- #1 Climber: Sky is the Limit
97% matchMostly Positive72% of 170 reviews2022
Dev: A2 SoftworksPub: Art Games Studio S.A.
Windows
Climber: Sky is the Limit is a mountain walking simulator game where you become a winter climber. To succeed you need to plan the trip, prepare appropriate equipment, face extreme weather conditions and survive. Only the sky is the limit!
Why similar: Management 19.5%, Resource Management 17%, Nature 16.6%, Choices Matter 13.7%, Survival 13.4%
Why You'll Like It: A direct thematic match that focuses on the technical challenges and inventory management required for high-altitude mountaineering.
- #2 Curious Expedition
96% matchVery Positive91% of 4,474 reviews2016
Dev: Maschinen-Mensch
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 31%, Roguelite 20.5%, Choices Matter 20%, Exploration 14.8%, Strategy 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: This roguelike exploration game captures the same sense of managing limited resources while navigating dangerous, procedurally generated environments.
- #3 The Long Dark
96% matchVery Positive89% of 121,879 reviews2017
Dev: Hinterland Studio Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 46.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.
Why similar: Survival 52.2%, Exploration 13.4%, Atmospheric 12.7%, Adventure 6%, Simulation 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive mountaineering survival experience, focusing on managing cold, hunger, and fatigue in a brutal, frozen wilderness.
- #4 The Pale Beyond
95% matchVery Positive89% of 2,165 reviews2023
Dev: Saltstone StudiosPub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 13.4 hrs≥1hr: 61%
You didn’t ask to lead this expedition, but here you are. Stuck in the ice, Captain missing, miles from civilisation. Someone has to take charge. Manage your meagre resources, balance safety and morale, make the hard calls, and head in the only direction you can - through The Pale Beyond.
Why similar: Resource Management 25.3%, Survival 19.2%, Choices Matter 16.4%, Strategy 9.1%, Simulation 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the psychological and resource-based struggles of leading a group through an extreme, icy environment where every choice matters.
- #5 Help Will Come Tomorrow
94% matchVery Positive80% of 929 reviews2020
Dev: Arclight CreationsPub: Klabater
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
In an uninhabitable Siberian wilderness, in a wake of October Revolution, a group of passengers survives the mysterious catastrophe of Trans-Siberian railway train. They must endure in a harsh ice-clad climate until rescue arrives. Facing many dangers, their own weaknesses and, their own prejudice.
Why similar: Resource Management 16.3%, Survival 13.4%, Management 11.6%, Roguelike 11.5%, Choices Matter 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that forces you to manage limited resources and navigate interpersonal conflicts after a disaster in a harsh landscape.
- #6 Frostpunk
94% matchVery Positive93% of 134,607 reviews2018
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 22.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?
Why similar: Resource Management 31.2%, Survival 27.7%, Strategy 13.3%, Management 10.1%, Choices Matter 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the intense pressure of managing resources and making life-or-death choices to keep a group alive in a harsh, freezing climate.
- #7 Card Survival: Tropical Island
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 2,986 reviews2022
Dev: WinterSpring Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 45.3 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Card Survival is a card-based survival experience. Stranded on a desert island you must use your wits and skills to stay alive. Use cards and combine them together to explore, gather resources and craft useful tools.
Why similar: Perma Death 23.8%, Survival 17.7%, Text-Based 14%, Resource Management 11.1%, Roguelike 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers a deep, card-based survival system that requires meticulous management of your character's physical and mental state.
- #8 This War of Mine
92% matchVery Positive94% of 97,008 reviews2014
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 16.7 hrs≥1hr: 83%
In This War Of Mine you do not play as an elite soldier, rather a group of civilians trying to survive in a besieged city; struggling with lack of food, medicine and constant danger from snipers and hostile scavengers. The game provides an experience of war seen from an entirely new angle.
Why similar: Survival 35.7%, Resource Management 14.7%, Choices Matter 12%, Management 10.6%, Atmospheric 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: The game excels at forcing difficult moral and survival-based decisions while managing scarce resources in a grim, unforgiving setting.
