Merriam-Webster has added the phrase “dungeon crawler” to its dictionary. This week, the American publisher announced the addition of 200 new words and phrases to its official dictionary, including the phrase “dungeon crawler.” While the term originated as a phrase referring to a specific style of tabletop roleplaying game, Merriam-Webster defines the phrase as “a video game where the gameplay is primarily focused on defeating enemies while exploring a usually randomly generated labyrinthine or dungeon-like environment.” While dungeon crawler video games are certainly popular these days, the first dungeon crawl video game was an unofficial computer version of Dungeons & Dragons called pedit5.
The dungeon crawl remains a quintessential trope of modern tabletop roleplaying games. Some recent Dungeons & Dragons dungeon crawls published by Wizards of the Coast include Tomb of Annihilation and Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage, while Pathfinder has Abomination Vaults.
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