- #1 Drova - Forsaken Kin
96% matchVery Positive94% of 9,095 reviews2024
Dev: Just2DPub: Deck13
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Drova is an Action-RPG that marries the dark grim tones of its genre with the mysticism of Celtic mythology. Encounter a society where ancient restless spirits and divided factions battle for dominance. Uncover forgotten abilities and unravel the secrets of a past shrouded in mystery.
Why similar: CRPG 17.1%, Souls-like 16.3%, Action RPG 12.7%, Character Customization 9.7%, Open World 9%
Why You'll Like It: Features a dark, gritty atmosphere with pixel-art aesthetics and challenging action-RPG combat.
- #2 UnderRail
97% matchVery Positive86% of 7,028 reviews2015
Dev: Stygian Software
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 39.2 hrs≥1hr: 69%
UnderRail is an old-school turn-based isometric role-playing game that features a large open post-apocalyptic world, deep and challenging combat and an intricate storyline.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 24.4%, CRPG 20.2%, Isometric 20.1%, RPG 10%, Cyberpunk 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore isometric CRPG that excels in world-building and complex character progression within a post-apocalyptic setting.
- #3 Dread Delusion
96% matchVery Positive90% of 4,890 reviews2024
Dev: Lovely HellplacePub: DreadXP
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Dread Delusion is an open world RPG brimming with strange places and dark perils. Carve your own path through the flying continents of a shattered land. Discover curious towns, unearth occult secrets, master powerful magic - and change the world through your choices.
Why similar: Open World 17.7%, Souls-like 15.5%, Character Customization 12%, Exploration 11%, RPG 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: Matches the weird, cosmic, and unsettling world-building of Death Trash through a unique retro-inspired lens.
- #4 LISA: The Painful
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 14,938 reviews2014
Dev: Dingaling ProductionsPub: Serenity Forge
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 29.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
The miserable journey of a broken man...
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 36.3%, Choices Matter 15.9%, Pixel Graphics 14.4%, Story Rich 11%, RPG 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: Captures the same dark, weird, and emotionally heavy post-apocalyptic tone found in Death Trash.
- #5 Encased: A Sci-Fi Post-Apocalyptic RPG
94% matchMostly Positive77% of 4,721 reviews2021
Dev: Dark Crystal GamesPub: Prime Matter
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
A tactical sci-fi RPG set in an alternative 1970's, where an enormous and inexplicable artifact –the Dome– is discovered in a remote desert. Fight enemies, explore the anomalous wasteland, level up your character, join one of the forces in the ruined world.
Why similar: CRPG 27.3%, Post-apocalyptic 25.3%, Isometric 16.2%, RPG 7%, Open World 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a deep, isometric, turn-based experience set in a mysterious, isolated post-apocalyptic facility.
- #6 ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game
94% matchVery Positive85% of 10,424 reviews2018
Dev: AtomTeam
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 27.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
ATOM RPG is a post-apocalyptic indie game, inspired by classic CRPGs: Fallout, Wasteland, Deus Ex, Baldur's Gate and many others.
Why similar: CRPG 26.7%, Post-apocalyptic 23.2%, Isometric 18.8%, Open World 8.3%, Exploration 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A classic-style CRPG that leans heavily into the survival and exploration aspects of a post-nuclear wasteland.
- #7 ZERO Sievert
91% matchVery Positive85% of 14,699 reviews2024
Dev: CABO StudioPub: Modern Wolf
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 23.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Now with over 500,000 copies sold, ZERO Sievert is a tense top-down extraction shooter that challenges you to scavenge a procedurally-generated wasteland, loot gear, and explore what’s left of a devastated world. When the odds are stacked against you, you’ll need to do more than just survive...
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 43.9%, Open World 18.5%, Pixel Graphics 16.2%, Exploration 10.6%, Atmospheric 8%
Why You'll Like It: Combines pixel-art visuals with intense, top-down survival gameplay in a dangerous post-apocalyptic environment.
- #8 Undungeon
93% matchMixed64% of 375 reviews2021
Dev: Laughing MachinesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 53%
Undungeon is a gorgeous Action/RPG driven by intense real-time combat and an immensely rich science fiction story. Travel between dimensions and change the world around you in an attempt to reconstruct the shattered Multiverse.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 26.5%, Action RPG 19.7%, Isometric 18.7%, Pixel Graphics 12%, Atmospheric 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Shares a similar pixel-art aesthetic and action-RPG focus while exploring strange, multi-dimensional post-apocalyptic themes.
