Dungeon Manhwa seriespresents readers with an enthralling descent into fantastical worlds of unknown monsters, ruins, and intricate labyrinth explorations. Representing a popular niche of South Korean webcomics, Dungeon Manhwas presents a seamlessblend of adventure, danger, and mysteries.
Dungeon Manhwas explores the boundaries of imagination and fiction, showcasing to its readers endless possibilities. It boasts the most diverse and unconventional protagonists combined with immaculate world-building and compelling narratives that lay just beneath the general tropes of a typical dungeon manhwa, making for a captivating reading experience. Below are some of the best picks for readers interested in this subgenre.
Updated on June 17, 2025, by Emedo Destiny:Among manhwa’s near-endless genres and subgenres, the dungeon manhwa subgenre has seen a massive explosion in stories since the overwhelming success of the Solo Leveling franchise, and rightly so. Captivating more their ability to mix very well fantasy and modern times, most times, Dungeon Manhwa provide a good mix of almost everything, from power systems, monsters, and worldbuilding, to well-detailed characters and enthralling narratives. However, it is not enough that fans and readers simply hear about them, personal experiences often are the best. Therefore below is an updated list of recommendations of the best Dungeon manhwa for readers and fans alike.
15My Daughter is the Final Boss
Anime-Planet Rating: 4.3 / 5
My Daughter is the Final Bossgoes down exactly as it sounds. The story’s protagonist, Lee Seojun, in his initial life, could only watch as his daughter grew darker with power and eventually became the final boss who destroyed the world, pointing to his abysmal parenting style. However, all hope is not lost, as just as his consciousness is about to fade into the void, he receives one final quest: ‘Change The Future’.
This new quest is all he remembers until he wakes up suddenly with his little daughter, Seola, standing right in front of him. With a second chance to correcthis failures as a parent, Seojun must now be the parent to Seola that she never had in his previous life or watch the world burn, again.
14The Advanced Player of the Tutorial Tower
Anime-Planet Rating: 3.8 / 5
Getting trapped in a mysterious Tower with infinitely regenerating monsters sure sounds like hell. Now imagine never going past the tutorial stage of the Tower; this is exactly the reality for Hyeonu Kim, the series’ central character. Trapped in the tutorial stage for twelve years in real-time and a lot more time within the Tower itself, Hyeonu Kim had only one goal: survival.
By any means necessary, he survived the infinite onslaught of monsters, ultimately becoming too powerful to even be contained by the Tower. After twelve years, he is finally freed from his endless nightmare. However, one thing still bothers him: who was responsible for trapping him in the Tower? Hyeonu Kim makes up his mind to find the culprit and is ready to kill as many monsters as it takes, and saving the world just happens to be a side quest along the way.
13Dungeon Defense
Anime-Planet Rating: 3.6 / 5
Dungeon Defensefollows the unfortunate predicament of the story’s protagonist, Dantalian, the undefeated hero of the world’s hardest strategy game, Dungeon Attack. However, his accomplishments go down the drain overnight when he takes a rather fishy survey about the game.
The singular act proves to be a major turning point in his life when he suddenly wakes up within the game. Not only is he in the game now, but he has become the weakest Demon Lord. No longer the hero, but trapped in a game he has no idea of escaping from, Dantalian does what anyone would do: strive to survive. However, survival in this world means he will have to tear everything apart.
12The Gamer
Anime-Planet Rating: 4.1 / 5
The joy of any gamer typically is to conqueras many gamesas possible, and Jee-Han is no different. The story’s protagonist loves games and gaming more than anything in his current life.
However, it is still as shocking when suddenly, he receives a power of some sort that superimposes the features of a game onto reality, essentially merging his reality and a game into one. Initially only curious as to what was happening, Han quickly realises that reality has indeed changed. However, if truly reality has merged with a game, Han is more than ready to play to his heart’s content.
11Boundless Ascension
Anime-Planet Rating: 3.9 / 5
Boundless Ascensionfollows the initially depressing life ofthe central character, Seongyun Han. As a child, Seongyun watched his parents get killed by monsters during the first Dungeon Break. Since their murder, Seongyun decides to become a powerful hunter who can hunt such monsters.
However, fast forward to seven years later, in the current time, Seongyun comes to find that his unrelenting efforts to become a Hunter have all been a waste; he has not an ounce of fighting talent in him, as his fighting skills and abilities have not increased at all. However, Seongyun’s hunter trajectory is flipped when he is invited to join the Tower of Trials, a separate realm where the challengers within the tower must overcome extremely difficult trials. By accepting, Seongyun sets himself on a path to endless evolution.
10Seoul Station’s Necromancer
Anime-Planet Rating:3.9 / 5
Forcefully summoned to another world called Alphen, former high school student Kang Woojin is forced to put his life on the line every time in a battle for survival against the creatures of Alphen. Slowly, Woojin climbs the natural order and soon becomesthe ruler of the dead— a necromancer.
Twenty years after his summoning, Woojin can finally return to Earth, but he soon discovers that it is no longer as he remembers it. Due to the magnitude of his powers before returning, all his abilities, skills, and age get reset back to zero. It doesn’t matter anyway because if he can become the ruler of a harsh world like Alphen, nothing will stop him from doing so on Earth.
9Return Of The Frozen Player
The entire earth suddenly becomes a dungeon floor, and monsters spawn everywhere. After five years, thefinal dungeon boss, the Frost Queen, appears, and the Earth is on the brink of destruction. Seo Junho, the central character, and his companions sacrifice themselves to defeat her to save the Earth and succeed. Still, their success comes at a heavy price— Seo Junho and his companions are all frozen in place.
Twenty-five years go by, and Junho finally awakens from his slumber. Unfortunately, all his companions are still frozen, and he soon discovers their sacrifice is futile as there are nine more dungeon floors to clear. He must now free his colleagues and continue their objective to free the Earth.
8The Hero Returns
Kim Sungbin’s destiny isto become the hero: the most powerful Awakened human who will protect humanity, fight against the dangers of the dungeons and the monsters that come with and prevent the ultimate destruction of all humankind. Destiny, however, is not always of one’s will.
Fighting valiantly and ultimately laying down his life, Sungbin still cannot complete his mission, and humanity ultimately falls, but fate has other plans. Given another chance, he returns twenty years into the past, possessing all the knowledge and power from his previous experience. This time, he will succeed.
7Return To Player
Anime-Planet Rating:4.0 / 5
This manhwa features a game of the gods, but with human chess pieces. Life on Earth takes a monstrous turn when a group of gods decides to turn all humans into players of a sadistic game involving monsters and special abilities. Sehan Kim, like everyone else, is a player and partakes in this cruel game.
Humanity eventually falls, and there’s only one person left standing, Sehan. The thread of fate, however, continues to spin, even to the surprise of the gods. Sehan is given another chance, awakening in the past just at the start of the game, but fate will not be so kind to the gods this time. Armed with the knowledge of his previous playthrough, Sehan is determined to outwit even the gods themselves.
6SSS-Class Suicide Hunter
Anime-Planet Rating:4.4 / 5
In a worldwhere supernatural abilities,skills, monsters, and dungeons are the norm, Kim Dong-ja lives an unsatisfactory life. He spends his time thinking about how unfair life is and how he is essentially an average person with the lowest rank ability.
His luck takes a turn for the better when he receives a high-tier skill that allows him to copy the skills of other hunters, but as with all good things, it comes with a very steep price. In exchange for using his copy skill, he must first die.
