Games Like Elin

Inhabit a deeply-simulated science fantasy world and chisel through layers of thousand-year-old civilizations. Build a character from over a hundred mutations and cybernetics. The award-winning sandbox roguelike & RPG full of robots, deep lore, and sentient plants.

Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 30.5% ★, Procedural Generation 15%, Open World 14.9%, Character Customization 11.6%, Roguelike 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a similar level of deep simulation, procedural world-building, and character customization in a strange, open-world setting.

Stoneshard is a hardcore turn-based RPG about the harsh life of a medieval mercenary: travel with your own caravan, descend into procedurally generated dungeons, learn new skills, survive hunger and injuries - and remember, every mistake can mean death and loss of progress.

Why similar: Roguelike 17.8%, RPG 14.7%, Dungeon Crawler 14.4%, Procedural Generation 13.8%, Difficult 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the gritty, turn-based combat and survival-focused RPG progression found in Elin.

You awake to discover yourself no longer in the company of good men or a fine seafaring vessel. Treasure... you remember something about treasure. Wayward is a challenging turn-based, top-down, wilderness survival roguelike. Explore, build, and most importantly survive in these unforgiving lands.

Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 42.3% ★, Roguelike 15.2%, Open World 10.9%, Sandbox 10.3%, Pixel Graphics 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on deep survival mechanics, crafting, and sandbox exploration within a traditional roguelike framework.

Tales of Maj’Eyal is a roguelike RPG, featuring tactical turn-based combat and advanced character building. Play as one of many unique races and classes in the lore-filled world of Eyal, exploring random dungeons, facing challenging battles, and developing characters with your own tailored mix of abilities and powers.

Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 35.2% ★, Perma Death 14.4%, Dungeon Crawler 13.2%, Roguelike 10.9%, Difficult 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Features incredibly deep character building and tactical turn-based combat that will appeal to fans of Elin's complexity.

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 39.9%, Sandbox 32.3%, RPG 14.8%, Character Customization 10.7%, Singleplayer 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: Provides an unparalleled sandbox experience where you can forge your own path, build bases, and survive in a harsh, reactive world.

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: Traditional Roguelike 33.5% ★, Sandbox 13.2%, Procedural Generation 12.8%, Open World 12.8%, Perma Death 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on sandbox freedom and procedural generation, allowing players to shape the world and their character's destiny.

Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.

Why similar: Sandbox 55.2%, Roguelike 11.4%, Open World 11.3%, Procedural Generation 10.8%, Difficult 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for emergent storytelling and complex simulation, offering endless possibilities for those who enjoy Elin's sandbox nature.

Path of Achra is a dark fantasy roguelike of the ancient earth, with a focus on streamlined controls and rapid hero customization. A "broken build sandbox." Fight through the deadly lands of Achra to reach the horrors of the Obelisk, and discover what lies beyond...

Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 27.6% ★, Character Customization 15.8%, Roguelike 14%, Perma Death 12.1%, Dungeon Crawler 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: Offers extensive character customization and build variety, perfect for players who enjoy the experimental nature of Elin.

The Doors of Trithius is an open-world RPG roguelike. Engage in tactical turn-based combat in a living world of warring factions, wandering behemoths, and ancient magic. Level your skills, cook, craft, and explore dungeons. Will you follow the story, or let adventure be your guide?

Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 36.2% ★, Open World 11.9%, Roguelike 11.2%, Procedural Generation 10.9%, Dungeon Crawler 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: Combines traditional roguelike mechanics with an open-world structure and deep character progression.

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: Open World 39.9%, Sandbox 28.7%, Multiplayer 18.3%, RPG 8.4%, 2D 3%

Why You'll Like It: Delivers a highly detailed survival simulation where every choice matters, mirroring the depth of Elin's world interactions.

The cult classic open-ended wilderness survival roguelike taking place in the ancient North, iron-age Finland. Throughout the years, UnReal World has been praised for its incredible depth, realism, atmos and immersion. Lose yourself in the most intricate, detailed and enchanting iron-age game world.

Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 34.7% ★, Open World 12.6%, Perma Death 12.6%, Roguelike 11.6%, Sandbox 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: A classic survival simulation that emphasizes realistic crafting, hunting, and living off the land in a procedurally generated world.

