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A gritty top-down survival roguelike where every run is a desperate fight for resources. Explore hostile paths, scavenge what remains, upgrade your tank, and survive a brutal post-apocalyptic world where no two runs are the same.

Why similar: Perma Death 19.1%, Action Roguelike 15%, Action RPG 10.4%, PvE 9.2%, Post-apocalyptic 7.8%

Set in the merciless blizzards of a far off planet, The Last Defender is a cooperative third-person survival shooter with strategic defence and crafting elements. Nurture your colonists, build your defences and prepare for an enemy that adapts and learns your weaknesses. No wave is ever the same.

Why similar: Perma Death 17.2%, Action Roguelike 12.5%, Base Building 12.4%, Sandbox 11.2%, Post-apocalyptic 10.8%

The Tower of Worth is ego-changing action game. You become one of the numerous Challengers and You must overcome ordeals and competition to climb the highest point of the tower. Steal competitors' skills, get new ability by investing your worth and control your action to get a wanted ego.

Why similar: Perma Death 23.4%, Action Roguelike 16.8%, Action RPG 13.6%, Dystopian 12.4%, PvE 11.6%

The top-down roguelike shooter where your ammunition is edible. Delve into The Facility and fight off hordes of mutant vegetables with your MEATGUN: Shoot meat to damage enemies, and eat meat to heal. Collect various items and combine their effects to become a powerful, veggie-killing machine.

Why similar: Perma Death 27.9%, Action Roguelike 21.2%, PvE 13.3%, Roguelike 11.9%, Procedural Generation 8.5%

A pixel art style gungeon game

Why similar: Action Roguelike 19.3%, Action RPG 16.3%, Action-Adventure 11.3%, Roguelike 11%, Perma Death 10.7%

A roguelike FPS game, focusing on gun customization and fast gameplay. Survive the zombie apocalypse, and possibly end it.

Why similar: Perma Death 26.7%, Action Roguelike 18.9%, Post-apocalyptic 14.2%, PvE 12.8%, Roguelike 12.5%

Dungeon Core is a roguelite top-down shooter where you get to explore the sewers and beyond to ultimately reach an old underground research facility. Old nuclear waste has caused dangerous mutations in creatures due to a failed experiment. You set out to destroy the abandoned nuclear core.

Why similar: Action RPG 15.5%, Perma Death 14.7%, Roguelike 14%, Post-apocalyptic 12.1%, Action-Adventure 9.5%

Meander your way around a never-ending world, defeating successive waves of enemies and stealing their pennies so that you can buy items that'll help you defeat even more enemies. There's also boss fights. And frogs.

Why similar: Perma Death 27.8%, Roguelike 18.1%, Procedural Generation 14.4%, Open World 13.7%, Action Roguelike 13.1%

FIGHT BOSSES by QUESTING, GATHERING RESOURCES, FARMING, and COOKING MAGICAL MEALS using our INTERACTIVE COOKING SYSTEM to RECLAIM LOST RECIPES!! A Top-Down COZY ARPG with fast-paced combat, a rich story, tavern building, and… a LOT of DASHING…

Why similar: Action Roguelike 18%, Action RPG 17.3%, PvE 12.9%, Roguelike 12.7%, Action-Adventure 10%

The world's first AI-generated 2D Action RPG.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 16.2%, Action RPG 13.8%, Roguelike 11.3%, Post-apocalyptic 8.8%, PvE 8.5%

☵ HIRAETH is a sci-fi, first-person realistic survival game set on the desolate alien planet Ahra Prime, now offering an introduction to Story Mode with tasks and a multi‑stage quest. Explore on foot, by vehicle, or underwater as the planet tests you. Only the strong survive – but how long… and you?

Why similar: Dystopian 17.4%, Perma Death 15.4%, Post-apocalyptic 13.9%, Sandbox 12.9%, Space 8.6%

Embark on an endless adventure in Across The Void, a evolving roguelike video game. Customize your character with a unique skill system and a vast array of equipment, and take on seven unique bosses. With randomly generated maps, random skill selections and gear, each playthrough is a new adventure.

