What is a Delverlike?
A delverlike is a game where you are usually spawned into an Elevator or something similar, and you usually have buttons or tasks to click or complete. Upon completion of all tasks, you return back to the Elevator and progress to the next level. Most commonly there are monsters that guard each level.
About
This list contains the Delverlike games the Japey community has found. If you would like to suggest a game to be added, please speak up in the Japey discord, or DM @bontboss or @doggiedadev. This page is dedicated to archiving the genre, by listing games the community has knowledge of.
List is up to date as of 02/09/2025
Addition Abstraction - Nyansu
A rogue-like experience about delving into the deep depths of a dangerous facility. Various threats will attempt to take you down on every floor. Private servers are free, and this game is best played with friends. Expect a sharp difficulty curve that you will need to overcome to dive deeper into the heart of the game! Each death is a learning experience.
Compound ZERO - Compound ZERO
You, alone or with other inmates on death row descend into the Compound on an elevator, echoes from down below send chills down your spine, the elevator stops and you brace yourself for the horrors to come. Gather materials to upgrade the elevator, avoid the entities hidden within the Compound's shadows, work as a team for the best approach and survive to witness the next floor.
Caustic Confines - EpicTheFluffyWolf
Caustic Confines is a roguelike that plays similarly to Minus Decendance/Elevation with a hint of Decaying Winter. You and your team must descend into a network of underground caverns that have been corrupted by a malevolent force by repairing generators, all while sneaking past the evil forces that patrol the place, gathering weapons and items to help you defend yourself if you're spotted. How low can you go?
Depth Spelunking - Foxxive Studios
Delve into the depths of a decaying underground facility, where twisted abominations lurk and the veil of reality itself seems to crack. The void will claim you again and again, dragging you back into its clutches, and ensnaring you in a ceaseless cycle of despair. Only through suffering and persevering can you push onward, ever deeper, toward the bottomless abyss—where truths may lie hidden, or where nothing at all awaits.
Dungeon Delvers - TheActualDOgMa
Dungeon Delvers is a game where you go down the forsaken depths of the dungeon trying to avoid deadly enemies and protecting yourself and your teammates. For each button you click, you gain Credits. use those credits to purchase tools to help you along the way that can give you more stamina, stun enemies, etc.
Flop World - BHM1
flop world is a game about pressing buttons and avoiding death. As you get deeper in the depths, the game gets harder, threats become stronger, but so do you. You can use items found on your journey to increase your survival odds and overcome the challenges. Each floor brings a new challenge, as you face a large assortment of entities with their own unique abilities and gimmicks.
Tethered Descent - Cacti-Course
Descend into the depths of a derelict facility infested with enigmatic monsters, unexplainable phenomena and vicious traps. You and your peers will succumb to terror and injury again and again, stuck in a cycle of endless descents. Overcome your failures and advance deeper and deeper, to the bottom of the bottomless, where answers may or may not lie.
