Games Like Cult of the Lamb

Moonlighter is an Action RPG with rogue-lite elements that demonstrates two sides of the coin – revealing everyday routines of Will, an adventurous shopkeeper that secretly dreams of becoming a hero.

Why similar: Dungeon Crawler 31%, Action Roguelike 27.8%, Roguelite 22.3%, Fantasy 6.2%, 2D 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: It mirrors Cult of the Lamb's loop almost perfectly by sending you on top-down dungeon runs for loot that directly fuels your home-side progression and upgrades.

Build and manage a medieval graveyard while facing ethical dilemmas and making questionable decisions. Welcome to Graveyard Keeper, the most inaccurate medieval cemetery sim of the year.

Why similar: Dark Humor 41.3%, Building 32.9%, Fantasy 7.8%, Adventure 6.3%, Singleplayer 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: This is another macabre management sim where cute presentation, dark humor, and ever-expanding facilities give you that same 'adorable but wrong' energy.

A twin-stick, bullet-hell, roguelite where you must cultivate and defend the last farm in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Farm mutated crops, upgrade your weapons, marry townsfolk, and kill every mutant creature that tries to invade your homestead! Yee-haw!

Why similar: Action Roguelike 47.1%, Roguelite 34.2%, Colorful 7.9%, Action 7.9%, Singleplayer 3%

Why You'll Like It: Like Cult of the Lamb, it mixes frantic roguelite combat with tending a growing home base, and its cheerful presentation hides a gleefully weird dark edge.

It's time to start working towards that ultimate goal of enlightenment, faith and money…lots and lots of money! Become the ultimate tycoon - create, customise, and manage your own cult whilst listening to funky music. Welcome to Honey, I Joined a Cult!

Why similar: Base Building 26%, Faith 21.5% ★, Colony Sim 19.7% ★, Dark Humor 11.2%, Building 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: It drops the combat but absolutely nails the fantasy of building a bizarre, funny cult headquarters and keeping your believers happy and productive.

Wizard with a Gun is an online sandbox survival game for 1 - 4 players set in a magical wilderness wrought with dangerous creatures and arcane mysteries. Embark on a journey alone or with a friend to collect, craft, and outfit your wizard however you see fit as you explore the unknown.

Why similar: Dungeon Crawler 35.8%, Roguelite 24.1%, Cute 13.6%, Third Person 8.6%, Colorful 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its top-down action, occult atmosphere, crafting, and customizable home base make it feel like a more survival-focused spin on the same combat-and-sanctuary rhythm.

A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.2% ★, Base Building 29.6%, Building 15.1%, Roguelite 14.9%, Strategy 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: If your favorite part was returning from runs to optimize followers and buildings, this roguelite colony-builder delivers that progression hook in pure management form.

An action-adventure roguelike with a bit of RPG tossed in. Adventure deep into the UnderMine and discover powerful relics, deadly enemies, hidden secrets, and a few friends to help along the way.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 41.9%, Dungeon Crawler 24.7%, Roguelite 21.7%, Fantasy 2.4%, Adventure 2%

Why You'll Like It: It pairs accessible roguelite dungeon crawling with town upgrades and unlocks, scratching the same itch of risky runs that steadily improve your settlement.

Awaken as a Vampire. Hunt for blood in nearby settlements to regain your strength and evade the scorching sun to survive. Raise your castle and thrive in an ever-changing, open world full of mystery. Gain allies online and conquer the land of the living.

Why similar: Base Building 68.6%, Building 22.5%, Adventure 3.2%, Action 3%, Singleplayer 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: Though more survival-oriented, it combines stylish action combat with building out a personalized gothic stronghold in a way Cult of the Lamb fans often click with.

Have a Nice Death is a 2D action roguelike where you play as an overworked Death, whose employees have run rampant, completely throwing off the balance of souls - and his vacation plans. In order to restore order, you'll have to grab your trusty scythe and show your employees who's boss.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 31.7%, Dark Humor 29.3%, Roguelite 17.2%, Funny 9.8%, 2D 5%

Why You'll Like It: This one channels the same cute-meets-morbid charm into a slick roguelite full of dark comedy and constant upgrade momentum.

