The Dungeon Crawler Carl series is having a big year. The live-action TV show was officially confirmed, and there’s even a tabletop RPG coming out in December. And while those are the two biggest adaptations coming down the pipeline, there’s actually a Dungeon Crawler Carl game that just came out that you can play for free right now.
Mama’s Night Off is a Princess Donut-inspired flash game created in collaboration with Maeve Chocolate. The game features a cartoon Princess Donut shooting magic missiles at falling cherries. Each shot is accompanied by an audible “Pew!” voiced by the audiobook narrator Jeff Hays himself. As flash games go, it’s pretty straightforward, but the addition of terrific voice acting makes it worth checking out.
The game launched about a week ago on the Maeve Chocolate website and was announced via a post on the Dungeon Crawler Carl Reddit. Mama’s Night Off is meant as a way to promote the company’s new Virgin Dirty Shirley chocolate bar, which was inspired by Princess Donut’s favorite drink. Here’s the official synopsis of the candy bar directly from the Maeve Chocolate website:
“The bar is inspired by Princess Donut’s favorite drink, the Virgin Dirty Shirley. It starts with sustainably sourced, delicious dark chocolate, melts into a creamy white chocolate center, and is packed with sweet, dried cherries and popping candy that crackles with fizzy magic. Or, as Donut herself would probably say: ‘Carl, if my chocolate doesn’t sparkle, what are we even doing here?'”
While this is the first playable Dungeon Crawler game, it’s definitely not going to be the last. The upcoming Dungeon Crawler Carl RPG is set to arrive in December 2026 and has already been extremely popular. It was first launched as a crowdfunding campaign in collaboration with Renegade Studios and raised an absurd amount of money via Backerkit. Since then, the core rule book and miniatures have gone up for preorder on Amazon where it remains one of the best-selling tabletop games on the site.
