Archer: Dungeon Hero

Mission briefing

Begin a dangerous journey through lands overrun by monsters. Clear enemy-filled rooms, survive challenging waves, and face powerful bosses. Earn experience during battle and choose new abilities that transform the way you fight. Fire additional arrows, burn, freeze, or poison your enemies, summon helpful companions, and strengthen your defenses. Every run offers a different combination of upgrades and requires a new strategy. Collect equipment, open treasure chests, improve your hero’s stats, and return stronger after every adventure. Can you create the perfect ability build and overcome every challenge?

Field manual

Control your hero using the virtual joystick or keyboard controls. Keep your distance from enemies, dodge incoming projectiles, and attack whenever you find a safe opportunity. Defeat monsters, collect experience, and choose new abilities when you level up. Clear every room, open treasure chests, and defeat powerful bosses. Between runs, equip better items and improve your hero’s permanent stats. Combine additional arrows, elemental effects, critical damage, defensive bonuses, and healing abilities to create a powerful build.

Launch orders: press Launch mission above and the game loads on this page itself — nothing downloads and no form stands between you and the first move. It is designed for a portrait (upright) screen and takes its orders from mouse, keyboard or touch, depending on the mission. It is built tall, for an upright screen — a phone held normally frames it best, though any window will run it. If it offers a fullscreen control, use it — a fight this size deserves the whole screen.

Field notes for action operations

• First run is reconnaissance. Spend it learning where the danger actually spawns from instead of chasing a score — most action games announce their patterns honestly in the opening minute, then repeat them with worse manners.
• Movement is a defensive stat. A moving target at half health outlives a stationary one at full health in nearly every game on this board, so keep relocating between shots, strikes and reloads.
• Learn the exit before the entrance closes. In arena and chase games alike, the players who survive longest are the ones who noticed the second doorway while everyone else was watching the first.

Archer: Dungeon Hero — questions from the ranks

What does it cost to play Archer: Dungeon Hero?

Nothing at all. The mission is free from the first order to the last — no sign-up, no download, no paid tier guarding the good levels. The advertising around this page is what keeps the board free.

What sort of mission is Archer: Dungeon Hero?

Archer: Dungeon Hero is filed in our Action theatre. Like every operation on this board, it is a browser game — read the briefing above for the publisher's own account of what you are deploying into.

Can I run Archer: Dungeon Hero on a phone or tablet?

Yes. It plays in the browser on phones and tablets exactly as it does on a computer. It is built tall, for an upright screen — a phone held normally frames it best, though any window will run it.

Do I have to install anything before playing?

No installation of any kind. Archer: Dungeon Hero is an HTML5 game: press the launch button and it loads on this page, and closing the tab leaves nothing behind.

After-action

Mission complete, or still pinned down? The full Action theatre is one click away — The main hall of the board: 469 operations where something is always moving, exploding, escaping or being chased. If a game has a pulse and a problem, it is probably filed here.