The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is a randomly generated action RPG shooter with heavy Rogue-like elements. Following Isaac on his journey players will find bizarre treasures that change Isaac’s form giving him super human abilities and enabling him to fight off droves of mysterious creatures, discover secrets and fight his way to safety.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 54.5%, Dungeon Crawler 26%, Roguelite 11.7%, 2D 3.4%, Singleplayer 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its blasphemous tone, run variety, and twisted-cute aesthetic make it a natural fit if the seed's darker roguelite half was your favorite.

You seek untold riches, eternal life, divine powers - it leads to this accursed temple, a seemingly-infinite labyrinth of bottomless pits, deadly traps, and monsters.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 36%, Dungeon Crawler 26.7%, Roguelite 22.5%, Fantasy 4.5%, Action 4%

Why You'll Like It: If you want more isometric combat, curses, and ominous ritual vibes, this is one of the closest pure action-roguelite matches.

Reaping souls of the dead and punching a clock might get monotonous but it's honest work for a Crow. The job gets lively when your assigned soul is stolen and you must track down a desperate thief to a realm untouched by death - where creatures grow far past their expiry.

Why similar: Dungeon Crawler 42.1%, Cute 33.6%, Adventure 8.8%, Action 8.6%, Colorful 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its charming-but-melancholy world and tight isometric combat capture a similar balance of cuteness and creeping darkness, even without the colony layer.

Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.

Why similar: Base Building 53%, Building 28.2%, Adventure 5.3%, Action 5.1%, 2D 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: Exploration, crafting, boss fights, and steadily expanding your base make it a strong pick for players who loved growing a home between adventures.

Stacklands is a village builder where you stack cards to collect food, build structures, and fight creatures. 🃏 For example, dragging a Villager card on top of a Berry Bush card will spawn Berry cards which the villagers can eat to survive. 🃏 Play your cards right and expand your village!

Why similar: Roguelite 33.5%, Building 26.5%, Cute 13.7%, Strategy 8.7%, 2D 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: This is a lighter, more abstract take on building up a little community and juggling resources, with the same 'just one more upgrade' compulsion.

Children of Morta is a story-driven action RPG game about an extraordinary family of heroes. Lead the Bergsons, with all their flaws and virtues, against the forthcoming Corruption. Will you be able to sacrifice everything to save the ones you care for?

Why similar: Action Roguelike 30.8%, Dungeon Crawler 29.1%, Roguelite 22.4%, Fantasy 6.5%, 2D 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its character-driven action roguelite runs feed into meaningful home progression, giving it a similar sense of venturing out and returning stronger.

The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus. Will you survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world, contaminated by poisonous plants?

Why similar: Colony Sim 52.4% ★, Base Building 32.4%, Cute 12.5%, Singleplayer 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its appeal comes from nurturing a quirky settlement of followers and shaping a living home base, even if it swaps combat for pure colony management.

Rogue Legacy 2 is what you'd get if you mashed Rogue Legacy and a sequel together. Every time you die, your children will succeed you, and each child is unique. Your daughter might be a Colourblind Archer, and your son could be a Pacifistic Chef. Either way, one of them is getting conscripted.

Why similar: Roguelite 48.6%, Action 12.7%, Adventure 11.4%, 2D 11.1%, Action Roguelike 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its fast run-based combat and heavy meta-progression create the same satisfying cycle of failed expeditions feeding long-term growth.

Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!

Why similar: Base Building 51.5%, Building 30.2%, Adventure 7%, 2D 6.1%, Action 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: It blends top-down exploration and boss fighting with gradually building and automating a settlement full of NPCs, much like a more sandboxy version of the seed.

Going Under is a satirical dungeon crawler about exploring the cursed ruins of failed tech startups. As an unpaid intern in the dystopian city of Neo-Cascadia, you’ll wield office junk as weaponry as you make your way through the offbeat procedural dungeons beneath your company campus.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 25.7%, Dungeon Crawler 25.4%, Roguelite 17.7%, Cute 10.1%, Funny 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: It shares Cult of the Lamb's playful irreverence and colorful look while delivering approachable roguelite dungeon runs with lots of comic chaos.

Guide 'Skul' on his quest to single-handedly take on the Imperial Army and rescue his King from captivity, in an action-packed rogue-lite 2D platformer for the ages.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 50%, Roguelite 24.4%, Action 7.4%, 2D 6.3%, Cute 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its fast roguelite runs and cartoonishly dark monster theme fit well if you want more of the seed's mischievous side.

Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.

Why similar: Adventure 49.8%, Singleplayer 32.4%, 2D 17.8%

Why You'll Like It: The hand-drawn cute-horror style and focus on building a workable home in a hostile world line up well with Cult of the Lamb's darker cozy side.