The Matchless Kungfu is an open world sandbox RPG game based on a WuXia background. You can play any martial arts role you imagine in this wild world. Travel through the great wilderness, or be the leader of the group. The most important thing is, build your own story and live the experience!

Why similar: Open World 27.7%, Sandbox 24.9%, Character Customization 22.2%, RPG 12.3%, Exploration 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world sandbox RPG that emphasizes player freedom, martial arts, and world-shaping mechanics.

Explore procedurally generated living worlds in this 2D sandbox RPG. Meet hundreds of characters in cities, complete quests, craft powerful items, buy and furnish your home or fight monsters in dungeons.

Why similar: Open World 17.5%, Sandbox 17.2%, Procedural Generation 16.7%, Character Customization 12.3%, Pixel Graphics 9%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox RPG that focuses on exploration, crafting, and procedural generation, closely mirroring the core loop of Elin.

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: Sandbox 34.5%, Open World 27.2%, Procedural Generation 26.4%, 2D 7.2%, Singleplayer 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a robust story-generating sandbox where you manage characters and build a life in a dangerous, procedurally generated environment.

Shattered Pixel Dungeon is a traditional roguelike dungeon crawler that's simple to start but hard to master! Every game is a unique challenge, with six different heroes, randomized levels and enemies, and hundreds of items to collect and use.

Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 27.9% ★, Mystery Dungeon 13.8%, Dungeon Crawler 10.6%, Perma Death 9.4%, Roguelike 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a refined and accessible traditional roguelike experience with deep itemization and dungeon exploration.

Terra Randoma is a turn-based roguelike RPG in a procedurally generated open world. Travel a world full of curiousity and perilous dungeons. Develop your character however you want with skills, talent stones and randomized items while you discover an ancient secret.

Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 30.6% ★, Open World 10.5%, Dungeon Crawler 10.3%, Perma Death 10.2%, Sandbox 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Features a turn-based, open-world structure with deep roguelike elements and sandbox exploration.

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: Open World 25.8%, Sandbox 24.6%, Pixel Graphics 14.3%, Multiplayer 14%, RPG 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Blends open-world survival, crafting, and base-building with RPG elements in a charming, top-down perspective.

Cogmind is a sci-fi roguelike epic in which you play a robot building yourself from components found or salvaged from other robots. Explore a living, breathing world through turn-based tactical combat, or sneak, hack, and fly your way to victory.

Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 47.1% ★, Dungeon Crawler 11.2%, Perma Death 11.1%, Roguelike 9.6%, Difficult 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A highly tactical, sci-fi traditional roguelike that rewards deep mechanical knowledge and experimentation.

Erenshor is a single player RPG with the soul of a classic MMO - built for players who miss the journey. Partner up with Erenshor's signature SimPlayers and explore an open world where every reward comes with a story. Discover thousands of items, quests, raids, and secrets - all at your own pace.

Why similar: Loot 29.4%, Dungeon Crawler 20.4%, Character Customization 17.4%, Open World 12.1%, RPG 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: An old-school RPG that captures the sense of adventure and discovery found in classic titles.

Enter the magical world of Tangledeep, a beautifully polished dungeon crawler inspired by classic 16-bit RPGs! Colorful characters, a unique job system, tons of skills, items, and diverse environments with deep, turn-based roguelike gameplay. A different adventure every time you play!

Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 32.1% ★, Mystery Dungeon 18.4%, Dungeon Crawler 11.3%, Loot 9.6%, Roguelike 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A polished dungeon crawler that emphasizes character growth and tactical combat in a traditional roguelike style.

Across all dimensions, the only constant is Darkness! A procedurally generated RPG-roguelike journey across the multiverse! In One Way Heroics, you take on the role of an intrepid adventurer who must travel across the land and face the Demon Lord before a mysterious darkness engulfs everything.

Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 28.1% ★, Mystery Dungeon 17.5%, JRPG 12.7%, Perma Death 11.7%, Dungeon Crawler 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: A unique side-scrolling roguelike that forces constant movement and strategic decision-making.

Rise up in a search for immortality in this strategy sim and management game based on Chinese mythology. Rebuild your sect and train new disciples through the path of cultivation. Research magic and gather mystical artifacts, face ancient dangers and other sects in your path to spiritual ascension.

