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2025

Trial by Fire

1–99 players · 25 min · 6+

Trial by Fire is a print & play roguelike dungeon-crawling game. Using only a pen and a quest sheet. You must explore a deadly dungeon, battling monsters, collecting treasures, and surviving until you reach the exit.

The game is played over a series of rounds. Each round, players use their action points to move their characters or attack an enemy into a grid representing a dungeon. When one or more players reach the exit stairs, the game is finished, players count their score, the highest score win the game.

—description from the designer

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