Hello friends. This is a Let’s Play video of “The Fortress”. The Fortress is a dark fantasy dungeon crawler with turn-based combat, mixing strategy and risk. Choose a class, delve into cursed chambers, roll dice to fight brutal enemies, and grab loot. Face tough choices, survive epic bosses, and fight to escape… or fall to the shadows.
Somewhere on the dimly-lit shelf between Darkest Dungeon’s permadeath nihilism and Dicey Dungeons’ clean dice-based combat sits The Fortress, a budget-priced dark fantasy dungeon crawler from Roman indie outfit Baryonyx Games. Released in January 2026 with a Mixed-but-passionate reception, it puts you behind the eyes of a nameless prisoner of the Lich, dropped into a procedurally generated citadel and given exactly one mandate: survive, escape, or fall and let the next prisoner pick up where you left off. The hook is the combat system, turn-based, dice-driven, shifting completely based on the class and gear you have chosen out of nine starting builds, blending strategy and risk in the way every fan of For the King and Slice & Dice already knows is dangerously moreish. Sixty-plus items, seventy-plus enemies, gothic NPCs willing to help you or stab you depending on how the conversation goes, and a fifty-achievement spine that will absolutely punish completionists in the right way. At seven bucks with a free demo and a Steam Deck-friendly footprint, this is the kind of unpretentious indie the dungeon-crawler shelf was built to keep finding.
Developer: Baryonyx Games
Publisher: Baryonyx Games, Stratos Gaming
Genre: Adventure, RPG, Roguelike, Dungeon Crawler, Horror, Indie
Release Date: 23 Jan, 2026
Reviewed on: PC/Windows
Available on: PC/Windows
Link: Steam
Review copy was provided.
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