Why similar: Sandbox 47.4%, RPG 24.3%, Open World 23.2%, Singleplayer 2.8%, 2D 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: A deep simulation game that allows for complex base-building and character progression within a mystical setting.

Take on a role of a hardened PMC fighter in a dark turn-based cyberpunk RPG. Engage in unforgiving combat, manage your ship and pile up the bodies of your clones to unravel the dark mystery behind threat to all life.

Why similar: Perma Death 22.3%, Roguelike 20.5%, Procedural Generation 17.5%, Difficult 16.7%, RPG 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: A dark, turn-based roguelike that combines extraction mechanics with deep RPG character management.

Rift Wizard is a tough as nails fantasy roguelike featuring challenging turn based combat and deep open ended character building. Craft your spellbook from over 100 unique spells and abilities and fight your way through a series of procedurally generated challenges to defeat your nemesis.

Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 21.9% ★, Character Customization 18.9%, Perma Death 14.8%, Dungeon Crawler 13.8%, Roguelike 12%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on high-stakes, turn-based combat and extreme character customization for those who love theory-crafting.

Adventure and fight in a medieval fantasy open world! Build heroic characters with various abilities, travel through villages, cities, or perilous dungeons. Strategic turn-based combat system and advanced character building - Fog of war, charging and flanking, and more in the fast-paced Arena mode.

Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 39.8% ★, Dungeon Crawler 18%, Character Customization 18%, Sandbox 12.5%, Roguelike 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: Uses D&D-inspired rules to provide a deep, turn-based tactical RPG experience with party management.

Welcome to Keplerth! Try to survive on a hostile alien planet in this 2D sandbox RPG, where you can choose to live alone or fight side by side with your friends in the online multiplayer mode. Survive, build, farm, fight, and explore your way to victory in this open-world adventure!

Why similar: Sandbox 26.5%, Open World 25.7%, Exploration 12.2%, Multiplayer 8.9%, RPG 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that emphasizes exploration, crafting, and base-building in a procedurally generated world.

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 31.5% ★, Dungeon Crawler 12%, Perma Death 11.5%, Roguelike 10.3%, Character Customization 10%

Why You'll Like It: A classic-style roguelike that focuses on tight, rewarding dungeon exploration and character progression.

Wildermyth follows heroes over their whole careers, from their pitchfork days to their powerful primes, and on into old age and memory. It’s a party-based procedural storytelling RPG where tactical combat and story decisions will alter your world and reshape your cast of characters.

Why similar: Character Customization 53%, Procedural Generation 32.9%, RPG 11.9%, Singleplayer 2.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on procedural storytelling and character development, creating unique, memorable narratives for your party.

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: Perma Death 15.3%, Roguelike 14.9%, Dungeon Crawler 14.9%, Difficult 14.2%, Open World 12.5%

Monster Taming meets Roguelite. Become the Aethermancer and fight alongside mythical creatures. Explore the ever-changing Fractured Ruins, plan your moves in challenging turn-based battles, and watch your Monsters grow stronger from previous lives and defy death!

Why similar: JRPG 16.9%, Perma Death 14.9%, Dungeon Crawler 14%, Roguelike 12.1%, Difficult 11.1%

You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...

Why similar: Sandbox 33.6%, Open World 21.1%, Pixel Graphics 11.6%, Multiplayer 10.9%, Exploration 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a vast, procedurally generated sandbox universe with heavy emphasis on crafting, building, and exploration.

It Lurks Below is an action-oriented, survival RPG in a randomly generated world. Fight through the massive underground dungeon, customize your character with random items and find out what evil lurks below.

Why similar: Loot 30.4%, Sandbox 17.9%, RPG 16.1%, Dungeon Crawler 15.9%, Pixel Graphics 12%

Why You'll Like It: Combines action-RPG elements with survival and digging mechanics, offering a fast-paced sandbox experience.

The Bloodline is a sandbox adventure RPG that lets you play your way. Reforge bonds between kingdoms, explore the wilds, craft and plan adventures and wield mighty weapons or magic as you prepare for what is to come…

Why similar: Character Customization 28.2%, Open World 23.2%, Sandbox 23%, RPG 12.2%, Exploration 10.1%

Hero's Adventure:Road to Passion is a wuxia open-world RPG. You will commence your journey as an underdog in the tumultuous Martial World and will be met with a wide array of choices as you navigate your own heroic saga.