Why similar: Perma Death 21.9%, Action Roguelike 17.2%, Action RPG 13.1%, Roguelike 11%, PvE 11%

An open-world, base-building, adventure game with quirky humor and llamas. Explore the wasteland of Alaska smashing skeletons in your supped-up cab and trading veggies with the native rhino people. Do the bidding of a mysterious cube from space and unlock the secrets of the desert.

Why similar: Sandbox 12.8%, Post-apocalyptic 12.2%, Action RPG 12.1%, Base Building 11%, PvE 10.3%

Arena roguelike action where you choose a hero from dozens of unique fighters - each with their own playstyle, weapons, and abilities. Battle escalating waves of monsters in a dark sci-fi world, forge deadly builds on the fly, and fight your way to the final boss.

Why similar: Perma Death 28.2%, Action Roguelike 22.8%, PvE 15.3%, Roguelike 14%, RPG 10.3%

Do you have what it takes to survive the Combat Casino?

Why similar: Perma Death 21.9%, Action Roguelike 15.1%, Post-apocalyptic 13%, PvE 11.1%, Roguelike 11%

Vaultframe is a sci-fi, zero-gravity side-scroller. Navigate a labyrinth of parasite-spore-infected energy cells on a space station, fighting parasites and evading deadly traps. Complete your mission and reach the only escape before the station’s purge wipes out everything alive!

Why similar: Perma Death 23.6%, Action Roguelike 18.4%, PvE 11.2%, Procedural Generation 10.9%, Roguelike 10.9%

G.NOM is an action rogue-lite game you awaken as an experiment subject in a lab full of creatures where you need to hunt and eat them. Explore the mysterious lab, make use of abandoned lab equipments, research various genetic mutations, evolve into more powerful forms and uncover secrets of the lab!

Why similar: Perma Death 25.3%, Action Roguelike 24.2%, PvE 13.4%, Roguelike 12.7%, Top-Down 9.1%

A fast-paced, loot-driven sci-fi Action RPG where you are Earth’s last hope. Blast through enemies, hunt powerful gear, create powerful builds and take on the Swarm and the factions united under its banner in a desperate fight for humanity.

Why similar: Action RPG 22.1%, Action Roguelike 13.9%, Space 12.9%, RPG 12.7%, Roguelike 9.5%

Survive the untamed wilderness in a world reclaimed by nature. Hunt, craft and explore across vast procedural landscapes. Build your shelter, master survival skills and forge your path in the ruins of civilization. Every choice matters. Will you thrive or merely survive?

Why similar: Perma Death 25%, Sandbox 19.6%, Base Building 18.5%, Post-apocalyptic 10.8%, RPG 9.4%

A game made by a real world US Marine Veteran Machine-gunner. Explore the ever evolving jungle of GunGuru, an ancient procedurally generated environment, full of magic and mystery. Unlock the secret of the Runes and find out what is hidden beneath.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 16.5%, Dystopian 15.1%, Procedural Generation 12.5%, Action Roguelike 12.5%, Action RPG 9.6%

A top down action rpg with rougelike elements. You'll encounter plenty of opposition trying to make your way to the Slice of Ages. Slice your way through hordes of enemies with unique relics in order to stop Dastardly Duck.

Why similar: Perma Death 31.1%, Action Roguelike 23.4%, Roguelike 15.4%, RPG 11.6%, Procedural Generation 10.5%

Zombie Invasion is an arena shooter with a top view. Move through the levels, the further into the forest, the more dead people. Hold out and kill everyone!

Why similar: Perma Death 26.5%, Action Roguelike 18.5%, Post-apocalyptic 15%, Roguelike 13.1%, Procedural Generation 10.9%

Have you ever wondered how a duck would survive a Nuclear Apocalypse? If you want to survive the flooded wastelands, you will need to quack enemies down, scavenge supplies, and mutate to adapt to the ever-increasing monstrosities that you will encounter.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 20.1%, Post-apocalyptic 19.7%, Roguelike 17%, Dystopian 12.7%, Procedural Generation 10.4%

Monster Portal is a roguelite with dungeon-crawler like elements. It follows one of your world's last few powerful heroes, sent on a quest to rid the planet of monsters and their gruesome overlords that have overtaken your world from hellish dimensions.

