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Hunchback's Dungeon
Developer Patryk Borowski
Destroy hordes of undead skeletons in this top-down roguelite arena shooter. In Hunchback's Dungeon, you play as a deformed, magic-wielding human who can control up to 4 different spells. Unlock new characters, collect unique items, equip powerful spells, and survive until the end. From the Steam store page
57 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon) · newest Sep 16, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
70
Fresh
37 positive · 16 negative
95% range 56–80%
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| Steam reviews | 37 | 16 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
54 of 72 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
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Reactions
57 of 57 · most liked firstA game similar to Brotato or Vampire Survivor, but with rounds. The game is generally very enjoyable and you will find your fun in it, but it has some glaring issues, which need to be fixed for the full release. I made notes on my playthrough and I'm going to share em here: 1. LET ME UPGRADE IN THE UPGRADE MENU!!! I DONT WANNA SELL SOMETHING TO JUST UPAGRADE IT, DOESNT FEEL GOOD!!! 2. Movement is a big sluggish, precise movement is not possible due to everything having this weird slow down.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hunchback's Dungeon is an unabashed, lazy ripoff of Vampire Survivor (Copyright Poncle Ltd. , 2021). Many lazy "amateur" developers don't pay attention to their obligations under copyright law, and often steal the ideas of actual, real game developers without credit, such as the "developer" here has done. At this stage no legal action has been taken by Poncle Ltd. against the "developer" here, but it's never off the table, as previous copyright law cases have shown. Putting aside the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →While still early in its development, Hunchback’s Dungeon is easily shaping up to be one of the best auto-firing arena-battlers just a small amount of money can buy. Note: this review may be edited over time to reflect changes in the game as updates are released. The premise of Hunchback’s Dungeon is simple and will be familiar to anyone who’s played this style of game before: survive increasingly difficult waves of mobs for a minute at a time (note: actual time may vary). With so many…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Literally the only thing you do in this game is move, and they couldn't even get that right. If you hold 'right' and tap 'up', your character stops moving completely. How do you ♥♥♥♥ up the most basic thing possible?
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The pixel design of this game is great. It would be nice if more spells and effects were added.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Gonna be honest, not really a fan. But I read through the developers twitter a bit and they are taking criticism and adding things to the game. That's definitely a plus. I've set to not recommended, but this may change in the future. I also have some gameplay footage on my youtube. No, I'm not showing off elite gamer skills, in fact, I'll be honest again, I played really badly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlTLTJ-1NGs So let's start with the negatives: The gameplay gets very repetitive…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As of July 2024, it's too grindy for unlocks, too few spell slots, zero level variety, too little enemy variety, and almost no synergies. It's lacking a lot of the entire reason to play these action roguelikes.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Really pretty pixel art, and great rogue like feel
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A different game from brotato. While in surface it seems similar, the gameplay actually feels different as a lot of stats, character, weapon, items and progression are different. It has a lot more focus in avoiding enemies rather than the bullet spam in brotato, The overall stats have some difference that make some significant change to the overall feeling of getting power ups, for example the reputation, income and luck stats has 2 modifiers that needs to be watch out for as they are…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Its not bad, the idea that each upgrade has a significant downside makes you pause for a moment and think instead of just clicking big nubmers, this is fun. But overall it seems a bit unpolished in a way i don't see them fixing early on. Weapons are terribly unbalanced, to the point i don't see the point of picking any but 2 specific weapons out of few dozen. The same with items, some are just plain bad and don't fit any build. It seems the main logic is "make features first, polish and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hunchback's Dungeon is very similar to Brotato, which is a compliment coming from me. If you like one of these games, I can't see you disliking the other, but there are some significant differences. Besides the obvious aesthetic shift, Hunchback's Dungeon is also relatively easy with most characters and has stats with negative values often apply the inverse of their normal effects. This is most prominent with the life-leech stat, dubbed Vampirism, which counterbalances itself by reducing other…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Polish dev is cooking fr
