- #1 Rogue Legacy 2
97% matchVery Positive91% of 15,153 reviews2022
Dev: Cellar Door Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.7 hrsMean: 24.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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: Metroidvania 36.9%, Platformer 13.3%, Roguelite 11.2%, Roguelike 8.9%, Procedural Generation 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: Its procedurally generated castle runs, permanent upgrades, varied classes, and crisp platform combat make it one of the closest roguelite action-platformer alternatives.
- #2 Skul: The Hero Slayer
96% matchVery Positive93% of 57,659 reviews2021
Dev: SOUTHPAW GAMESPub: NEOWIZ
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 23.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 20.1%, Metroidvania 13.4%, Roguelike 12.2%, Roguelite 10.9%, Pixel Graphics 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: Its side-scrolling roguelite structure, rapid combat, interchangeable character forms, and build experimentation strongly suit Dead Cells players.
- #3 The Rogue Prince of Persia
96% matchVery Positive90% of 2,920 reviews2025
Dev: Evil EmpirePub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 74%
In this challenging, fast-paced roguelite, every death is a unique chance to rewrite fate, save Persia or die trying. Master fluid, acrobatic combat and parkour as you explore your kingdom to right your wrongs!
Why similar: Action Roguelike 20.8%, Roguelite 17.9%, Roguelike 14.3%, Souls-like 13.5%, Platformer 12.5%
Why You'll Like It: This fast, side-scrolling action roguelite emphasizes acrobatic movement, weapon builds, branching runs, and fluid combat from Dead Cells developer Evil Empire.
- #4 Have a Nice Death
95% matchVery Positive86% of 10,816 reviews2023
Dev: Magic Design StudiosPub: Arc Games
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 14.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Metroidvania 19.3%, Hack and Slash 17.4%, Action Roguelike 17.1%, Roguelike 11.2%, Roguelite 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: Fast scythe-based combat, room-to-room roguelite runs, upgrades, curses, and a hand-drawn gothic workplace make it a natural fit.
- #5 Astral Ascent
94% matchVery Positive95% of 8,595 reviews2023
Dev: Hibernian Workshop
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Choose one of four heroes and explore the Garden, an astral prison guarded by 12 powerful mystical bosses: the Zodiacs. Challenge them with dozens of unique spells and faithful friends by your side to unfold the story of this platform roguelite with lightning fast combat.
Why similar: Hack and Slash 18.6%, Action Roguelike 17.3%, Roguelite 14%, Roguelike 12.9%, Platformer 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: A polished 2D roguelite with highly mobile combat, deep spell customization, tough bosses, and satisfying long-term unlock progression.
- #6 ScourgeBringer
94% matchVery Positive86% of 3,284 reviews2020
Dev: Flying Oak GamesPub: Dear Villagers
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
ScourgeBringer is a fast-paced free-moving roguelite platformer. Help Kyhra to explore the unknown and slash her way through ancient machines guarding the seal of her past, and maybe the redemption of humanity.
Why similar: Roguelite 15.3%, Action Roguelike 13.8%, Metroidvania 13.7%, Roguelike 10.8%, Pixel Graphics 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: It delivers exceptionally aggressive, momentum-driven platform combat with roguelite upgrades and punishing boss encounters.
- #7 Dungreed
93% matchVery Positive93% of 9,605 reviews2018
Dev: TEAM HORAY
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 22.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Dungreed is a 2D side-scrolling action game with 2D Rogue-LITE elements. You become an adventurer exploring a continuously evolving dungeon to prevent the town from being destroyed. Eliminate enemies, use a variety of weapons and magic, eat food, and defeat evil in the dungeon!
Why similar: Action Roguelike 26.8%, Roguelike 18.7%, Roguelite 18%, Pixel Graphics 12.4%, Platformer 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: This pixel-art dungeon crawler combines randomly generated runs, loot-heavy builds, permanent upgrades, and responsive side-scrolling action.
- #8 Oblivion Override
92% matchVery Positive91% of 2,055 reviews2024
Dev: Humble MillPub: XD
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 73%
An intense, hardcore action side-scroller. Maneuver as a ninja killerbot through dynamic wastelands with 26+ specialized weapons. Dodge, dash, and dominate. A homage to Metroidvania and Roguelike: customize atomic evolution, breach intricate alert levels to decrypt the Oblivion Code...
