- #1 Nascentiar
97% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: JustusPan
Windows
A classic turn-based roguelike dungeon crawler with D20 dice combat. Three unique classes — a soul-projecting Cultivator, a monster-recruiting Mask Master, and a shadow-stalking Rogue. 117 monsters, randomized identification, and procedural dungeons make every run a new adventure.
Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 49.2% ★, Perma Death 18%, Strategy 10%, RPG 8.1%, Roguelike 7.3%
- #2 Dungeon of the Forgotten
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Berkay Turkmen
Windows
A turn-based roguelike where time is your health. Every hit costs seconds, and the clock never stops. Descend, get stronger, and find out how deep you can go before it runs out.
Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 30.9% ★, Strategy RPG 13.5%, Strategy 10.7%, RPG 9.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.4%
- #3 Dungeon Sookuma
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 플랜츠게임
Windows
Combine 14 Sookuma lineages with 19 classes and descend into an ever-changing dream dungeon. Identify strange items, bargain with 19 gods, steal the Dream Core, and fight your way back out in a traditional turn-based roguelike.
Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 46.1% ★, Perma Death 16.1%, Strategy RPG 12.3%, Strategy 7.6%, RPG 6.8%
- #4 Curse of the Abyss
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sprouting Potato
Windows · Mac · Linux
Curse of the Abyss is a Traditional Roguelike with a twist. Manage your resources and explore the abyss and slay the various Guardians of the Abyss and remove the curses.
Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 61.2% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 11.4%, Strategy 9.6%, Roguelike 6.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 5.1%
- #5 魔塔地牢
94% matchMostly Positive71% of 243 reviews2021
Dev: Zeros
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Randomly generated Magic Tower dungeons A strategy-based fixed-value Roguelike RPG
Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 25.8% ★, Strategy RPG 13%, Strategy 8.5%, Perma Death 8.4%, RPG 7.6%
- #6 Rogue Fable IV
94% matchVery Positive94% of 238 reviews2024
Dev: Pixel Forge Games
Windows · Mac
Storm the lair of the immortal wizard Yendor in this fast paced, turn based, traditional rogue-like. The massive scope, deep mechanics and challenging gameplay that define the genre distilled into dense and highly varied one hour runs.
Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 37.1% ★, Perma Death 13.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.5%, Strategy RPG 9.9%, Roguelike 6.9%
- #7 混沌小队(CHAOS SQUAD)
93% matchMostly Negative23% of 30 reviews2022
Dev: 螺母游戏
Windows
Chaos Squad is a turn-based tactics game with Cthulhu, rouge-lite and survival elements. Build your squad with 10 unique heroes. Embark on 12 levels in a snowy mountain, grassland and more. Defeat monsters, collect treasures and eventually unveil the truth behind the disaster of ruptured continent.
Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 49.2% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 13.5%, Strategy 11.2%, Strategy RPG 10.3%, RPG 7.4%
- #8 Deadnaut: Signal Lost
92% matchVery Positive86% of 96 reviews2023
Dev: Screwfly Studios
Windows · Linux
Deadnaut: Signal Lost is a sci-fi horror turn-based roguelike where loyalty isn't earned - it's installed. Scavenge derelict ships and abandoned moons filled with hellish creatures, brutal AI and insanity storms. Gather gear and upgrades to fight or evade the hi-tech supersoldiers hunting you down.
Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 39.9% ★, Perma Death 16.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.2%, Roguelike 6.7%
- #9 Dose Response
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Try Jumping
Windows · Linux
Dose Response is a roguelike game where you play an addict. Avoid the dangers threatening your mind and body while desperately looking for the next fix.
Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 45.9% ★, Perma Death 17.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 15%, Roguelike 7.6%, RPG 6.9%
- #10 Lightcore Guardians
91% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Jampot Games
Windows
A compact but content-rich roguelike strategy game where every turn matters — all under 50MB.
Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 39.2% ★, Strategy RPG 14.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.4%, Strategy 8.3%
- #11 Undermoon
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: momorangePub: Gamingdove
Windows
UnderMoon is a dark fantasy turn-based tactical roguelike RPG. Awaken in a strange moonlit town, build your hero, and climb a shifting tower. Read enemy intent, combine weapons, magic, summons, and elemental reactions, defeat deadly bosses, and uncover why everyone was brought to this world.
Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 46.7% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 14.3%, Strategy RPG 9.9%, RPG 7.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 5.8%
- #12 Deadzoned
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: caiysPub: caiysware
Windows
Deadzoned is a sci-fi turn-based action Roguelike. Blast your way through zones battling the beasts, bandits, and monsters that stalk the blackouts. But you'll need your wits to make best use of the gear you stumble upon to survive and save the fate of the planet!
Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 40% ★, Perma Death 14%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.7%, Roguelike 7%, Strategy RPG 7%
- #13 NOMAD-san
89% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: ZircoBoxCraft
Windows · Mac
This is a coffee-break roguelike. Can you claim the Crown of Victory on the 31st floor?
Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 56.7% ★, Perma Death 20.2%, Roguelike 8.4%, Turn-Based Combat 4.5%, Strategy 4%
- #14 DiceVenture Dungeon
88% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: HuangJianJian
Windows
DiceVenture Dungeon is a roguelike dice-building dungeon crawler. Plan routes on a node map, roll and reroll dice in tactical combat, combine elements to trigger skills, and collect relics and traits. Dice challenges gate the best exploration rewards—every run builds differently.
Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 48.4% ★, Strategy 11.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.2%, Roguelike 9.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.4%
- #15 Prime of Flames
87% matchVery Positive85% of 1,024 reviews2022
Dev: RAYKA STUDIO
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 27.2 hrs≥1hr: 75%
This is a special strategy game that combines Wargame and Roguelike. As the guider of the former ancestors, you revived and arrived. In the name of Star Envoy, you leave for the Human camp, and lead the warriors of different clans with talents and abilities to find the truth of history and disaster.
Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 33.6% ★, Strategy RPG 14.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.9%, Strategy 8%, Roguelike 7.6%
- #16 Tiles of the Nadirat
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tiles of the Nadirat Team
Windows
A traditional roguelike experience with many unique twists awaits you. Tiles makes you stronger, collect permanent stats on procedurally generated map. Trigger movement pattern combo of items to get even stronger. Guess in riddles what the Nadirat is all about.
Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 44.3% ★, Perma Death 15.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 14%, Roguelike 6.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 6%
- #17 妖之梦
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 鬼炮工作室
Windows
在Roguelike世界中收集妖兽,构建自己的妖兽小队,获取妖兽的各种技能给予其提升,在6V6单打回合制下战胜各种有趣的挑战,最终获得胜利。
Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 49.8% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 19.4%, Strategy 11.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.8%, Roguelike 7.7%
- #18 Monster Island
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 张楠
Windows
This is an adventure game with a pigeon-raising style. Here, you can tame over 130 unique monsters, unlock their exclusive skills, and aid you in your adventure journey. Continuously challenge yourself to unlock more exciting content.
Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 46.2% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 14.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.2%, Strategy 9.1%, RPG 7.6%
- #19 Xenomarine
85% matchVery Positive84% of 64 reviews2019
Dev: Fourfold Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Experience hardcore, sci-fi dungeon crawling in this dark, atmospheric roguelike. Xenomarine offers tactical turn-based combat with hundreds of unique items and upgradable weapons and armor, as well as massive replayability thanks to its randomly generated content.
Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 66.5% ★, Perma Death 11.8%, Roguelike 11.1%, Strategy 4.3%, RPG 3.7%
- #20 暗月法则 Nightlune Rule
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rolling Cat Studio
Windows
Play as Izzy, an elf born from the Mother Tree’s fruit, in a misty eternal forest. Wield enchanted runes, combine puzzle cards for chain eliminations, collect relics, and resist the Dark Moon’s corruption through cyclical trials to uncover the forest’s truth.
Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 49.7% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 13.2%, Strategy 10.9%, Strategy RPG 9.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.9%
- #21 Necrowarp
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Barely Soldered
Windows
Serve your patron deity of death by summoning horrifying abominations to clash with the forces of good as you descend into the deepest pits of the old world. Will you sever the thread of fate and emerge from the chaos as a supreme ascendant in this traditional turn-based roguelike?
Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 45.2% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 13.9%, Strategy RPG 11.9%, Strategy 6.6%, RPG 5.9%
- #22 Liege of the Labyrinth
81% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: CV33 Games, LLC
Windows
Can you guide your party through all 20 floors of The Labyrinth and defeat its Liege in this turn-based roguelike RPG? As their Guardian, the party will be counting on your to plan ahead and work around unexpected encounters.
Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 56.9% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 16.8%, RPG 8.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.1%, Roguelike 7%
- #23 Jupiter Hell Classic
80% matchVery Positive96% of 238 reviews2025
Dev: ChaosForgePub: Hyperstrange
Windows
Jupiter Hell Classic is a old-school true Roguelike shooter with turn-based tactics, permadeath, procedural levels, and 90s sci-fi carnage in its purest form. Rip and Tear!
Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 44.4% ★, Perma Death 15.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 14.2%, Roguelike 7.9%, Strategy 5.5%
- #24 MidBoss
82% matchVery Positive86% of 276 reviews2017
Dev: Kitsune Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Kill your enemies, possess their bodies, and take their abilities as your own in this turn-based procedurally generated death labyrinth.
Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 72.7% ★, Roguelike 8.7%, Perma Death 6.7%, RPG 3.5%, Strategy 2.5%
- #25 The Dungeon-Dungeon Awaits
81% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2024
Dev: ChillCash
Windows
Every chess piece has a unique shape of moves. Dungeon-Dungeon is an engaging traditional roguelike where each enemy and weapon has a unique shape. You'll outsmart countless foes, craft absurdly broken builds, and overthrow the Three-Faced God. What move will you make?
Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 40.4% ★, Perma Death 15.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 6.7%, Lore-Rich 6.1%
- #26 Indies' Lies 2: Fire Seed
79% matchMostly Positive80% of 149 reviews2025
Dev: Fun Square GamesPub: Erabit
Windows
Indies' Lies 2: Fire Seed is a top-down 2D roguelite tactics game. Command three heroes in chess-like battles, forging legends through terrain strategy, skill combos, and ever-evolving rogue builds on a dynamic battlefield.
Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 32.1% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 14.5%, Strategy RPG 12%, Strategy 7.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.8%
- #27 Hack, Slash, Loot
82% matchMixed52% of 755 reviews2012
Dev: David Williamson
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
A single-player turn-based dungeon crawler. Take control of a lone hero and explore sprawling dungeons, fight dangerous monsters.
Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 78.2% ★, Roguelike 10%, Perma Death 5%, RPG 4%, Indie 1.5%
- #28 My Cousin the Rogue
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Vaporwario
Windows
A simple traditional roguelike with ASCII art where you save the monsters instead of hurting them.
Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 53.3% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 12.8%, Perma Death 9%, Roguelike 8.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.4%
- #29 Rogue Fable III
78% matchVery Positive93% of 746 reviews2021
Dev: Pixel Forge Games
Windows · Mac
Rogue Fable III is a traditional rogue-like game which combines the depth, complexity, and challenge of the genre classics with a shorter, more tightly focused game length.
Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 79.4% ★, Roguelike 7.3%, RPG 3.7%, Strategy 3.3%, Strategy RPG 2.9%
- #30 Rogue’s Dark Descent
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Knighthawq
Windows
Rogue’s Dark Descent is a traditional roguelike about exploring a dangerous, procedurally generated wilderness and the forgotten places beneath it. Fight, explore, meet survivors, uncover lost history, find powerful artifacts, and see how long your story lasts.
Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 50.5% ★, Perma Death 16.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.9%, Roguelike 6%, Exploration 4.7%
- #31 ShootAndJump
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Koma
Windows
Every shot comes with recoil! This is the only rule. Survive first, then defeat more enemies. Plan each move carefully—every shot you take matters. Whether you can break through the enemy's encirclement and escape depends entirely on your skill.
Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 45.7% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 15%, Strategy RPG 12.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.7%, Strategy 6.6%
- #32 Rogue Battler
75% matchPositive94% of 17 reviews2026
Dev: Fiascko
Windows
A retro minimalist auto-battler roguelike where you choose your path, build your stats, and survive as long as possible.
Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 47.2% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 16.4%, Roguelike 10.1%, Strategy 9.7%, RPG 8.7%
- #33 Fall of the Final Age
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Dracula's Castle
Windows
Take command of the last Stronghold of humanity, fighting back against the advancing monsters. Decide where to prioritize the forces of your Heroes, as the number of turns before the invasion is limited. A turn-based tactical strategy with RPG and roguelike elements.
Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 28% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 14.9%, Strategy 13.3%, Strategy RPG 11.2%, RPG 10.5%
- #34 Rift Wizard 3
73% matchVery Positive89% of 275 reviews2026
Dev: Dylan White
Windows
Rift Wizard is a hardcore combat strategy roguelike and wizard simulator featuring an extremely deep build system. Customize your Wizard with more than 500 spells and magical artifacts. Blast, summon, or enchant your way through 20 levels of pure turn based chaos.
Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 58.3% ★, Strategy 9.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.8%, RPG 8.1%, Roguelike 8%
- #35 GnollHack
74% matchVery Positive87% of 50 reviews2025
Dev: Hyvän mielen pelit ry
Windows
The modern way to play NetHack
Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 57.8% ★, Perma Death 11.1%, RPG 9.7%, Roguelike 9.3%, Turn-Based Combat 4.8%
- #36 Dungeon Croaker
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Greedable
Windows
Dungeon Croaker is a frog themed turn-based roguelike dungeon crawler. Navigate randomly generated dungeon floors, find and synergize relic effects, fight enemies with unique abilities, avoid dangerous environmental hazards, and defeat powerful dungeon bosses.
Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 47.6% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 15.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 8%, Roguelike 7.5%, Strategy 6.6%
- #37 XLarn
77% matchMostly Positive72% of 53 reviews2015
Dev: Swinfjord-Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
This is a heavily extended version of one of the most famous roguelike games of the 80’s named LARN. Your choice is to find a magic elixier for your daughters recovery. Therefore you have to explore a lot of unknown caves, filled with monsters, demons and traps. Good luck! You may need it!
Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 82.1% ★, Roguelike 9.7%, Perma Death 4.6%, RPG 2.6%, Indie 1%
- #38 Vulture for NetHack
76% matchMostly Positive71% of 198 reviews2015
Dev: DarkArts Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Vulture for NetHack is an isometric graphical interface for the roguelike engine: NetHack.
Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 62.6% ★, Roguelike 10.1%, Perma Death 9.7%, RPG 9.3%, Strategy 5.5%
- #39 六道图录
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 阴阳猫工作室
Windows
《六道图录》是一款仙侠背景的门派经营策略类游戏。玩家将会扮演一个门派的掌控者,建设门派,培养弟子,带领门派生存、发展、壮大,在广大的世界中探索、历练,与其他门派争夺资源、秘境、山门,合纵连横,争霸天下,谱写一段壮丽的史诗。六道轮回,绘染图录。
Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 57.3% ★, Strategy RPG 14.7%, Strategy 9.8%, RPG 8.1%, Roguelike 7.2%
- #40 Witch & Dragon: Hope of Elements
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 余烬工作室Pub: HARRISONWORLD CO.,LTD
Windows
Harness elemental chains to defeat foes, collect treasures, and craft unique builds in high-risk, high-reward adventures. Witch & Dragon: Hope of Elements is a roguelike with elemental gameplay, RPG mechanics, and turn-based tactics. Join Elise and dragon Pipi on their magical journey.
Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 30.4% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 13.7%, Strategy RPG 12.1%, Roguelike 7.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 6.6%
- #41 Tales for the Long Nights
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: After Image Studios
Windows
Tales for the Long Nights is a tactical roguelike adventure. As a traveling merchant, recruit a team of mercenaries, fight off the many things that want you dead, loot everything that isn’t nailed down and try to turn a profit before something eats your team and you have to start again.
Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 36.3% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 13.9%, Strategy RPG 11.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 6.8%, Exploration 5.9%
- #42 Valiant Villagers
71% match4 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2026
Dev: Nolasco Matus
Windows
Assemble your villagers and defeat the ultimate evil! Valiant Villagers is a roguelike strategy RPG where your choices determine your army's abilities and playstyle as you complete various map objectives.
Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 47.2% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 15.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.3%, Strategy 7.5%, Roguelike 7.1%
- #43 Oxidus Tales
71% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Mario Aviles
Windows
Embrace a new adventure in this post apocalyptic world. Investigate, defeat bosses and clear the different dungeons in this turn based roguelike with 3 different battle systems.
Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 51.8% ★, Strategy 15.9%, RPG 14.4%, Roguelike 10.3%, Adventure 3.3%
- #44 Descent from Arkov's Tower
70% matchPositive88% of 25 reviews2024
Dev: Saturn91Pub: DreamStudios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Highly moddable roguelike. Descend from Arkov's Tower - or die trying!
Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 52.2% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 18.5%, Roguelike 8.8%, Strategy 7.8%, Turn-Based Combat 5.9%
- #45 Kramora's Shadow
72% matchVery Positive82% of 65 reviews2017
Dev: Slashware Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 12 minMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 29%
A turn-based traditional roguelike featuring 10 character classes with unique gameplay styles. Explore five ancient realms to find ancient magical artifacts you will need to survive tactical battles against their evil inhabitants. Can you save the world from the wrath of Kramora?
Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 49.7% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 12.1%, Perma Death 11.6%, Roguelike 9.5%, Strategy 6.4%
- #46 Rogue's Tale
72% matchMostly Positive72% of 756 reviews2014
Dev: Epixx.org
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 18.7 hrs≥1hr: 48%
Rogue's Tale is a single player turn-based dungeon crawling game.
Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 77.7% ★, Roguelike 14.4%, RPG 5.8%, Indie 1.8%, Adventure 0.3%
- #47 CRUSH IT ALL
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Summer Poem
Windows
Build a ridiculous vehicle from engines, wheels, frames, armor, and weapons, then send it downhill and let deterministic physics settle the bill. Survive recoil, rebuild between charges, and smash through 24 jobs in this construction roguelike.
Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 57.5% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 17.2%, Strategy 9.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.7%, Roguelike 5.7%
- #48 Dungeons of Dredmor
70% matchVery Positive94% of 5,431 reviews2011
Dev: Gaslamp Games, Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 14.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Test your luck and cunning in this exciting RPG as you craft, cast, and pillage your way through Lord Dredmor's Dungeons.
Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 70.6% ★, Roguelike 12.5%, Perma Death 8.2%, RPG 5.3%, Indie 1.9%
- #49 Greater Fool
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Frog Labs LLC
Windows
Pump worthless stocks, ride the multiplier, and cash out before the crash. A market-manipulation roguelike about greed, timing, and finding someone dumber to hold the bag. There's always a greater fool, right up until it's you.
Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 71.3% ★, Strategy 13.8%, Roguelike 10.6%, 2D 2.4%, Indie 1.4%
- #50 西部枪手
66% matchPositive97% of 29 reviews2026
Dev: 比岛礁石
Windows
A turn-based roguelike fusing Wild West and Cthulhu Mythos. Load custom revolver bullets to survive a wasteland of madness. Discover dozens of unique upgrades, endless combat builds, and unforgettable adventures.
Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 55.9% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 18.1%, RPG 10.2%, Roguelike 7.8%, Strategy 4.6%
- #51 Legacy of Pandora
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: OPP Studios
Windows
Turn-based roguelike inspired by Greek mythology. Capture and corrupt creatures, evolve through decisions, and face unique events across procedural maps. Your choices shape the story, your team, and Pandora’s daughter.
Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 37.5% ★, Strategy 13.1%, RPG 12.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.5%
- #52 Hieroglyphika
71% matchMixed65% of 158 reviews2016
Dev: M. HankaPub: Liu Lidan
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Open the gate to the egyptian underworld! Hieroglyphika is a roguelike game completely without text but with pictograms.
Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 66.5% ★, Perma Death 9.4%, Roguelike 8.6%, Strategy 3.9%, RPG 3.4%
- #53 Rogue Titan
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Happyland Games
Windows
Become the titan Prometheus in this tactical turn-based roguelike, where every battle is a chessboard and every move counts. In a world that only moves when you move, dominate strategic battles, upgrade your skills, and face mythical enemies and permadeath.
Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 45.9% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 14.8%, Perma Death 13.4%, Roguelike 7.5%, Turn-Based Combat 6.2%
- #54 Gum Flesh
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SpaceMyFriend
Windows
Gum Flesh is a turn based roguelike that takes place on the back of a celestial monster. Use your wits and fragile supplies to take on strange plants and fauna on a planet where you are definitely not welcome. The air is different here. Your body is starting to change.
Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 40.7% ★, Perma Death 15.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 6.9%, Roguelike 6.6%
- #55 Shell of the coward
66% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: Jacquey Arthur
Windows
Shell of the Coward is a turn-based roguelike/RPG where you must escort the Anathema you've sworn to protect through a perilous dungeon without ever looking back.
Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 32.4% ★, Strategy RPG 14.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.1%, RPG 9.1%, Strategy 7.9%
- #56 Haque
69% matchVery Positive86% of 165 reviews2017
Dev: SuperTry Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Haque is a glitch fantasy roguelike adventure about cute monsters, low-bit hauntings, and a suspiciously talkative narrator. Choose your character and battle through forests, deserts and dungeons to defeat a mysterious evil. Die often. Try again!
Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 43.3% ★, Roguelike 18.1%, Strategy 16.7%, RPG 16.3%, Indie 5.5%
- #57 EmbeRogue
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: AzStrocytePub: HibouCorp
Windows
EmbeRogue is a real roguelike: turn-based, grid-based and boom-based, where everything can burn. Make your escape or tame your inner flames to defeat the FireLords.
Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 46.8% ★, Perma Death 16.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 14.5%, Roguelike 6.5%, Turn-Based Combat 5.2%
- #58 BROODHOUSE
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: GoGoGoGo
Windows
Your deck is alive and it breeds. A creature card hits for its whole strain's population, so your power sits in the cards you never draw. Push past carrying capacity and the overflow turns feral in your hands. A roguelike deckbuilder about a colony that grows faster than you can hold it.
Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 55.5% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 15.8%, Strategy 8.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 6.7%, Roguelike 6%
- #59 DA_RL
64% matchPositive94% of 17 reviews2026
Dev: Duncan ArmstrongPub: Bean Skeleton Games
Windows · Linux
A traditional turn-based roguelike dungeon crawler. Pick a class, descend through a procedurally generated dungeon, and recover the shards of the Amulet of Ascension. Combine them and the dungeon turns on you, and now you have to fight your way back out.
Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 68.1% ★, RPG 11.6%, Roguelike 10%, Turn-Based Combat 4.8%, 2D 2.2%