- #9 Wrought Flesh
92% matchMostly Positive74% of 809 reviews2021
Dev: MizizizizPub: Deep Root Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 2.4 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Rip out organs and equip them in your own body. Fight biopunk monsters and drugged-up space bandits. You are a Gajeshian Cultist: A near-mythological being built from the bodies of long-dead saints.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 33.9%, Pixel Graphics 17.4%, Open World 16.5%, Exploration 15.4%, RPG 14.1%
Why You'll Like It: A bizarre, body-horror-focused action game that mirrors the grotesque and weird aesthetic of Death Trash.
- #10 ATOM RPG Trudograd
91% matchVery Positive84% of 4,354 reviews2021
Dev: AtomTeam
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
ATOM RPG: Trudograd is a turn-based post-apocalyptic roleplaying game, which continues the story of ATOM RPG as a stand-alone sequel/expansion, and follows the traditions set by classic cRPGs such as the early Fallout and Wasteland titles.
Why similar: CRPG 24%, Post-apocalyptic 21.6%, Isometric 15.5%, Open World 11.7%, RPG 6%
Why You'll Like It: A direct, high-quality expansion of the ATOM RPG formula that refines the post-apocalyptic exploration experience.
- #11 Chaos Chain
90% matchVery Positive95% of 63 reviews2022
Dev: Corrosive Studios LLC
Windows
A dark cyberpunk RPG in a bleak dystopian future. Become a "freelancer" in the heart of Slade City, a sprawling urban nightmare of grimy asphalt and broken dreams where crime and disorder run rampant. - Stay Alert. Stay Armed. Stay Alive. Don't lose your humanity.
Why similar: CRPG 19%, Post-apocalyptic 17.9%, Cyberpunk 16.2%, Character Customization 9.4%, Open World 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: A cyberpunk-themed CRPG that emphasizes survival and exploration in a gritty, urban post-apocalyptic landscape.
- #12 Citizen Sleeper
89% matchVery Positive93% of 9,761 reviews2022
Dev: Jump Over The AgePub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Roleplaying in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. Live the life of an escaped worker, washed-up on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society. Inspired by the flexibility and freedom of TTRPGs, explore the station, choose your friends, escape your past and change your future.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 44.1%, Story Rich 15.5%, Exploration 14.6%, RPG 14.5%, Atmospheric 11.4%
Why You'll Like It: Delivers a deeply atmospheric, narrative-heavy experience set in a gritty, sci-fi post-capitalist dystopia.
- #13 MEAT RPG
89% matchMostly Positive79% of 210 reviews2021
Dev: Trippin Bears
Windows · Mac · Linux
M.E.A.T. is a pixel art RPG game in a horror sci-fi setting, with renowned fight, movement and character development systems. Unravel the mystery of a sinister substance and become the hero of a small Canadian city during the Gold Rush era.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 17.2%, Isometric 16.3%, Action RPG 13.3%, Character Customization 10.5%, Open World 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: A surreal, pixel-art action-RPG that leans into the grotesque and experimental nature of its setting.
- #14 Grim Dawn
87% matchVery Positive94% of 104,668 reviews2016
Dev: Crate Entertainment
Windows
Median: 11.9 hrsMean: 65.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Enter an apocalyptic fantasy world where humanity is on the brink of extinction, iron is valued above gold and trust is hard earned. This ARPG features complex character development, hundreds of unique items, crafting and quests with choice & consequence.
Why similar: Action RPG 64.4%, Isometric 19.9%, Character Customization 5%, RPG 5%, Post-apocalyptic 3%
Why You'll Like It: An isometric action-RPG that excels in dark, atmospheric world-building and deep character customization.
- #15 Exanima
88% matchVery Positive80% of 13,229 reviews2015
Dev: Bare Mettle Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 19.6 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Explore, fight, survive and unravel mysteries in this unique and unforgiving 3D isometric RPG set in an original dark, low fantasy world. Exanima's exceptional attention to detail and realistic simulation of all things aim to provide a deeply immersive and dynamic gameplay experience.
