Deep Dish Dungeon Guides: Co-op & Survival Basics

Deep Dish Dungeon is a survival exploration game from Behold Studios, published by Raw Fury and released on Steam for Windows and macOS on 13 October 2026. The store description points in three directions at once: a hand-crafted dungeon, a metroidvania-style structure, and a crafting system layered over survival.

At a glance

What you actually do

Steam tags the game as Action and Strategy, but the short description is more useful: you explore a hand-crafted dungeon, survive, and craft. The metroidvania label matters because it implies a connected map rather than a string of separate levels, the sort of place where a tool you make later opens a route you walked past earlier. Crafting is the bridge between the two halves. It gives survival resources a purpose and gives exploration a reward beyond reaching the next room.

The hand-crafted part is worth taking seriously. Fixed level design rewards memory: if a locked path or an unreachable ledge stops you, note where it is and come back after your next unlock instead of grinding the same rooms.

Solo or co-op

The listing confirms a broad set of options: single-player, multiplayer, co-op, online co-op and cross-platform multiplayer. Cross-platform is the line that matters for groups split between Windows and macOS. It does not automatically mean console cross-play, because the store does not list console platforms at all, so plan around PC players unless a console version is announced.

Which mode you pick should depend on what you want from a session. Solo is better for learning routes and reading the map. Co-op is better for splitting tasks: one player maps the route while the other handles resources, then you swap. Trying to learn the dungeon and manage a group at the same time is the fastest way to lose an evening.

How to read the dungeon

Treat your first runs as reconnaissance. Test what you can interact with, remember where the dead ends are, and only then commit to a long push. Survival games usually punish greed more than caution, and a metroidvania layout usually rewards the player who remembers a shortcut.

The getting-started page covers your first run, the crafting priorities worth following, and how to set up a co-op session without wasting the first hour.