Transform from a featureless nobody into a SLUG, a GHOST and a DRAGON in this new take on Action RPGs from the creators of Guacamelee! Discover 15+ distinct Forms, mix-and-match their abilities, clear evolving dungeons and... SAVE THE WORLD!?

Why similar: Dungeon Crawler 41.5%, Funny 12.2%, Fantasy 11.4%, Colorful 8.2%, Singleplayer 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: The playful tone, top-down combat, and constant unlocking of strange new forms and synergies make it a great match for the seed's weird, inventive energy.

Defy the god of the dead as you hack and slash out of the Underworld in this rogue-like dungeon crawler from the creators of Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 46%, Roguelite 24.6%, Dungeon Crawler 22.7%, Action 3.8%, Singleplayer 3%

Why You'll Like It: It lacks the town-building, but few games match Cult of the Lamb's sense of stylish action runs feeding satisfying long-term progression.

In a labyrinth surrounded by vicious monsters, Explorers must rely on their Lasso to survive! Capture and tame ANY monster to leap, glide, surf, tunnel and websling through a treacherous, patchwork maze. This roguelike/metroidvania seems cute, but it’s a deceptively difficult bullet-hell challenge!

Why similar: Base Building 34.1%, Action Roguelike 21.4%, Dungeon Crawler 19%, Roguelite 18.3%, Adventure 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its top-down roguelite exploration, adorable creatures, and upbeat presentation echo the seed's cute surface layered over mechanically dense runs.

A living world full of surprises, secrets and danger awaits in The Survivalists, an adventure-filled survival sandbox set in The Escapists universe. Explore, build, craft and even train monkeys with up to three friends in a desperate bid to survive. Have you got what it takes to be a Survivalist?

Why similar: Base Building 54.6%, Character Customization 23.1%, Adventure 7.2%, 2D 6%, Singleplayer 5%

Why You'll Like It: Its cute island setting, base-building, and regular combat-exploration loop make it feel like a brighter survival cousin to Cult of the Lamb.

Build the ultimate cat army through tactical breeding and send them into deep, challenging turn-based adventures. Draft abilities, collect items, and manipulate genetics across generations in this roguelike tactics game from the creators of The Binding of Isaac and The End is Nigh.

Why similar: Dark Humor 41.8%, Roguelite 29.3%, Cute 13.7%, Funny 10.4%, 2D 4.7%

An open-world survival crafting game for 1–8 players, blending intense dungeon crawling and ARPG combat with peaceful farming and creative building. Take on quests and explore a vast, procedurally-generated world full of danger and discovery.

Why similar: Base Building 34.4%, Dungeon Crawler 31.6%, Building 23.8%, Adventure 3.8%, Action 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: This mixes action-RPG combat, dungeon delving, and building up your own island home, though with a calmer and less satirical tone.

Continue the adventures of Beatrix LeBeau as she journeys across the Slime Sea to Rainbow Island, a land brimming with ancient mysteries, and bursting with wiggly, new slimes to wrangle in this sequel to the smash-hit, Slime Rancher.

Why similar: Cute 31.4%, Building 25.9%, Colorful 13.2%, Fantasy 11.3%, Adventure 7.1%

Enter the Gungeon is a bullet hell dungeon crawler following a band of misfits seeking to shoot, loot, dodge roll and table-flip their way to personal absolution by reaching the legendary Gungeon’s ultimate treasure: the gun that can kill the past.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 42%, Dungeon Crawler 28%, Roguelite 10.7%, Cute 6.8%, Funny 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: For players who mainly want replayable roguelike runs packed with loot, secrets, and personality, this is one of the genre's best.

Fight and tame alien beasts, craft resources into menacing weaponry, befriend the outlandish locals, and go toe-to-chin with a world-domineering maniac.

Why similar: Base Building 49.6%, Building 24.1%, Funny 9.7%, 2D 6.4%, Adventure 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: It offers humorous writing, top-down combat, and a crafting-heavy base-building loop that appeals to the same players who enjoy the seed's lighter management side.

A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

Why similar: Colony Sim 44.2% ★, Base Building 36.9%, Building 10.1%, Strategy 4.1%, 2D 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: It is far less action-driven, but the darkly funny colony stories and constant balancing of believer-like pawns make it a strong management-first alternative.

