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Undungeon
Developer Laughing Machines
Undungeon is a gorgeous Action/RPG driven by intense real-time combat and an immensely rich science fiction story. Travel between dimensions and change the world around you in an attempt to reconstruct the shattered Multiverse. From the Steam store page
194 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Mastodon, Bluesky) · newest Sep 2, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
55
Mixed
106 positive · 85 negative
95% range 48–62%
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| Steam reviews | 106 | 85 | 0 |
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| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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Steam's own rating
Mixed
242 of 379 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
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Reactions
60 of 194 · most liked firstSo I've been aware of this game years prior and I was excited when I saw that the game finally released. Sadly, I was pretty disappointed. The Positive THE LORE: The world sounds rich and alive. Lots of places to explore and things to learn. VISUALS: The pixel art in this game is on point and works well to tell the story of this weird world. CHARACTER DESIGN: The characters looks sharp. I also loved the idea of crafting new organs for my character. The Negative THE OMNIPRESENT NEGATIVE…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →original kickstarter here. they still never mailed me my stuff. even after I was in emails back and forth with developers and they have my address...I got one of the big packs and I'm supposed to get an artbook and several other things. They only emailed me a couple of keys.. I can't recommend this game till the ones who made it exhibit enough honor to mail me my stuff
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really wanted to like this game. The graphics, story concept, rpg elements, they are great. The problem is everything is just… not thought through? Maybe the developers had very limited testing input? Difficulty: So for starters, it’s been beaten to death already but the difficulty is insane by default. What happens is each enemy that hits you with any attack gets a percentage damage boost (stacking up to 5x). Meanwhile, if you take fatal damage you lose an organ which makes you weaker until…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Review copy provided by publisher I hate to see ambition trip over its own feet right out of the gate, but it’s all too common a fate with promising indie games. Sometimes it feels like systems and challenges get added to games because they sounded neat, not because they really add to the overall structure of the experience. I went into Undungeon with a lot of curiosity, which was almost immediately buried by an avalanche of game mechanics and world building that didn’t really add anything to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After playing for a good while, what I would consider a length of time where I should be at least at the second level, this game seems to over-stay its welcome. The game is challenging, dont get me wrong, but i feel like that challenge comes from the age old "just give em more health and damage" school of difficulty scaling. I hoped we would have moved past this by now, but with enemies in the first level taking a full minute to kill in some instances, the combat feels like you get your feet…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Certainly weirdly captivating. The mish-mashy artstyle is not something I like but it has a lot of systems to build your character around. I do recommend the game if you can bear quite a lot of annoyingly punishing and time wasting systems if you """die""" In this game you an harvest organs and upgrade your innards in a Biopunk fashion, those items break and heal you to full when you lose all your health so you have more chances to fight after a "loss" Thing is usually when you die it's in the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Absolutely do not buy this game. Here is why. The game itself, so pretty, good UI, runes, items, good story, dialogue, etc.. The dev is a deceiving and promised so much more on release and gave none of what he said he would. I asked him the other day if he was planning on adding the promise heralds (different characters) and he basically said no. The combat is the most lackluster boring combat compared to every other aspect of the game. So, unfortunately, save yourself the time and don't buy it…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Video review: https://youtu.be/PjdJHXimcw4 * Deep and interesting sci-fi story * Beautiful pixel art and great character design * Fun combat with innovative mechanics (organ transplantation, steal healing items from enemies, their damage multiplies on successful hits) * Plenty of customization * Great soundtrack * Overpowered equipment * Repetitive enemies and locations * Jerky character animation * 2 characters & biomes instead of 7 that were pitched on Kickstarter