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A bit on the easy side but everything is very organized and laid out.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good fun so far. While the demo didn't do much for me, I do appreciate all of the unlockable classes, weapons, and items.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A very simple and at the same time extensive game, and it's only early access! Mega addictive and I can't wait for the next update! !Support your local game developers!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You don't have Brotato? Buy Brotato. You have Brotato? 100% Brotato. You've 100% Brotato? I'm still not really sure what this offers over Brotato. It's just more of the same. Just get Brotato.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I reported some achievements not working nearly half a year ago, but the developer still hasn’t fixed them. It feels like this game is stuck in Early Access forever. Don’t bother playing it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I gave this game a fair chance, even completed all the milestones, but it consistently under-delivers where it could have done well. It's also completely bugged. For example; - Almost all the items are good-bad meaning i get +2 of this but -2 of that, but there's not enough variation in the items to diversify the losses. making it so if i want attack speed i'm basically required to tank my damage or range - Most of the spells are useless un-upgraded making a good starting spell absolutely…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There is a lot to unlock and collect in this one. it's less visually overwhelming than vampire survivors which is a huge plus for me. You can only have 4 weapons all going up to tier 4 currently. Also you can change them whenever you want! Also you can stack a ton of misc effect and buff items. Easy recommend and i haven't even touched the new level yet.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is an awesome little game loosely based of on another VS like game. Very fun to play, and thankfully it has controller support :) To the loser who thinks this is a soulless Vampire Survivors close, it's not you idiot, it's a soulfull Brotato-like, and it is pretty excelent in everything it does, from style to gameplay >:(
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's hecking fun. Worth more than I bought it for.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hunchback's Dungeon is a game I'm conflicted about. This will be a review written in first part of it's early access so what I say may likely come to change in the final release. Furthermore, the game has had several updates since early access started, so I'm quite hopeful. Hunchback's Dungeon is a fairly priced Brotato clone, but the mechanics are deeper. In Brotato you min-max as far as possible to increase damage to the point where you become invincible, and it's insanely fun. In…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →pretty good. needs balancing to be more engaging. love the fusing mechanic.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Nice and fun game 100% worth buying it to support the developer!!! Polska gurom!!!!! 😎👍
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Please consider following my [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/41005226/]Curation page. I cover a wide range of genres both paid and unpaid, providing unbiased opinions as well as regular giveaway events. Video Review https://youtu.be/L0Q6Las3lHA Brotato Clone There isn't really much to say about this game. If you've played Brotato, or other decent clones, I don't feel like this game comes close to doing the right things. It's boring, lacking elements, content, progression and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Gain enough discs -> enjoy the regular soundtrack with added breakcore snares.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great game, Had a great time, patiently awaiting that next expansion, but if you like vampire survivors, Beckon The Hellspawn, or any game of the sort you'll love this!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I had the opportunity to play the Hunchback's Dungeon demo and I am in great admiration of the path this game has come since then. Optimization issues from the demo regarding the large number of projectiles in later waves have been resolved that now, even on my laptop with integrated graphics, the game runs smoothly. The number of spells, items and unique heroes makes each playthrough different and requires constant adaptation to environment. For people who like to test different character…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very nice, simplistic yet clean and easy to read pixel art, a solid gameplay, a couple of minor bugs which are easy to fix and not game breaking. All in all it is a very solid Brotata-like game 10/10 would summon orcs again.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Had a lot of fun with the game but the Looter achievements never activated in-game and on steam,so getting 100% achievements is impossible at the moment. I wish the dev would at least try to fix this one bug if nothing else.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very fun! I wish there was a way to turn off screen flash.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's far too much like Brotato. I appreciate it's following in its footsteps / trying to compete in the same genre, but there's far too much similarity throughout.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It is satisfying and has good meta progression. Very chill.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Easy to pick up, snappy pacing, and plenty of options and builds to experiment with. All the stats and effects are explained clearly in the tooltips so it never feels overwhelming or obscure. This is a solid Survivors-style game. The game's being consistently worked on and updated throughout Early Access and the dev seems committed and responsive to feedback. As of writing there's already a decent (and consistently expanding) amount of content, and the game is very much playable right now. All…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →game's Survivors-style, broken up into rounds like floors of a dungeon, currently in Steam Early Access but already lots of fun. I'm not sponsored or anything, I just want to spotlight Hunchback's Dungeon because I think it's a cool little indie game still being actively worked on!
