Dungeon Scoundrel is a tactical card-based dungeon crawler for iOS, featuring a fixed 55-card deck and one-handed portrait gameplay.
Product velocity
Maintenance
Daily rank 🇺🇸
#71
Games · paid
Sentiment
4.1
17 reviews
Nemesis
Card Crawl
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
Users hire Dungeon Scoundrel for quick, distraction-free strategy sessions that reward planning over luck. The offline-first contract makes it a reliable choice for travel or low-signal environments.
For Strategy gamers and roguelike enthusiasts who prefer offline, one-handed, and quick-session gameplay.
Key features
Static dungeon composition ensures fair, learnable gameplay.
Full screen-reader support enables play for vision-impaired users.
Local processing removes connectivity dependencies.
How much does it cost?
The app uses a flat entry fee with no ads or in-app purchases, positioning it as a premium, distraction-free experience.
Velocity
Maintenance developmentplatform expansionUX improvementsperformanceShow more...
With only 10 releases over the observed window and a current gap of 100 days since the last update, the development cadence has slowed to a maintenance pace. The most recent activity prioritized technical infrastructure, including cross-platform data syncing and hardware button support, rather than new content. Development appears to have shifted away from the frequent feature additions seen in early 2026. The project is currently in a period of stagnation with no recent evidence of live operations or new content cycles.
Who built it?
MM&F Software
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What do users think recently?
Review voice lately leans excited. Users appreciate accessible design choices allow blind and visually impaired players to enjoy the core gameplay loop and fair monetization model with no ads or in-app purchases provides a clean and focused experience.
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
What users say, by theme
- Accessible design choices allow blind and visually impaired players to enjoy the core gameplay loop
- Fair monetization model with no ads or in-app purchases provides a clean and focused experience
- High replayability through diverse play styles and character classes keeps short sessions feeling fresh
- Technical instability causes the game to freeze during dungeon restarts, forcing a full application reset
13 of 13 recent reviews analyzed · moderate confidence · Excited overall
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Competitive landscape for Dungeon Scoundrel
How's the Games market?
Dungeon Scoundrel currently holds a #50 Paid rank in the US Games category. The lack of updates for 181 days creates a performance gap relative to the active update cadence of market leaders like Card Crawl.
Read the market outlookThe rivals identified
By Arnold Rauers
This title dominates the portrait-oriented card crawler niche with a massive, highly-engaged user base and consistent feature updates.
- Features a distinct inventory-management system that forces tactical trade-offs during every dungeon encounter
- Maintains a consistent release cadence with two updates in the last six months to sustain engagement
- Utilizes a highly polished, minimalist aesthetic that defines the visual standard for the genre
Unlock the head-to-head verdict: where this rival wins, and where it loses.
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Key takeaways for Dungeon Scoundrel
Where is it heading?
The portrait roguelike market is consolidating around titles with active live-ops and deep meta-games. Dungeon Scoundrel's maintenance-mode posture leaves it exposed to rivals that offer higher replayability, so the PM must pivot to stability and progression updates to retain the core base.
- Technical instability in the latest version forces full resets, which compounds churn pressure on the core base.
- The lack of content updates over the last 181 days leaves the app vulnerable to rivals with active live-ops.
The SWOT
- Fixed-deck design ensures fair, learnable gameplay
- VoiceOver support captures underserved accessibility segment
- Detailed performance statistics satisfy core player requests
- Hero class traits deepen strategic replayability
Next best moves
Ship stability patch for dungeon restarts because freezing is the #1 churn risk → stabilize daily active habit
+ 1 more prioritized moveThe counter-intuitive read
The app's fixed-deck design is a retention risk: while it ensures fairness…
Read the full takeFeature gaps
Procedural generation (available in Card Crawl but absent here)
Bottom line
Dungeon Scoundrel succeeds by prioritizing fair, accessible mechanics, but technical instability and a stagnant update cadence threaten its viability against established rivals, so the PM must prioritize stability fixes over new features.
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