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Undungeon is a remarkable game, chock-full of all manner of unique things--boldly experimental and unapologetically unafraid to lean into its singular design choices, presenting them as they are and at times distinctly without polish. Unfortunately, the same could be said of a "deconstructed" sandwich containing marshmallow fluff, Vegemite, kimchi, kale, rainbow sprinkles, and lutefisk, with peanut brickle "bread," its parts whimsically interspersed on your table amidst a sculpture made of the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Unfinished, nowhere near what was promised, unfun, and pretty much abandoned.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →got this on humble for less than 2$ usd...... still not really worth it. the devs and the game creator parted ways and this is the publisher making a cash grab.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is a scam. I was a kickstarter supporter. Missing 74% of promised content. Only upside is the animations and pixel art.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As one of the original backers, I am very disappointed with the final product. We were promised seven characters: We got two. And that sums up the entirety of the game. All of the mechanics feel like they are "half done" - yes the pixel-art animations are pretty, but they are so few of them that you will be terribly bored of that animation when it repeats for the 10,000th time to just kill one mini-boss style enemy. The combat system seems like it could be interesting and multi-faceted, but…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Really disappointed. Been waiting for this one for a long time and they finally delivered a game that is not what was promised. TWO characters?!? What in the hell happened? And you can't even choose which one you want to be from the start. Combat is bland, which is unforgivable in an aRPG. That's all there is to do in the game! I am so horribly disappointed by this game. What happened to your vision, devs? What in the hell happened?
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →undungeon is a strange game. it does all the difficult things right- pixel art, sound design, and theme are all top notch for a game made by such a small dev team. but, it does so many basic things wrong. the gameplay is a chore, the U/I is a mess, and the skill tree is unnecessarily complicated. it absolutely grabbed me in the first 15 minutes, but after 3 hours i was ready for the game to be over. luckily, the game is short (3-8hrs depending on familiarity) and unfinished. it ends…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Nobody wants to sit through a huge loredump before given a real reason to give a damn about your game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I played this game for about and hour and gameplay felt too bland to continue. Story intrigued me, but not enough to continue playing. Gameplay (6/10) Combat is the first element of gameplay I care about and it's very bland. Basic - you only get basic attack, dodge and shield gadget with infinite uses.... oh and a stamina bar, because everything needs a stamina bar nowadays. For the record: you can land something like 3x4 hit combos and a few dodges on a full stamina bar and it recharges…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Let's discuss the elephant in the room first -- this release is but a fraction of the hype that it was when it started as a Kickstarter project. I wasn't able to back it then, and I'm sure a lot of people would say that I was lucky I didn't. I was super excited with the working concept of the game, and was looking forward to the different characters and worlds that players could possibly visit. However, for some reason this is what was delivered. It's not a complete loss -- the world…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →UPDATE: tried again after 2 years, with a clearer mind and a weaker pc due to work and travel, nope, still crap, all I said below still stands, not enjoyable in the slightest, turd with an amazing coat of paint and mysterious lore, but still a turd. ---- The style and lore are very cool indeed, the only problem is the core mechanics, MAN they make this game unenjoyable. It's like it made itself worse just to stand out in this genre. ----- the whole enemy power-up mechanic makes no sense in any…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game's about a third of what they promised in the kickstarter. Oh, and it's been abandoned. Art's decent enough. Gameplay's not.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ridiculous arbitrary save mechanism and unforeseeable points in the plot that tell you to "make sure you have the resources" you need for an upcoming fight but block the ability to travel for said resources make this game a non-recommend. It's like they did absolutely no play testing of this game. Trade system has made it so that the trader with specific necessary resources for organ creation cannot be traded with (his bag is "full" and the only way to make room is to buy a large number of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game is finished in the sense that there is a programmed end with somewhat satisfactory narrative conclusion. But it's obvious that a lot of content, player characters, quests, was cut from the game. Now I searched the discussion area and I found talk about the publisher pushing out the person responsible for the game. I won't side with anyone, there's clear evidence that the game had disturbed development. Suggest buying during a sale.