Desktop Dungeons: Rewind is a modern remastering of the award-winning, bite-sized, tactical dungeon crawler. The game anchors the player in a strategy adventure genre, drawing parallels to titles like Into the Breach and Dicey Dungeons. Players choose from a cast of adventurers to explore small dungeons, revealing terrain to regain health and mana while planning routes carefully to defeat the final enemy. A core mechanic allows players to "rewind" after death, replaying dungeons from earlier points to try new strategies.
The game incorporates roguelike gameplay with strategic depth, kingdom building, and daily online challenges. Players trade monster trophies for gold to upgrade their settlement, attracting more skilled adventurers. Desktop Dungeons: Rewind includes hundreds of hours of content, all previous DLC, and an acclaimed soundtrack by Danny Baranowsky and Grant Kirkhope.