- #1 Netherguild
97% 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: Tactical RPG 18.5%, Grid-Based Movement 14.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.4%, Turn-Based Combat 11.5%, Roguelite 10.5%
- #2 One Room Nightmare
96% matchVery Positive82% of 98 reviews2024
Dev: RenKon
Windows
Turn-based strategy horror. Terror in a confined space. Manage your limited power and time to protect yourself from the oncoming enemies and survive until dawn.
Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 30.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.6%, Psychological Horror 18%, Horror 17.8%, Strategy 8.3%
- #3 Deified
95% matchVery Positive99% of 214 reviews2026
Dev: Unexpected
Windows · Linux
Forge your strategy around powerful relics in this turn-based tactical roguelite. Choose your slots, manage their constraints, and face formidable bosses.
Why similar: Tactical RPG 19.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.2%, Roguelike 13%, Isometric 12.6%
- #4 Dungeon Deathball
96% matchVery Positive96% of 220 reviews2021
Dev: Matt Glanville
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
🏆🏀💀 TACTICS, TERROR & TOUCHDOWNS. Turn-based roguelike meets arcade death-sport, where every dungeon is a unique gauntlet of brutal challenges. Can you survive the trials of Dungeon Deathball and win back your freedom?
Why similar: Tactical RPG 16.9%, Grid-Based Movement 13.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.8%, Roguelite 10.3%
- #5 Valor of Man
93% matchVery Positive90% of 148 reviews2026
Dev: Legacy ForgePub: Numskull Games
Windows
Forge your party. Master your fate. In this turn-based roguelite RPG, lead four heroes through a fractured realm of danger and destiny. Build synergies, unlock powerful abilities, and face ever-shifting challenges in an epic battle for survival. No journey is ever the same.
Why similar: Tactical RPG 24.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 16.2%, Roguelite 12.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.6%, Isometric 11.3%
- #6 Deadnaut: Signal Lost
94% matchVery Positive87% of 94 reviews2023
Dev: Screwfly Studios
Windows · Linux
Deadnaut: Signal Lost is a sci-fi horror turn-based roguelike where loyalty isn't earned - it's installed. Scavenge derelict ships and abandoned moons filled with hellish creatures, brutal AI and insanity storms. Gather gear and upgrades to fight or evade the hi-tech supersoldiers hunting you down.
Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 24.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 21.9%, Roguelike 16.5%, Psychological Horror 11.1%, Procedural Generation 10.9%
- #7 Trench Face
92% matchVery Positive94% of 632 reviews2025
Dev: Pulse Blue
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 1.9 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Trench Face is a horror turn based war RPG featuring exploration-based dungeons, with hanging monsters lurking around each corner. Every enemy varying in strengths and weaknesses. Escape the trench with your life.
Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 21.6%, Horror 19.4%, Isometric 17.7%, Strategy 15.7%, Psychological Horror 13.4%
- #8 Level Zero: Extraction
91% matchMixed51% of 2,919 reviews2025
Dev: Doghowl GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 13.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Tactical extraction shooter meets immersive survival horror. Play as rival mercenaries fighting for loot, or as alien monsters hunting humans from the shadows. Solo or with friends, experience this unique dark take on asymmetrical PvPvE multiplayer.
Why similar: Gun Customization 49.2%, PvE 31%, Horror 19.8%
- #9 The Nightmare Cooperative
91% matchMixed50% of 134 reviews2014
Dev: Lucky FramePub: Blazing Griffin
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 66%
The Nightmare Cooperative is a fiendishly difficult turnbased roguelike featuring an array of characters, each with different powers to help you destroy monsters, escape levels, and collect gold.
Why similar: Roguelike 57.7%, Strategy 42.3%
- #10 Wantless : Solace at World’s End
89% matchVery Positive90% of 324 reviews2024
Dev: Drop Rate StudioPub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows
In this dystopic sci-fi Tactical RPG, save your patients from themselves. Craft your skills among millions of combinations, heal the mind and face ever growing nightmares in 10mn runs. Will you overcome the insidious being chasing you across minds?