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Really tried to like this game. I remember being super hyped when this got announced. And yes, the setting, story are really nice and interesting. You can tell the devs really put their hearts into this, altho they had to cut so much content in the end. BUT even tho at some point it kinda took off and started being fun for me, the final straw was a game breaking glitch at the very end, just before finishing the game. I had run into several bugs and glitches at this point but this just takes the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Beautiful World and some amazing concepts, but by god these guys could write a book on how to make gameplay and combat unsatisfying and unfun: 1) when you die it wipes your progress back to your last save, rather than just respawning you with some penalty. This wouldnt be so bad if you could just save from the menu, but you have to go to specific map locations and interact with certain objects. 2) Enemies get stronger as they damage you and you get weaker as you get damaged, this is just…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Artwork, world-building, and music are very well done. Overall this game just feels like a collection of unfinished ideas. You can envision the game as it was intended, but it needed a lot more time in the oven. My experience with this game is mostly negative. -Poorly written dialogue full of punctuation mistakes, mismatched tense, and an overall lack of creative writing skill. -Combat is an choppy clunky mess of systems that don't fit together cohesively. -Tutorials are a bad…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hello friends, Today i will review the game Undungeon. This was a kickstarter game that failed up to keep all of it's promises. That does not mean the game is bad, but it is not where the players who supported the kickstarter wanted the game to be. As it is now, the game is fully playable, but lacks some of the promised kickstarter goals. Due to this, several people on the forums on steam have complained about this. Trying to be biased, i played this game without worrying about these issues. I…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Dang! There should be a warning on Undungeon. This game isn't finished 😕 After doing research and reading about what happened, you can absolutely feel the problems while playing. Like a bad aura. The game is rough but the combat is all backwards. Making the game more difficult when you get hit by an enemy is nuts! Also, the game throws a lot of stuff at you right away with tons of new mechanics and a mountain of story. Very interesting game and story though. I really wish it was more…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →+Nice pixel art and soundtrack. - The rest of the game is a mess and poorly designed. I strongly reccomend to check out some small (~10min) gameplay video before buying this game. It will waste A LOT of your time and breaks immersion every few minutes. [Controlls/UI] are not intuitive and using the menu / items will feel like wrestling with the UI Everything feels clunky. The fights are not fluid - caused by the cooldowns + freezed animation between attacks Using healing items is…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I don't really know what that game is supposed to be. Gameplay reminds me of Transistor and Bastion - you fight groups of mobs in a confined space in a sort of isometric viewpoint. There are many elements - weapons, armor, organs, grenades and knives - all of that can be equipped, traded and crafted. But it felt like they barely impact the gameplay. Weapons, in essence, only changed the amount of clicks you do - two or three. Different effects on knives and nades didn't feel like they are…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I feel like this game has drastically changed from everything they have shown online previous to the actual release. They removed characters, changed mechanics, and overall lessened the value and playability of the game. Not a great look from the devs and their kickstart.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I picked this game up on whim for the advertised sci-fi elements in an action rpg. It is a interesting story with good looking character designs and pretty pixel art. The rpg elements come from the questing and dialogue options where it seems you have the choice of either completing them or not and that influences the worlds karma. Your character can be modified by the different organs you put in, which mainly seem to be stat boosting and number manipulation to get higher damage, same with…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Repetitive and boring. I found myself playing just because I paid for it, and even then I couldn't convince myself to play the second half of the game. It's my understanding that the game was unfinished due to circumstances of the dev team. I can't recommend this game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Visually gorgeous, nice writing and unsatisfying gameplay. There are a combination of things at work as to why Undungeon failed to catch me. Firstly, I felt like it was the sort of game that would've benefited from zooming out the view about 50%, like, yeah, I know you want me to catch all the sweet detail on these sprites you've clearly worked a lot on, but when my honking gigantic character sprite takes up a tenth of the playscreen by himself, it's clearly a bit much. Add on top of that that…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Probably the worst shop system I've ever seen in a game. Freaking barter with shopkeepers who for some godforsaken reason have limited inventory slots. Additionally, crappy camera angles that allows enemies to hide in crevices or beneath walls make combat infuriatingly annoying.