Kobold Delvers

Kobold Delvers

AitramKG · May 21, 2026 · Simulation, Puzzle, Casual, 2D, Strategy

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About Kobold Delvers

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Kobold Delvers is a 2D puzzle game where you guide small kobolds through underground caves by strategically placing and combining simulated materials like sand, water, fire, and ice to create safe paths. Plan your approach, experiment with how materials interact with each other, and adapt your strategy when your initial solution fails.

Guide small kobolds through dangerous caves in a 2D puzzle game built around simulated materials. Dig, burn, freeze, melt and combine sand, water, lava, wood, vines, dynamite and more to create safe paths and solve each level.

Kobold Delvers — game info

Platforms
Windows
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

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Players appreciate this puzzle game's charming concept and polished presentation, particularly praising its exploration-based mechanics where figuring things out yourself is part of the fun. Common complaints center on overly restrictive resource budgets that force tedious pixel-by-pixel building, kobolds dying too quickly at level starts, and a relatively short content length with level design that doesn't fully exploit the available mechanics.

Recommended Jun 2, 2026
Great concept, but needs a little more time in the oven. Most levels start with the kobolds dying almost immediately, forcing me to pause at the start of every level. The budget is a little too strict, forcing me to manually place single dots to build paths. There are lots of different materials but the level design doesn't take full advantage of the mechanics. I wish there were more levels and levels that didn't have such trivial yet mechanically frustrating solutions.
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Recommended Sep 22, 2026
Absolutely wonderful game, so worth the time to 100% it.
Recommended Aug 28, 2026
A very fun little lemmings-like. nothing mind blowing, but it has some fun little interactions and physics. The kobolds sometimes get stuck inside things or in falling animations, but overall everything works as it should. Very nice for a student project, and something I would gladly pay a few bucks for with a few tweaks and/or more levels and/or the ability to easily import community levels (and a community actively making them)
Not recommended Aug 4, 2026
I would recommend this if it weren't for the fact that several levels are just completely impossible since the start and end locations spawn outside of the bounds of the level.
Recommended Aug 3, 2026
Kobold Delvers is a small dungeon-crawling adventure game that focuses on exploration, combat, and collecting loot. You take control of kobold characters as they venture into dangerous areas, fight enemies, discover treasures, and try to survive deeper runs. It is a simple concept, but it has the charm of classic dungeon games. The biggest strength of Kobold Delvers is its atmosphere and theme. Using kobolds as the main characters gives the game a different feel from the usual fantasy adventures where you play as heroes, knights, or powerful warriors. The idea of small creatures exploring dangerous dungeons gives it a fun underdog feeling. The gameplay is easy to understand. You explore areas, battle enemies, collect items, and improve your characters. The progression system gives you a reason to keep playing, as finding better equipment and becoming stronger makes later challenges more manageable. The dungeon-crawling elements are enjoyable, especially for players who like slower games focused on exploration and preparation. Choosing when to fight, when to explore further, and how to manage your resources adds some strategy to the experience. However, the game is held back by …
Not recommended Jul 12, 2026
why the actual ♥♥♥♥ is this so unoptimized just the main menu has the mouse chugging bro what the actual hell do you have running in the background a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ bitcoin miner? good game insanely horrible optimization there are games significantly bigger and deeper with better optimization even other particle sandbox games have better optimization i get this is free and all but JESUS CHRIST. its playable yeah and with a good PC you wont even be able to tell theres issues but this ♥♥♥♥ is actually criminally unoptimized and needs way more time in the oven in that Disrespect. if this game didnt run like Hellen Keller on Lean (use code GROUP to get 10% off LEAN at GamerSupps) it would be a solid 8/10 game but in the little bit i played its just ♥♥♥♥♥♥ bro.

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