Why similar: Isometric 34.6%, Souls-like 23.8%, RPG 18%, Character Customization 13.6%, Atmospheric 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: Features a unique physics-based combat system and a dark, dungeon-crawling atmosphere that feels remarkably tactile.
- #16 Sands of Aura
86% matchMostly Positive75% of 814 reviews2023
Dev: Chashu EntertainmentPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 49%
Sands of Aura is an open-world action adventure with a fantasy setting of a realm in its twilight--a world buried beneath a sea of sand. Sail across the sandseas to return life to a dying world in an unforgettable experience that is equal parts engaging story and unrelenting, souls-like combat.
Why similar: Souls-like 22.1%, Post-apocalyptic 19.1%, Isometric 16.2%, Action RPG 15.9%, Open World 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: An action-RPG with a dark, melancholic atmosphere and a world-spanning exploration focus.
- #17 BEAUTIFUL DESOLATION
86% matchMostly Positive77% of 684 reviews2020
Dev: THE BROTHERHOOD
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
BEAUTIFUL DESOLATION is an isometric, point & click adventure game set in a post-apocalyptic future. Explore an unscene landscape, solve puzzles, meet new friends and make powerful enemies, mediate conflicts and fight for your life as you unravel the secrets of the desolate world around you.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 31.5%, Isometric 28.7%, Old School 13.8%, Story Rich 9.4%, Choices Matter 9%
Why You'll Like It: An isometric adventure game that features a highly unique, surreal post-apocalyptic world.
- #18 Kenshi
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 110,425 reviews2018
Dev: Lo-Fi Games
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 70.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.
Why similar: Open World 39.6%, Post-apocalyptic 32.6%, RPG 16.3%, Character Customization 8.8%, Singleplayer 2.7%
Why You'll Like It: Offers unparalleled freedom in a brutal, sandbox post-apocalyptic world where you must carve out your own path.
- #19 Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut
85% matchVery Positive89% of 6,474 reviews2014
Dev: Harebrained SchemesPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Harebrained Schemes' biggest Shadowrun game to date, and the definitive Shadowrun RPG experience available on PC. Now a standalone title with tons of new content & improvements!
Why similar: Cyberpunk 37.8%, Isometric 20.7%, CRPG 17.4%, RPG 13.1%, Story Rich 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a masterclass in isometric, narrative-driven RPG gameplay within a dark, cyberpunk-infused setting.
- #20 Morbid: The Seven Acolytes
84% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,453 reviews2020
Dev: Still RunningPub: Silver Lining Interactive
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Morbid: The Seven Acolytes is a Horrorpunk Action RPG filled with Lovecraftian horrors and Cronenbergian gore, making it the most gruesome take on the isometric Souls-like genre yet!
Why similar: Souls-like 32.2%, Lovecraftian 31.8%, Action RPG 11.4%, Pixel Graphics 8.6%, RPG 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: A Lovecraftian-inspired action-RPG that shares the dark, grotesque aesthetic of Death Trash.
- #21 Bleak Faith: Forsaken
82% matchMostly Positive75% of 2,826 reviews2023
Dev: Archangel Studios
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Explore the last remnants of civilization in this vast, unforgiving, and interconnected world. Learn what is left of its history. Discover pockets of natural life in the perpetually expanding Omnistructure. Lose yourself in a journey unlike any other. Find your purpose in the world.
Why similar: Souls-like 37.4%, Action RPG 20.6%, Open World 16%, Exploration 10.6%, RPG 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: A dark, atmospheric action-RPG that emphasizes exploration and a sense of overwhelming scale.
- #22 INSOMNIA: The Ark
83% matchMixed59% of 1,250 reviews2018
Dev: Mono StudioPub: HeroCraft PC
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
INSOMNIA is a dieselpunk sci-fi RPG about the slowly degrading remnants of human society attempting to survive on an abandoned space metropolis. Develop your character, explore lovingly handcrafted locations, interact with peculiar NPCs and factions and try to stay alive in this brutal world.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 31.8%, Action RPG 13.7%, Character Customization 13.6%, Choices Matter 10.3%, RPG 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: A detailed, real-time tactical RPG set on a massive, decaying space station that feels like a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
- #23 Exoplanet: First Contact
82% matchMostly Positive75% of 328 reviews2016
Dev: AlersteamPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 32%
Build your path in this alien world. Do a dirty job for food or become the one who makes calls. Sometimes the right word makes a bigger impact than a big gun. Explore local culture and mysteries, and discover the harsh yet beautiful nature in this handcrafted singleplayer action RPG.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 24%, Action RPG 15.9%, Open World 14.9%, Choices Matter 10.3%, PvE 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world action-RPG that blends western themes with a harsh, alien post-apocalyptic environment.
