- November 21, 2024
- Stray Fawn Studio
- 19h median play time
Dungeon Clawler
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About
Dungeon Clawler is a single player tactical role playing shooter game. It was developed by Stray Fawn Studio and was released on November 21, 2024. It received very positive reviews from players.
A unique blend of roguelike, deckbuilder, and dungeon crawler mechanics.











- Unique and addictive gameplay mechanic combining claw machine physics with roguelike deckbuilding, providing fresh, innovative, and satisfying play experience.
- Wide variety of characters, builds, items, and synergies offer high replayability and encourage experimentation.
- Polished art style, charming animations, versatile music, and approachable difficulty scaling create a cozy yet challenging atmosphere.
- The claw machine physics can be frustrating and inconsistent, sometimes causing loss of items and adding randomness that may reduce player agency.
- Replayability may decrease after unlocking many characters and encountering repetitive floors, with some unbalanced difficulty spikes and limited enemy variety.
- Lack of deeper meta-progression, tutorial and clearer explanations for some mechanics currently limits long-term engagement and build diversity.
- gameplay424 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
The gameplay of this roguelike deckbuilder stands out with its innovative claw machine mechanic that adds a unique blend of skill, randomness, and strategic depth to the genre. While some players find the claw system satisfying and engaging, enabling varied builds and exciting synergies, others note issues with RNG frustration, limited enemy variety, and lack of long-term depth. Overall, the game offers a fresh, addictive gameplay loop with good replayability and room for further content and balance improvements.
“The claw mechanic adds a lot of fun to deckbuilding, and there's definitely a bit of a skill aspect to getting your claw to grab what you want it to.”
“It’s very Slay the Spire-like, the gameplay is easy to grasp, but there’s still plenty of room for experimentation with different characters, builds, and claws to use throughout your runs and it will give you that "just one more run" feel that great roguelikes thrive on.”
“The base mechanics are easy to understand and the different types of items add varied gameplay to each run.”
“Great concept, but the gameplay is quite bad and boring.”
“Game art is really well made but unfortunately I find the gameplay loop kinda boring. I won a run in my second try and it was tedious repeating all along; I'm sorry but I can't recommend it as it is not as fun as it looks.”
“The claw machine mechanic is a novel idea, but I find the physics of the claw itself to be rage-inducing – items fly off at random intervals, and the strength of the claw's grip feels inconsistent.”
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Frequently Asked Questions
Dungeon Clawler is a tactical role playing shooter game.
Dungeon Clawler is available on Xbox Series X|S, PC, Mac OS, Phone and others.
On average players spend around 30 hours playing Dungeon Clawler.
Dungeon Clawler was released on November 21, 2024.
Dungeon Clawler was developed by Stray Fawn Studio.
Dungeon Clawler has received very positive reviews from players. Most players liked Dungeon Clawler for its gameplay but disliked it for its stability.
Dungeon Clawler is a single player game.
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