Now available: Eyes of Hellfire!

Published on 27th August 2025 by Colm | Comments Off

Welcome to the Club!

Eyes of Hellfire just launched today on Steam Early Access. Time to grab your friends and give it a go!

 

 

Friends play free with Friends pass

If you pick up a copy, up to 4 of your friends can play for free by installing the friends pass. Quite a deal!

 
Have a look at our launch trailer above.After more than 2 years of development we're very excited to be launching Eyes of Hellfire into Early Access today. The game has already been influenced by community feedback from our prior beta tests, and that collaboration will continue in our Early Access journey. Today we're launching with a pile of features and more to come including new scenarios, curses and characters.

Hope you get a chance to try it!

Thank you for your continued support.
Colm, and the rest of the Gambrinous team.

Some quotes from playtesters:

“Hearing my friend scream from down the hall was a delight.”

"You have made Irish history of the Hellfire club relevant again!"

“And now a round of applause for the proximity chat, better than most game I've played. It doesn't feel cheap, like a linear volume graph based on distance, we really felt in the game with this one. Hearing each other scream with a reverb was GOLD COMEDY. Congrats!”

“It feels very unique. And I am a person who regularly watches streamers play horror games, so I would eat this up, especially if it has some overarching plot I haven't seen”.

“The artstyle is amazing, the game's atmosphere is on point.”

“Just the fact it isn't your typical scary game, I still had a couple jump scares, but it's a new take on card games, it's like card meets horror. I also enjoy that type of card games, the health and vigour aspect”.

“I enjoy the artstyle, figuring out riddles together is great. I also love that the game allows this many players, usually games max out at 4”.

“I really liked when I got personally "spoken" to, telling me to not tell my friends about it. It made it feel more exciting and inclusive”.

“The atmosphere and staging itself was amazing. I liked the old school paranormal vibes along with the architecture of the game. The dark ambience definitely fit the gothic vibes that they were going for. The cutscenes were well done and I like the way the quest items fit into the storyline as well. Nothing felt out of place”.

“I love a good backstory and lore to each character and a game in general. This game seemed to have all of that, it was really fun to read through each character's bio and get a deeper understanding from the journal”.

“You guys nailed it with the atmosphere!! Right at the start of the game I got shivers. Everything is in the right place, the sounds, the music theme, the art style. Definitely a gothic game clearly characterized by mystery. The writing is in the right direction and the playable characters theme GREAT!”

“You can tell there's a lot of heart and soul put into the game”

“It was a game I have never seen, it's been a while since we got a unique and very good horror game and THIS IS IT.”

Cardpocalypse now on Steam plus DLC Out Of Time just released!

Published on 12th October 2020 by admin | Comments Off

Cardpocalypse is now available on Steam!

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We have also just launched a brilliant new DLC called 'Out Of Time'. Get stuck in a time loop in this standalone adventure with Jess and friends!

Check out the wonderful trailer:

This is available now on Steam & Epic for PC players, as well as on Switch, PS4 and Xbox.

Thanks for your support, and remember to hop onto our Discord server if you want to chat with us:
https://discord.gg/gambrinous

Announcing Cardpocalypse!

Published on 23rd February 2018 by admin | Comments Off

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We have been working away on our new game Cardpocalypse for the last few months and I'm super excited to share our announcement trailer with you! I'm sure anyone who enjoyed Guild of Dungeoneering will also be excited by our new game. It's all about collecting cards, making best friends, and saving the world…

Check out the wonderful trailer:

Kudos to Tommy Buckley who composed the track in the trailer, and to Jason Paige who sang it. (You may know Jason's voice from the Pokemon theme tune!)

And there's some more info on the game right over here:
http://cardpocalyp.se/

Looking forward to showing much more details of Cardpocalypse in future!

The List of Indie-Friendly Publishers, 2017 Edition

Published on 25th October 2017 by admin | Comments Off

I put together a list of indie-friendly publishers back in 2014 as I was pitching them on Guild of Dungeoneering.  I'm now once again shopping for a publisher for our second game so I've put together a new and updated list! I hope it helps anyone else looking.

My goal like last time is to find a publisher that can help promote & market our game (and front the money to do so), and on top of that this time I'm also looking for someone who will co-fund development. This is for a PC & console game, so mobile-only publishers have not been included. There's also a couple here that would be money-only rather than a regular publishing arrangement, like the Indie Fund and Jonathan Blow's offer.

