Hengband 3.0.2.4-Beta: the big Japanese Zangband variant, with dozens of classes, a wilderness with towns and many themed dungeons, quests, an arena and the Serpent of Chaos on level 100.

• About the game
• Keyboard controls
• Saving your game
• Tips
• New player's guide
• Playing in the browser
• Credits

About the game

Hengband is the Japanese branch of Zangband and one of the largest Angband variants. It has been developed for over twenty years; the 3.x series plays fully in English. Expect a lot of everything: races, classes, dungeons, monsters and items.

• Dozens of classes beyond the classic ones: Samurai (spirit-powered techniques), Ninja, Mirror-Master, Beastmaster and Cavalry (ride your pets), Smith (craft essences into weapons), Sniper, Blue-Mage (learn monster spells), Force-Trainer, Berserker, Elementalist and more.
• Personalities (Lucky, Patient, Chargeman, Munchkin …) change your stats and luck.
• A wilderness with several towns and many themed dungeons (the Yeek cave, the Orc caves, the Labyrinth, the Castle …), each with its own depth range and boss.
• Quests, the arena, a casino, the Hunter's office with bounties on wanted monsters, and a museum.
• The Mogaminator (_) picks up and destroys items by your own rules.

Keyboard controls

Essential keys

Saving your game

• Saving is automatic. Every save goes straight into this browser's storage (IndexedDB). The game saves every two minutes while it waits for your next command, and whenever you switch to another tab or window.
• Ctrl+S saves and keeps playing. Ctrl+X saves and quits; reload the page (or press Play again) to continue.
• Reloading or closing the tab loses at most the last couple of minutes. The browser asks before you leave a running game.
• Each browser keeps one character. New character deletes it and starts over.
• Export save downloads your savefile; Import save loads one. Use them to keep a backup or to move a character to another browser or computer.
• Your window layout, zoom levels, window titles and the Tiles/Sound/Music buttons are stored in the same browser storage and survive a new character.
• Private/incognito windows and "clear site data" delete the stored game. Export first if the character matters.

Tips

• In town buy Cure Light Wounds potions, Phase Door scrolls, food and a torch or lantern; > walks you to the nearest dungeon entrance.
• X explores a level for you: it opens doors, digs rubble, picks up items, and stops for monsters and new messages. ` travels to any spot you pick.
• Unknown monster? Look at it (l) and read its recall before you fight.
• The Mogaminator (_) picks up or destroys items by rules you write; the default rules are a good start.
• Tough classes for a first game: Warrior, Paladin or Samurai. Mages are strong later but fragile early.
• Leave a level by the stairs when its feeling (^F) says it is dangerous; there are always more levels.

New player's guide

Your first steps

1. Make a character: a Human or Dwarf Warrior, a Samurai or a Paladin is a gentle start. The autoroller then asks for minimum stats, all set to the maximum: press n and 2 on each stat to drop its minimum, then Enter on Accept.
2. You start in a town. Buy food, a torch or lantern, Cure Light Wounds potions and Phase Door scrolls. Walk onto a shop entrance to enter; p buys, s sells.
3. Press >: it walks you to the nearest dungeon entrance and asks before going in.
4. Press X to explore. When it stops, look at what stopped it: a monster (l to look), an item, a message.
5. Walk into monsters to attack. Retreat into corridors if several come at once.
6. Take > again to go deeper when you feel ready; < to go back up.

Finding your way

• On the surface < opens the world map: walk on it to travel fast and press > to go back down to the normal map where you stand.
• M shows the whole level, L scrolls it section by section, ` travels to a spot you pick.
• Word of Recall takes you back to town and down to your deepest level in the dungeon you last visited.
• ^Q lists your quests; ~ shows what you know about monsters, items and dungeons.

Staying alive

• Always carry Phase Door and Cure Light Wounds; later Teleportation and Word of Recall.
• Look (l) at unknown monsters and read their recall before fighting.
• Rest (R) to full before every fight you can choose, and fight in corridors.
• Uniques and the bosses of the side dungeons are much stronger than their level suggests: leave them for later.
• Get Free Action and See Invisible before level 20 or so, and basic resistances (fire, cold, acid, lightning, poison) before going much deeper.

Playing in the browser

• Windows: the map fills the big window; Inventory and Visible (monsters in view) are on the right, Messages along the bottom. Recall, Equipment, Objects and Character can be turned on under Windows.
• Resize windows by dragging the gaps between them. The windows always fill the screen and never overlap; the game redraws them at their new size. Reset windows puts everything back.
• Zoom: A− / A+ on the Map title bar (shown on hover) change the size of the map tiles. Hover over a small window's title to show its A− / A+ buttons, which change its text size.
• Rename a window by clicking its title, typing a new name and pressing Enter (Esc cancels, an empty name restores the default).
• Keys: arrow keys, the numeric keypad or 1–9 move you; Shift + direction runs. Hengband has no mouse support here.
• Tiles cycles the tile sets: None (text), Adam Bolt 16x16 (Hengband's release sheet), Hengband's own 8x8 and Shockbolt 64x64. Your choice is kept. Sound and Music are off by default; Music plays Hengband's own town music on the surface and dungeon music below (calmer tracks shallow, darker ones from level 40 and 80).
• Browsers keep a few shortcuts for themselves (Ctrl+W, Ctrl+T, Ctrl+N, and Cmd shortcuts on a Mac), so those never reach the game.
• If the game ever crashes, a message appears at the top; reload the page to continue from your last save.

Credits

• Hengband 3.0.2.4-Beta (2026): Mr.Hoge (founder) & many others, today the Hengband development team (hengband.github.io, github.com/hengband/hengband: Hourier, Habu, Deskull, Eric Branlund, dis-, iks and many more); based on the Japanese Zangband (Mitsuhiro Itakura) and Japanese Angband 1.2 (Sitoshin, sayu, FIRST, TeO), Zangband (Topi Ylinen, Robert Rühlmann, the Zangband DevTeam), Angband 2.7–2.9 (Ben Harrison), Moria (Robert Alan Koeneke, 1985) and Umoria (James E. Wilson, 1989).
• Licence (lib/help/jlicense.txt): the Moria/Angband licence (free to copy and distribute for educational, research and not-for-profit purposes with the copyright notice), and for changed versions: keep every copyright notice, say clearly what was changed, and never send scores to Hengband's score server (this build has no network code). No GPL grant yet.
• Tiles: Adam Bolt's 16x16 tiles (the "new" graphics of Zangband/Hengband; Hengband's release sheet heng-graf-16x16.zip with its added columns), pref file by Robert Rühlmann; Hengband's own 8x8 tiles (lib/xtra/graf/8x8.bmp, updated by multilockon123); Shockbolt 64x64 by Raymond Gaustadnes (from Angband 4.2).
• Sound effects: Hengband's own set (lib/xtra/sound), CC0 samples from OpenGameArt. Music: Hengband's own tracks (lib/xtra/music, arranged by Sasahito Handa) by Matthew Pablo, TAD, migfus20, HitCtrl, Emma_MA, Of Far Different Nature and others from OpenGameArt, CC0 / CC BY 3.0 / CC BY 4.0 (full list in music/readme.txt).
• Web port, auto-explore, stair walking, command and item menus, windows: memmaker (github.com/memmaker/hengband).

About this version

• Based on Hengband 3.0.2.4-Beta (English build).
• Original source: hengband/hengband (master), commit bf1054199
• Our changes (port, auto-explore, stair walking, command and item menus, windows, web build): memmaker/hengband