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Crawl

a roguelike dungeon exploration game

Crawl [-vscores n] [-tscores n] [-test] [-sprint-map map] [-sprint] [-species species] [-seed num] [-script file] [-scores n] [-scorefile path] [-rcdir path] [-rc path] [-plain] [-name name] [-morgue path] [-macro path] [-help] [-extra-opt-last optname=optval] [-extra-opt-first optname=optval] [-dir path] [-builddb] [-background background] [-arena ["monsters v monsters [arena:map]"]]

Crawl is a fun game in the grand tradition of similar games like Rogue, Hack and Moria. The objective is to travel deep into a subterranean cave complex and retrieve the Orb of Zot, guarded by many horrible and hideous creatures.

If you have never played Crawl (or a similar game) before, select the tutorial from the starting menu. The tutorial explains the interface in five easy lessons. Once you're familiar with the controls, you may want to play a few games using hints mode.

This is the Stone Soup version of Dungeon Crawl.

The character name to use.
The directory to store information in.
The configuration file to use.

Please visit https://crawl.develz.org for further information.

The in-game help menu, which can be accessed by pressing ?.

Copyright 1997-2025 Linley Henzell, the dev team, and the contributors.

Crawl is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 or later.