Dungeon Crawler
Hollow Vault — 9.1/10
A merciless permadeath crawler that rewards mapping every tile. Our 40-hour verdict.
Fitzroy · Melbourne · Est. 2016
Charting every dungeon worth raiding, one lantern-lit map at a time.
We are a Melbourne gaming blog obsessed with dungeon crawlers, indie RPGs and tabletop raid nights — plotting builds, loot tables and lore so you never wander in blind.
What we publish
Field guides for the perpetually lost
Dungeon Cartography Deep Dives
Room-by-room annotated maps for the crawlers you're stuck on — secret doors, patrol paths and loot spawns. New long-read every Tuesday, free to read, AUD 6/month for the printable vellum map packs.
Build & Loadout Workshops
Theorycrafted class builds with stat breakdowns, gear priorities and respec paths for hard-mode runs. Includes a monthly live build clinic streamed from our Fitzroy studio, 7–9pm AEST.
Tabletop Raid Chronicles
Session recaps, homebrew dungeon kits and encounter balancing for your Friday-night table on Brunswick Street. Printable one-page dungeons from AUD 4, or the full campaign vault for AUD 45/year.
Recent reviews
The expedition log
Indie RPG
Emberwake — 8.4/10
A hand-painted turn-based RPG with the year's best romance writing. Full review inside.
Tabletop
The Salt Crypts Kit
A printable three-session dungeon for 4–5 players, balanced for levels 3 to 5.
Dungeon Crawler
Gravemind — Boss Atlas
Every phase, tell and safe-spot for the final tri-lich fight, mapped and timed.
By the numbers
Ten years mapping the dark
1,240+
Dungeons mapped
86k
Monthly readers
512
Reviews published
9,300
Raid-night members
From the guild
Raiders who read first
"Their Hollow Vault map got my party through floor 12 without a single wipe. Genuinely the only guide site I trust."
"I ran the Salt Crypts kit cold for my table and it landed perfectly. Three sessions of pure chaos, zero prep."
"The monthly build clinic saved my hard-mode Emberwake run. These folks actually play the games they cover."
Before you descend
Questions from the tavern
Send a raven
Pitch, question or tip-off
Got a hidden gem we should cover, or a dungeon we've mapped wrong? Drop us a line — we read every message from the Fitzroy studio.
- ✆+61 3 9415 7906
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- ⌖49 Johnson Street, Fitzroy VIC 3065
- ◷Mon–Fri 10am–6pm AEST · Raid nights Thu 7pm
49 Johnson Street
Fitzroy VIC 3065 · Melbourne
Two doors up from the Brunswick Street bookshop