- #9 Out There: Ω Edition
91% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,717 reviews2015
Dev: Mi-Clos Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Out There is an award-winning space exploration game blending roguelike, resource management and interactive fiction.
Why similar: Resource Management 21.5%, Roguelike 18.4%, Survival 14.6%, Roguelite 13%, Strategy 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: This space-themed survival game mirrors the resource-management and roguelike exploration mechanics found in Insurmountable.
- #10 NEO Scavenger
91% matchVery Positive90% of 5,372 reviews2014
Dev: Blue Bottle Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
NEO Scavenger is a game where you must survive in the wasteland long enough to figure out who you are. Each turn, you must decide where to go, how to scavenge for supplies, and how to deal with anything and anyone you encounter.
Why similar: Survival 34.6%, Perma Death 30%, Roguelike 21.4%, Strategy 7%, Indie 3.5%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore, turn-based survival game that emphasizes scavenging, crafting, and the constant threat of perma-death.
- #11 Cairn
88% matchVery Positive95% of 18,677 reviews2026
Dev: The Game Bakers
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Reach a summit never climbed before in this survival-climber from the creators of Furi and Haven. Climb anywhere and plan your route carefully, managing pitons and resources to survive unforgiving Mount Kami. Discover what Aava is willing to sacrifice to achieve the ascent of a lifetime.
Why similar: Survival 24.5%, Stylized 21.5%, Exploration 13.9%, Atmospheric 13.1%, Adventure 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A stylized mountaineering game that focuses on the physical and mental challenge of climbing and exploration.
- #12 Dead In Vinland
90% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,800 reviews2018
Dev: Ishtar Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 92%
DEAD IN VINLAND is a survival/management game, mixed with RPG and adventure elements, about a Viking family trying their best to survive on a mysterious island.
Why similar: Survival 23%, Resource Management 15.9%, Perma Death 15.7%, Strategy 12.3%, Simulation 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: It combines survival, resource management, and turn-based combat with a heavy focus on character well-being and difficult decision-making.
- #13 Shortest Trip to Earth
89% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,430 reviews2019
Dev: Interactive Fate
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Shortest Trip to Earth is a roguelike spaceship simulator focused on exploration, ship management and tactical battles. Embark on a perilous journey across the universe with nuclear missiles, armed crew and a cat.
Why similar: Resource Management 16.2%, Survival 13.8%, Roguelite 12.5%, Tactical 12.2%, Roguelike 12.2%
Why You'll Like It: A complex roguelite that requires constant resource management and tactical decision-making to survive a long, dangerous journey.
- #14 The Tribe Must Survive
89% matchMixed68% of 206 reviews2024
Dev: Walking Tree Games GmbH
Windows · Mac
The Tribe Must Survive is a survival base builder strategy game set in a harsh Lovecraftian Stone Age. Build your camp, overcome disasters and uncover new areas. Manage fears and diminish internal conflicts, as your Tribe grows. Every decision matters. Will your Tribe survive?
Why similar: Resource Management 16.1%, Roguelike 13.5%, Survival 13.2%, Management 13%, Choices Matter 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on survival and resource management in a dark, atmospheric world where you must make tough choices to keep your tribe alive.
- #15 Ash of Gods: The Way
86% matchVery Positive81% of 492 reviews2023
Dev: AurumDust
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Solve tactical puzzles in constantly changing battles and overcome circumstances that are NEVER in your favor. Defend your commander, win duels, capture points, experiment with your strategy to defeat a superior enemy, and make decisions that affect your story.
Why similar: Tactical 46.5%, Choices Matter 45.4%, Singleplayer 8%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes strategic, turn-based card combat and narrative choices that significantly impact the outcome of your journey.
- #16 Home Behind
87% matchVery Positive84% of 6,109 reviews2016
Dev: TPP Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
In Home Behind, you take on the role of a refugee cast out from your homeland by a band of rebels. Your home and the peace you enjoyed has been destroyed, and your family has disappeared. Can you survive the struggle, famine, and sickness to make it to the safety of Europe?
Why similar: Survival 32.5%, Adventure 13%, Strategy 11.6%, Simulation 9.7%, Roguelite 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: A side-scrolling survival game that focuses on the grueling journey of a refugee, requiring careful management of hunger and health.
