Games Like Hieroglyphika

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 50.1% ★, Roguelike 17.2%, Perma Death 9.4%, Dark Fantasy 6.5%, Turn-Based Combat 5.6%

Rogue's Tale is a single player turn-based dungeon crawling game.

Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 73.7% ★, Roguelike 16%, Turn-Based 5.9%, RPG 2%, Difficult 1.2%

Zorbus is a fantasy-themed, tile-based, turn-based, traditional roguelike game.

Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 56.8% ★, Roguelike 11.1%, Perma Death 7%, Dungeon Crawler 5.1%, Turn-Based Combat 3.6%

Golden Krone Hotel is a gothic horror roguelike. Fight vampires with sunlight or become a vampire yourself and sneak in the shadows. Combines classic turn-based combat with dynamic lighting, an innovative potion system, and fast paced gameplay.

Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 45.6% ★, Turn-Based 14.8%, Roguelike 8%, Gothic 7.1% ★, Perma Death 6.5%

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 75.9% ★, Roguelike 8.1%, Turn-Based 6%, Difficult 2.1%, Dungeon Crawler 1.7%

Crush monsters and get loots in the classic turn-based style of deep dungeons and high adventure! Grow the Dungeonmans Academy, a bastion of learning that expands as you play. Serious gameplay with a light-hearted atmosphere, combining the feel of history's great RPGs and dice-slinging adventures around the tabletop.

Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 72% ★, Roguelike 15%, Turn-Based 8.2%, RPG 1.5%, Dungeon Crawler 1.1%

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 51.1% ★, Turn-Based 13.3%, Roguelike 10.6%, Difficult 6.7%, CRPG 4.9%

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 70.5% ★, Roguelike 9.9%, Turn-Based 7.9%, Perma Death 2.9%, Dungeon Crawler 2%

Experience the commercial port of the game that spawned a thousand 'Rogue-likes'. Venture into the Dungeons of Doom in search of the legendary Amulet of Yendor, and hopefully escape with your life! Randomly generated dungeons await you, full of nasty monsters, insidious traps, and glittering loot.

Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 62.2% ★, Roguelike 12.4%, Perma Death 8.7%, Dungeon Crawler 4.5%, Fantasy 2.9%

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 55.3% ★, Roguelike 27%, RPG 7.6%, Strategy 6.3%, Indie 3.9%

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 48.4% ★, Turn-Based 16.1%, Roguelike 10.8%, Perma Death 5%, Dungeon Crawler 4.1%

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 45.9% ★, Turn-Based 16.9%, Roguelike 9.2%, Perma Death 8.2%, Dungeon Crawler 4.6%

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 47.1% ★, Turn-Based 17.6%, Roguelike 9.7%, Perma Death 8.4%, Difficult 7.5%

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 35% ★, Turn-Based 20.8%, Roguelike 12.5%, Perma Death 10.2%, Dungeon Crawler 5.7%

Each step into the unknown heals you and reveals new obstacles as you guide fresh heros to glorious retirement or ignominious death. Master tactical spells, appease ancient gods and get rich through taxidermy in this award-winning quick-play puzzle-roguelike.

Why similar: Roguelike 33.2%, Turn-Based 31.3%, Traditional Roguelike 15% ★, Difficult 6.5%, RPG 3.4%

Lost Flame is a modern roguelike game featuring unique and challenging turn-based combat. Find your way in the ruined kingdom of Hiraeth while fighting against legendary warriors of the past and spawn of the unfathomable Abysm.

Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 45.3% ★, Roguelike 28.1%, Turn-Based 12.1%, Perma Death 5.2%, Difficult 4.1%

A single-player turn-based dungeon crawler. Take control of a lone hero and explore sprawling dungeons, fight dangerous monsters.

Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 77.7% ★, Roguelike 11.6%, Turn-Based 3.3%, Perma Death 2.2%, Difficult 1.5%

Vulture for NetHack is an isometric graphical interface for the roguelike engine: NetHack.

Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 67.6% ★, Roguelike 12.8%, Perma Death 4.6%, Difficult 4.4%, RPG 3.7%

Undergrave is a tactical roguelike in which moving, jumping, managing your stamina, dashing and 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘆 strategically is vital for success.

Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 57.5% ★, Roguelike 16.1%, Dark Fantasy 8.8%, Turn-Based Combat 5%, Roguelite 4.6%

Dungeon No Dungeon is a turn-based roguelike game with a unique hand-drawn art style, with a strategy system based around body parts that you've likely never encountered before.

Why similar: Turn-Based 22.9%, Roguelike 17.1%, Dark Fantasy 11.2%, Difficult 9.6%, Dungeon Crawler 7.5%

Randomly generated Magic Tower dungeons A strategy-based fixed-value Roguelike RPG

Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 47.9% ★, Roguelike 14.7%, Perma Death 6.9%, Roguelite 6.7%, RPG 5.1%

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 48.7% ★, Turn-Based 18.2%, Roguelike 9.9%, Perma Death 8.8%, Dungeon Crawler 4.9%

ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery) is one of the most successful roguelike games ever created, boasting a brilliant mix of story, RPG, exploration, and intensely strategic & flexible combat. The Steam version adds various features like achievements, difficulty level customization & play modes.

Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 46.7% ★, Turn-Based 14.4%, Roguelike 7.8%, CRPG 7.5%, Perma Death 6.9%

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 70.4% ★, Roguelike 13.7%, Turn-Based 5.9%, Perma Death 5.5%, RPG 1.4%

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 51.8% ★, Roguelike 11.3%, Difficult 8.3%, Perma Death 8.2%, Dungeon Crawler 5.2%

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 69% ★, Roguelike 11.1%, Dungeon Crawler 6.2%, RPG 3.5%, Strategy 3.2%

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 45.4% ★, Turn-Based 15.6%, Roguelike 9%, Perma Death 6.6%, Difficult 5.8%

Quest of Dungeons is a turn based dungeon crawler game featuring a good old 16-bit retro artistic look. By playing as either a Warrior, Wizard, Assassin or Shaman you have to traverse dungeons, defeat enemies and loot everything you can in order to survive.

Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 45.7% ★, Turn-Based 15.8%, Roguelike 8.4%, Perma Death 7.8%, Difficult 7%

The modern way to play NetHack

Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 62.7% ★, Roguelike 11.8%, Perma Death 5.4%, Dungeon Crawler 5.3%, RPG 3.8%

Cyclopean: The Great Abyss is a small scale, mechanics driven CRPG/Roguelike in a retro, monochromatic style, that takes place in the underworld of H.P. Lovecraft's Dreamlands.

Why similar: Roguelike 20.7%, CRPG 16.8%, Difficult 15.2%, Dark Fantasy 14.7%, Dungeon Crawler 11.8%

Rift Wizard 2 is a tough as nails traditional roguelike wizard simulator. You play as an immortal amnesiac wizard who must journey through the cosmos to defeat his nemesis. Each run, you'll build a unique repertoire of spells, passive skills, and magical artifacts.

Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 76% ★, Roguelike 11.1%, Turn-Based Combat 3.7%, RPG 3.4%, Strategy 2.5%

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 51.1% ★, Turn-Based 21%, Roguelike 8%, Perma Death 7.4%, Dungeon Crawler 4.5%

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 57% ★, Roguelike 18.4%, Turn-Based 10.5%, Dungeon Crawler 7.1%, RPG 4.5%

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 63.1% ★, Roguelike 13%, Turn-Based 12.3%, Perma Death 3.3%, Dungeon Crawler 3.1%

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: Turn-Based 30.6%, Roguelike 20.7%, Difficult 9%, RPG 8.9%, Dark Fantasy 8%

THYSIASTERY is a dungeon crawler RPG featuring traditional roguelike and turn-based gameplay. Command a party of bearers of the Brand, drawn into a vast Labyrinth. Recruit while exploring the Labyrinth in hope of finding a way out, and its secrets will be revealed as you delve deeper.