Why similar: Hack and Slash 26.7%, Action Roguelike 24%, Roguelike 18.3%, Roguelite 16.7%, 2D 4.8%
Why You'll Like It: This stylish 2D action roguelite pairs combo-heavy melee combat and weapon builds with randomized stages and persistent progression.
- #9 Summum Aeterna
91% matchVery Positive83% of 399 reviews2023
Dev: Aeternum Game Studios S.L
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Summum Aeterna is a fast-paced Roguelite inspired by the Metroidvania Aeterna Noctis. Create your own worlds, challenges, difficulty and influences in each new run. Die, learn, become stronger, and achieve victory. Death is inevitable, but glory is only for the chosen.
Why similar: Hack and Slash 13.7%, Action Roguelike 13%, Roguelite 10.7%, Roguelike 10.4%, Dark Fantasy 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: A dark fantasy action roguelite built around procedurally generated worlds, weapon upgrades, platforming, and demanding 2D combat.
- #10 Hollow Knight
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 563,086 reviews2017
Dev: Team Cherry
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 11.4 hrsMean: 41.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
Why similar: Metroidvania 34.1%, Souls-like 24.3%, Platformer 10.4%, Difficult 7.5%, Dark Fantasy 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: For the non-roguelite side of Dead Cells, it offers superb 2D movement, interconnected exploration, precise combat, and demanding boss fights.
- #11 Spiritfall
89% matchVery Positive93% of 2,002 reviews2024
Dev: Gentle GiantPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Spiritfall is a fast-paced Action Roguelite with combat inspired by Platform Fighters. Slash, smash, launch, and wall-splat a multitude of enemies using an ever-changing arsenal of divine powers.
Why similar: Hack and Slash 18.4%, Action Roguelike 18.2%, Roguelite 13.8%, Roguelike 12.8%, Procedural Generation 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: This platform-fighter roguelite offers highly kinetic aerial combat, weapon-specific builds, blessings, and repeatable runs.
- #12 Fury Unleashed
90% matchVery Positive87% of 2,923 reviews2020
Dev: Awesome Games Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Shoot your way through the pages of an ever-changing comic book in this fast-paced roguelike. Play solo, in local or online co-op, expand your weaponry, and upgrade your hero with each run. All that to find out why has your creator lost his faith in you and to prove him wrong.
Why similar: Roguelike 25.4%, Roguelite 20%, Platformer 18.8%, Difficult 14.9%, Action 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Its comic-book presentation hides a very Dead Cells-like loop of chain-kill combat, randomized rooms, weapons, perks, and repeated runs.
- #13 Hades
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 308,953 reviews2020
Dev: Supergiant Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 16.0 hrsMean: 38.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 28.7%, Hack and Slash 23%, Roguelite 16.9%, Roguelike 14.3%, Difficult 4.7%
Why You'll Like It: Although viewed from above, it provides the same excellent cycle of rapid combat, randomized builds, permanent growth, and compelling repeat runs.
- #14 Blasphemous
88% matchVery Positive90% of 67,491 reviews2019
Dev: The Game KitchenPub: Team17
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Blasphemous is a brutal action-platformer with skilled hack’n slash combat set in the nightmare world of Cvstodia. Explore, upgrade your abilities, and perform savage executions on the hordes of enemies that stand between you and your quest to break eternal damnation.
Why similar: Metroidvania 33.6%, Souls-like 26.2%, Dark Fantasy 12.1%, Pixel Graphics 7.8%, Platformer 5.5%
Why You'll Like It: Its grim pixel-art world, weighty melee combat, exploration, and punishing bosses capture Dead Cells' darker soulslike-metroidvania appeal.
- #15 Neon Abyss
87% matchVery Positive86% of 23,629 reviews2020
Dev: Veewo GamesPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Neon Abyss is a frantic, roguelite action-platformer where you run ‘n’ gun your way into the Abyss. Featuring unlimited item synergies and a unique dungeon evolution system, each run diversifies the experience and every choice alters the ruleset.
Why similar: Roguelike 19%, Procedural Generation 18%, Action Roguelike 14.7%, Platformer 14.5%, Roguelite 12%
Why You'll Like It: Its chaotic side-scrolling runs, huge item combinations, platforming, and frequent unlocks make it an accessible arcade-minded alternative.