Why similar: Open World 45.2%, RPG 25.2%, Pixel Graphics 15.5%, 2D 6.1%, Singleplayer 3.5%

Eat the villagers, murder bunnies, milk cows, or exterminate gods! Soulash is a traditional, turn-based roguelike where your goal is to consume the souls of the living, conquer the vast fantasy world and decide its fate.

Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 33% ★, Loot 11.5%, Perma Death 11.4%, Open World 10.2%, Roguelike 9.9%

A rogue-lite action-rpg that offers extensive persistent progression. Build your town, upgrade and equip your heroes, before taking on the ever-changing Dark Citadel - either solo or with a team of friends.

Why similar: Dungeon Crawler 21.6%, Roguelike 17.6%, Character Customization 16.1%, Procedural Generation 16%, RPG 9.9%

Songs of Syx is a fantasy city-builder with vast battles simulating thousands of citizens and soldiers. Start off as a small village and build, scheme, and fight your way towards a mighty empire. The mechanics are deep and true to life, where tiny events can spiral into the collapse of kingdoms.

Why similar: Sandbox 39.7%, Open World 36.2%, Pixel Graphics 18.8%, Singleplayer 5.3%

Build unique class-and-race combinations, shape your talents, and test your strategy in a tactical roguelike dungeon crawler packed with campaigns, challenge runs, loot, bosses, and replayable depth. Your plan may be brilliant. The dungeon may disagree.

Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 19.9% ★, Character Customization 11.1%, Dungeon Crawler 10.3%, Loot 10%, Roguelike 8.8%

Runehaven is an atmospheric roguelike dungeon crawler with an immersive magic system where you craft your own spells. Explore a mysterious procedurally generated world.

Why similar: Mystery Dungeon 19.8%, Character Customization 14%, Dungeon Crawler 13.4%, Perma Death 12.4%, Roguelike 11.3%

Chrono Ark is a singleplayer roguelike that combines elements from deckbuilders and party-based RPGs. Recruit, train, and build a team of unique Investigators to restore the Twisted World!

Why similar: RPG 41.2%, Roguelike 28.1%, Difficult 27.8%, Singleplayer 2.9%

Adventure Craft is a challenging procedurally generated sandbox RPG with roguelike elements. Hunt monsters, horde loot, and craft weapons and armor, to survive in a vast ever-changing RPG world full of action, extreme danger and wonderful surprises.

Why similar: Character Customization 22.9%, Open World 20.4%, Sandbox 19.4%, Procedural Generation 15.8%, RPG 8.5%

Yaoling: Mythical Journey is a creature collecting Eastern fantasy RPG featuring an world filled with rich stories and unique Yaolings. Tasked to uncover a mysterious evil, you embark on a journey with your Yaolings, forming new friendships, engage in intense battles, and face countless challenges!

Why similar: Open World 34.5%, Sandbox 30.4%, RPG 17%, Exploration 13.8%, Singleplayer 4.4%

ELbab is a pixel-art roguelite set in an endless library. Choose tiles to progress through dungeon-like paths and enjoy a build-crafting experience similar to ARPG planning tools. All battles are automated, letting you relax with coffee, videos, or even other games while refining your build.

Why similar: Roguelike 32.9%, Dungeon Crawler 28.5%, RPG 24.2%, Pixel Graphics 12%, Singleplayer 2.5%

The Classic Roguelike Wanders Onto Steam! Adventure with Shiren the Wanderer and his sidekick Koppa, the talking ferret, through a world filled with cunning monsters, deadly traps and countless treasure.

Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 28.1% ★, Mystery Dungeon 27.7%, Roguelike 13.7%, Dungeon Crawler 13.4%, RPG 6.5%

Embark on a journey through the Old Kingdom in Realms of Magic - a sandbox RPG where you customize your character, choose your path, and immerse yourself in the fantasy world as a knight, wizard, miner, lumberjack, farmer, and more. After all, this is YOUR adventure.

