- #1 Reclaim The Sea
97% matchVery Positive82% of 61 reviews2025
Dev: 1LastGame
Windows
Reclaim the Sea is a roguelike strategy game set in a pirate fantasy world. Fight your way through randomly generated maps and text events. Command your pirate crew, upgrade your ship and make tactical decisions to beat the boss and save the world… or die trying.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 27.1% ★, Real Time Tactics 12.3%, Perma Death 9.1%, Roguelike 8.9%, Difficult 8.2%
- #2 Looking for Heals
96% matchMostly Positive74% of 128 reviews2021
Dev: Blue Bomber Games
Windows
An action rogue-like inspired by MMO healing mechanics. Heal, shield and resurrect your way through procedural dungeons filled with powerful items, deadly enemies and the most incompetent party imaginable!
Why similar: Party-Based RPG 18.5%, Dungeon Crawler 13.4%, Action Roguelike 12%, Roguelite 11.9%, Procedural Generation 10.7%
- #3 WARPSQUAD
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tom LoomanPub: LODZERO
Windows
WARPSQUAD is a space exploration rogue-lite in an ever-changing galaxy to be played solo or co-op. Encounter a wide range of hostile spaceships, special events, and upgrades to your ship and crew. Master the ship terminals and crew with unique traits to survive this hostile world.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 34.6% ★, Real Time Tactics 14.3%, Perma Death 11.3%, Roguelite 10.7%, Roguelike 9%
- #4 Hunting Pack
95% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Vaeril Games
Windows
It’s a forest at night, and the hunt begins. Carefully plan your pack’s next move to avoid being seen, smelled or heard. Hunt enough prey to survive the next month, and develop your pack and tactics throughout changing seasons. You’ll fail – but learn from your mistakes and prepare for the next run!
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 30.6% ★, Real Time Tactics 13.4%, Perma Death 12.9%, Action Roguelike 10.7%, Difficult 8.9%
- #5 Tomb Guard
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Studio Siege
Windows
Tomb Guard is a real-time pause and play tactics game. You control a band of skeletons as they defend their homeland from the invading Fiends. Focus is key, for facing overwhelming odds is certain. Pause, strategize, and attack to protect Tombstead and defeat The Order once and for all.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 39% ★, Party-Based RPG 14.1%, Tactical 11.3%, Roguelite 9.9%, Difficult 8.1%
- #6 Orbify
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BrainyWareHouse
Windows
Cast spell with unique mechanism. Fight through randomly generated dungeons where positioning and smart decisions matter. Choose your spells, upgrade them with powerful orb modifiers, and create unique combinations to overcome all stages.
Why similar: Tactical 14.2%, Action Roguelike 14.1%, Perma Death 11.4%, Magic 11.4%, Dungeon Crawler 11.2%
- #7 Cascade
93% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Byte-Era
Windows
A real-time roguelike where every move starts a chain reaction. Push enemies, manipulate tiles, combine elements, and turn status effects into opportunities.
Why similar: Dungeon Crawler 19.2%, Action Roguelike 14.2%, Loot 13.8%, Roguelite 13.3%, Real Time Tactics 13%
- #8 Of Blood and Descent
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kotakoren
Windows
A roguelike strategy RPG where each expedition shapes a multi-generational legacy. Explore, recruit allies, and continue your adventure through your descendants.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 38% ★, Real Time Tactics 17.4%, Perma Death 9.9%, Party-Based RPG 6.4%, Loot 6%
- #9 Seedovia
91% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: ab
Windows
Seedovia is a rogue-like dungeon crawler where you traverse room after room, fighting challenging monsters. Chain your weapons, collect game-changing passive upgrades, and equip items to create unique builds and become increasingly more powerful.