Why similar: Perma Death 21.5%, Action Roguelike 16%, PvE 10.8%, Roguelike 10.4%, Procedural Generation 10.2%

Gunnhildr is a narrative shooter set in a Norse-inspired sci-fi world. Defy the gods and give Niflheim new life through fast paced first person combat in an ever-changing world full of powers and stories to uncover.

Why similar: Perma Death 22.6%, Action Roguelike 16.2%, Action RPG 13.4%, Roguelike 11.6%, Procedural Generation 11.1%

Navigate a vast wilderness, battling countless enemies with the goal of liberating a desperate civilization from tyranny.

Why similar: Action RPG 18.8%, Dystopian 18.4%, Post-apocalyptic 15.2%, Open World 14.5%, Action-Adventure 12.1%

Utilize the unique power of cacti to obliterate thousands of enemies. Choose your items wisely, build a formidable defense, and conquer the depths of hell with precision and skill. Make the devil fear your presence!

Why similar: Action RPG 19.8%, Sandbox 18.6%, Action Roguelike 13.6%, Action-Adventure 11.4%, RPG 10.2%

EXPLORE. GAIN POWER. KILL KILL KILL!!!!!!. BOOT A GNOME YEAH!!!! EPIC THIS DUNGEON IS PROCEDURAL AND SO ARE THE UPGRADES ROAM AN EVER CHANGING ENVIRONMENT AND KILL ANYTHING THAT YOU SEE MOVE!!!

Why similar: Perma Death 25.8%, Action Roguelike 22.1%, PvE 12.3%, Roguelike 10.3%, Procedural Generation 7.6%

Escape a post-apocalyptic Earth colonized by a highly-intelligent alien species. Fight alien bosses, nitro-mutants, unlock classes, and explore dangerous biomes in a vast open world. Red Land is a rogue-lite, high risk, high reward game. Will you escape... or not?

Why similar: Action Roguelike 20.6%, Post-apocalyptic 15%, Base Building 13.4%, PvE 13.1%, Roguelike 13%

A fast-paced action-roguelike. Quickly identify and eliminate the infected balloons, draft new hazards between rounds, and spend your gold wisely to build a strong roster.

Why similar: Perma Death 29.1%, Roguelike 23.5%, Action Roguelike 21.6%, Procedural Generation 12.9%, Action 6.6%

Starting as a weak, vulnerable goo-like creature, you must stealthily navigate the labyrinthine facility, evading capture and adapting to increasingly hostile security. Your key survival tool is the ability to possess human hosts, using their bodies to infiltrate deeper into the lab.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 20.3%, Action RPG 16.6%, PvE 14.1%, Roguelike 13.8%, Top-Down 9%

Fight together as Maple and Aluna in this action-adventure roguelike. Slaughter foes, capture altars, and augment yourself with powerful mystics to survive the eternal winter.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 22.7%, Action RPG 19.6%, PvE 15.1%, Roguelike 11.8%, RPG 9.3%

A bullet-hell roguelike survivor with wild weapon builds, co-op missions, and endless swarms of creepy crawlies in a colorful post-apocalyptic cartoon world. Become a ruthless bird-assassin and blast through insect hordes to stop total bug-geddon!

Why similar: Action Roguelike 24.8%, PvE 16.7%, Roguelike 16.4%, Post-apocalyptic 16.1%, Top-Down 11.2%

Collect toppings. Craft deadly slices. Save the universe.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 18.4%, Roguelike 13.6%, Post-apocalyptic 12.9%, Action-Adventure 9.7%, Top-Down 9.2%

Tunnel of Doom is an action rogue-lite hybrid that mixes tower defense with melee and ranged combat gameplay. Randomly generated, every run is different as you guide Angel on a quest to rescue her husband. Gather resources, discover perks, and use what you find to battle waves of monsters.