- #16 Curse of the Dead Gods
86% matchVery Positive83% of 9,242 reviews2021
Dev: Passtech GamesPub: Focus Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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: Souls-like 23.3%, Action Roguelike 18.4%, Dark Fantasy 15%, Roguelite 12.5%, Roguelike 12.5%
Why You'll Like It: Its deliberate dodge-and-parry combat, weapon combinations, curses, and dangerous room-to-room runs appeal to players who enjoy Dead Cells' tension.
- #17 GetsuFumaDen: Undying Moon
86% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,144 reviews2022
Dev: KONAMI
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Death is not the end: defeat infernal foes until you die and carry on the fight with your eternal soul and memories in a new body!
Why similar: Hack and Slash 21.8%, Action Roguelike 17.4%, Roguelike 16.6%, Dark Fantasy 14.3%, Difficult 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: A gorgeous ukiyo-e action roguelite featuring deliberate melee combat, weapon mastery, branching stages, and dark supernatural bosses.
- #18 30XX
84% matchVery Positive90% of 2,820 reviews2023
Dev: Batterystaple Games
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 11.0 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Jump, shoot, and slash your way through 30XX, the roguelike action platformer you can play with a friend! Explore lush, ever-changing worlds that mix precise platforming with fevered combat. Destroy fearsome Guardians. Master unique Powers. Rediscover the thousand years we've lost.
Why similar: Action Roguelike 20.9%, Roguelite 15.8%, Procedural Generation 15.1%, Roguelike 14.9%, Platformer 13.3%
Why You'll Like It: It combines precise action-platforming and permanent roguelite progression with randomized stages, multiple characters, and extensive build choices.
- #19 Salt and Sanctuary
85% matchVery Positive89% of 21,932 reviews2016
Dev: Ska Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 13.7 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Explore a haunting, punishing island in this stylized 2D action RPG. Salt and Sanctuary combines fast and brutal 2D combat with richly developed RPG mechanics in a cursed realm of forgotten cities, blood-soaked dungeons, and desecrated monuments.
Why similar: Souls-like 45%, Metroidvania 23.8%, Dark Fantasy 11.2%, Difficult 5.8%, Platformer 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: This 2D soulslike delivers oppressive atmosphere, build-driven combat, dangerous exploration, and memorable boss encounters.
- #20 Blade Assault
84% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,299 reviews2022
Dev: TeamSuneatPub: NEOWIZ
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Blade Assault is a 2D action rogue-lite platformer with beautiful pixel art set in a desolate sci-fi world. Fight against the corrupt military of Esperanza as part of the resistance force of the Undercity. Bring the corrupt to justice by becoming stronger and fighting alongside your trusty comrades.
Why similar: Roguelike 19%, Platformer 15.2%, Hack and Slash 15%, Roguelite 13.3%, Action Roguelike 12.6%
Why You'll Like It: Its cyberpunk 2D roguelite runs focus on quick melee action, randomized upgrades, weapon cores, and a satisfying power curve.
- #21 Death's Gambit: Afterlife
82% matchVery Positive81% of 5,603 reviews2018
Dev: White RabbitPub: Serenity Forge
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Death's Gambit: Afterlife is a challenging 2D action platformer with deep RPG elements. As an agent of Death bound to his service, unravel the mystery of Siradon and discover the true price of immortality.
Why similar: Souls-like 38%, Metroidvania 25.4%, Dark Fantasy 11%, Pixel Graphics 6.5%, Platformer 4.8%
Why You'll Like It: It blends 2D exploration, character builds, demanding bosses, and a dark fantasy world with a stronger RPG angle.
- #22 Metal Unit
82% matchVery Positive83% of 2,906 reviews2021
Dev: JellySnow StudioPub: NEOWIZ
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Metal Unit is a sprawling side-scrolling platformer with roguelite features. Play as Joanna, a soldier on a mission to capture her treasonous sister. Wear the M-Unit 11 suit and battle against monsters and aliens while uncovering the truth about humanity.
Why similar: Roguelite 18.8%, Metroidvania 15.4%, Pixel Graphics 15.2%, Action Roguelike 14.1%, Action 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: This mech-focused side-scrolling roguelite delivers fast hack-and-slash encounters, lootable weapons, and a large pool of upgrades.
- #23 Flinthook
83% matchMostly Positive74% of 844 reviews2017
Dev: Tribute Games Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Live the life of space captain Flinthook! Armed with your mighty hookshot, your uncanny slow-motion powers and your trusty blasma pistol, plunder and fight your way through an infinite variety of randomly-assembled spaceships for treasure, loot and fame!