Why similar: Action Roguelike 13.8%, Dungeon Crawler 13.5%, Roguelite 13.2%, Roguelike 12.6%, Perma Death 11.9%
- #10 Crying Suns
91% matchVery Positive86% of 4,541 reviews2019
Dev: Alt Shift
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Crying Suns is a tactical rogue-lite that puts you in the role of a space fleet commander as you explore a mysteriously fallen empire. In this story rich experience inspired by Dune and Foundation, each successful run will uncover the truth about the Empire... and yourself as well.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 32.8% ★, Real Time Tactics 12.7%, Perma Death 10.2%, Roguelite 9.5%, Tactical 9.1%
- #11 Void War
89% matchVery Positive94% of 3,953 reviews2025
Dev: Tundra
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Command an ancient starship and fight your way to the heart of a dying Empire. Fend off attacks from demented cultists, craven space pirates, and xenophobic Imperial soldiers. Discover powerful artifacts and use them to build your ship into a fearsome war engine.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 33.5% ★, Perma Death 14.7%, Roguelite 11.4%, Difficult 9.1%, Procedural Generation 8.4%
- #12 Corpoct
90% matchPositive100% of 10 reviews2019
Dev: WolderadoPub: TwoBros
Windows · Mac
Test your wits as well as your ability to lead an expedition in this deep space dungeon-crawler. Hire the best heroes and villains of the galaxy. Find unknown planets in uncharted space. Start small, plan big and get a fleet of warships capable enough to rival most fearsome enemies.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 33.3% ★, Perma Death 11.8%, Dungeon Crawler 10.8%, Roguelike 8.8%, Procedural Generation 8.1%
- #13 Forgotten Cave: Roguelite Dungeon Crawler
89% match4 user reviews0% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Hard Shark Games
Windows
Forgotten Cave is a roguelite dungeon crawler featuring endless procedurally generated dungeons. Collect loot, find powerful upgrades, and survive as long as you can in this mysterious cave!
Why similar: Dungeon Crawler 15.4%, Loot 14.5%, Action Roguelike 12.6%, Roguelite 12.5%, Perma Death 11.9%
- #14 Iron Vulture
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 001Studios
Windows
Iron Vulture is a squad-based tactical Roguelite game where players command a team of elite soldiers in a fight for survival. Choose 4 soldiers, each with unique abilities and roles, and dive into procedurally generated maps filled with strategic challenges and fast-paced combat.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 31.6% ★, Party-Based RPG 16.1%, Real Time Tactics 14.3%, Roguelite 7.7%, Roguelike 7.1%
- #15 Chaos Caster
86% matchPositive88% of 15 reviews2025
Dev: Lukas Osouch
Windows
Cast spells, dash around hordes of enemies, and assemble powerful combos as you explore procedurally generated dungeons. Chaos Caster is an action roguelike focused on strategy, playstyle variety, and replayability.
Why similar: Dungeon Crawler 15.5%, Action Roguelike 13.8%, Perma Death 12.5%, Magic 11.5%, Roguelike 9.1%
- #16 Escape The Mad Empire
85% matchVery Positive89% of 425 reviews2025
Dev: XperimentalZ Games
Windows
Escape the Mad Empire is a party-based, rogue-like dungeon crawler with intense and deeply tactical combat. Overcome the challenges as a band of heroes, and preserve their lives and sanity by managing resources and growing your base. Can you Escape the Mad Empire?