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The games visuals, writing and world building are top notch and sound design was overall good. It sadly is not enough to excuse a very shallow gameplay loop, very basic and uninspired quest design that doesn't do much of anything to shake it up at all and then repeats the whole loop a second time. I couldn't imagine playing the game at it's launch difficulty and how more unfun it would be. It should have advertised itself as more of a roguelike than as an rpg. It would at least feel more…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's not a finished game. It feels like they did a rush job to turn a profit and it shows. Evan with explanations its still unclear and the objective marker system sucks and trying to get unlocks is unclear at all times. There is no new game plus, WHY!!!??? And still after you can never go back to get unlocks or any explanation on how to get them.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is disappointing, it has a lot of grammatical errors which makes the story hard to follow. The action/game play is shallow, repetitive, and difficult to control. A lot of the characters writing is shallow. The upgrade/items/level up is confusing, and opaque. :/ I've never actively quit playing a game I've bought but i guess there is a first for everything.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I was originally very excited for this game because of it's action dungeon crawler elements and because of the idea of having the story revolve around multiverses but it was very poorly executed. The controls feels clumsy and heavy, the default difficulty itself is too hard and everything is just put together very badly in my opinion. There is a very good potential and the concept is good but it would have to be worked on more for me to at least give it another chance.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cool art style and soundtrack. Somewhat interesting setting. And everything else is just.. meh. Slow and repetitive combat, confusing economy, unintuitive UI, inconvenient controls and so on. Despite pixelated style of the game, retro stylised SFX feel really out of place. Nothing to say about the story, but even if it's great, every other aspect of the game easily ruins it for me.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's got the bones of a good game but just isn't. Between weapon functionality being just bad in many cases and missing entire explanations of basic abilities, it makes it very hard to start having any amount of fun rather than feeling like you are fighting against the developers. Add that to a complete lack of a save button and no way to trigger a save reliably and everything just feels like you're having to struggle to have fun. It's a showcase of form over function at every step. If you can…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Undungeon is a very badly made "roguelite" (aka contentless) 2D retro pixel failed kickstarter... well, they got their money but apparently didn't complete the game or fulfill all the goals. There's a goofy "you're a weird monster" theme that's basically just a poor skin over a poorer game. You bumble around in this 2D top down brawler hacking at enemies with your claws. There's some roleplay elements, upgrades and so on but they don't really make a huge difference in the gameplay, another…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Enemies that buff themselves by 100% after every attack? Dodge that doesn't give you inv. frames? Literally my first encounter after tutorial is 2 guys with rifles (I have only my hands, by the way) that take almost 0 damage and deal almost half of my health in 1 shot. I'm fine with difficult games, but there is a difference between "hard but fair" and "BS". Story (what I've seen for 20 minutes before refunding) doesn't seem interesting and didn't make me want to know more, you just get tons of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I hate to say it, since I love the theme and a lot of the features, but the gameplay itself feels like a chore and the enemies are just a slog. Even on easy, they're just piles of hit points that don't feel satisfying to fight.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I am not sure what compelled me to finish playing the game, or maybe I only played half of it, I'm not even sure and I don't want to find out. The story is incredibly promising and diverse, but trying to learn more about the story via playing the game is like eating steak through a straw. Gameplay was incredibly frustrating at first, then incredibly easy. Game is full of systems that seem very interesting on paper, but are mundane in practice. I wish the story was available as a book or…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →[url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/6142328/] With 1,100+ reviews, make sure to follow The Cpt Froggy Club Curator Page for plenty more! Undungeon: ~~~~~~~~~~ Your name is Void, and you have been created by Dharma, the ultimate being, to rectify the cataclysm known as the Great Shift, where several dimensions of the Earth merged and distorted the planet. As a Herald, you must find the seven interdimensional piers, activate them to unwind this mess and find out who or what is behind…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game has many mechanics and systems that seem like they would be fun to explore, but instead the game beats you senseless with them. The biggest frustration with the game is the combat. Enemies are constantly throwing range attacks at you, AND they never stop running away from you, AND they also have huge health bars, AND they can heal themselves, AND they take very little damage, AND enemies deal increased damage, AND your items can break, AND your heals can get stolen, AND you have…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →a con right out of Kickstarter, from Laughing Machines, never delivered, months of blackout from devs, years later an almost game with 10% of original project (i was one of the backers)... now on steam to con a little more... just dont buy it... should be called it Undeveloped