Why similar: Perma Death 23.4%, Action Roguelike 16.7%, Action RPG 14.2%, Roguelike 11.6%, Procedural Generation 8.6%

Survive as Belden, a lost prince driven from his home by a unknown threat. Forced to flee, his people must rebuild on a space anomaly. Grow stronger through this unique bullet-heaven rouge-lite set in a feudal sci fi world

Why similar: Action Roguelike 19.6%, Action RPG 17.4%, Roguelike 13.6%, Action-Adventure 9.8%, PvE 9.6%

Face demonic hordes and defeat the Lord of the Abyss in this procedural action RPG. Explore vast voxel worlds, build structures, battle enemies, and level up with deep character progression. Master magical skills and discover powerful loot in this fantasy sandbox.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 22.6%, Action RPG 19.2%, RPG 14.5%, Roguelike 12.9%, Action-Adventure 10.6%

Don't Go Unarmed is a randomly generated action RPG shooter with heavy Rogue-like elements. Combine upgrades, items and talents in new ways each run, to defeat all the different enemies you'll be facing throughout the forests, caves and beyond...

Why similar: Roguelike 20.4%, Action RPG 18.4%, Perma Death 13.5%, Procedural Generation 13.1%, Top-Down 8.6%

Forge your path to glory and liberty in this gladiator rogue-like. Sculpt a warrior attuned to your spirit and prowess, combining gear from four categories and honing six sacred attributes to confront the reigning champion and shape a legacy destined to echo through the ages.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 23.2%, Perma Death 21.1%, PvE 14.3%, Procedural Generation 12.2%, RPG 8.8%

A melee-focused action roguelike with procedurally generated levels, ability synergies, and fast, skill-based combat.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 21.8%, Action RPG 17.3%, PvE 15.8%, Roguelike 14.4%, Procedural Generation 12.3%

A roguelike with unique curses, 60+ cards, incredible shots and power-ups. No two attempts are ever the same.

Why similar: Perma Death 37.1%, Action Roguelike 23.3%, Roguelike 17.7%, Procedural Generation 15.1%, Action 3.9%

TEOM is a roguelite strategy game that draws inspiration from the tower defense genre to innovate it through dynamic levels, interactive elements, and high replayability. Follow Aiden and his friends on an unexpected journey through this vibrant world.

Why similar: Perma Death 20.3%, Action Roguelike 16.7%, Base Building 14.6%, Roguelike 12.5%, Procedural Generation 11.7%

Orbit Express is a physics-based roguelike game. Pilot your delivery spacecraft through a procedurally generated galaxy, creating a unique challenge every time you play. Avoid collisions, upgrade your craft, mind your fuel, and master your flying skills, all for a minimum wage!

Why similar: Perma Death 29.4%, Procedural Generation 18.1%, Roguelike 17.9%, Space 14.7%, Action Roguelike 13.7%

Throw everything that surrounds you in this telekinesis-based rogue-lite bullet-heaven with the power of the masks! Dive into the Void, uncover the mysteries of the Masks, and face what lies beyond life and death. What will you do to protect your home from obliteration?

Why similar: Action Roguelike 16.9%, Post-apocalyptic 13.7%, Roguelike 12.9%, Action RPG 12.7%, Dystopian 11.5%

Remains is a hardcore mix of platformer, 2D-shooter and roguelike with RPG elements. Travel around a post-apocalyptic world and explore its various corners, communicate with locals and help them, level up and fight enemies using a vast arsenal of weapons and magic.

Why similar: Perma Death 27.2%, Post-apocalyptic 23.7%, Roguelike 13.3%, Procedural Generation 12.7%, Action-Adventure 9.5%

A 2D side-scrolling roguelike action RPG. Control Lumia as she climbs the Eternal Tower, where stages and monsters change with every run. Combine weapons and gacha-acquired modules to create unique combat styles in a dreamlike world blending pixel art and 3D effects.

Why similar: Perma Death 34.1%, Action Roguelike 26.3%, Action RPG 19.5%, RPG 12.2%, Action 4.4%

Place turrets and fight enemies in real time. Plan ahead to win. Turret choice and position is crucial. There is meta progression after each run. Your goal is to defeat all the dungeons in a run. This game is currently not active.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 24%, Action RPG 13.7%, PvE 13.3%, Tactical 12%, Roguelike 11.2%

Comet Force is a Space Arena Shooter Action Roguelite. Build your camp, recruit to compose and grow your troop, collect upgrades and unique effects, fight enemies and bosses, and choose how the threat evolves. Keep your troop strong enough to survive all waves and close off the anomaly.