- #24 Powerlust
79% matchMixed69% of 85 reviews2025
Dev: Bart Mamzer
Windows
Old school action RPG. Travel through an open world, design your own character class and feed your LUST for POWER by crushing your foes. Bonus replayability thanks to procedural generation, tons of abilities and items. Optional permadeath for hardcore roguelike fans!
Why similar: Isometric 28.2%, Action RPG 20.8%, Open World 15.2%, Old School 13.3%, RPG 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: An isometric action-RPG that provides a fast-paced, hack-and-slash experience with dark fantasy elements.
- #25 Project Zomboid
79% matchVery Positive94% of 440,877 reviews2013
Dev: The Indie Stone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 14.8 hrsMean: 82.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 39.3%, Open World 32.1%, Isometric 19.5%, RPG 7.5%, Singleplayer 1.6%
Why You'll Like It: A deep, isometric survival simulation that captures the desperate struggle for resources in a post-collapse world.
- #26 STASIS
81% matchVery Positive82% of 2,332 reviews2015
Dev: THE BROTHERHOOD
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
STASIS The isometric, point-and-click, sci-fi horror adventure game! In the distant future aboard a seemingly abandoned spacecraft, John Maracheck awakes from stasis. He must push himself to new physical and emotional limits and unravel the mysteries around him.
Why similar: Isometric 48.6%, Post-apocalyptic 27.3%, Story Rich 11.3%, Atmospheric 10%, Singleplayer 2.8%
Why You'll Like It: A tense, isometric horror game that captures the claustrophobic and unsettling sci-fi vibes of Death Trash.
- #27 Project Silverfish
77% matchVery Positive94% of 2,854 reviews2025
Dev: Siris Pendrake
Windows
Median: 11.0 hrsMean: 21.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Explore a hostile, living world: Uncover forgotten horrors, both man-made and supernatural, as you hunt for powerful weapons and exotic artifacts.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 36.9%, Open World 25.3%, Exploration 21.3%, Atmospheric 13.5%, Singleplayer 3.1%
- #28 The Age of Decadence
80% matchVery Positive82% of 3,941 reviews2015
Dev: Iron Tower Studio
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
The Age of Decadence is a turn-based, hardcore role-playing game set in a low magic, post-apocalyptic fantasy world. The game features a detailed skill-based character system, multiple skill-based ways to handle quests, choices & consequences, and extensive dialogue trees.
Why similar: CRPG 25.6%, Post-apocalyptic 18.8%, Isometric 17%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Old School 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore, choice-heavy RPG where your decisions have brutal consequences in a dying world.
- #29 Monomyth
77% matchVery Positive92% of 594 reviews2024
Dev: Rat Tower
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 67%
MONOMYTH is an immersive, first-person dungeon-crawling RPG inspired by the genre's late classics. Embark on a journey through a vast and highly interactive game world as you unravel the mysteries hidden beneath the ancient fortress of Lysandria.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 20.3%, Old School 17.3%, Action RPG 16.8%, Open World 12.9%, Character Customization 12.4%
- #30 Doomsday Hunters
78% matchVery Positive90% of 784 reviews2023
Dev: Moregames
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Shoot stuff in a perfect pixel world, combine items, build guns, die every time! Roguelite twin-stick shooter where magic and post-apocalyptic future technologies collide. Defeat evil lord Dracula and save everyone!
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 42.9%, Cyberpunk 37.5%, Pixel Graphics 16.8%, Singleplayer 2.8%
- #31 The Ascent
78% matchMostly Positive74% of 24,155 reviews2021
Dev: Neon GiantPub: KRAFTON, Inc.
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
The Ascent is a solo and co-op Action-shooter RPG set in a cyberpunk world. The mega corporation that owns you and everyone, The Ascent Group, has just collapsed. Can you survive without it?