- #17 Surmount: A Mountain Climbing Adventure
86% matchVery Positive86% of 138 reviews2024
Dev: Jasper OprelPub: Indiana-Jonas
Windows · Mac
Fling yourself into a mountain climbing adventure! Become the first to reach the top of the highest mountain in the world and meet eccentric characters along the way!
Why similar: Nature 49.5%, Roguelite 20.8%, Exploration 12%, Adventure 10.9%, Singleplayer 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the essence of mountain climbing with a focus on physics-based movement and the challenge of reaching the summit.
- #18 Laysara: Summit Kingdom
84% matchVery Positive83% of 1,397 reviews2026
Dev: Quite OK GamesPub: Future Friends Games
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?
Why similar: Resource Management 24.8%, Management 18.8%, Survival 12.8%, Nature 12.2%, Strategy 12%
Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that focuses on the unique challenges of building and managing settlements on high-altitude mountain peaks.
- #19 FTL: Faster Than Light
85% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 77,932 reviews2012
Dev: Subset Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 33.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.
Why similar: Roguelike 26.2%, Perma Death 23.5%, Tactical 11%, Strategy 10.2%, Survival 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for roguelite management, where every jump and resource expenditure is critical to your survival.
- #20 Netherguild
84% matchVery Positive96% of 94 reviews2023
Dev: David Vinokurov
Windows · Linux
Descend into Netherguild, a tactical grid-based roguelite. Lead expeditions deep into mysterious, strange depths. Explore, battle dangerous foes, and manage resources carefully. Push your limits before returning to resupply. What secrets await below?
Why similar: Perma Death 25.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 20.2%, Resource Management 15.6%, Roguelike 15.2%, Roguelite 13.3%
Why You'll Like It: A turn-based roguelite that emphasizes exploration and resource management while delving into dangerous, procedurally generated depths.
- #21 The Banner Saga
83% matchVery Positive89% of 15,879 reviews2014
Dev: StoicPub: Stoic Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Live through an epic role-playing Viking saga where your strategic choices directly affect your personal journey. Make allies as you travel with your caravan across this stunning yet harsh landscape. Carefully choose those who will help fight a new threat that jeopardizes an entire civilization.
Why similar: Tactical 28.3%, Choices Matter 21.9%, Strategy 16.5%, Atmospheric 11.7%, Adventure 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: It features a heavy emphasis on journeying, resource management, and making narrative choices that have lasting consequences.
- #22 Wildfrost
81% matchVery Positive83% of 8,698 reviews2023
Dev: Deadpan GamesPub: Chucklefish
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 18.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Take on the elements in Wildfrost, a tactical roguelike deckbuilder! Journey across a frozen tundra, collecting cards strong enough to banish the eternal winter…
Why similar: Perma Death 28%, Turn-Based Tactics 26%, Roguelike 19.2%, Roguelite 16%, Strategy 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: A challenging roguelike deckbuilder that requires careful planning and tactical execution to survive in a frozen world.
- #23 As We Descend
79% matchVery Positive87% of 1,226 reviews2025
Dev: Box DragonPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
The apocalyptic roguelike deckbuilder with squad sculpting and deep tactics. Recruit the right units and outmaneuver titanic foes on dangerous expeditions. Build up allies and resources in the feudal Vault-City. Can you survive all the perils that await the last bastion of humanity?
Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 29.9%, Roguelike 24.5%, Roguelite 18.7%, Strategy 11.4%, Choices Matter 11%
Why You'll Like It: A roguelike deckbuilder that focuses on tactical combat and progression through a dangerous, vertical environment.
- #24 Survive the Blackout
82% matchMixed64% of 87 reviews2020
Dev: Baby Bison Games
Windows
Survive the Blackout is a narrative survival game set in a dark post-apocalyptic world. Choose Your Own Adventure gameplay, squad-level management, exploration, scavenging, and difficult moral choices. A modern-day tribute to The Oregon Trail.
Why similar: Survival 20.9%, Resource Management 14%, Choices Matter 13.8%, Strategy 12.7%, Simulation 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven survival game where your choices determine the fate of your group during a global collapse.