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 29.8% ★, Party-Based RPG 15.9%, Perma Death 10.8%, Dungeon Crawler 9.7%, Roguelite 7.7%
- #17 Koi Unleashed
87% match8 user reviews63% of 8 reviews2020
Dev: WILDGRIP
Windows · Linux
Koi Unleashed is a party-based RPG, with real-time combat and inspired by Japanese folklore. Join a guild that has just set foot on an unknown world, filled with mysterious creatures.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 41.1% ★, Party-Based RPG 17.7%, Real Time Tactics 15.5%, Tactical 8.3%, Magic 5.9%
- #18 Shattered Mythos
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rattleaxe Games
Windows
Sally forth into the shattered remains of the world with a party of heroes at your command in real time combat. Explore the world, gain loot and levels by defeating the mythology inspired monsters to challenge the bosses and break through to the Lich's realm.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 36.3% ★, Real Time Tactics 16.6%, Party-Based RPG 15.4%, Action Roguelike 10%, Roguelite 8.7%
- #19 Dread Admiral
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Tescrin Games
Windows
Dread Admiral is a turn-based naval roguelite where every ship you lose is gone forever. Forge a floating empire, fend off the Black Fleet, and protect your Flagship through a brutal campaign to destroy the Dread Admiral himself.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 42% ★, Roguelite 12.5%, Perma Death 12.1%, Tactical 8.8%, Difficult 8.5%
- #20 Necroblobicon
84% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Blank Planet Games
Windows
Necroblobicon is a roguelike where your enemies become your army. Raise and equip your undead minions from humble corpse to unstoppable gods. Knights, archers, healers, and even boss creatures will all fall under your control as you take back what was once yours, from crypt to castle.
Why similar: Party-Based RPG 20.9%, Perma Death 14%, Dungeon Crawler 13.7%, Action Roguelike 12.5%, Roguelite 11%
- #21 Curse of Deflection
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Wire Dragon Games
Windows
Curse of Deflection is an action roguelike where you bounce through a dungeon. Hit enemies with your weapons but watch out for where your trajectory leads next. Choose an adventurer and enter the dungeon to find loot and powerful weapons. Choose your build carefully because death comes at you fast.
Why similar: Dungeon Crawler 16.1%, Action Roguelike 15.5%, Roguelike 13.1%, Roguelite 12.7%, Loot 12.6%
- #22 Rituality
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Thai Daye
Windows
Rituality is an accursed real-time tactics dungeon crawler. Recruit, equip and command your party of Ritualists to cleanse the dungeon isles' cursed inhabitants. The dungeon's curses awaken mysterious abilities within your party. Harness this power or succumb to the madness...
Why similar: Real Time Tactics 19.7%, Party-Based RPG 19.3%, Perma Death 14.1%, Dungeon Crawler 12.2%, Action Roguelike 10.6%
- #23 Scallywags
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FloWHOA
Windows
Set sail with a ragtag group of Scallywags in a strategic pirate crew‑management roguelike. Improve your ship, learn fantastical abilities, and hunt down the infamous Aces and their treasures. Every run is a fresh adventure and brings you closer to becoming a true Pirate Legend.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 27.6% ★, Real Time Tactics 16.9%, Perma Death 12.3%, Tactical 9.8%, Roguelite 9.4%
- #24 ウエステリア戦記
81% match8 user reviews78% of 8 reviews2026
Dev: SignTychePub: Tyche's Bookshelf
Windows
This product is a country theft strategy game set in a fictional modern world. At the end of the "Age of Quietness," the faraway world of "Westarea" descends into a great war in which guns, artillery, swords, and magic intersect. In there caos, what kind of story do you desire and see?
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 52% ★, Real Time Tactics 14.2%, Strategy 7.9%, Tactical 7.3%, Magic 6.5%
- #25 Sixty Jumps to Ceres
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Chris Hartwich
Windows
In this strategy-roguelike game, you command a space ship on a desperate last mission in the asteroid belt. Negotiate, battle your foes, and upgrade your ship. Get stronger as you progress into increasingly hostile space. Only the boldest, most skilled captain will make it to Ceres. Will you?
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 37.8% ★, Roguelike 11.4%, Roguelite 9.5%, Perma Death 9.4%, Procedural Generation 8.8%
- #26 Felbound
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Poink Games
Windows
Felbound is an action roguelike with a healthy dose of RPG. Explore the abyss of an ancient temple and fight the shadows, using a combination of weapons, spells, and ephemeral blessings. Uncover a myriad of secrets, save friends, and become a powerful god of destruction!
