The Last Delve

A top-down dungeon crawler for PC on a 5e-compatible ruleset. Lead a party of four down through handcrafted stone lit only by what you carry — grid movement, turn-based fights, traps, secret doors, and a way back up if you earn it. Each delve below is its own descent, into its own dungeon, for its own reason.

• The Pale Crown

  In development

  Five floors, one inscription, and no explanation offered: "Seven came down. The crown keeps count." The delve the game opens on and the one it grew up on — hand-cut rooms that teach you to dread a doorway, and a vault at the bottom guarding a crown nobody thought to mention.

• The Drowned Vigil

  In development

  In the mountain town of Brantham Well the dead have started answering. Call a name at the well-mouth after dark and something calls back — the right voice, the right pet-names, asking you to come down where it is warm. Eleven have gone down the old waterworks stair. Ten floors, and Maren Colle does not ask you to bring her husband back alive; she asks for the truth, whatever it costs her to know it.

• The Sunken Spire

  In development

  Eighty years ago the shelf above Harrowgate split in a night and the wizard's tower standing on it went down the crevasse standing up — twenty storeys swallowed whole, and the stone closed over it like a mouth. Everyone in Harrowgate agrees the Spire is dead. Everyone in Harrowgate also knows that on the coldest night of each winter a bell rings the hour down there, and it rings eight. Eight was the hour lessons began.

• The Bone Levy

  In development

  A levy is discharged by an instrument: a signed order to stand down, read out at inspection and entered on the Roll. Nobody ever wrote one for the Ninth Levy, because the crown that would have signed it stopped existing first. Three hundred years on, the garrison cut into the rock below the muster field still drills at the sixth bell, still holds inspection — and still recruits, quietly and entirely by the book, from the village that grew over it. Fourteen floors, and every monster on them is named.