Why similar: Cyberpunk 28.3%, Isometric 17.8%, Open World 13.6%, Action RPG 11%, Local Co-Op 9.9%
- #32 Pale Coins
75% matchVery Positive94% of 265 reviews2025
Dev: Lukas Irzl
Windows
Journey into the ruthless open world of Pale Coins, an old-school fantasy RPG. Face punishing bosses, goblin-infested dungeons, and discover legendary weapons as you customize your champion and fight across Grenmark for the fabled Champion's Coin.
Why similar: Souls-like 22%, Action RPG 15.1%, Open World 12.5%, Character Customization 11.2%, Choices Matter 8.8%
- #33 Kingdom of Night
75% matchVery Positive91% of 300 reviews2025
Dev: Friends of SafetyPub: DANGEN Entertainment
Windows
Hunt down nightmarish demons and save the town of Miami, AZ in this 80s-themed, isometric action-RPG. With an expansive, interconnected map and open-ended quests, explore freely while unraveling the main story. Kingdom of Night is a unique blend of coming-of-age drama, cosmic horror, and true love.
Why similar: Isometric 21.9%, Action RPG 17.1%, Character Customization 14.5%, Open World 12.3%, Pixel Graphics 9.5%
- #34 BIOMUTANT
76% matchMixed66% of 19,968 reviews2021
Dev: Experiment 101Pub: THQ Nordic
Windows
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
BIOMUTANT® is an open-world, post-apocalyptic Kung-Fu fable RPG, with a unique martial arts styled combat system allowing you to mix melee, shooting and mutant ability action.
Why similar: Open World 28%, Post-apocalyptic 23.7%, Character Customization 14.1%, Action RPG 9.4%, RPG 9.4%
- #35 CULTIC
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 8,238 reviews2022
Dev: Jasozz GamesPub: 3D Realms
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Death is only the beginning. Crawl from your grave and gear up to fight your way through the ranks of a mysterious and twisted cult. You, your guns, and your dynamite will have to shoot, slide, blast, duck, dodge, and maybe throw a gib or two to survive in this old-school-inspired shooter.
Why similar: Old School 55.7%, Lovecraftian 17.3%, Pixel Graphics 15.8%, PvE 8.5%, Singleplayer 2.8%
- #36 Devil Spire Falls
73% matchVery Positive96% of 478 reviews2025
Dev: Ithiro Sumi
Windows · Linux
The open-world action-RPG, where you can do anything, of your dreams… as if it came out 30 years ago!
Why similar: Souls-like 25.8%, Action RPG 21.8%, Open World 17.9%, Character Customization 17.5%, Exploration 9%
- #37 Nightmare Reaper
74% matchVery Positive94% of 3,713 reviews2022
Dev: Blazing Bit Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 14.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Blast through a cursed nightmare solo or with up to 3 friends. A retro-inspired FPS where looter shooter weapons meets boomer shooter chaos and rogue-lite elements.
Why similar: Old School 49.2%, Pixel Graphics 30.3%, Atmospheric 16.5%, Singleplayer 4.1%
- #38 GRAVEN
76% matchMixed54% of 1,475 reviews2024
Dev: Slipgate Ironworks™Pub: 3D Realms
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Action, mystery, and a chance for redemption await you in the gritty first-person action-adventure GRAVEN. Explore a dark fantasy world as a wrongly convicted man of faith. Battle the horrors of humanity, the wilds, and beyond using armaments, magic, and the environment.
Why similar: Old School 31.3%, Exploration 19.7%, Story Rich 16.3%, RPG 15.2%, Atmospheric 13.6%
- #39 Soulash 2
73% matchVery Positive86% of 2,323 reviews2023
Dev: Artur Smiarowski
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 25.4 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Soulash 2 is a sandbox RPG roguelike with a procedurally generated open world, simulated history, skill-based progression system, customizable abilities, material-based crafting, building, trading, and the possibility of total mayhem. Will you save your world or destroy it?
Why similar: Open World 35.2%, Exploration 22%, RPG 20.2%, Pixel Graphics 19.3%, Singleplayer 3.3%
- #40 MycoRelic
73% matchVery Positive91% of 154 reviews2025
Dev: Sandy Dingo Games
Windows
MycoRelic is a cooperative third person action-RPG set on islands inhabited by tribal mushroom robots. Loot derelict foundries to upgrade your robotic body. Explore ancient temples to infuse your fungus with forgotten elemental powers.