Thanks to the everyone who helped me put this list together. If you have any suggestions to add to this list feel free to mail or tweet me!

Hiring for two positions: Game Designer and Writer

Published on 31st March 2017 by admin | Comments Off

** Note: applications for these positions have now closed. Thanks! **

Hi folks!

We are looking to hire two people to work on our next game: a Game Designer and a Writer.

This is a chance to join the award winning games studio Gambrinous as we embark on our second game making adventure.

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Guild of Dungeoneering – we want your feedback!

Published on 21st July 2016 by Colm | Comments Off

Here at Gambrinous we'd love to hear from you if you have any feedback about Guild of Dungeoneering!

Here's how to reach us:

Twitter: @gambrinous
Discord: Gambrinous server
Facebook: Gambrinous page
Email: dungeoneering@gambrinous.com
Steam: forums

A real fan? Join up here

Also, if you'd like to be the first to hear about what we come up with next I'd recommend joining our email newsletter. I only send very occasional emails for big announcements. You can join right here:


 

Guild of Dungeoneering coming to your phone and tablet!

Published on 20th June 2016 by admin | Comments Off

Here at Gambrinous we've been busy creating the mobile version of Guild of Dungeoneering for the last age. The good news is that it's almost ready!

The dev team glad not to be in the dungeon themselves!

The dev team, glad not to be in the dungeon themselves!

Mobile Edition

This is a pretty faithful port of the PC version of the game. As it's all turn based and using simple controls it's been quite straightforward to make work on a touch screen. The only fiddly bit has been keeping things legible on phones, which has meant a redesign of a few screens.

We've got it running now on tablets AND phones, both iOS and Android. We aren't quite ready to announce our launch date but will do so quite soon.

In the meantime, we're planning a closed beta test so if you want to help out please fill out your details over here.

What else is coming?

We haven't forgotten about Trophy Trial mode – that's just been put on the back burner temporarily while we finish up mobile edition. We'll get back to that once we launch on iOS and Android. We've also started work on a new expansion pack, similar in size to Pirate's Cove. More news on that soon!

As always, a big thank you to everyone who's supported our game and made all of this possible!

Thanks,
Colm Larkin

Coming soon: the new Trophy Trial game mode

Published on 22nd December 2015 by Colm | Comments Off

We're working on a new way to play Guild of Dungeoneering called Trophy Trial. It's a special highscore challenge mode, completely separate to the existing campaign, and it will be a free upgrade for everyone who owns the base game. Want to know more? Read on!

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Our first adventure pack, Guild of Dungeoneering: Pirate's Cove

Published on 1st October 2015 by Colm | Comments Off

Bonus: if you preordered the base game before launch on July 14th you should now have received this expansion for FREE. Check your Steam or GOG account! If you didn't then worry not you can pick it up on Steam or GOG now.

Guild of Dungeoneering: Pirate’s Cove is the first Adventure Pack we have created for Guild of Dungeoneering. What’s included?

  • A new region of the world to explore with 21 new quests to take on, all set in a new watery cave tileset
  • Rescue 3 new classes of dungeoneer to adventure with: the Drunken Sailor, the H20mancer and the Swashbuckler.
  • Battle 29 new monsters including Merfolk, Giant Crabs, Three-Headed Monkeys and of course more pirates than you shake a wooden leg at!
  • Find 27 new equippable items like the Eye Patch, the Barrel O’ Rum, or the Newspaper Hat.
  • Listen to a brand new background track & 5 new musical asides from the Bard

This represents about one third more content compared to the base game.

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Guild of Dungeoneering is OUT NOW

Published on 14th July 2015 by Colm | Comments Off

That's right! Get your dungeoneer on RIGHT NOW via Steam, GOG or Humble. There's also a press release here.

We also have a wonderful new trailer for you to enjoy. And yes, that song IS in the soundtrack included in the Deluxe Edition.

It's been an incredible two year journey putting the game together and I'm very proud of what we've built. I sincerely hope you all enjoy it!

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Thank you everyone for all your support!

What's Next?

We're going to keep working on Guild of Dungeoneering. We have plans for new features, some DLC, ports, lots of things. I'll be sharing a roadmap of our goals very soon.

A note on the Mac version

We ran into a problem at the very last minute with our Mac build so unfortunately we've had to delay it. We're working on it right now and will have it up as soon as we possibly can. More info here.

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