Why similar: Turn-Based 31.3%, Roguelike 17%, Difficult 12.6%, Dark Fantasy 10.5%, Dungeon Crawler 9.2%

Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against unimaginable horrors, stress, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Can you keep your heroes together when all hope is lost?

Why similar: Turn-Based 18.1%, Roguelike 16.2%, Dark Fantasy 11.3%, Difficult 10.3%, Turn-Based Combat 9.1%

OneBit Adventure is a casual turn-based roguelike where you adventure as far as possible to level up and battle against rogue monsters. Your primary goal in OneBit Adventure is to survive and loot. Choose from a variety of classes and build the ultimate class.

Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 50.4% ★, Roguelike 14.8%, Dungeon Crawler 6.6%, Roguelite 5.2%, Perma Death 4.8%

Kill monsters, get loot, solve puzzles, complete quests! A sword and sorcery adventure where your magic shapes the world. A classical rogue-like with a modern feel. "Your nemesis has found the Amulet of Yendor... Defeat him before he ascends to godhood!"

Why similar: Traditional Roguelike 52% ★, Turn-Based 16.3%, Roguelike 8.4%, Perma Death 7.1%, Dungeon Crawler 4.8%

Runestone Keeper is a roguelike dungeon crawler that blends classic RPG elements and turn based strategy. Heroes, monsters, equipment, events, magic and skills, traps and devices, shrines and altars, Goddesses and merchants. Choose your weapon and begin an epic adventure!

Why similar: Roguelike 40.5%, Turn-Based 18.1%, Strategy 12.7%, RPG 11.1%, Roguelite 8.5%

A Heroic-Parody tactical RPG combining dungeon crawler’s gameplay and turn-based fights. Dive in an off-beat universe, manage your team and craft mighty gear to equip them! Build your own dungeon by hiding traps and monsters in your galleries, then challenge other players to clean it!

Why similar: Turn-Based 25.7%, Roguelike 17.8%, Difficult 14.3%, Dungeon Crawler 9.4%, Turn-Based Combat 7.6%

The Fortress is a dark fantasy dungeon crawler with turn-based combat, mixing strategy and risk. Choose a class, delve into cursed chambers, roll dice to fight brutal enemies, and grab loot. Face tough choices, survive epic bosses, and fight to escape... or fall to the shadows

Why similar: Roguelike 27%, Gothic 24.7% ★, Dark Fantasy 15.2%, Dungeon Crawler 13.7%, Turn-Based Combat 5.3%

Tomb of the Bloodletter is a strategic word roguelike where your keyboard becomes your arsenal. Use your wit to unleash deadly words through tactical combinations of your letters to defeat the denizens of this dingy tomb and claim the Bloodletter for yourself...

Why similar: Roguelike 38.8%, Dungeon Crawler 15.4%, Strategy 13.2%, Turn-Based Combat 8.8%, Fantasy 7.9%

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 45% ★, Turn-Based 24.2%, Roguelike 9.1%, Difficult 6.5%, CRPG 6.4%

Lord of the Dark Castle is a casual turn-based retro style roguelike dungeon crawler with elements of strategy. Randomized levels, lots of skills without dependencies and lots of spells to cast. Challenging Monster AI - play it smart or die. Remember: Death is Permanent!

Why similar: Turn-Based 30.4%, Roguelike 14.8%, Gothic 12.1% ★, CRPG 10.3%, Dungeon Crawler 7.9%

Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but dice! Deal with enemies by combining powerful dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and risk it all hoping for a good roll on unexpected encounters.

Why similar: Turn-Based 28.3%, Roguelike 17.9%, Difficult 13.6%, Dungeon Crawler 8.3%, Turn-Based Combat 7.2%

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 60.9% ★, Roguelike 12.7%, Perma Death 9.4%, Turn-Based Combat 3.9%, Dungeon Crawler 3.8%

A tactical, turn-based RPG from the makers of Legend of Grimrock games. Every action, every turn counts as you control your party of heroes through challenging, handcrafted missions in the ancient, mist-clad Menhir Forest.