Why similar: Tactical RPG 22.8%, Strategy RPG 17%, Turn-Based Tactics 15.9%, Isometric 15.5%, Turn-Based Combat 11.8%
- #11 Dreadlands
90% matchMixed59% of 226 reviews2020
Dev: Blackfox StudiosPub: Fatshark
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Welcome to Dreadlands! A perilous landscape brimming with potential in the form of Glow. Command one of 3 unique factions in this turn-based tactical RPG and play through their campaigns, be it solo or Co-Op, or battle it out in PvP. So far no one has tamed the Dreadlands. Will you be the first?
Why similar: Isometric 24.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 24.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.7%, Turn-Based Combat 18.4%, Strategy 8.9%
- #12 Tenebris: Terra Incognita
88% matchVery Positive87% of 245 reviews2024
Dev: Phantasmica Studios
Windows
A turn-based tactical RPG in which you will explore a harsh planet teeming with terrifying monsters. Experiment with talent builds for 23 heroes. Combine abilities with equipment and other characters. Assemble a squad and learn the secrets of the planet Tenebris!
Why similar: Tactical RPG 24%, Turn-Based Tactics 17.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.9%, Roguelike 10.6%, Turn-Based Combat 10%
- #13 Nuclear Nightmare
86% matchVery Positive81% of 18,198 reviews2024
Dev: BG Productions
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Venture forth as part of a specialized team of fellow players tasked with retrieving classified materials, evading the black goo virus, and the nightmarish entities it has spawned. With time running out before the US government initiates a devastating nuclear strike to contain the spreading menace.
Why similar: Horror 34.2%, Psychological Horror 29.1%, PvE 22.9%, Procedural Generation 13.8%
- #14 The Midnight Walkers
86% matchMixed54% of 1,630 reviews2026
Dev: Oneway Ticket Studio
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 13.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Fight, scavenge, and extract in The Midnight Walkers, a hardcore FPS game with deadly zombies, dangerous players, and valuable loot. Craft weapons, armor, and consumables; trade items; and maintain your hideout. Escape Liberty Grand Center mega complex, and thrive...or die and lose everything.
Why similar: PvE 46.6%, Horror 36.3%, 3D 17.1%
- #15 Claustrophobia: The Downward Struggle
89% matchMixed43% of 202 reviews2014
Dev: The Indie Forge
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 38%
Grab your weapon of choice, polish your Rogue senses, and get ready to be thrown into the dark and oppressing dungeons of Claustrophobia! Experience deep character development, fast-paced tactical combat, and mountains of epic loot. Here begins a roguelike quest for glory, slaughter, and anything shiny!
Why similar: Roguelike 62.4%, Strategy 37.6%
- #16 Pathway
87% matchMostly Positive77% of 2,248 reviews2019
Dev: RobotalityPub: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Explore the strange unknown with Pathway, a strategy adventure set in the 1930s great wilderness. Unravel long-forgotten mysteries of the occult, raid ancient tombs and outwit your foes in turn-based squad combat!
Why similar: Tactical RPG 14.9%, Strategy RPG 14.3%, Alternate History 14.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.8%
- #17 Skyward Extraction
84% matchVery Positive88% of 73 reviews2025
Dev: Naughty Clogs
Windows
A light horror roguelike adventure through a post apocalyptic world, with airships.
Why similar: Procedural Generation 26.4%, Roguelike 25.7%, PvE 25.6%, Horror 22.4%
- #18 Gears Tactics
85% matchMostly Positive75% of 7,557 reviews2020
Dev: Splash DamagePub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 20.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Gears Tactics is the fast-paced, turn-based strategy game from one of the most-acclaimed video game franchises – Gears of War. Outnumbered and fighting for survival, recruit and command your squad to hunt down an evil mastermind who makes monsters.
Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 45.9%, Strategy 32.9%, Isometric 14.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 7%
- #19 Escape The Mad Empire
82% matchVery Positive89% of 406 reviews2025
Dev: XperimentalZ Games
Windows
Escape the Mad Empire is a party-based, rogue-like dungeon crawler with intense and deeply tactical combat. Overcome the challenges as a band of heroes, and preserve their lives and sanity by managing resources and growing your base. Can you Escape the Mad Empire?