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Recommend if you get it on a STEEP sale. Doesn't look like all of the game is really 'finished' Some really cool concepts and the gameplay that is there is nice, but you can see that the game was supposed to be so much more. Really wish it had a more traditional save system also.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game seems to be broken cuz apparently after you double click on items they get lost from inventory.Not dropped down or from inv to bank,plain simple vanish.It seems that the bug is happening for years now.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very nice game! Pixal art is on high level, gameplay is awesome too. I really respect when somone put their effort on making video game. Animations are really impressive for this type of game, cut-scenes too. Story really holds your attention from the beginning. All in all, this game is on my recommendation list. 10/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Undungeon is an interesting new game, It has Has some RPG elements & elements of the older Fallout games in terms of choices & story telling, but is its own thing and feels good. I feel the game has a lot of depth, I played on normal and found it challenging, but not unfair. Its all about maximizing your abilities as a Herald (Which looks like a grim Reaper type of demon) Game has an excellent pixelated art style that vibes well, especially during the cutscenes. Good Music, Lots of items, a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I called it after the second world. I didn't realize why I was taking so much damage until I read the reviews for the game. Undungeon has a mark system, where the player gets marked upon taking a hit. This is executed terribly, because when you take status effects after the fact, the battle has already been decided at that point. The game doesn't have an autosave feature, and you have to complete a story-based event to progress (finding cores I think). Some of the healing items have to be…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bit of a slow pace, but an amazing in depth battle system, with a thoughtful bartering system for trade. Over thinkers rejoice you never need to worry about throwing garbage away anymore, now its currency.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a good game, just a shame lots of content has been cut down along development and that the game is now dead as of it's updates since three years now. Give it a go nonetheless, it's good fun.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The enemies start to get damage spongy fairly quickly. You rarely feel like you're getting stronger and combat just starts to take longer and longer as it gets more repetitive.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Little action and way too much reading walls of text that feels like some third-rate fantasy fiction.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I found out about this game for the first time six months ago! A very stylish game, in the spirit of the 2000s! A game with very interesting mechanics and a charismatic hero! Old school guys will not remain indifferent!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I kickstarted this game I believe in 2017 for $40 expecting it to come out around January 2018 and oh boy we're a long ways away from that, anyways I waited and I waited and it got to the point that I thought I got my money stolen or this game was in development hell and its probably the latter. The people behind this game didn't give any meaningful updates and go for months without mentioning anything up until they actually announced a release date for this game. Anyways enough complaints…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i found this game where the devs promoted their pixel art, and didn't know anything about the kickstarter campaign back then, so i thought: wow, a dungeon crawler rpg with cool artstyle! and got it the day it came out. what i got was definitely not what i expected and in its current state i am afraid to say i cannot bring myself to tough it through and finish it. pros: - great artstyle - your first playable character looks very cool - an attempt at worldbuilding (will go over this in a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A 2D Isometric stabby slashy game with a bit of a difficult initial curve with regards to the organ damage mechanic, but eventually it all clicks and the great art design and somewhat interesting world come together. It's not for everyone, and it definitely has its frustrating moments, but it's worth a go. Whilst I'm disappointed we didn't get everything promised in the Kickstarter, hopefully we'll see some of that as addons or something in the future.
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