Why similar: Dungeon Crawler 14.7%, Roguelite 12.9%, Action Roguelike 12.5%, Procedural Generation 10.6%, Loot 9.2%
- #27 LoopiaLike
79% matchMixed46% of 13 reviews2026
Dev: Loopialike Games
Windows
Survival is just the beginning. LoopiaLike is an action roguelite bullet heaven where you unleash devastating spell combos against endless hordes. Master unique magic, forge game-breaking builds, and climb the global leaderboards in this unforgiving survivors-like experience.
Why similar: Dungeon Crawler 16.4%, Action Roguelike 14.6%, Roguelike 14%, Loot 12.8%, Roguelite 11.6%
- #28 NecroBouncer
79% matchMostly Positive79% of 135 reviews2022
Dev: Alchemy SheepPub: Ravenage Games
Windows · Mac
Happy hour has arrived! Become the NecroBouncer and toss out rowdy guests in a roguelike adventure through the nightclub dungeon. Raise the dead, discover hundreds of relics, ban enemies and gobble up their powers. It’s one hell of a good time!
Why similar: Dungeon Crawler 15.8%, Roguelite 12.9%, Roguelike 12.2%, Action Roguelike 11.9%, Perma Death 10.3%
- #29 Darklight Breach
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Main Sequence Games
Windows
FTL meets XCOM in a real-time tactical roguelite about breaching alien ships. Flank through rooms, disable systems, outmaneuver defenders, and extract with high-value loot. Fence your haul to power up and break a mysterious time loop.
Why similar: Real Time Tactics 17%, Tactical 12.2%, Roguelite 9.7%, Procedural Generation 9.7%, Difficult 9.4%
- #30 Dunjungle
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 749 reviews2025
Dev: Bruno BombardiPub: Astrolabe Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 79%
A 2d action-packed roguelite about a monkey hero protecting the jungle from the rise of a corruptive power. Explore ever-changing dungeons, fight weird enemies and gear up with lots of weapons and relics you can combine for a new experience every run. Explore, fight, die, and repeat!
Why similar: Perma Death 16.6%, Action Roguelike 15.7%, Procedural Generation 13.6%, Dungeon Crawler 12.5%, Difficult 11.7%
- #31 NETHER DUNGEONS
77% matchVery Positive83% of 434 reviews2024
Dev: Arakuma Studio
Windows
Nether Dungeons is an action-packed dungeon crawler. Battle through procedurally generated dungeons, face relentless enemies, and defeat epic bosses. Customize your hero, wield diverse weapons, and survive intense challenges as you descend into ever-changing, dangerous depths.
Why similar: Dungeon Crawler 16.8%, Action Roguelike 14.5%, Roguelite 13.8%, Difficult 11.6%, Roguelike 10.5%
- #32 Don't Go Unarmed
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pixel Pendant
Windows
Don't Go Unarmed is a randomly generated action RPG shooter with heavy Rogue-like elements. Combine upgrades, items and talents in new ways each run, to defeat all the different enemies you'll be facing throughout the forests, caves and beyond...
Why similar: Loot 20.5%, Roguelike 16.8%, Procedural Generation 11.4%, Dungeon Crawler 10.9%, Perma Death 9%
- #33 Beats of Betrayal
77% matchPositive100% of 33 reviews2024
Dev: Games2Beat Studio
Windows · Linux
Beats of Betrayal is an adventure game with roguelike mechanics and rhythm-based combat. Explore dungeons, gain skills and grow stronger to defeat challenging bosses and unlock the secrets surrounding the 'Power of the Waves'!
Why similar: Perma Death 12.6%, Dungeon Crawler 12.2%, Loot 11%, Action Roguelike 10.9%, Procedural Generation 10.4%
- #34 Hell Bug
74% matchPositive100% of 13 reviews2026
Dev: Artisan Knights Studios
Windows
Hell Bug is a simple roguelite shooter where you build a swarm of chaos from the remains of your enemies. Designed as a basic arcade style experience, you focus on crushing mutant bugs and unlocking defeated bosses' children, as powerful new allies. Each bug has a story, some shouldn't be told.