Why similar: Open World 26.6%, Sandbox 25.2%, RPG 22.4%, Pixel Graphics 10.8%, Character Customization 7.2%

A roguelite monster-management simulation inspired by the likes of the SCP Foundation, Cabin in the Woods, and Warehouse 13. Order your employees to perform work with the creatures and watch as it unfolds; harness greater energy, and expand the facility

Why similar: Difficult 64.6%, Roguelike 19.1%, 2D 10.1%, Singleplayer 6.2%

Confront time and fate in the 2D action RPG, Astlibra Revision. Explore meticulously crafted worlds, fight brutal boss battles, and upgrade your skills to take down enemies lurking around every corner.

Why similar: JRPG 65.9%, RPG 21%, 2D 13.1%

Crystal Project is a non-linear JRPG where you are the maker of your own adventure. Explore the world while you find Crystals, unlock classes, learn abilities, and create a strategy capable of taking down the world's toughest bosses. Or just stick to exploring; it's up to you.

Why similar: JRPG 32.9%, Nonlinear 27.2%, Character Customization 18.6%, RPG 11.7%, Pixel Graphics 9.6%

3DRPG is a voxelized old-school RPG where you explore a Randomly Generated world filled with random dungeons, towns and people! Every character in the game is recruitable. Hunt for prey or go fishing for food. Search for treasure in dungeons and fight monsters on the way!

Why similar: Mystery Dungeon 15.6%, Character Customization 12.6%, JRPG 12.2%, Procedural Generation 10.8%, Roguelike 10.3%

Step into this Slow-Life RPG where you can freely switch between 14 unique jobs, so called "Lives," and enjoy a carefree life in a fantasy world. Fish, cook, shape the island to your liking, or team up with friends to battle monsters across the vast world.

Why similar: JRPG 32.7%, Character Customization 20.8%, Open World 15.9%, RPG 14.6%, Exploration 9.5%

Doloc Town is a cozy pixel-art farming simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Build your dream farm from scratch and explore this mysterious wasteland. Harvest, plant, build, and uncover the untold stories of this forgotten land.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 39.6%, Exploration 32.2%, RPG 28.2%

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: RPG 36.9%, Open World 22.5%, Difficult 13.4%, Sandbox 8.6%, Pixel Graphics 7.4%

Roguelike Romance JRPG. Create your character and get a room at the Magic Academy dormitory, to win the Challenge of the Infinite Dungeon! A game with town building, relationships, and many quests with alternate routes.

Why similar: Mystery Dungeon 23%, JRPG 20.5%, Dungeon Crawler 15.3%, Roguelike 12.7%, RPG 7.8%

"Try all you can, through hell and fire's end..."Forge yourself the best weapon you can, and jump into the ever-changing dungeon searching for your memory and the truth of this world!Roguelike X Smithing X Souls-like. Turn-Based Strategic Dungeon Crawling RPG

Why similar: Mystery Dungeon 28.8%, JRPG 25.2%, Roguelike 14.8%, Dungeon Crawler 14.5%, RPG 6.6%

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: Sandbox 27.3%, Open World 25.8%, Exploration 13.2%, RPG 13%, Pixel Graphics 12.6%

Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.

Why similar: Sandbox 47%, Open World 46.8%, Singleplayer 6.2%

"The Scroll of Taiwu" is an indie game themed around Chinese mythology and wuxia. Players assume the role of the mysterious "heir of the Taiwu clan" in an alternate ancient China, working through generations of heirs to defeat a powerful hereditary enemy and shape the fate of the human world.

Why similar: Sandbox 32.6%, Open World 30.6%, RPG 20.7%, Roguelike 11.2%, Singleplayer 2.9%

"May you find your book in this place." Combat between the guests and the librarians breaks out as if it were on a stage. Defeated guests turn into books, and the Library grows onward. And eventually, get your hands on… The one singular, perfect book.

Why similar: Difficult 62.4%, RPG 18.6%, 2D 11.1%, Singleplayer 7.8%

The open-world action-RPG, where you can do anything, of your dreams… as if it came out 30 years ago!

Why similar: Character Customization 17.8%, Dungeon Crawler 17%, Loot 16.2%, Open World 15.1%, Procedural Generation 15%