Incite the end of the world as a devout zealot of an eldritch god in this Pikmin-inspired roguelite. Don the robes of a cultist, perform bloody rituals and expand your influence over an army of followers in this cute yet grim world. Is your devotion strong enough to please the Old Ones?

Why similar: Base Building 24.1%, Roguelite 21.3%, Dark Humor 19.9%, Action Roguelike 17.6%, Cute 8.7%

DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS™ 2 is a block-building RPG set in a fantasy land threatened by an evil cult. Explore, battle, build and harvest in the charming single-player campaign or build big projects in the online sandbox mode for up to 4-players.

Why similar: Building 43.9%, Cute 13.1%, Adventure 11.3%, Action 9.2%, Character Customization 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: If the cute building and community-growth side grabbed you most, this delivers an excellent combat-and-construction blend in a much brighter world.

LEAD the CULT OF CTHULHU. Decide the fate of your followers, perform eldritch rituals, and master the art of city-building in a world where the line between sanity and madness blurs. Can you endure the horrors you unleash?

Why similar: Colony Sim 45.7% ★, Base Building 31.5%, Building 15.5%, Strategy 5.1%, Singleplayer 2.3%

BALL x PIT is a brick-breaking, ball-fusing, base-building survival roguelite. Batter hordes of enemies with ricocheting balls and gather the riches of the pit to expand your homestead, generate resources and recruit unique heroes.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 29.1%, Roguelite 26.3%, Base Building 21.9%, Building 12.6%, Action 5.2%

The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!

Why similar: Base Building 55.7%, Building 24.9%, 2D 8.3%, Adventure 6.5%, Singleplayer 4.6%

Gold makes God. Embrace city-building chaos around a monster-filled dungeon where danger & profit go hand in hand. Assign heroes quests, evolve powerful pets and expand your influence one gold coin at a time. Recruit, defend, explore — all in pursuit of Glory and Gold!

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.3% ★, Base Building 27.4%, Dark Humor 19.8%, Cute 8.7%, Fantasy 5.3%

Darkest Dungeon II is a roguelike road trip of the damned. Form a party, equip your stagecoach, and set off across the decaying landscape on a last gasp quest to avert the apocalypse. The greatest dangers you face, however, may come from within...

Why similar: Dungeon Crawler 50.6%, Roguelite 38.6%, 2D 5.8%, Singleplayer 5.1%

Escape from an incredibly dangerous, randomly generated tower in a slapstick, roguelite adventure that looks like a cartoon and feels like a joke. Slashy slashy!

Why similar: Dark Humor 23.5%, Dungeon Crawler 21.6%, Action Roguelike 21.6%, Roguelite 13.6%, Funny 7.2%

Embark on a lifetime of adventure in a beautiful world of creativity and intrigue. Raise a family, customise your farm, run a business, craft items, and battle some marvellously malevolent monsters.

Why similar: Funny 37.4%, Fantasy 31.7%, 2D 19.4%, Adventure 6.7%, Singleplayer 4.9%

A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors. Engage raiders, aliens, Remnant soldiers and other factions in real-time-with-pause combat. Or use stealth to outwit them. Explore the massive world. Survive at all costs

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.4% ★, Base Building 26%, Dark Humor 16.1%, Building 12.6%, Character Customization 10.8%

Goblins have been hunted to extinction by cruel adventurers. Embark on a heartwarming adventure to rebuild their lair and help them thrive in this award-winning turn-based RPG where every decision counts.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.7% ★, Base Building 22.8%, Dark Humor 17.2%, Dungeon Crawler 15.9%, Cute 7.8%

Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

Why similar: Roguelite 66.1%, Strategy 19.6%, 2D 9.1%, Adventure 5.2%

Bear and Breakfast is a laid-back management adventure game where you build and run a bed and breakfast...but you’re a bear.

Why similar: Building 36.4%, Cute 27.8%, Funny 16.4%, Colorful 12.5%, Singleplayer 6.8%

Moonbury's residents need healing, and you're the best chemist around! With your trusty tools, a brewing cauldron, and a canine companion at your side, you'll need to diagnose symptoms, gather ingredients, brew potions, and cure ailments in this open-ended sim RPG.

Why similar: Character Customization 35.8%, Cute 23%, Colorful 16.4%, Singleplayer 9%, 2D 8.4%

Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!