Why similar: Dungeon Crawler 15.4%, Action Roguelike 15.3%, Perma Death 13.3%, Roguelike 13.3%, Roguelite 9.9%
- #35 Time of the Wizard
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hermit Studios
Windows
Time of the Wizard is a Magic Roguelike. Lead the Wizard through challenging combat in a procedurally generated dungeon as you combine the different elements together to create all sorts of fun spells! Dive into a game where every run is unique, every room is dangerous and every death is permanent.
Why similar: Action Roguelike 12.9%, Dungeon Crawler 12.3%, Roguelike 11%, Difficult 10.5%, Procedural Generation 9.6%
- #36 Sealer of Dungeons
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Erdem Akar
Windows
Sealer of Dungeons is an action-shooter with Rogue-lite elements. Play Sealers on their journey, you will find great treasures and abilities to seal the unknown evil above. Gather precious loot, discover hidden secrets, and chat with merchants to get powerful items. Seal the dungeon, save the world!
Why similar: Dungeon Crawler 15.4%, Action Roguelike 14.3%, Roguelike 13.6%, Roguelite 13.6%, Difficult 13.4%
- #37 Skelly Selest
75% matchVery Positive93% of 288 reviews2018
Dev: caiysPub: caiysware
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Skelly Selest is a score-attack hack slash dash run 'n' gun-athon. Venture into the procedurally generated perdition depths of Hell to purge the evil taint of the Deamonica Netherlords and their fiendly followers.
Why similar: Action Roguelike 17.1%, Roguelite 15.8%, Dungeon Crawler 13.1%, Perma Death 11.6%, Roguelike 11.6%
- #38 Exjanitor: Data Cleanup
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: RodDev
Windows
Exjanitor is a top-down roguelite where a fired janitor wages war on the robots that replaced him. Equip powerups, choose your own drawbacks, go too far — and find out what happens when you stack one chip too many.
Why similar: Action Roguelike 19%, Dungeon Crawler 15.7%, Roguelite 14%, Difficult 12.1%, Roguelike 10.2%
- #39 Red Sea
74% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2023
Dev: Eternal Sands Media
Windows
Red Sea is an intense Real-time Tactics game where you control a small team of vigilantes in increasingly challenging battles. It features a Scriptable Tactics system that mixes auto-battling with manual overrides and has a ton of powerful ability interactions to discover.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 41.9% ★, Real Time Tactics 20.8%, Party-Based RPG 16.8%, Tactical 9.6%, Difficult 6.8%
- #40 Legend of Kendor
73% matchMostly Positive74% of 31 reviews2022
Dev: pickysource
Windows
Legend of Kendor is a Fantasy Free-Roaming Action Roguelike game. This is about people in Kendor trying to save their loved ones. You make your own path and adventure with consequences. **Warning** No Meta Progression, No Loading Screen, and Very Fast Paced.
Why similar: Action Roguelike 16.5%, Procedural Generation 15.7%, Loot 15.5%, Roguelike 15.3%, Dungeon Crawler 13.4%
- #41 Has-Been Heroes
73% matchMostly Positive76% of 392 reviews2017
Dev: FrozenbytePub: GameTrust Games
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Has-Been Heroes is a challenging, lane-based roguelike game of strategy and action, featuring a band of heroes on a quest to escort the King's twin princesses to school!