- #25 SUNLESS SEA
81% matchVery Positive83% of 9,506 reviews2015
Dev: Failbetter Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
LOSE YOUR MIND. EAT YOUR CREW. DIE. Take the helm of your steamship and set sail for the unknown! Sunless Sea is a game of discovery, loneliness and frequent death, set in the award-winning Victorian Gothic universe of Fallen London.
Why similar: Survival 28.2%, Exploration 18.8%, Roguelike 18%, Atmospheric 11.1%, Roguelite 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric exploration game that forces you to balance fuel, food, and sanity while navigating a dangerous, unknown world.
- #26 Sky Caravan
80% matchVery Positive98% of 56 reviews2022
Dev: Studio Bravarda
Windows
Welcome to the Skyways, caravaneer. Complete missions, manage your ship’s resources and make tough decisions to keep your crew alive and happy. Or not. Choices have lasting consequences in this Text-Based RPG. You are the captain - and the clouds are waiting!
Why similar: Management 20%, Resource Management 19.2%, Choices Matter 18.5%, Text-Based 16.4%, Simulation 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: A management-heavy adventure game where you must make difficult choices to navigate your caravan through a dangerous world.
- #27 Mittelborg: City of Mages
82% matchMixed63% of 115 reviews2019
Dev: Armatur GamesPub: Asterion Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Mittelborg: City of Mages is a strategic adventure with elements of rogue-like and resource management. You are crowned to be Chancellor of the city, but this power is a heavy burden. Face tough decisions, fight mystical tempests, look for the cause of upcoming chaos. Will Mittelborg have a future?
Why similar: Resource Management 11.4%, Strategy 11.3%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Survival 11.3%, Tactical 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: A strategy game that requires constant resource management and decision-making to protect a city from external threats.
- #28 Renowned Explorers: International Society
79% matchVery Positive92% of 2,888 reviews2015
Dev: Abbey Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
In this strategic rogue-like you become a famous expedition leader in the 19th century. You form your own crew with the skills and personality to discover legendary treasures, while exploring randomized locations and stories on every new adventure.
Why similar: Roguelike 25.9%, Strategy 20.9%, Roguelite 12.8%, Adventure 11.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: A strategy-focused exploration game where you must manage your team's resources and skills to succeed in various expeditions.
- #29 Pirates Outlaws
78% matchVery Positive83% of 751 reviews2020
Dev: Fabled Game
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 25.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Pirates Outlaws is a roguelike card game in which you navigate dangerous seas and challenge their masters. Your expedition will be full of ambushes and will not be easy. Build your deck and combos to become a reputed pirate.
Why similar: Roguelike 35.7%, Roguelite 30.9%, Strategy 19.5%, Indie 5.3%, Singleplayer 4.5%
Why You'll Like It: A roguelike deckbuilder that focuses on managing resources and tactical combat during a long, perilous journey.
- #30 Card Survival: Tropical Island - The First Days
77% matchMostly Positive77% of 77 reviews2022
Dev: WinterSpring Games
Windows · Mac
Card Survival is a card-based survival experience. Stranded on a desert island you must use your wits and skills to stay alive. Use cards and combine them together to explore, gather resources and craft useful tools.
Why similar: Perma Death 17.8%, Text-Based 17%, Roguelike 16.7%, Simulation 13.3%, Survival 11.3%
- #31 Wayward
78% matchVery Positive86% of 1,357 reviews2016
Dev: Unlok
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 21.5 hrs≥1hr: 61%
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: Survival 42.7%, Roguelike 36.9%, Simulation 9.1%, Adventure 6.8%, Indie 4.5%
Why You'll Like It: A traditional roguelike survival game that emphasizes crafting, exploration, and managing your character's needs in a hostile environment.
- #32 Journey to the Void
74% matchVery Positive93% of 57 reviews2026
Dev: RuneHeads
Windows · Mac
Prepare to fend off attacks from all directions in this hybrid strategy roguelite deck builder. On your journey through varied grid-based biomes, battle unique foes and make tough moral choices to restore a corrupted land and decide the fate of your world.
