Brough Dungeon Unblocked

Brough Dungeon shrinks the dungeon crawl down to a 9x9 board and a handful of hit points. Nothing moves until you do, and then everything moves at once, so a single careless step can leave you boxed in by three monsters. It is the finished project from Jeremiah Reid’s free tutorial on making a tiny roguelike in plain JavaScript, complete with his own sprites and sound. You can play it unblocked in a desktop browser, and a run fits into a coffee break.

What Happens on Each Floor

You arrive with three hearts and one random spell. The hearts sit as red dots below your hero, and spells are listed on the right side of the screen. Moving into a monster attacks it: one point of damage plus a stun that costs it a turn.

Three gems lie on every floor. Each one is worth a point, and every third gem you hold unlocks a new spell slot with a random spell inside. Spells vanish after a single cast, and casting counts as your move.

The longer you stay, the worse it gets. Fresh monsters fade in as a swirl, pause for two turns, then join in, and the gap between arrivals shrinks over time. Grabbing a gem also calls in a newcomer. Reach the exit tile and you descend, regaining a heart on the way. Survive the sixth floor and the run is won.

Brough Dungeon controls

To do this	Keyboard
Step, or hit a monster beside you	W A S D
Use the spell in that slot	Number keys 1 to 9
Begin a run, or return to the title after a death	Any key

Reading the Monsters

Half the skill is knowing how each creature moves. One type takes a double step whenever it did not attack on its turn. Another only acts every second turn, which makes it easy to outpace. A third eats through walls and heals as it does, and the last one stumbles around at random.

A few habits that keep you alive:

• Stand still and let an enemy walk up to you when you can. Whoever lands the first blow stuns the other.
• Fight in corridors, where only one monster can reach you at a time.
• Save the quake spell for crowded corners. Its damage grows with every wall next to each target.
• Dash works best down a long straight line. You slide until you hit something, then damage and stun everything around you.
• Mulligan rebuilds the current floor and drops you to one heart, but your other spells survive. Use it only when a layout is hopeless.

Once the gems on a floor are collected, head for the exit. Hanging around just feeds the spawn timer.

Streaks and the Score Table

The title screen keeps a table of your runs. Win a run and your next game continues the same streak, with a running total that adds each run’s score. One death ends the streak, which gives later floors real tension. With fifteen spells and five monster types, no two runs play out the same way. If you want a calmer puzzle after a few tense deaths, try Warden’s Duty, or look through our strategy games for more turn-based thinking.