Dungeonborne was great when it first came out on early access and was looking like an extremely promising dungeon extraction game with satisfying combat and classes. Unfortunately though the developers tackled the game's balance issues in a way that didn't really make sense. They continued to do that patch after patch and ultimately the playerbase felt unheard and unsatisfied. So now it's a dead game with 80 players total online. :(

R.I.P. Dungeonborne

A shame this game died, I had a lot of fun with friends on it ):

TLDR; The game is dead.

It's hard to pinpoint exactly what caused it, but the F2P model coupled with uninspired cosmetics and lack of battle pass systems doomed this game from the start. There is little to no incentive for players to help fund the development and sustainment of the game. Which is very unfortunate because I would choose this game over something like Dark and Darker any day. The graphics are attractive and the gameplay loop is fun, tense, and rewarding. On the surface, it's a PvPvE dungeon crawler, but there is more to it when you consider party class synergies. Plain and simple I had tons of fun playing this with friends even when we would get wiped by better players. Losing never really felt like losing which was great. Sadly...the current player count and bucketized matchmaking system that is based on gear rarity (which is a great system in theory) has effectively made this game unplayable. 40 minutes failing to queue EVEN ONCE via the different playlists that we could queue considering our low item rarities told us everything we needed to know. I hope another developer can provide this experience in a way that retains players because I would come back in a heartbeat.