Why similar: Action Roguelike 28.5%, Roguelite 13.6%, Roguelike 13.3%, Platformer 11.7%, Pixel Graphics 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: Grappling-hook movement and snappy gunplay give its procedurally assembled roguelite runs a similarly agile, mastery-focused feel.
- #24 Revita
81% matchVery Positive81% of 2,438 reviews2022
Dev: BenStarPub: Dear Villagers
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 60%
In this fast paced twin-stick roguelite platformer, you play as an unnamed child ascending an ominous clocktower in pursuit of their lost memories. Harvest and sacrifice souls to grow your power in order to challenge procedural encounter rooms and intimidating bosses!
Why similar: Action Roguelike 24.9%, Roguelite 18.7%, Roguelike 16.6%, Procedural Generation 16%, Pixel Graphics 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: A demanding twin-stick platform roguelite with room-based runs, powerful synergies, and health-for-upgrades risk management.
- #25 Moonscars
81% matchVery Positive83% of 1,528 reviews2022
Dev: Black MermaidPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Push the limits of your combat skills, and master new abilities to progress through an unforgiving nonlinear 2D world. Face off against the relentless darkness that seeks to destroy you. In Moonscars, every death is a lesson learnt—and as you overcome each challenge, new truths will be revealed.
Why similar: Metroidvania 31%, Souls-like 28.1%, Pixel Graphics 7.9%, Platformer 7.3%, Hack and Slash 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: A bleak pixel-art action metroidvania with aggressive melee combat, parries, resource management, and soulslike challenge.
- #26 Risk of Rain Returns
78% matchVery Positive90% of 28,738 reviews2023
Dev: Hopoo GamesPub: Gearbox Publishing
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 18.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Carefully designed, beautifully remastered, and loaded with new ways to play—Risk of Rain is back and better than ever! Dive into the iconic roguelike full of unique loot combinations, enhanced with new Survivors, overhauled multiplayer, fan favorite content from Risk of Rain 2, and more!
Why similar: Action Roguelike 40.9%, Roguelike 23%, Pixel Graphics 10.2%, 2D 9.9%, Atmospheric 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: This challenging 2D roguelite emphasizes escalating enemy pressure, randomized levels, item stacking, and learning through repeated runs.
- #27 Hollow Knight: Silksong
76% matchVery Positive89% of 424,009 reviews2025
Dev: Team Cherry
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 35.5 hrsMean: 47.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Discover a vast, haunted kingdom in Hollow Knight: Silksong! Explore, fight and survive as you ascend to the peak of a land ruled by silk and song.
Why similar: Metroidvania 35.2%, Souls-like 26.4%, Platformer 10%, Difficult 9.1%, 2D 4.2%
- #28 Windblown
78% matchVery Positive89% of 10,402 reviews2024
Dev: Motion Twin
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 14.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
A lightning-fast 1–3 player co-op roguelite from the creators of Dead Cells. DASH, DIVE and DESTROY across a shattered world. Build wild loadouts, unleash devastating Alterattacks, and become the last stand against the Vortex.
Why similar: Metroidvania 18.1%, Souls-like 16.9%, Hack and Slash 12.1%, Action Roguelike 10.9%, Dark Fantasy 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: From Motion Twin, this fast cooperative action roguelite centers on frantic movement, weapon swapping, build synergies, and difficult repeatable expeditions.
- #29 GRIME
79% matchVery Positive85% of 6,798 reviews2021
Dev: Clover BitePub: Akupara Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Destroy... Absorb... Grow... GRIME is a fast and unforgiving Action-Adventure RPG in which you crush your foes with living weapons that mutate form and function, and then consume their remains with a black hole to strengthen your vessel as you break apart a world of anatomical horror and intrigue.
Why similar: Metroidvania 28.8%, Souls-like 26.9%, Dark Fantasy 13.8%, Platformer 10.8%, Difficult 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: Its unusual biomechanical setting, deliberate combat, parry system, and interconnected metroidvania map fit the more methodical side of Dead Cells.
- #30 A Robot Named Fight!
80% matchVery Positive88% of 897 reviews2017
Dev: Morningstar Game Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A Robot Named Fight is a Metroidvania roguelike focused on exploration and item collection. Explore a different, procedurally-generated labyrinth each time you play and discover randomized power-ups to traverse obstacles, find secrets and explode meat beasts.