Why similar: Roguelike 27.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 24%, Roguelite 19.6%, Strategy 14.5%, Choices Matter 5.6%
- #33 Ascent
77% matchVery Positive94% of 102 reviews2020
Dev: Tim KashaniPub: Fireapples
Windows · Mac
One mountain; Zero checkpoints
Why similar: Strategy 65.9%, Atmospheric 26.5%, Singleplayer 7.6%
- #34 Peaks of Yore
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 3,672 reviews2023
Dev: Anders Grube JensenPub: TraipseWare
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 20.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Travel around The Great Gales to climb challenging peaks in this physics-based climbing adventure set in 1887. Meet like-minded mountaineers, unlock helpful climbing gear, and become a pioneer of mountaineering.
Why similar: Nature 31.4%, Atmospheric 17.5%, Exploration 17.4%, Adventure 12.4%, Stylized 10.7%
- #35 The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
75% matchVery Positive90% of 9,604 reviews2021
Dev: SeverPub: 101XP
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world ruled by real but unrelenting gods. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice has a price and entails consequences. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
Why similar: Choices Matter 38.7%, Text-Based 25.2%, Management 8.6%, Atmospheric 6.3%, Strategy 6.1%
- #36 Nauticrawl
75% matchVery Positive92% of 467 reviews2019
Dev: Spare Parts OasisPub: Armor Games Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A stolen, enigmatic machine is your only way out. It's likely to kill you, but so will the hostile planet you're escaping. Pull levers, hack devices, and puzzle out how to pilot the Nauticrawl to freedom in this unusual atmospheric adventure... or die trying.
Why similar: Atmospheric 17.3%, Simulation 16.8%, Exploration 13.9%, Strategy 12.2%, Survival 9.8%
- #37 Dead in Antares
72% matchMostly Positive80% of 181 reviews2026
Dev: Ishtar GamesPub: Nacon
Windows
Dead in Antares is a turn-based survival management game with RPG elements, set on an alien planet. Lead a crew of survivors sent on a mission to save humanity. Manage their needs, strengthen their teamwork, and explore this mysterious world to find a way back home.
Why similar: Resource Management 22.7%, Survival 17.7%, Choices Matter 15.1%, Management 11.5%, Strategy 8.6%
- #38 Starship Inspector
76% matchMixed61% of 51 reviews2021
Dev: Vedanta Team
Windows
Starship Inspector is a Space Roguelike in which every choice you make matters. Save a galaxy or rescue your crew member? Serve an evil empire or help an ancient tribe? You'll constantly have to make hard decisions and deal with consequences.
Why similar: Perma Death 20.8%, Strategy 15.1%, Roguelite 12.7%, Roguelike 12%, Resource Management 10.3%
- #39 Coal LLC
70% matchVery Positive93% of 1,141 reviews2025
Dev: Bye Bye Ocean
Windows · Mac
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 18.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Fill your quota or die. Mine increasingly absurd amounts of coal using some dubious, but effective, mining techniques. Or relax and mine at your own pace in peaceful mode.
Why similar: Perma Death 20.8%, Management 16.5%, Nature 14.8%, Roguelike 12.5%, Roguelite 12.3%
- #40 Lonely Mountains: Downhill
73% matchVery Positive91% of 3,023 reviews2019
Dev: Megagon Industries
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Just you and your bike - take it on a thrilling ride down an unspoiled mountain landscape. Make your way through thick forests, narrow trails and wild rivers. Race, jump, slide and try not to crash - all the way from the peak to the valley!
Why similar: Nature 51%, Exploration 17.3%, Simulation 16.3%, Indie 8.9%, Singleplayer 6.6%
- #41 Silmaris: Dice Kingdom
74% matchMixed66% of 98 reviews2020
Dev: PyrogenPub: Mi-Clos Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Unforgiving storytelling adventure with dice rolls and turn-based management. Make the right choices and roll the dice to rally the monarchs to your medieval kingdom by diplomacy, war or deception.
