Press Kit / Deal the Dungeon
Deal the Dungeon Press Kit
Deal the Dungeon. Then live with it.
A zip of every screenshot below at 1920 by 1080, plus the logo and banner as transparent PNGs.
Fact Sheet
- Developer
- Fathomfire Foundry (independent studio, United States)
- Genre
- Roguelite deckbuilder with head-to-head duels
- Planned platforms
- Steam · iOS · Android
- Development stage
- Playable build
- Public access
- Private build. No public demo, playtest, or download is available yet.
- Release date
- Not announced
- Modes
- Single-player runs; the Arena, a one-on-one duel mode
- Press contact
- press@fathomfirefoundry.com
Description
Read the enemy's next move, shove them out of position, and play the hand that gets your crew home.
Short
A roguelite deckbuilder with six crews, 180 hand-written cards printed in each crew's own ink, and head-to-head duels in the Arena.
Long
Deal the Dungeon is a roguelite deckbuilder from Fathomfire Foundry. Pick one of six crews (Phalanx, Inquisitor, Investigator, Artillerist, Foundry Master, Horologist), build a deck from its cards, and take it down into a dungeon that is dealt fresh every run from a deck of room cards. Some rooms are face up and some face down, and a face-down card is the ruin's own deal.
In a fight, every enemy shows its next move, so the game is about reading the table and answering it: pushing and pulling enemies across the ranks and shoving them into each other. Between runs you forge runes into your cards and recruit new crews, and a fully voiced Quartermaster teaches you all of it. All 180 cards were written by hand, and each crew's cards are printed in that crew's own ink in a two-block woodcut style.
The Arena brings player-versus-player to the genre. Two crews face each other across three fronts; each round both sides write their orders in secret, and then everything resolves at once. Every fighter's next two moves are printed on its card, so the guessing is about what your opponent is holding, not about the dice.
Features
- Six crews and 180 cards, every name and line of rules text written by hand, each crew's cards printed in its own ink.
- A dungeon dealt fresh every run from a deck of room cards, some face up and some face down.
- Every enemy shows its next move, so each fight is about reading the table and answering it.
- Positional combat across ranks: push and pull enemies, and shove them into each other.
- Between runs, forge runes into your cards and recruit new crews in town.
- A fully voiced Quartermaster who teaches the game as you play.
- The Arena: two crews face off across three fronts, both sides write their orders in secret, and the round resolves at once. Take on other players' ghost crews, chase the day's best margin on a shared leaderboard, or challenge a friend.
Screenshots
Captured from the current build at 1920 by 1080. Open any one to save it at full size.
Every enemy shows its next move
Choose a tunnel before you see the room
Your own deck strikes out the bad fates
Fight across the ranks in the Catacombs
The manifest maps the rooms you were dealt
Forge runes into your cards at the Anvil
Recruit a new crew in town
Take your crew into the Arena
The town waits between runs
Logos
About Fathomfire Foundry
Fathomfire Foundry is an independent game studio, founded in 2026, that builds its games in the open. The studio is currently building four: Havenforge, a cozy match-and-merge factory builder; The Old Below, a tactical, generational dungeon crawler with more than three years of story, its seasons, villains, and events, written before the game entered production; Deal the Dungeon, a roguelite deckbuilder with six crews, 180 hand-written cards, and a head-to-head duel mode in the Arena; and Crownscar, a mobile real-time strategy game.
Studio fact sheet, logos and the other games: the main press kit.
Review Builds
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