Usurper Reborn
Binary Knight Labs · 2026 · Tactical RPG, RPG, Text-Based, Hack and Slash, Dungeon Crawler
PC
Positive95% · 20
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About Usurper Reborn
Rise from nothing. Become everything. Or lose yourself trying.Usurper Reborn is a text-based dungeon crawler you can play alone or in a shared persistent online world. You wake with no memory in a medieval realm of monsters, magic, and scheming NPCs. From there it's up to you. Descend a hundred floors. Build alliances. Start a family. Uncover what really happened to the old gods, or take their place.A faithful remake of the cult classic 1993 BBS door game by Jakob Dangarden, expanded with deep narrative systems, a fully simulated town of autonomous NPCs, and a persistent online world. Play in the bundled desktop terminal, your web browser, any MUD client, or dial in from a BBS the way you used to.What is this game?A turn-based RPG that runs entirely in text. No graphics, just choices and your imagination. Play it solo as a single-player campaign, or join the shared online server where dozens of NPCs and other players already live. If you grew up on classic roguelikes, MUDs, or BBS doors, you'll recognize the shape of it immediately.A Hundred Floors Down
- Eight visually and thematically distinct dungeon zones, scaling from rats and bandits to the gods that made the world
- Combat that actually wants you to think: backstab, power attack, taunt, disarm, hide, coat your blade with poison, rage out, run away
- Hundreds of spells across eight casting traditions, from sun-priest exorcisms to abyssal voidstrikes
- Class abilities for every build, including healing auras, blade chains, totem-summoning, and reality-bending prestige techniques
- Secret rooms, lore fragments, riddle gates, lever puzzles, and bosses who remember you between encounters
- Bring up to four companions or hired NPCs into the dungeon, with a fifth slot for tamed combat beasts
- Three factions to join. The Crown, the Shadows, and the Faith each have their own perks, rivalries, and grimy secrets
- Become King. Run the treasury, hire guards, navigate court intrigue, and try not to get knifed in your sleep
- Upgrade your home with better beds, herb gardens, a study, and servants who collect a daily stipend
- World events that affect everyone: plagues drive NPCs indoors, festivals draw them out, wars rally them to your side or against it
- Found a guild, pool resources, and reap a passive XP bonus while you're at it
- Make a daily pilgrimage to attune yourself to a shrine. Each god grants a different passive: regeneration, melee force, crit and backstab bonuses, holy proc damage, NPC charisma. Pick your patron carefully, since their alignment cost will follow you
- Tame wild beasts. Eight unique creatures distributed across the regions, from forest hawks and storm eagles to bog wisps and cave spiders. Each one offers a different passive bonus
- Build a roster of up to eight tamed beasts and rotate one into your active slot. Combat-role pets fight beside you in the dungeon as a full fifth party member, and they can't permadie
- Form groups with other players and run dungeons cooperatively, with everyone controlling their own character in turn-based combat
- World Bosses spawn periodically and need multiple players to defeat. Damage contribution determines your share of the loot
- PvP Arena. Knight tournaments. Gauntlet champions. Castle sieges
- Real-time chat with private messages, shouts, guild channels, and a Discord bridge so the conversation keeps going when you log off
- Spectator mode if you want to watch someone else play
- A living economy where both players and NPCs trade, employ each other, and occasionally rob each other blind
- Ten races and seventeen classes (twelve base, five prestige unlocked through endings)
- Stats that mean something. Charisma actually affects prices. Constitution actually resists poison. Wisdom finds secrets nobody else can see
- A full economy: shops, banking, gambling, thievery, bounty contracts, weapon reforging, enchantment crafting
- Dozens of achievements, character titles you can pick from after earning them, and ANSI art portraits during character creation
- Full single-player campaign that runs entirely offline
- Four difficulty modes from Easy to Nightmare (permadeath, no resurrection, no second chances)
- Adjustable combat speed for fast or slow readers
- Screen reader friendly. I'm constantly working to make accessibility better, and I take feedback seriously
- Autosave and manual save slots
- Connect to the online world whenever you're ready, with the same character you've been playing offline
- Also playable from your web browser, over SSH, through any MUD client (Mudlet, TinTin++, MUSHclient), or as a classic BBS door
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
The dev asked for reviews on the Discord, so I guess I'll write a review. tl;dr - Don't pay for this. Just play the various free versions if you're really interested. Development is a mess. I regret giving money to this dev. This project is never going to be finished to any degree of quality. The dev openly talks about how he has no roadmap and how he'll remove features instead of fixing them if they're too hard. I've seen him do it. Just yanked out entire systems because he couldn't be bothered to fix them. He's talked about his plan being to do just enough work so that he can let the community take over and do the rest for him. He adds features with no real thought or consideration to the rest of the game. Once, he removed the ability to permakill NPCs (despite that being one of the features advertised) in the same patch that he added a 50% chance of permadeath and save wipe for attempting to murder NPCs. He's added a lot of other permadeath systems that the game really doesn't seem designed for. I love roguelike games, but this just isn't one and shouldn't have those systems. The game doesn't advertise itself as having PC permadeath. He also doesn't actually know how his ow…11 found this helpful
Brilliant!. A game that is more relevant today then any AAA title with flash graphics. It has one thing all those game lack (Imagination). Endless hours of fun and highly recommended.2 found this helpful
Having played these "Doors" back in the 80's and 90's, it is a joy to revisit this game. I am interested to see if there are more old text games available. Lots of fun and nostalgia.1 found this helpful
--> This game runs on Manjaro Linux without proton or wine <-- Now this is EXACTLY the way games used to be. No graphics needed to accomplish what it was set out to do. Just like so many text based adventure games from the early 80's and into the 90's, these types of games are PURE GOLD. It's not the imagery that mattered but the content. For those that have never even dabbled into the world of text adventures/text RPG games, you have no idea what you're missing. Where a game lacks images or graphics is made up with game play. Usurper Reborn is no exception. There is so much I can say about this game but won't reveal a thing. From character creation to items in your inventory, to travel, to monster battles, this game has EVERYTHING going for it. I am so THANKFUL I was raised playing games like this. I remember the days of games by Infocom, Datamost, Datasoft, Sirius Software, Broderbund, Sir-Tech, Activision (the old and GOLD company, NOT the new one) and so many others. The games that require text are the ones that always drew me in and always will. I remember when games started going to line drawing graphics with the text at the bottom, keeping the text adventure still alive t…
game is good
this is pretty neat...was positive but i came back after a break and someone killed me in my sleep stole half my gold and my best armor. The game is pretty good solo no worries about logging off for the day in single player mode
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