Why similar: Resource Management 31.3%, Text-Based 30.5%, Choices Matter 20.3%, Indie 13.8%, Singleplayer 4.1%
- #42 Encounter: The Lost Cards
69% matchVery Positive84% of 68 reviews2026
Dev: Salvatore GrossoPub: Encounter GG
Windows · Linux
The unhinged roguelike for the tactically obsessed. Forget maps—your journey is a deck of Tarot cards you build on the fly. Manage a tight inventory, chain questionable combos, and watch your gear shatter. Got unlucky? The virtuous can resurrect; the sinful, however...
Why similar: Perma Death 22.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 21.7%, Resource Management 19.7%, Roguelike 16.7%, Roguelite 11.9%
- #43 Trials of Fire
71% matchVery Positive86% of 3,249 reviews2021
Dev: Whatboy Games
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
A Tactical, Deck-Building Roguelite. Choose 3 Heroes and adventure into a post-Cataclysmic wasteland. Engage enemies in a unique meld of card-play and tactical, positional combat. Level up and scavenge what you can to customise your decks and build a party to take on any challenge!
Why similar: Perma Death 32.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 27.3%, Roguelite 17.1%, Roguelike 15.9%, Strategy 7.6%
- #44 Heliotropism
71% matchVery Positive90% of 82 reviews2022
Dev: Verde
Windows
From seed to a great tree! Survive the seasons, face crisis and mutate yourself into a tree able to achieve your final form! Grow flowers, mutate, adapt and evolve and finally bear fruits!
Why similar: Perma Death 17.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 15.6%, Nature 14.2%, Management 11.8%, Survival 10.4%
- #45 Peregrino
68% matchMostly Positive70% of 182 reviews2026
Dev: Inverge Studios
Windows
Peregrino is a dark isometric survival adventure where you explore a cursed forest by day and manage your caravan by night. Gather resources, hunt deadly creatures, upgrade your caravan, care for your companions, and lead them through the vast wilderness in search of New Eden.
Why similar: Management 28.9%, Strategy 17.1%, Atmospheric 13.1%, Exploration 12.2%, Stylized 10.4%
- #46 Terminus: Zombie Survivors
67% matchVery Positive94% of 4,417 reviews2024
Dev: Longplay Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 13.2 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Terminus: Zombie Survivors is a 2D turn-based survival roguelike set during a zombie apocalypse. Each journey is unique, and every decision can mean the difference between life and death. Can you brave hunger, cold, and the undead in order to reach the Terminus and find salvation?
Why similar: Survival 33.6%, Roguelike 30.3%, Strategy 12%, Exploration 11%, Adventure 6.6%
- #47 On My Own
73% matchMixed63% of 153 reviews2016
Dev: Beach Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 24 minMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 27%
Craft your own tools and manage your resources in this tranquil survival adventure. Charming naturescapes and original music frame your quest to conquer the mountain as you endeavor to make the most of your “one wild and precious" life.
Why similar: Perma Death 28%, Nature 26.4%, Survival 21.2%, Simulation 8.7%, Exploration 8.1%
- #48 Bouncy Goat Climb
70% matchMostly Positive78% of 338 reviews2022
Dev: Jesper Bergman
Windows
A highly punishing 3D precision platformer about a goat bouncing up a beautiful mountain to save its scared baby goat. Can you handle the challenge and endure all obstacles that you will face on your way up the mountain?
Why similar: Nature 35.4%, Stylized 23.2%, Adventure 22.8%, Singleplayer 12.1%, Indie 6.4%
- #49 ColdRidge
68% matchMostly Positive75% of 118 reviews2024
Dev: Frog CollectivePub: Bark Games
Windows · Linux
Coldridge is a push-your-luck puzzle roguelite! You'll need to carefully plan your moves and gamble on opportunities to survive. Fight adversity and save the city of Coldridge!
Why similar: Nature 21.6%, Roguelite 18.4%, Roguelike 18.3%, Survival 17.8%, Strategy 9.9%
- #50 TumbleSeed
71% matchMostly Positive77% of 212 reviews2017
Dev: Benedict FritzPub: aeiowu
Windows · Mac
Median: 24 minMean: 1.9 hrs≥1hr: 27%
TumbleSeed is a deceptively deep roguelike about balancing a seed up a dangerous and ever-changing mountain.
