New Update

The new update 4.2.3, affectionately known as the Healing Update, has included a Mango nerf that breaks the Flash/Heavy Cheese exploit.

Here's a link to the Steam announcement and release notes:

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2026820/view/519714948911204335

Leaderboard Reset

In response, we have reintroduced the version subcategory to the leaderboard. This lumps all the previous major content updates into one option "Pre-4.2.3" which includes the Potion Update and all that came before. The new category 4.2.3+ starts with this Healing Update and will continue until the speedrun meta is substantially altered again.

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Where are the Old Versions?

Hello! You may have noticed some changes to the Die in the Dungeon Speedrun.com Leaderboards.

In order to help better organize various game versions and categories, subcategories, and annotations, we've separated the older versions from the general Any%, Death% etc. categories and into their own Misc. Category Types. Just click the dropdown on the right side of the category selection to find them again.

I think this helps to organize and clear up the leaderboards in a way that makes more sense.

All of the speedruns have been migrated to their new homes, which was a lot of touching and editing. Great care was taken, but if you are worried about any of your runs being orphaned or metadata being incorrect, please reach out via DM or Discord.

What are all these old versions?

NextFest Demo

The NextFest Demo was a free demo released on Steam from June - November 2024. It is no longer available. There are three subcategories for the leaderboard Any%, Score%, Death%

Origins

Die in the Dungeon: Origins was a free Prologue/Demo released on Steam December 2023. It is no longer available to download on steam, but is still free to play on itch.io: https://atico.itch.io/die-in-the-dungeon-origins

There are three available categories of speedrun: Any%, Death%, Floor 50

CLASSIC

Also called Die in the Dungeon: Prologue, Die in the Dungeon: CLASSIC is an updated version of the original game-jam project that was released on Steam and on Itch in January 2023. The game is no longer available to download on Steam, but is still available on itch.io: https://alarts.itch.io/die-in-the-dungeon

There are 4 categories available: Any%, Score%, Death%, and Floor 50

1.0.0-1.4.0

This is the older builds of Die in the Dungeon, originally submitted for the January 2021 Brackeys Game Jam.

Older versions don't have an endscreen, time is calculated by external programs. Timer should start at the same time it does in newer versions.

What's Next?

Stay tuned! We have so many runners and runs on the leaderboard! There are quite a few people pioneering first WRs in various subcategories and annotations. I think we'll need to look into breaking the main categories up very soon. Thankfully, the organization just completed with the older game versions will make this much easier.

This means there will be that many more (official) first places!

New Milestones!

D1 Speedruns - Arson_Lupin kicked off the D1 Leaderboard, and then SmolWheat took it a step further with some impressive Lisver times!

D2 Speedruns - caden started off the D2 Leaderboard.

Lisver Any% - itschives has broken the Sub-7 mark!

Cinder Any% - itschives has broken the Sub-7 mark here too with an amazing run! itschives actually holds first place in all three frogs D0 Any%

Seven has also made a new record moving to the top of the Death% chart (the other end) with a Sub-6 run, Dying to the Mosquito Duke

https://discord.com/channels/829107672912494613/1346669675693735966/1366077012690599997

New Halls of Fame

Discord hates my long posts, so I had to break up the Any% Hall. Or I may move them to a forum post here...

D1+ Any%

https://discord.com/channels/829107672912494613/1346669675693735966/1364019946501181440

Death%

This one is WIP

https://discord.com/channels/829107672912494613/1346669675693735966/1366079241380167780

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The Halls of Fame

I think it is important to celebrate the various firsts and milestones of the community. There's a good amount of that by default here on the leaderboard, but to help organize things, I've started some discord posts to act as the Halls of Fame. There's one for Any% and one for Score% - let me know if you think any other grouping makes more sense.

Any% Hall of Fame

This record covers the firsts for each Frog/Difficulty as they pass various notable time milestones. https://discord.com/channels/829107672912494613/1346669675693735966/1361679043489042463

Score% Hall of Fame

Getting 10000 score is not always easy. This post covers the milestones of runners in the Score% Category https://discord.com/channels/829107672912494613/1346669675693735966/1364019946501181440

Crazy Milestone

Speaking of crazy milestones - itschives has officially crossed the Sub-6 mark! It's insane that a full run which can take hours for a new player can be beaten in just a handful of minutes!

Upcoming Changes...

For the size of game that we are, I'm super impressed with the amount of active runners we have. In fact, the main Any% leaderboard is getting kind of full. I'd consider splitting up the run categories, maybe by Frog or Difficulty - let me know your thoughts.

I've also seen some interest in unique speedruns for challenges or so. If we can get a few runners interested in a new category and posting runs, I'd consider making some new Misc sections too.

Discord Community

The community is active on the official Die in the Dungeon discord! https://discord.gg/kX2GcpKKkB

Happy Running!

New Update + New Relics

Here's a link below to the full announcement, but there were many new relics and curses added to the game (including a relic shoutout to Your's Truly). There's also quite a few modifications which, although slight may change the balance/meta for speedrunning.

Release Notes on Steam: https://steamcommunity.com/app/2026820/eventcomments/603026099853653570/

Milestone Reached: Sub 6.5 minutes!

Congrats to itschives for pushing the Any% category to a new milestone! Everyone take a moment to congratulate itschives for the impressive run, and then do a speedrun yourself to try to beat that time! >:)

New Meta Emerges for Lisver

Shoutout to Akiaji who has been pushing the Lisver speedruns into new territory, being the first to cross the sub-10 line with The Silver Lightning! Check out his runs, or hit up el loco on the discord #Speedruns to learn more.

New Annotation: Difficulty

I've added an optional annotation for difficulty (currently 7 different levels!) - a runner can have multiple times visible on the leaderboard as it will show the fastest time submitted per difficulty level. This annotation can also be filtered on - I'm interested in seeing what the fastest D6 run will be!

Spoiler warning I guess :)

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Happy Running!

Early Access Release Feb 21

In case you missed it, here is the link to the store page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2026820/Die_in_the_Dungeon/

This version is the subcategory "EARLY ACCESS". We can consider adding build number as a filtering variable, but I don't think we will add another subcategory unless there are major changes before early access ends. Think of this leaderboard as growing and changing alongside the game.

There are already 4 runners doing the standard any%, score%, and death% categories, and I'm excited to see more!

Filter by Frog/Character

We are only a little beyond 1 week from launch, but the meta is beginning to assert itself hard (which I respect).

I've added variables to filter based on character, so they are all shown in the same leaderboard, but can be filtered (in case you are going for the record time on a specific character). Open to changing as we need in the future

Spoiler warning I guess :)

Discord Community

The community is active on the official Die in the Dungeon discord! https://discord.gg/kX2GcpKKkB

Happy Running!