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 35.9% ★, Action Roguelike 14.6%, Roguelite 11.8%, Tactical 11.4%, Roguelike 10%
- #42 FTL: Faster Than Light
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 78,596 reviews2012
Dev: Subset Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 34.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 28.7% ★, Roguelike 16.9%, Perma Death 13.7%, Difficult 8.2%, Tactical 7.5%
- #43 Scrubbin' Trubble
70% matchPositive100% of 12 reviews2026
Dev: Odd Object
Windows · Mac
Scrubbin' Trubble is a cooperative roguelike where you go solo or team up with up to four players in online multiplayer to slash, smash, and scrub your way through dangerously dirty stages. Use strategy and teamwork to clean up Nasties, and take down the Four Filths of the Apocalypse.
Why similar: Loot 18.3%, Roguelite 12.5%, Perma Death 12%, Tactical 9.6%, Dungeon Crawler 9.6%
- #44 Chess Survivors
71% matchVery Positive85% of 162 reviews2023
Dev: Aarimous
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 42 minMean: 2.6 hrs≥1hr: 38%
Chess Survivors is a grid based, quick-turn, roguelike where you outmaneuver and destroy an ever growing horde of chess based enemies. Combine abilities, upgrades, and relics to create game-breaking builds. Think fast, die, learn, repeat!
Why similar: Real Time Tactics 19.7%, Perma Death 13.8%, Roguelite 11.5%, Action Roguelike 10.4%, Roguelike 8.8%
- #45 Petmancer
70% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Horse Arms LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
A whimsical roguelite dungeon crawler where you recruit and customize magical pets, unlock ancient talents, and explore ever-changing pixel dungeons. Choose your hero, shape your party, and battle the 7 Archmages to master the art of Petmancy.
Why similar: Party-Based RPG 21.6%, Dungeon Crawler 16%, Roguelite 15.9%, Loot 11.1%, Roguelike 8.3%
- #46 Dispel Dark
68% matchPositive100% of 18 reviews2026
Dev: Cronostase
Windows
Dispel Dark, a game where your torch is your source of light... and your weapon. Defeat enemies, collect coins, buy upgrades, and try to survive increasingly hostile levels. How far will your light last?
Why similar: Dungeon Crawler 20%, Roguelike 18.9%, Difficult 16.6%, Procedural Generation 14.2%, Roguelite 12.5%
- #47 Heat Signature
71% matchVery Positive94% of 7,416 reviews2017
Dev: Suspicious Developments
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Heat Signature is a game from the developers of Gunpoint where you break into spaceships, make terrible mistakes, and think of clever ways out of them. You take a mission, fly to the target ship, sneak inside, and make clever use of your gadgets to distract, ambush and take out the crew.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 36.8% ★, Roguelike 11.6%, Procedural Generation 9.8%, Top-Down 9.7%, Roguelite 9.1%
- #48 Huedini
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: JuiceGoose
Windows
Huedini is a colour-matching action roguelike game. Play as Huedini, a powerful wizard with the ability to change his colour. By matching your colour, to that of the enemies you can absorb their colour essence. By combining these colour essences into the correct combination, you can cast spells.
Why similar: Action Roguelike 16.1%, Roguelike 14%, Loot 13.8%, Difficult 13%, Roguelite 11.9%
- #49 Next Hero
72% matchMixed57% of 46 reviews2018
Dev: LINE Games Corporation
Windows
'Next Hero' is a Roguelike-shooting action RPG that explores dungeons, acquires weapons and equipment, and kills monsters. Find a girlfriend kidnapped by the dragon and rebuild the destroyed village to become a hero in the village!
Why similar: Loot 14.8%, Dungeon Crawler 14.2%, Roguelite 12.5%, Action Roguelike 12.2%, Procedural Generation 11.4%
- #50 ShemHaMephorash
69% matchPositive95% of 36 reviews2023
Dev: SignTychePub: Tyche's Bookshelf
Windows
"ShemHaMephorash" is a historical low fantasy strategy game set in the battlefield at the end of the 19th century, where you can explore the language of miracles. Treat the unique "rabbi" and the soldiers skillfully and guide them to the end.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 44.1% ★, Real Time Tactics 17.5%, Tactical 9.7%, Magic 8.4%, Pixel Graphics 6.1%
- #51 Knight Crawler
68% matchPositive83% of 23 reviews2025
Dev: Taylor Conolley
Windows
Play as Cyrus, a medieval knight, in this top-down action roguelike. Battle your way through endless procedurally generated dungeons filled with coins and weapons. Discover rare, powerful modifiers and test your skills against a variety of deadly foes.