Why similar: Nature 45.9%, Roguelite 27.9%, Adventure 13.7%, Indie 12.6%
- #51 Terraformental
64% matchVery Positive98% of 284 reviews2026
Dev: Shady Games
Windows · Mac
Waking up alone in a derelict terraforming facility on an unknown (and distinctly not terraformed) planet, it's up to you to find a way to survive, learn what happened to the people who lived here and why you were abandoned in this narrative-driven incremental game.
Why similar: Text-Based 38.5%, Exploration 13.1%, Strategy 13.1%, Management 10.4%, Resource Management 8.2%
- #52 Rebirth of Island
72% matchMixed52% of 101 reviews2016
Dev: Yo_Serjio
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Survive, adapt, and research in the New World, with its rules, dwellers, and their laws. Head the colonization of these locations and ensure the independence and security of your population.
Why similar: Survival 22%, Resource Management 20.7%, Strategy 18.2%, Exploration 10.1%, Adventure 9.9%
- #53 Deepest Chamber: Resurrection
67% matchVery Positive80% of 552 reviews2023
Dev: Balcony SoftworksPub: Those Awesome Guys
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Delve into the depths of Deepest Chamber: Resurrection, where card boosting is your key to survival. Employ this unique mechanic to augment your abilities, strategize your next moves and endure a series of increasingly perilous descents in this gripping rogue-lite, card-battling adventure!
Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 35.1%, Roguelike 30%, Strategy 15.1%, Exploration 13.1%, Adventure 6.7%
- #54 Little Dungeon Stories
70% matchMostly Positive75% of 114 reviews2019
Dev: David Moralejo SánchezPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 1.2 hrs≥1hr: 30%
Little Dungeon Stories is a challenging roguelike card-based RPG. Enter the dungeon full of secrets, hostile monsters, deadly traps, and legendary loots. How long can you survive?
Why similar: Roguelite 25.6%, Choices Matter 21.6%, Roguelike 18.9%, Strategy 12.8%, Atmospheric 10.1%
- #55 Faith in Despair
65% matchVery Positive97% of 70 reviews2025
Dev: Philipp Lehner
Windows · Mac · Linux
Forge your own cards with triggers, actions and modifiers. Shape your deck and gamble against Death itself. Make one mistake and you will descend into despair.
Why similar: Roguelike 34.5%, Choices Matter 23.7%, Strategy 17.9%, Tactical 17.7%, Atmospheric 6.1%
- #56 Shuffle Tactics
66% matchMixed70% of 106 reviews2025
Dev: Club SandwichPub: The Arcade Crew
Windows
Shuffle Tactics is a roguelike deckbuilding tactical RPG. Strategize to survive tough battles, pick the right cards to create powerful synergies, and bond with your sidekicks to get an edge in battle. Adventure awaits! Will you rise as Asteria's new King?
Why similar: Perma Death 27.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 22.7%, Roguelike 18.3%, Tactical 16.3%, Strategy 7.8%
- #57 Caravan
69% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,035 reviews2016
Dev: it Matters GamesPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Are you ready to embark on a journey through deserts and dangers? Will you be able to safely navigate your fellowship through the lands of the Orient and uncover your destiny? Through strategic trading and traveling you will overcome obstacles and adversity.
Why similar: Strategy 38.9%, Simulation 27.1%, Adventure 19.6%, Indie 12.3%, Singleplayer 2.1%
- #58 A Difficult Game About Climbing
64% matchVery Positive88% of 5,505 reviews2024
Dev: Pontypants
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 71%
This is a difficult game about climbing.
Why similar: Adventure 63.7%, Singleplayer 36.3%
- #59 A Long Way Down
69% matchMixed66% of 230 reviews2020
Dev: Seenapsis StudioPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 95%
A deck-building roguelite RPG set in a dark and tormented world. Assemble your party and use your cards to survive, fight and build your way through a dark maze of monsters orchestrated by an evil mastermind. Your choices will lead you to judgement.
Why similar: Roguelike 35.5%, Roguelite 27.6%, Strategy 18.1%, Adventure 8.4%, Indie 5.7%