A dark dungeon descending through stone arches toward teal mist and a glowing treasure chest

Our first game

Ruinsend

A first-person turn-based extraction dungeon crawler. Descend. Loot. Survive. Rebuild your camp.

GenreExtraction crawler
PerspectiveFirst-person
CombatTurn-based
StatusIn development
01 Into the Underhold

Come back richer.
Or don’t come back.

Ruinsend combines deliberate turn-based combat with the tension of an extraction run. Every step consumes dungeon time. Every enemy response matters. The deeper you go, the more you stand to gain—and lose.

Beyond the dungeon, a ruined camp waits to be rebuilt. Recover rare materials, defeat the Wardens below and bring its blacksmith, alchemist, cleric, mage and enchanter home.

01

Descend

Enter a shifting dungeon where every room is an encounter and every floor pulls you further from safety.

02

Risk it

Read the battlefield, spend your turns carefully and decide when one more room is worth the danger.

03

Extract

Escape alive with your haul. Death ends the run and takes everything you carried into the dark.

04

Rebuild

Return to camp, restore its specialists and turn the spoils of one expedition into strength for the next.

02 The core loop

Every expedition changes what comes next.

Prepare in camp. Descend into a freshly assembled dungeon. Extract with resources, equipment and relics—or lose the run to the dark. Progress is earned one successful return at a time.

  • Procedurally assembled dungeon expeditions
  • Turn-based action with free first-person exploration
  • Equipment, affixes, hidden curses and status interactions
  • Permanent camp restoration driven by dungeon victories

Small studio. Deep dungeons.

Building worlds worth getting lost in.

Dungeon Builder Studios is an independent game developer based in Perth, Western Australia. We create focused, systems-driven games built around discovery, danger and the stories players make for themselves.

03 Development

The dungeon is still growing.

Ruinsend is actively in development. Follow Dungeon Builder Studios for progress, behind-the-scenes systems work and future playtest news.

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