Why similar: Metroidvania 32.1%, Action Roguelike 16.4%, Roguelite 12.7%, Procedural Generation 10.3%, Platformer 8%
Why You'll Like It: It uniquely combines a procedurally generated metroidvania world with permadeath runs, secrets, power-ups, and alien-gore atmosphere.
- #31 Souldiers
79% matchMixed69% of 3,156 reviews2022
Dev: Retro ForgePub: Dear Villagers
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 15.3 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Fight for your freedom in a sprawling fantasy world caught between the living and the fallen. Hone your skills in a retro epic featuring puzzle platforming, metroidvania exploration and crunchy soulslike combat.
Why similar: Metroidvania 50.5%, Souls-like 13.7%, Pixel Graphics 13.1%, Difficult 8.6%, Action 4.4%
Why You'll Like It: This colorful action metroidvania provides weighty combat, traversal upgrades, branching exploration, and demanding boss-focused progression.
- #32 Katana ZERO
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 76,196 reviews2019
Dev: AskiisoftPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Katana ZERO is a stylish neo-noir, action-platformer featuring breakneck action and instant-death combat. Slash, dash, and manipulate time to unravel your past in a beautifully brutal acrobatic display.
Why similar: Hack and Slash 24.9%, Pixel Graphics 21.1%, Platformer 20.4%, Difficult 9.9%, Action 7.6%
- #33 Rogue Legacy
77% matchVery Positive92% of 18,856 reviews2013
Dev: Cellar Door Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 14.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Rogue Legacy is a genealogical rogue-"LITE" where anyone can be a hero. Each time you die, your child will succeed you. Every child is unique. One child might be colorblind, another might be a dwarf with vertigo. But that's OK, because no one is perfect, and you don't have to be to succeed.
Why similar: Roguelike 24.2%, Platformer 24%, Metroidvania 16.7%, Action Roguelike 16.5%, Roguelite 5.1%
- #34 Hyper Light Drifter
77% matchVery Positive93% of 19,210 reviews2016
Dev: Heart Machine
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with dangers and lost technologies.
Why similar: Hack and Slash 16%, Metroidvania 15.6%, Pixel Graphics 15.4%, Souls-like 14.2%, Difficult 10.7%
- #35 Noita
75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 89,025 reviews2020
Dev: Nolla Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 29.9 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
Why similar: Roguelike 24.3%, Action Roguelike 19.8%, Difficult 15%, Roguelite 14.6%, Pixel Graphics 14.3%
- #36 The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 459,038 reviews2014
Dev: Nicalis, Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 27.4 hrsMean: 161.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 30%, Roguelike 22.9%, Difficult 10.5%, Pixel Graphics 8.4%, Procedural Generation 8.2%
- #37 Crypt of the NecroDancer
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 26,523 reviews2015
Dev: Brace Yourself Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
Why similar: Roguelike 36.1%, Pixel Graphics 15.4%, Difficult 12.5%, Procedural Generation 9.5%, Roguelite 8.8%
- #38 Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
73% matchVery Positive93% of 41,767 reviews2019
Dev: ArtPlayPub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 10.7 hrsMean: 24.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is an exploration-focused, side-scroller action RPG by Koji Igarashi. Play as Miriam, an orphan scarred by an alchemist's curse that slowly crystallizes her body. Battle through a demon-infested castle and defeat its master to save yourself, and all of humanity!
Why similar: Metroidvania 65.3%, Dark Fantasy 9.5%, Platformer 8.8%, Action 4.8%, Adventure 4.1%
- #39 Caveblazers
74% matchVery Positive85% of 4,551 reviews2017
Dev: Deadpan GamesPub: Yogscast Games
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Caveblazers is a challenging and brutal roguelike platformer. Journey into a mysterious cave, fighting orcs and goblins with an abundance of weapons and magical items! Make friends along the way, then watch in despair as they are crushed in to a bloody pulp under a troll's fist.
Why similar: Action Roguelike 20%, Roguelike 14%, Procedural Generation 13.7%, Roguelite 13.6%, Platformer 12.5%
- #40 Infinitevania
70% matchVery Positive93% of 303 reviews2026
Dev: JHT Games
Windows
A metroidvania that combines the visual style of classic retro games with the fluid gameplay of modern titles. Explore different worlds, face challenging enemies and bosses, and absorb their powers to destroy the Core of Infinitevania.