Why similar: Souls-like 28.4%, Post-apocalyptic 24.5%, Action RPG 17.4%, Exploration 9.5%, RPG 7.3%
- #41 SULFUR
71% matchVery Positive87% of 7,993 reviews2024
Dev: Perfect Random
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 17.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
SULFUR is a modern old-school action-adventure: Outsmart enemies, find treasure, improve weapons, harness powers. Delve deeper, find answers, make it end.
Why similar: Action RPG 69.5%, RPG 30.5%
- #42 Space Trash Scavenger
71% matchVery Positive84% of 514 reviews2024
Dev: SquarePlay GamesPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Grab your jetpack and explore procedural asteroid fields, derelict spaceships and abandoned outposts. Build and automate your Space Rig to process scavenged trash. Craft, trade and fight your way home in this interstellar, open-world survival sandbox.
Why similar: Open World 48.7%, Exploration 27.4%, Atmospheric 17.6%, Singleplayer 6.4%
- #43 No Rest for the Wicked
70% matchVery Positive80% of 74,907 reviews2024
Dev: Moon Studios GmbH
Windows
Median: 9.7 hrsMean: 21.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
From Moon Studios, the award-winning creators of Ori and the Blind Forest and Ori and the Will of the Wisps, comes No Rest for the Wicked, a unique, visceral Action RPG set in a hand-crafted world with Souls-like combat. Featuring co-op for up to four players.
Why similar: Souls-like 24.1%, Isometric 19.2%, Action RPG 15.4%, Character Customization 11.8%, Open World 11.8%
- #44 SKALD: Against the Black Priory
70% matchVery Positive94% of 3,442 reviews2024
Dev: High North Studios ASPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 75%
SKALD:Against the Black Priory is a retro-style party-based RPG set in a grim-dark fantasy world of tragic heroes, violent deaths and Lovecraftian horror. Take a chance and roll the dice as you embark on a compelling story filled with deadly creatures, branching story and tactical, turn-based combat
Why similar: Lovecraftian 19.8%, CRPG 18.8%, Old School 10.8%, Character Customization 10.4%, Exploration 9.5%
- #45 Salt and Sanctuary
72% matchVery Positive89% of 21,497 reviews2016
Dev: Ska Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 13.8 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 65.9%, Local Co-Op 13.5%, RPG 7.2%, Action RPG 7.1%, Atmospheric 3.5%
- #46 DAIMON BLADES
69% matchMostly Positive71% of 678 reviews2025
Dev: StreumOn Studio
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%
From the creators of E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy, a cult cyberpunk RPG. Daimon Blades is a brutal first person slasher that combines the depth of action RPGs and replayability of roguelites. Launch expeditions solo or up to 4 players, and survive the many horrors of the Daimon Realm.
Why similar: Souls-like 48.1%, Character Customization 22.1%, PvE 19%, RPG 10.8%
- #47 Atomic Exile
68% matchVery Positive82% of 109 reviews2025
Dev: Inferno Muse Interactive
Windows
Atomic Exile is a top down post-apocalyptic extraction shooter set in the desert wastelands of near future America. You will visit enclaves, explore devastated ruins and encounter NPCs such as other survivors, raiders, mutated beasts and rogue machines.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 46.9%, Open World 20.1%, Pixel Graphics 14.4%, Exploration 9.4%, Atmospheric 6.5%
- #48 Trashed
72% matchMixed47% of 147 reviews2021
Dev: Josh PresseisenPub: Crescent Moon Games
Windows
Take over a disfunctional Waste Management Facility on a distant planet. Build incinerators, recyclers, robots, turrets, and more. Battle vicious creatures on the planet's surface with powerful weapons!