Why similar: Perma Death 20.7%, Action Roguelike 17.5%, Base Building 11.3%, PvE 10.3%, Roguelike 10.2%

Defy fate as you blast your way through a procedural open world, in this spell combo roguelike with thousands of items and hundreds of spells.

Why similar: Perma Death 20.8%, Action Roguelike 18.8%, Action RPG 13.5%, Roguelike 11.2%, Procedural Generation 11.1%

Embark on a fast-paced action journey through space, discovering new weapons and abilities through acquisition and research to better each run. Invite friends to experience it with you!

Why similar: Action Roguelike 18.7%, Action RPG 14.5%, PvE 12.7%, Dystopian 12.4%, Procedural Generation 10.6%

McSpace Colosseum is a dungeon crawler fully packed with action and roguelite elements. Discover all kind of worlds, collect crazy gadgets &relics, and face blood-lusting bosses with up to 4 friends. Will you rise as the strongest gladiator in this whacky and limitless reality show?

Why similar: Perma Death 24.1%, Action Roguelike 19%, Action RPG 13.4%, Roguelike 10.5%, Procedural Generation 9.3%

Battle Survival Game,Explore maps and defeat enemies.Use mouse and keyboard to control the game.There is a loading time when the game starts.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 20.3%, Action RPG 15.5%, RPG 14.7%, Roguelike 12.5%, Action-Adventure 11.9%

Build your ship, escape the swarm, survive for as long as you can. When you are finally defeated, upgrade your technologies to survive longer next time. Escape from Zeta Aurigae is a sci-fi ship builder with rich meta progression.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 21%, Base Building 14.8%, Roguelike 14.6%, PvE 14.6%, Procedural Generation 10.1%

Chop down trees, gather fuel & scrap, search abandoned structures, and build a base camp strong enough to withstand what comes after the sun sets. The wilderness grows more dangerous with every passing night, and something is always watching from beyond the firelight. Survive all 99 Nights.

Why similar: Sandbox 21.3%, Base Building 18.7%, Open World 11.8%, Action RPG 10.3%, Action Roguelike 9%

Explore the farthest reaches of Human Space in this open-world space adventure. Compelled to journey to the Galactic Core by a mysterious hyperintelligence, you must fight your way through dozens of star systems teeming with clashing empires, expansionist AIs, and fearsome xenophobes.

Why similar: Action RPG 16.4%, Perma Death 13.9%, Space 13.2%, Procedural Generation 12.1%, Open World 10.9%

Delve into the Helltrench as the T.O.N, a ship that thrusts with its shots. In this shoot to move action rogue-like, conquer the depths with your slick maneuvering skills until you've reached the end.

Why similar: Perma Death 32.6%, Action Roguelike 24.9%, Roguelike 16.2%, Procedural Generation 14.6%, 2D 4.7%

One world. One soul. Countless fragments.

Why similar: Action RPG 20.8%, Action Roguelike 16.2%, PvE 14.8%, Roguelike 13.7%, Action-Adventure 11.9%

Rituality is an accursed real-time tactics dungeon crawler. Recruit, equip and command your party of Ritualists to cleanse the dungeon isles' cursed inhabitants. The dungeon's curses awaken mysterious abilities within your party. Harness this power or succumb to the madness...

Why similar: Perma Death 21.3%, Action Roguelike 15.1%, Action RPG 12.7%, Procedural Generation 10.9%, PvE 10.2%

Scholar of the Arcane Arts is a Roguelike Action RPG where every spell you cast interacts with one another. Learn new spells, solve puzzles, unlock secret dungeons, and defeat monstrous beings to save the world invaded by five Planes of magic!

Why similar: Perma Death 20.8%, Action RPG 17.7%, Action Roguelike 16.1%, Procedural Generation 13.3%, Roguelike 12.1%