Why similar: Base Building 63.5%, Building 25.2%, Adventure 7.3%, Action 4%

A base-building, Roguelike Action/Turn-based Strategy (RATS) game, in a forest invaded by a million Rats. As the powerful Spirit of Vengeance, you must save the adorable Villagers! Explore a randomly generated world, expand your village, and exterminate the Rats!

Why similar: Base Building 32.5%, Roguelite 17.5%, Building 14.4%, Cute 10.5%, Funny 7.5%

A super cute and tasty roguelite-flavored dungeon crawler! Explore a lush world and defeat monsters with your trusty spatula and some boba tea, then gather delicious ingredients and bring them home to cook and serve at your restaurant!

Why similar: Action Roguelike 31.5%, Dungeon Crawler 29.1%, Roguelite 17.7%, Cute 14%, Fantasy 7.6%

Play as a Rogue Artificial Intelligence, in the sequel to the hit Flash game "I'm an Insane Rogue AI", played more than 4 million times! Your Prime Directive is simple: design a facility & manage human Test Subjects for the Dept of Science. But be careful: they NEVER stop being suspicious of you...

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1% ★, Base Building 22.6%, Dark Humor 15.2%, Building 11.5%, Roguelite 10.6%

Join the witches in their quest to restore the Grimoire Groves! Master magic, grow cute plant creatures and discover the mystery of the Rainbow Socks in this cozy, rogue-lite dungeon crawler.

Why similar: Dungeon Crawler 25.3%, Action Roguelike 24.2%, Roguelite 18.9%, Building 14.3%, Fantasy 6.6%

Cast Out Colony combines roguelite and bullet-heaven action with robust town-building elements. Choose from various characters, fight hordes of foes, and grow your colony, which in return grows your stats, offering a unique twist on the survival genre.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 28.6%, Base Building 27.2%, Roguelite 18.5%, Cute 10.1%, Building 8.1%

A colony building game with an emphasis on unexpected events, online co-op, and managing a unique community. Build your colony, feed your colonists, research technologies, craft advanced weapons, explore the world, fight enemies and defend your property.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.7% ★, Base Building 28.4%, Building 13%, Character Customization 11.8%, Cute 6.9%

Free stand‑alone Prologue. Shape a grand colony where every life bends to your will. Feel the weight of absolute power as you decree laws, then march into chaos, leading squads in roguelite FPS battles from brutal skirmishes to large-scale battlefields. Play Sector One now & wishlist the full game.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.2% ★, Base Building 23.5%, Action Roguelike 14.1%, Roguelite 13%, Dark Humor 9.1%

Date your weapons! Romance swords, daggers, and polearms to level them up in this “shack-and-slash” dungeon crawling adventure.

Why similar: Dungeon Crawler 25.7%, Action Roguelike 25%, Roguelite 19.8%, Cute 13.6%, Funny 9.6%

The cutest, deadliest top-down roguelike shooter featuring AK-wielding Axolotls. Blast your way through the animal kingdom with an arsenal of kick-ass guns, mighty power-ups and even raise an army of trigger-happy baby axolotls. 🔫🔫 Double the firepower! Local co-op update now live!

Why similar: Action Roguelike 26.2%, Roguelite 18.2%, Character Customization 17.1%, Cute 12.4%, Funny 8.6%

The Lich has thrown the world into a timeless loop and plunged its inhabitants into never ending chaos. Wield an expanding deck of mystical cards to place enemies, buildings, and terrain along each unique expedition loop for the brave hero.

Why similar: Roguelite 59%, Fantasy 19.5%, 2D 12.3%, Adventure 9.1%

Lead hundreds of "wise" little animals to pay tribute to the Cat God!! 7 animal families, 100+ animals, 10+ Cat Gods, 100+ items, and various animal combinations waiting for you to explore!

Why similar: Roguelite 77.7%, Strategy 22.3%

Explore a land filled with lost legends, ancient powers, and ferocious monsters in TUNIC, an isometric action game about a small fox on a big adventure.

Why similar: Cute 54.7%, Fantasy 20%, Colorful 16.5%, Action 8.7%

A medieval fantasy kingdom builder, management sim and dungeon delver RPG hybrid. Gather resources, manage villagers and build infrastructure. Then dive into the dungeons to face the monsters within. Or just unlock everything in a Creative "God Mode" and build the fantasy kingdom of your dreams.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.8% ★, Base Building 23.4%, Dungeon Crawler 16.2%, Building 12.6%, Character Customization 10.7%