diff --git a/pkgs/games/keeperrl/default.nix b/pkgs/games/keeperrl/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..68426a4aedfd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/games/keeperrl/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, requireFile
+, openal, curl, libogg, libvorbis
+, SDL2, SDL2_image, zlib
+, unfree_assets ? false }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  pname = "keeperrl";
+  version = "alpha28";
+
+  free-src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "miki151";
+    repo = "keeperrl";
+    rev = version;
+    sha256 = "0isj8ijn5a89m2r5cxk4lcsq0cydx7c0h87vgr8v5cndm3rd27cy";
+  };
+
+  assets = if unfree_assets then requireFile rec {
+    name = "keeperrl_data_${version}.tar.gz";
+    message = ''
+      This nix expression requires that the KeeperRL art assets are already
+      part of the store. These can be obtained from a purchased copy of the game
+      and found in the "data" directory. Make a tar archive of this directory
+      with
+
+      "tar czf ${name} data"
+
+      Then add this archive to the nix store with
+
+      "nix-prefetch-url file://\$PWD/${name}".
+    '';
+    sha256 = "0115pxdzdyma2vicxgr0j21pp82gxdyrlj090s8ihp0b50f0nk53";
+  } else null;
+
+  sourceRoot = "source";
+
+  srcs = [ free-src ] ++ stdenv.lib.optional unfree_assets assets;
+
+  postUnpack = stdenv.lib.optionalString unfree_assets ''
+    mv data $sourceRoot
+  '';
+
+  buildInputs = [
+    openal curl libogg libvorbis SDL2 SDL2_image zlib
+  ];
+
+  NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE = [
+    "-I${SDL2.dev}/include/SDL2"
+  ];
+
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
+  makeFlags = [ "OPT=true"
+                "RELEASE=true"
+                "DATA_DIR=$(out)/share"
+                "ENABLE_LOCAL_USER_DIR=true"
+              ];
+
+  installPhase = ''
+    install -Dm755 keeper $out/bin/keeper
+    install -Dm755 appconfig.txt $out/share/appconfig.txt
+
+    cp -r data_free $out/share
+    cp -r data_contrib $out/share
+    ${stdenv.lib.optionalString unfree_assets "cp -r data $out/share"}
+  '';
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "A dungeon management rogue-like";
+    homepage = "https://keeperrl.com/";
+    license = licenses.gpl2;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ chattered ];
+    # TODO: Add OS X
+    platforms = with platforms; [ "i686-linux" "x86_64-linux" ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index a32d3dc3fd2b..6416a8061190 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -4522,6 +4522,8 @@ in
 
   keepalived = callPackage ../tools/networking/keepalived { };
 
+  keeperrl = callPackage ../games/keeperrl { };
+
   kexectools = callPackage ../os-specific/linux/kexectools { };
 
   keepkey_agent = with python3Packages; toPythonApplication keepkey_agent;