Broughlike Dungeon Unblocked

Six tiny floors, one step at a time: grab gems, earn spells and reach the exit before the monsters pile up.

Broughlike Dungeon is a compact turn-based dungeon crawler played on a 9x9 grid, and you can play Broughlike Dungeon unblocked in any desktop browser. Nothing moves until you do, and every monster answers each step you take. That makes every move a small puzzle: where can you stand so the enemy reaches you last? Jeremiah Reid built it as the finished project of a free coding tutorial and drew the sprites and made the sounds himself.

How to Play Broughlike Dungeon

Press any key on the title screen to begin. Your hero starts with three hearts, shown as tiny red dots on the character, and one random spell in the list on the right. W, A, S and D move you one square. Walking into a monster hits it for one damage and stuns it, so it skips its next action.

Walking into a wall does nothing and costs no turn, so a mistyped key is not a disaster. Arrow keys do not work here, and the letters must be lowercase. If your hero suddenly refuses to move, check that Caps Lock is off.

A Run From Start to Finish

Each floor is a fresh random layout of walls and open tiles, with three purple gems, an exit and a few monsters. The first floor starts with two monsters, and each deeper floor starts with one more. A spawn timer also runs: the first new monster arrives after 15 turns, the next after 14, then 13, and so on until you leave.

Gems are worth one point each. Stepping onto the exit takes you down a floor and restores one heart, with six as the cap. Clear the sixth floor to win the run. If your hearts reach zero, the run ends and any key returns you to the title and the score table.

One detail surprises new players: when you go down a floor, your spell list is refilled with fresh random spells, one per slot you have unlocked. Spells you saved are not carried over, so there is little reason to hoard them right before the exit.

Meet the Monsters

Five creatures share the dungeon, and each follows its own rule:

  • Bird (3 health): a plain chaser that walks straight toward you.
  • Snake (1 health): gets a second move on any turn it fails to attack, so it closes gaps fast.
  • Tank (2 health): acts only every other turn.
  • Eater (1 health): chews through nearby walls instead of chasing, healing a little with each bite.
  • Jester (2 health): wanders to a random open neighbor square.

New arrivals appear as a swirling portal and need two turns before they can act. That gives you a short window to slip away or line up a hit.

Spells Worth Knowing

There are fifteen spells in the pool, cast with the number keys 1 to 9. Casting uses your turn, just like a step. Some of the best:

  1. Woop teleports you to a random open tile, handy when you are boxed in.
  2. Quake hits every monster for 2 damage per wall touching it, so cornered enemies take the most.
  3. Dash slides you the way you last moved until you bump into something, then hurts and stuns anything next to you.
  4. Bolt fires a line in your last move direction for 4 damage to everything it passes; Cross hits all four directions for 2, and Ex hits the diagonals for 3.
  5. Power makes your next attack deal 6 damage instead of 1.
  6. Bravery stuns every monster and blocks damage to you briefly.
  7. Dig removes every inner wall and heals 2 hearts, while Aura heals 1 for you and anything adjacent.
  8. Alchemy turns walls next to you into floor with a gem on each, and Kingmaker heals every monster but drops a gem under each one.
  9. Mulligan rebuilds the current floor from scratch but drops you to one heart.

Others shuffle the monsters (Maelstrom) or copy spells into empty slots (Bubble).

Broughlike Dungeon Tips and Strategy

  • Let monsters step next to you instead of walking up to them. Whoever moves adjacent first usually takes the first hit.
  • Use walls as shields. Monsters chase by distance, so a single pillar can make a Bird walk the long way.
  • Save Quake for corners and narrow halls, where it can deal 6 damage or more.
  • Leave once the gems are gone. The spawn timer only speeds up.
  • Learn the Tank’s rhythm. Hitting it on its resting turn is free damage.
  • Spend spells freely before taking the exit, since the list rerolls on the next floor anyway.

Mistakes New Players Make

The biggest one is fighting everything. Every monster gives zero points, so a kill only matters if it clears your path. Another is grabbing a gem right beside a pack of enemies, which also spawns a new monster. Finally, players often forget Snakes get two steps and misjudge how close they really are.

Who It Suits and What to Try Next

Runs often last only a few minutes, which suits a short break on a laptop or Chromebook. It is slow and thoughtful rather than fast, so you can stop and think as long as you like between moves. Find more in the adventure games section. A Dark Room is a slower text-based survival story, and Chess AI gives you the same turn-by-turn thinking on a full board against a computer opponent.

Quick facts

Devices
Computer only
Controls
Keyboard
Players
1 player
Price
Free, no sign-up
  • roguelike
  • turn-based
  • dungeon
  • strategy
  • pixel art

How to control Broughlike Dungeon

ActionKeyboard
Move or attack an adjacent monsterW A S D
Cast the spell in a slotNumber keys 1 to 9
Start a run or go back to the title after dyingAny key

Made by

Jeremiah Reid · originally “JavaScript Broughlike Tutorial”

Code license
MIT
Art & sound
MIT (pixel art sprites and Bfxr sound effects made by the author)

Broughlike Dungeon questions

How do I earn spells?

Collect gems. Every third gem adds a new spell slot with a random spell in it, up to nine slots. Each spell can be cast once, and the slot is empty afterward.

Why does the floor keep getting more crowded?

A fresh monster spawns on a timer, and the timer gets one turn shorter after each spawn. Grabbing a gem also calls in a monster, so staying on a floor too long gets risky.

Can I play Broughlike Dungeon on a Chromebook?

Yes, as long as it has a keyboard. The game listens only for the W, A, S and D keys and the number keys, so tablets and phones without a keyboard cannot play it.

Does Broughlike Dungeon save my progress?

It saves your scores, not a run in progress. The title screen lists your latest result and your best totals, stored in this browser. Closing the tab mid-run loses that run.

What are RUN and TOTAL on the title screen?

Beating the sixth floor keeps a streak going, so your next game counts as the next run and TOTAL adds up the points across that streak. A loss ends the streak.

How do you win Broughlike Dungeon?

Step onto the exit of the sixth floor while you still have at least one heart. Your gem count becomes your score, and you return to the title with the streak still alive.

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