Play Adventure Construction Set Online
You scribble dungeons in ASCII, drop joke loot like kitchen sinks, and wrestle with the janky editor until your weird little fantasy world somehow works.
Game Overview
Adventure Construction Set was basically the MS-DOS version of handing a kid a box of crayons and saying "go nuts." You start with a blank grid—no story, no rules, just you and whatever weird fantasy world you wanted to build. I remember spending hours drawing forests with ASCII trees, plopping down treasure chests full of ridiculous loot (one time I made a dungeon where the final boss dropped a literal kitchen sink).
The editor was janky as hell—moving sprites around felt like herding cats—but that was part of the charm. You could make a serious Tolkien-esque epic or a joke campaign where skeletons threw cheese wheels instead of fireballs. Half the fun was testing your own broken creations and realizing your "impossible" dungeon was, in fact, impossible. It’s the kind of game that made you feel like a mad scientist even when your masterpiece crashed the computer.
If you’ve ever doodled game maps in a notebook, this was your childhood fantasy made real, bugs and all.
Each game uses different controls, most DOS games use the keyboard arrows. Some will use the mouse , "Alt" ,"Enter" and "Space bar".
Download Adventure Construction Set ROM
You can download this ROM to play Adventure Construction Set offline using an MS-DOS emulator (Top Emulators).
*This ROM is provided for backup and educational purposes only.