Why similar: Turn-Based 60.7%, Strategy 7.1%, Fantasy 6.5%, Turn-Based Combat 6%, Difficult 5.8%

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 58.9% ★, Turn-Based 14%, Roguelike 8%, Perma Death 6%, Difficult 5.7%

Robothorium is a cyberpunk dungeon crawler with turn-based fights, where all your choices will have a direct impact on your revolution against Humankind. Deep Strategy, Crafting, Party Based management, Talents and so much more in this roguelike!

Why similar: Turn-Based 39.2%, Roguelike 9.6%, Roguelite 9%, Strategy 8%, RPG 7.2%

Forge your strategy around powerful relics in this turn-based tactical roguelite. Choose your slots, manage their constraints, and face formidable bosses.

Why similar: Roguelike 38.1%, Dungeon Crawler 17.1%, Strategy 14.3%, Roguelite 13%, Dark Fantasy 11.8%

Curious Expedition is a roguelike expedition simulation set in the late 19th century. Together with famous personalities you will venture on unprecedented expeditions to regions never explored before for fame, science and treasures.

Why similar: Roguelike 52%, Roguelite 16.3%, RPG 12%, Strategy 8.4%, 2D 8.3%

Pixel Dungeon is an exciting and extremely popular roguelike (more than 2 million mobile installs!). Explore the depths of Pixel Dungeon, collect useful items and fight fierce monsters to find the Amulet of Yendor - the ultimate artefact of this game world!

Why similar: Roguelike 36.8%, Turn-Based 14.1%, Dungeon Crawler 13.9%, Difficult 10.8%, RPG 8.8%

Gather magical dice, adapt your gear and venture through a land haunted by folklore creatures.

Why similar: Roguelike 26%, Difficult 19.2%, Dungeon Crawler 12.2%, Turn-Based Combat 10.2%, Roguelite 9.1%

Gloomgrave is a roguelike turn-based dungeon crawler where you will explore, loot, and fight your way through the ever-shifting dungeon to defeat the evil that lies below.

Why similar: Roguelike 26.9%, Perma Death 20.9%, Dungeon Crawler 17.9%, RPG 8.6%, Turn-Based Combat 8.5%

A card deck-building roguelite! Explore labyrinths each time from level 1!

Why similar: Roguelike 34.5%, Roguelite 17.5%, RPG 13.7%, Turn-Based Combat 12.2%, Fantasy 10.3%

Enter a labyrinth that moves as you move, where mastering the elements is key to defeating enemies and uncovering the mysteries of this underground world. With a new experience awaiting every time you enter the dungeon, let the power bestowed by the crown guide you in this challenging adventure!

Why similar: Turn-Based 24.1%, Roguelike 16.3%, Perma Death 11.8%, Difficult 8.8%, Dungeon Crawler 6.5%

A turn-based tactical roguelike fusing Spring and Autumn history with supernatural fantasy. Assemble knights in an ink-oil aesthetic world, venture into five perilous realms, battle monsters and human-born demons, and collect lost bamboo slips to unravel hidden secrets.

Why similar: Roguelike 22.6%, Dark Fantasy 20.2%, Dungeon Crawler 14.4%, Roguelite 12.1%, Turn-Based Combat 10.7%

Sigil of the Magi blends roguelike deckbuilding with turn-based combat for a deep tactical experience. Navigate a world full of dangers and mystique as you craft your deck, obtain relics, and prepare your party of champions for any challenges ahead!

Why similar: Roguelike 41.8%, Turn-Based Combat 12.8%, Fantasy 12.4%, RPG 9.6%, Strategy 8.2%

Forrader Hero – turn-based game with roguelike elements where heroes can’t step back and must fight through the end to save their soul in ‘Forgotten Proto.World’ fighting hordes of monsters, undead creatures, and their overlords.

Why similar: Turn-Based 33.5%, Roguelike 17.5%, Perma Death 12.5%, Turn-Based Combat 7.9%, Roguelite 6.3%