Is VAULTREAVE free to play?

Yes. VAULTREAVE is free and starts directly in the browser. There is no download and no purchase required to enter a run, and starter gear is always reissued free after a death. Optional cosmetic and convenience purchases exist — no paid stats.

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Extraction Roguelike in Your Browser

Q: Is it multiplayer?

Yes. VAULTREAVE is an online game. You can dive solo or bring a squad of up to 4; the dungeon itself holds up to 6, so a matched descent may include people you did not invite. Public matchmade descents can place you alongside rival players, and that includes party descents — a party is matched into a public dungeon too. The descents with no strangers are the daily trial, the endless abyss, custom modes, and lone-wolf mode (solo only, costs gold).

Q: Does it work on mobile?

Yes. The game runs in a mobile browser with touch controls, and you can add it to your home screen as a PWA for fullscreen play.

Q: How is it different from Escape from Tarkov-style games?

The loot rules are the same: die and you drop what you carry, extract alive and you keep it. The framing is different: VAULTREAVE is a pixel roguelike dungeon rather than a first-person shooter, it opens in a browser tab with no install, and runs are built to fit short sessions.

Dive a randomly generated pixel dungeon, grab what you can, and only what you carry out through the exit is yours. Free, in the browser, no download.

This page explains what an extraction roguelike is and how VAULTREAVE runs the format directly in a browser tab. It is written for players searching for the genre rather than for a download-first store page.

Play in browser Learn the run loop

What is an extraction roguelike?

It is a combination of two older ideas.

The roguelike half: each run takes place in a randomly generated dungeon. Layout, loot, and threats change between dives, so a run is something you read and react to, not a route you memorize.
The extraction half: a loot economy popularized by Escape from Tarkov, which entered early access in 2017. Loot you pick up during a run is not yours yet. You must reach an extraction point alive to bank it; if you die, you drop everything you were carrying. Dark and Darker later carried the same rules from military shooters into a medieval-fantasy dungeon crawl.

An extraction roguelike applies those loot rules to roguelike dungeon runs. VAULTREAVE does this in pixel form, playable in the browser: your stash at camp is always safe, but everything on your body rides on whether you make it out.

The core loop

Dive. Pick a class at camp, slot 2–3 active skills from its skill tree, gear up, and enter a randomly generated dungeon.
Loot. Open chests, break containers, fight monsters, and pick up gear — including items with random affixes.
Read danger. Torchlight is limited. Traps, elites, and the dungeon itself punish greed, so every extra room is a bet.
Extract or push deeper. The blue exit is the safe way out: leave and keep everything you carry. The red route leads a level deeper, where drops are richer and the odds are worse.
Bank and repeat. Back at camp, sell, stash, upgrade, and dive again. Dying mid-run drops all carried items — only the stash survives.

Why play it in the browser

No download: the run starts from a link. There is no installer, launcher, or store account between you and the dungeon.
Free: playing costs nothing, and starter gear is always reissued free, so a death never locks you out of the game.
Short-session fit: runs are built to be sampled in a browser session rather than committed to for an evening.
Co-op: dive solo or bring a squad of up to 4 players into the same dungeon.
Progression systems: classes, skill trees, and gear affixes give runs a build dimension beyond the loot gamble.
PWA: on a phone you can add the game to your home screen and play fullscreen with touch controls.

How a first run goes

Open the play link and enter camp. Pick a class; if you have no gear, free starter equipment is issued automatically.
Enter the dungeon and explore by torchlight. Take the loot you understand and avoid the fights you do not.
When you find the blue exit, make the genre's defining decision: leave with what you have, or take the red route deeper for better drops.
If you extract, everything you carried is banked. If you die, you drop your carried items, keep your stash, and get free starter gear for the next dive — so the worst case is a lesson, not a lockout.

A fuller walkthrough of controls, extraction rules, and death mechanics is in the beginner guide.

FAQ

Is it free?

Yes. VAULTREAVE is free and starts directly in the browser. No download and no purchase is required to enter a run. Optional cosmetic and convenience purchases exist — no paid stats.

Is it multiplayer?

Yes. It is an online game. You can play solo or in a squad of up to 4. Note the dungeon itself can hold up to 6 players, so a matched descent may include people you did not invite. Player hostility is part of a normal descent: it is matched in public, so another team can share your dungeon. See the PvE breakdown. Public matchmade descents can place you alongside rival players, and that includes party descents — a party is matched into a public dungeon too. The descents with no strangers are the daily trial, the endless abyss, custom modes, and lone-wolf mode (solo only, costs gold).

Does it work on mobile?

Yes. It runs in a mobile browser with touch controls, and you can add it to your home screen as a PWA for fullscreen play.

How is it different from Tarkov-likes?

The loot economy is the same: what you carry is only yours once you extract alive, and death drops it. The rest is different: VAULTREAVE is a pixel roguelike dungeon rather than a first-person shooter, it opens in a browser tab with nothing to install, and runs fit short sessions instead of long raids.

Where to go next

The play link, the beginner guide, and the browser dungeon crawler page can orient you before or after a run. Coming from PC extraction games? See a fantasy Tarkov in your browser; playing with friends? See the co-op dungeon crawler page.

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Claim boundary

This is an owned discovery page. It defines a genre and describes VAULTREAVE's own mechanics; it is not a claim that the game has traction, ranking, retention, popularity, balance, or external validation. Statements about other games are limited to widely reported genre history.