One of the finest roguelikes ever made, faithfully rebuilt for the modern web. No download. No app store. Make a free account and descend.
Built with deep respect for the open-source games it stands on — read on. ↓
Pixel Crawlers is the newest layer of a dungeon that brilliant people have been digging for over a decade. We want to be loud about exactly whose work you are about to enjoy.
In 2012, Watabou released Pixel Dungeon: a tiny, beautiful, savagely difficult roguelike for phones — and then gave the entire source code away. It became one of the most-forked games on GitHub and inspired a whole family of descendants. Everything beneath your feet starts here.
Evan Debenham took Pixel Dungeon and never stopped digging. More than a decade of dedicated work turned it into Shattered Pixel Dungeon — a roguelike of staggering depth: a roster of distinct heroes and subclasses, hundreds of items, genuine balance, and a community that has stress-tested every corner. We cannot say this plainly enough: the game you actually play here is, end to end, Evan's design and the Shattered community's craft.
So what did we do? We rebuilt it for the modern web. Not a fork, not an emulator — a ground-up reimplementation: a fresh engine written in TypeScript, rendered with Phaser, served by Django, so Shattered's exact design runs at full speed in any browser tab with nothing to install. And — in the only way that felt right — this platform is open source too. We added the web; the game is theirs. But any bugs are all ours. So let us know!
Shattered Pixel Dungeon is already a masterpiece. If what you want is exactly that game, the best thing you can do is buy it and play it — it runs beautifully, offline, on every platform, and your money goes to the people who earned it.
We rebuilt it on the open web for a different reason. A browser, a shared server, and a deterministic engine make things possible that a single-player native app was never meant to do. The faithful port is the foundation — most of what we set out to build on top of it already ships in the build you sign up to today.
Realtime Solo is in the picker. Standing still no longer pauses the world — monsters keep advancing whether you act or not. Shattered's exact tactics, played under live pressure.
Co-op is open. Spin up a room, share the eight-character code, and run a shared dungeon with friends — each with their own hero, their own fog of war, no turn-taking, no lockstep.
The platform for hand-crafted, multi-floor adventures and persistent season-long arcs is wired end to end — engine, runner, picker — and ready to host stories as we author them. (Story content is what we're writing now.)
Everyone gets the same dungeon today, and a different one next week. A deterministic engine on a shared server means the runs are actually comparable — the foundation that ranked boards will sit on.
Seed-pinned daily and weekly boards a server-authoritative engine can actually keep honest. The seed plumbing is already live — the boards on top of it are next.
An in-browser studio where anyone can author a complete adventure — map, encounters, dialogue, objectives — playtest it, and publish it. No install, no files to wrangle.
Once the studio lands, the natural next step: a place to publish what you made, browse what others have made, and play it — alone or with friends.
We shipped the faithful roguelike first, and well, and then started adding the things SPD on your phone could never do. The Live now cards above are real and in today's build — sign up and play them. The Still ahead cards are real work in flight, not promises, and not in today's build — but the foundations each one sits on are already running.
The full Shattered Pixel Dungeon experience, rendered faithfully — plus the things the open web lets us add on top:
A few pieces of the open-web vision aren't in today's build: honest leaderboards on top of the daily/weekly seeds, an in-browser authoring studio, and the sharing surface that ties player-made content together.
We would rather ship one solid piece at a time than a pile of half-finished features. The platform is being built to grow into the rest — and most of what was on this card a year ago has already moved to the column on the left.
Everything Shattered Pixel Dungeon gives you is free here, and always will be — every hero, every floor, every run, for the price of a free account. The platform's own code is public, just like the games it honours.
This browser version needs a connection. Shattered Pixel Dungeon runs natively and offline on every platform — Steam, Google Play, the App Store, itch.io. Buying it there, or supporting Evan directly, is what funds a decade-and-counting of development. If you love what you play here, go give them your money. They have more than earned it.
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