 7-Zip) — not a site login.
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