Why similar: Metroidvania 29.7%, Souls-like 22%, Platformer 11.4%, Dark Fantasy 10.3%, Pixel Graphics 6.7%
- #41 Enter the Gungeon
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 89,914 reviews2016
Dev: Dodge RollPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 31.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 29.2%, Roguelike 24.5%, Pixel Graphics 13.4%, Difficult 10.9%, Roguelite 8.2%
- #42 Vagante
73% matchVery Positive89% of 5,040 reviews2018
Dev: Nuke Nine
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 17.7 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Vagante is an action-packed platformer that features permanent death and procedurally generated levels. Play cooperatively with friends both locally and online, or adventure solo in this challenging roguelike-inspired game.
Why similar: Metroidvania 17.6%, Action Roguelike 16.6%, Roguelite 12.6%, Roguelike 10.5%, Procedural Generation 9.9%
- #43 Titan Souls
73% matchMostly Positive79% of 13,873 reviews2015
Dev: Acid NervePub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac
Median: 48 minMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 43%
Between our world and the world beyond lie the Titan Souls, the spiritual source of all living things. Scattered amongst the ruins and guarded by the idle titans charged with their care, a solitary hero armed with a single arrow is assembling shards of the Titan Soul in a quest for truth and power.
Why similar: Souls-like 52.7%, Pixel Graphics 14.7%, Difficult 13.4%, Adventure 4.3%, Action 3.5%
- #44 Celeste
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 147,901 reviews2018
Dev: Maddy Makes Games Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 27.0 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Help Madeline survive her inner demons on her journey to the top of Celeste Mountain, in this super-tight platformer from the creators of TowerFall. Brave hundreds of hand-crafted challenges, uncover devious secrets, and piece together the mystery of the mountain.
Why similar: Platformer 25.4%, Difficult 21.5%, Pixel Graphics 20.4%, Great Soundtrack 8.4%, 2D 6.5%
- #45 Aura of Worlds
70% matchVery Positive91% of 151 reviews2024
Dev: Cognitive ForgePub: indie.io
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Aura of Worlds is a chaotic, creative tactics rogue-lite platformer. Explore multiple dangerous worlds where you utilize creative abilities & wield the environment to your advantage. Blast, dash, grapple, fight, and charm your way through ever-changing labyrinths & outwit powerful guardians!
Why similar: Metroidvania 20%, Souls-like 18.1%, Roguelike 10.7%, Procedural Generation 8.7%, Action Roguelike 8.7%
- #46 Foregone
72% matchVery Positive81% of 1,409 reviews2021
Dev: Big Blue Bubble
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Foregone is a fast and fluid 2D action-platformer packed with legendary loot and stunning pixel art. Collect an arsenal of powerful weapons and unravel a compelling story of regret and conspiracy as you slice your way through hordes of enemies to save Calagan.
Why similar: Metroidvania 24.6%, Souls-like 19.7%, Platformer 10.8%, Hack and Slash 7.5%, Roguelike 6.8%
- #47 Skelly Selest
71% 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 20.1%, Roguelite 14.9%, Hack and Slash 13.4%, Roguelike 12.8%, Procedural Generation 10.6%
- #48 Spelunky
71% matchVery Positive92% of 16,681 reviews2013
Dev: Mossmouth
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 21.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Spelunky is a unique platformer with randomized levels that offer a challenging new experience each time you play. Journey deep underground and explore fantastic places filled with all manner of monsters, traps, and treasure.
Why similar: Action Roguelike 25.1%, Platformer 22.3%, Roguelike 21.7%, Procedural Generation 11.3%, Difficult 9.8%
- #49 UnderMine
69% matchVery Positive90% of 9,862 reviews2020
Dev: Thorium
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 39.1%, Roguelite 22.2%, Pixel Graphics 11.6%, Procedural Generation 8.5%, Roguelike 4.4%
- #50 Katanaut
67% matchVery Positive90% of 561 reviews2025
Dev: VoidmawPub: Acclaim, Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Katanaut is a fast-paced, Metroidvania-inspired action roguelite blending fluid combat and cosmic horror. Slash, dodge, and wield powerful abilities as you battle through a station sprawling with twisted, once-human horrors. Adapt, survive, and descend into the shadows to uncover dark secrets.