Why similar: Perma Death 18.3%, Dungeon Crawler 16.9%, Action Roguelike 13.8%, Roguelike 10.8%, Roguelite 10.3%
- #52 Tower of Dreams
67% matchPositive100% of 25 reviews2026
Dev: Sour Lemon Studios
Windows
A vertical platformer roguelike where you use your sword to pogo off obstacles and enemies and ascend the tower
Why similar: Action Roguelike 16.1%, Roguelite 14.8%, Perma Death 13.6%, Roguelike 10.1%, Procedural Generation 9.7%
- #53 Zavix Tower 2
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Batholith Entertainment
Windows
Zavix Tower 2 is a challenging Party based roguelike with turn-based RPG about Dungeon Crawling through a tower. Recruit Heroes, Upgrade your Town and try to help your mysterious host unravel the mysteries within Zavix Tower!
Why similar: Dungeon Crawler 16.8%, Party-Based RPG 14.3%, Roguelike 13.7%, Roguelite 13.3%, Strategy 10.4%
- #54 Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes
66% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,049 reviews2026
Dev: Alt ShiftPub: Dotemu
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 81%
In Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes, take command of a fleet escaping the annihilation of the Twelve Colonies. Manage crises on board as you prepare for the next encounter with the Cylon Fleet. Times are dire, and hard choices must be made. Your only hope: rejoin the Battlestar Galactica.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 37.2% ★, Real Time Tactics 14.8%, Roguelite 12.1%, Tactical 11.5%, Difficult 9.6%
- #55 Painted Peril
67% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2026
Dev: Message Photon ABPub: Fennonauts
Windows
Take up the paintbrush and unleash the power of color with Sylvia the painter mage squirrel. Mix pigments, cast paint spells, and battle living rocks in a vibrant world of magic and adventure.
Why similar: Perma Death 15.7%, Action Roguelike 14.1%, Dungeon Crawler 13.9%, Magic 12.1%, Roguelike 10.9%
- #56 Margoq's Lair
68% matchMixed67% of 36 reviews2024
Dev: Zillo Games
Windows
Traverse dark dungeons and face horrible foes in this roguelite twin-stick dungeon crawler where magic can be combined into devastating forces. Can you line up the perfect spell sequence to produce a powerful Meteor or a deadly Thunderstorm?
Why similar: Loot 14.1%, Perma Death 13.8%, Dungeon Crawler 13.7%, Action Roguelike 12.2%, Roguelite 11.9%
- #57 Gorgon Shield
67% matchMostly Positive76% of 132 reviews2024
Dev: Whiskeybarrel StudiosPub: 2 Left Thumbs
Windows
Gather your party of expendable heroes. Climb a vast tower atop a shiny shield. Who will fight? Who will heal? Who will laze around and take all the treasure? The choices will be yours alone, but only those who work together will be powerful enough to face Medusa at the top of the GORGON SHIELD.
Why similar: Party-Based RPG 19.4%, Real Time Tactics 18.7%, Dungeon Crawler 11.9%, Roguelite 10.4%, Action Roguelike 9.8%
- #58 TEOM: The Enemy Of Mine
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Voxel Studios
Windows · Mac
TEOM is a roguelite strategy game that draws inspiration from the tower defense genre to innovate it through dynamic levels, interactive elements, and high replayability. Follow Aiden and his friends on an unexpected journey through this vibrant world.
Why similar: Real Time Tactics 21.3%, Perma Death 14.5%, Action Roguelike 12.7%, Roguelite 12.4%, Roguelike 10.8%