unlabelledView post →Couldn't even finish one game. Took me till wave 15 to realise this game need lot more balancing and none of the functions are really thought out. It's just not fun as it is.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →[url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/43083373/]Clever games curator review: 5/10. A bland survivors style game held back by two main issues. (1) you only upgrade between waves so there's no incentive to pick up the coins that are dropped while playing, which means the action part of the game is 100% just running away, which gets boring fast. (2) weapons mostly amount to different auto-aim and auto-fired projectiles that feel very interchangeable. In between waves is the most…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I will leave the cat here, so that everybody who passes by can pet it and give it a thumbs up and awards. ／＞ フ | _ _ l ／` ミ＿xノ / | / ヽ ﾉ │ | | | ／￣| | | | | (￣ヽ＿_ヽ_)__) ＼二つ
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fun, unique game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've been watching Hunchback quite some time as its style just caught my eye. It certainly is not perfect yet, but the developer is very open-minded and opened for any suggestions and feedback. So if you want to play a game that is basically driven by players feedback, you are at the right place. But not only that! Oh no! You will get some really nice pixelart, catchy tunes and quite some challenge. I always loved to play as a mage in games, but I always had a choice of different classes as…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →addictive game with pleasant pixel art graphics.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pathetic, annoying Brotato wannabe.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A #Brotato clone #HunchbacksDungeon hasn't really improved since I reviewed it months ago, adding in a slot machine mini-game was the best feature yet. It's an #ActionRoguelike in a small confined space. Not fun when all you need to do is spam minions since it's overtuned.
unlabelledView post →Boring. Game keeps crashing ony my steam deck.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fun, lots to unlock
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Solid brotatemup with a few nitpicks: - Bibles are just black rectangles that rotate around the player. - It would be nice if there was a controller button to exit out of the shop menu, rather than having to navigate to the exit button; I have to perform 5+ button presses sometimes just to exit the shop, which is very bad UI design. - 'Accessibility' menu should probably just be called 'difficulty options', since there is nothing in there for colour blindness, dyslexia, arachnophobia,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hunchback's Dungeon is an arena shooter with roguelite elements with nice pixel graphics. It has many characters with different stats, over 30 skills, and lots of items that give both buffs and debuffs, so you have to plan your builds. The gameplay is similar to Brotato: you survive waves on a small arena, with each wave getting longer and harder. The metaprogression system works in two ways: through quests and through XP milestones, which unlock new characters, items, or skills. The price is…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It is very fun trying to make your build while managing the negative side effects, there are only two bosses, and the increase in difficulty is perfect as it slowly provides more challenge, 7/10 wish there were more bosses
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Nice meta progression and interesting item effects. It would be nice if the time spent shopping could be somehow shortened so that it won't take as much time in the gameplay loop.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →When I first started playing this I thought it was pretty "meh". It felt sluggish to play and there generally wasn't enough variety to encourage multiple playthroughs. It got a few significant updates, though, and at this point I find myself coming back to it pretty regularly when I have a half hour to kill. I felt at first as though too many of the items required sacrifices I wasn't willing to make. It was only after many playthroughs that I started to get the hang of playing to my character…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good roguelike that twists the survivors formula in it's own way. Very good if you like build optimization and minmaxing.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Video: https://youtu.be/kBjfJo4drKQ Pretty cool. Nice graphics, fun and quick gameplay. Tons of characters, items, and spells to unlock which encourages further play. It's definitely one of the simplest games in the genre I think, but it's still a fun time.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Showed promise as a Brotato clone, but the latest patches made some odd changes to the point I question if it was tested prior to play. HP Regen, Vampirism, and ALL of the spells that rely on Profane Magic scaling have huge penalties with little reward. For example, with 500 Vampirism, I had a 3% chance on hit to gain 5 hp. Granted, I cheesed the system by using the fan dagger that attack 5 times a second, but that further showcases the bad balance with items. It plays well, but has some very…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Summons-only run of Hunchback's Dungeon because the very concept of it was hilarious to me. Ended up clearing the run, which makes it even funnier. New patch has a ton of new content, pretty much a new game from when I played it prior. Lots more longevity. I look forward to doing more meme runs.
unlabelledView post →https://youtu.be/8LKfgTuMxEg Basic hooks are there for complexity but without more dynamic play for beginners on their first run that early time spent will quickly feel stale.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is an excellent Brotato clone that's going to keep me busy for a long time, but the controls in-menu need to be fixed or I am going to freak the f``k out. The D-pad navigation is janky. If you like Brotato, you will probably like this game. If you don't like Brotato, you very likely will not.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →#hunchbacksdungeon Hunchback's Dungeon è entrato in Early Access Il roguelike di Patryk Borowski è entrato in Early Access https://www.gamernews.it/notizie/2024/04/03/hunchback-s-dungeon-e-entrato-in-early-access-15709.php
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