Why similar: Souls-like 18.6%, Hack and Slash 13.4%, Action Roguelike 12.3%, Roguelike 10.2%, Roguelite 9.2%
- #51 Blasphemous 2
67% matchVery Positive91% of 21,782 reviews2023
Dev: The Game KitchenPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 13.9 hrsMean: 22.0 hrs≥1hr: 80%
The Penitent One awakens as Blasphemous 2 joins him once again in an endless struggle against The Miracle. Dive into a perilous new world filled with mysteries and secrets to discover, and tear your way through monstrous foes that stand between you and your quest to end the cycle once and for all.
Why similar: Metroidvania 25.2%, Souls-like 23.1%, Hack and Slash 12.3%, Difficult 10.8%, Dark Fantasy 8.8%
- #52 Vampire Survivors
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 266,062 reviews2022
Dev: poncle
Windows · Mac
Median: 19.1 hrsMean: 40.1 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Why similar: Action Roguelike 36%, Roguelite 20.8%, Pixel Graphics 12.3%, Roguelike 11.5%, Dark Fantasy 8.2%
- #53 In Celebration of Violence
70% matchVery Positive87% of 507 reviews2018
Dev: Julian Edison
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 94%
A fantasy action roguelike of exploration and murder. Live, kill, die, improve, live again.
Why similar: Souls-like 19.4%, Action Roguelike 12.7%, Procedural Generation 10.8%, Roguelite 9.8%, Roguelike 9.5%
- #54 Dunjungle
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 752 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: Action Roguelike 19.8%, Procedural Generation 16.2%, Roguelike 13%, Roguelite 11.2%, Metroidvania 9.4%
- #55 Wizard of Legend
68% matchVery Positive91% of 21,075 reviews2018
Dev: Contingent99
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Wizard of Legend is a no-nonsense, action-packed take on wizardry that emphasizes precise movements and smart comboing of spells in a rogue-like dungeon crawler that features over a hundred unique spells and relics!
Why similar: Action Roguelike 25.5%, Roguelike 16.1%, Hack and Slash 12.5%, Pixel Graphics 11.6%, Roguelite 11.3%
- #56 Slay the Spire
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 218,929 reviews2019
Dev: Mega Crit
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 19.5 hrsMean: 67.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Why similar: Roguelike 53%, Roguelite 23.6%, Difficult 8.6%, Procedural Generation 6.1%, Singleplayer 3.9%
- #57 Exit the Gungeon
69% matchMostly Positive74% of 3,763 reviews2020
Dev: Dodge RollPub: Devolver Digital
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Exit the Gungeon is a small, spin-off 'dungeon climber' immediately following the adventures of the misfit Gungeoneers.
Why similar: Adventure 20.4%, Pixel Graphics 18.5%, Action 18.1%, Difficult 9.7%, Funny 7.9%
- #58 Dark Devotion
69% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,509 reviews2019
Dev: Hibernian WorkshopPub: The Arcade Crew
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Explore the secrets of a mysterious fallen temple and put your Templar faith to the test in Dark Devotion, where no sacrifice is too great in praise of your God.
Why similar: Souls-like 28.1%, Metroidvania 20.4%, Action Roguelike 12%, Dark Fantasy 8.5%, Pixel Graphics 7.8%
- #59 Risk of Rain (2013)
67% matchVery Positive93% of 29,834 reviews2013
Dev: Hopoo GamesPub: Gearbox Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 14.5 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Risk of Rain is an action platformer with roguelike elements. With permanent death as a primary feature, players will have to play their best to get as far as possible. Fight on a mysterious planet with randomly spawning enemies and bosses, either alone or with 3 friends in online co-op.
Why similar: Action Roguelike 28%, Roguelike 23.1%, Platformer 13.8%, Pixel Graphics 8.8%, Roguelite 7.3%
- #60 BlazBlue Entropy Effect
63% matchVery Positive94% of 36,625 reviews2024
Dev: 91Act
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 20.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Enjoy action-packed flashy combat with incredibly satisfying combos and responsive controls! Numerous characters, each with completely unique playstyles and loads of unlockable moves & upgrades! This action roguelike sets the bar for fluid fast-paced action.
Why similar: Action Roguelike 26.8%, Hack and Slash 18.1%, Procedural Generation 14.7%, Platformer 14%, Pixel Graphics 9.2%