Why similar: Character Customization 59.5%, Exploration 40.5%
- #49 Eldritch Survivors
68% matchMostly Positive75% of 102 reviews2025
Dev: Ghost Button
Windows
Uncover the secrets behind the protagonists' fate, trapped in an endless cycle of death. Eldritch Survivor is a survival-like game that maximizes both the narrative and the excitement of each dungeon encounter. Immerse yourself in a 99% pure Lovecraftian world and confront the terror of the unknown.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 33%, Pixel Graphics 28.1%, Story Rich 18.6%, Atmospheric 15.5%, Singleplayer 4.7%
- #50 SurrounDead
67% matchVery Positive92% of 23,544 reviews2022
Dev: ZurvivorPub: PlaySurrounDead
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
SurrounDead is an open world survival game. Taking place in a world ravaged by an apocalyptic catastrophe. The dead reign free and will stop at nothing to kill you.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 43%, Open World 27.6%, Exploration 9.4%, PvE 9.1%, RPG 7.7%
- #51 Hellpoint
69% matchMostly Positive73% of 4,436 reviews2020
Dev: Cradle GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Hellpoint is an intense action RPG taking place on Irid Novo, a derelict space station soaked in an intoxicating dark sci fi atmosphere. Fight dreadful creatures, face the Cosmic Gods and unravel their twisted story. Should the challenge be too great, play with a friend in local or online coop.
Why similar: Souls-like 39.2%, Lovecraftian 27.5%, Action RPG 15.7%, RPG 9.5%, Atmospheric 6.5%
- #52 Waste Walkers
71% matchVery Positive81% of 212 reviews2015
Dev: Corrosive Studios LLC
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Waste Walkers is a gritty post-apocalyptic role playing game that allows players to discover the horrors of the apocalypse through a harsh struggle for survival.
Why similar: CRPG 27.5%, Post-apocalyptic 22.1%, Character Customization 14.8%, Open World 13.8%, Exploration 8.7%
- #53 Dark Light
68% matchMostly Positive78% of 734 reviews2022
Dev: Mirari&Co.
Windows · Mac
Median: 48 minMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Dark Light is a post-apocalyptic cyberpunk action-platformer with intense hack'n slash combat. Explore the unknown, enhance your abilities with cyberwares, and face off against supernatural entities to seal the Dark Void and end the eternal darkness.
Why similar: Souls-like 37.9%, Cyberpunk 31.4%, Post-apocalyptic 22.3%, Atmospheric 6.9%, Singleplayer 1.5%
- #54 Old Future: Post-Apocalyptic Times
69% matchMixed64% of 55 reviews2022
Dev: Frontline: Games Series
Windows
Post-apocalyptic, Sandbox, Crafting-survival Indie game. Explore at your own pace or team up with your friends in multiplayer. Early access game!
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 49%, Open World 24.3%, Exploration 16%, Atmospheric 10.8%
- #55 Cthulhu's Reach: Devil Reef
66% matchVery Positive84% of 77 reviews2024
Dev: The Fine ArcPub: First Break Labs
Windows
An action roguelike co-op dungeon crawler set in a lovecraftian universe.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 54.2%, PvE 18.5%, Pixel Graphics 14.4%, Exploration 12.9%
- #56 Scrappage
67% matchVery Positive83% of 103 reviews2023
Dev: Geekspree
Windows · Mac · Linux
In this unforgiving rogue-lite twin stick shooter, death awaits you behind every corner. Fight your way through hordes of monsters, eliminate bosses and loot their valuable items and body parts. With them you can enhance your own body, unlock powerful skills and create your own unique builds.
Why similar: Local Co-Op 31.9%, Post-apocalyptic 29.2%, Cyberpunk 21%, Character Customization 17.9%
- #57 Of Ash and Steel
65% matchMixed64% of 6,121 reviews2025
Dev: Fire & FrostPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 7.5 hrsMean: 28.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Of Ash and Steel is an immersive third-person open-world RPG created by a passionate team that values the essence of classic old-school RPGs and modern design. Explore the lands of a once-prosperous island, hone your combat skills, and survive in the unforgiving realm of the Kingdom of the Seven.
Why similar: Action RPG 33.6%, Choices Matter 14.7%, RPG 13.5%, Atmospheric 12.6%, Open World 10.5%
- #58 GUILT: The Deathless
67% matchVery Positive81% of 74 reviews2022
Dev: Outer Brain Studios
Windows
Slash your way through dark, ever-changing lands in this new blend of roguelike and shared-world adventure. Create your adventurer and undertake a perilous journey where all players’ choices alter the twisted landscape. Will you beg for forgiveness?
Why similar: Souls-like 33.9%, Action RPG 21.1%, Open World 15.4%, Character Customization 13.2%, Exploration 8.8%