Why similar: Tactical RPG 26.2%, Strategy RPG 22.8%, Isometric 19.1%, Roguelite 12.8%, Roguelike 12.8%
- #20 Purgatory Dungeoneer
84% matchVery Positive89% of 53 reviews2022
Dev: Cannibal InteractivePub: Strange Scaffold
Windows
Purgatory Dungeoneer is a townbuilding roguelite RPG about plundering a psychic hellmaw for personal closure, and the resources to build a village beyond the grave.
Why similar: Tactical RPG 31%, Strategy RPG 24.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 19.1%, Strategy 9.2%, Psychological Horror 9.1%
- #21 Veterum
81% matchVery Positive92% of 138 reviews2025
Dev: Crasleen Games
Windows
Turn-based tactical strategy with a detailed combat system and interactive environment. Explore the open world, complete quests, search for rare artifacts. Lead the last army of the Order of the Gatekeepers and stop the coming chaos!
Why similar: Tactical RPG 19.3%, Strategy RPG 15.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 12%, Grid-Based Movement 10.2%
- #22 Dungeon Scavenger
83% matchVery Positive95% of 112 reviews2019
Dev: Vidama Software LLC
Windows
Dungeon Scavenger is a unique turn-based old school dungeon crawler that sets you on a challenging path of exploration. Select a hero to keep the threat of the dungeon and demon realms away from the town's people with an innovative combat system. Can you save the town from the danger below?
Why similar: Tactical RPG 23.4%, Strategy RPG 18%, Turn-Based Tactics 16.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.3%, Roguelite 11.7%
- #23 As We Descend
80% 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 21.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 19.4%, Roguelite 16.2%, Roguelike 16.2%, Turn-Based Combat 9.8%
- #24 Boogey Hunters
81% matchVery Positive86% of 65 reviews2025
Dev: Keep The Engine GamesPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Boogey Hunters is a strategic ammo-building game where you travel the world hunting mythical creatures from different folklore. Plan your moves carefully, combine bullets to unleash powerful moves, battle terrifying boogies, and save the world in the shortest day possible!
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 22.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 20.1%, Turn-Based Combat 17.4%, Roguelike 15.8%, Horror 14.6%
- #25 Spaceland: Sci-Fi Indie Tactics
82% matchMostly Positive77% of 410 reviews2019
Dev: Tortuga Team
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Incredibly dynamic turn-based strategy, reviving the traditions of the old school tactics. Lead a team of the most desperate fighters, destroy alien monsters and uncover the secrets of the lost planet.
Why similar: Tactical RPG 28%, Strategy RPG 21.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 20.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 17.1%, Strategy 6.8%
- #26 Aliens: Dark Descent
77% matchVery Positive88% of 18,082 reviews2023
Dev: Tindalos InteractivePub: Focus Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Drop into the gripping journey of Aliens: Dark Descent, a squad-based, single-player action game in the iconic Alien franchise. Lead your soldiers in real-time to stop a new and terrifying kind of Xenomorph outbreak on Planet Lethe.
Why similar: Isometric 28.1%, Strategy 27.3%, Top-Down 19.4%, Horror 17.7%, 3D 7.4%
- #27 Night Raider
78% matchVery Positive86% of 1,940 reviews2024
Dev: TSUKUYOMIC
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 39.1 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Night Raider is a thrilling adventure exploration shooter game. Players need to carry weapons into the city occupied by zombies, as far as possible in various buildings to collect necessary supplies, evacuate alive to bring supplies back to the camp. But you have to face are not just zombies...
Why similar: Gun Customization 66.1%, Top-Down 14.8%, Horror 11%, Procedural Generation 8.1%
- #28 Hell is Others
79% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,158 reviews2022
Dev: Strelka GamesPub: A List Games
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Hell is Others is an extraction top-down shooter combining roguelike elements. Outside the safety of your apartment lies the noir hellscape that is Century City. A city of endless night that straddles the line between reality and insanity. Explore, hunt, and loot in a place where blood is currency.
Why similar: Roguelike 24.7%, Roguelite 20%, Top-Down 19.9%, PvE 17.7%, Horror 17.7%
- #29 44 Minutes in Nightmare
79% matchVery Positive90% of 51 reviews2021
Dev: loloop
Windows
All randomly generated roguelike stealth horror FPS! Different dungeons every time you play, items that constantly change their placement, several Enemies with different characteristics and rare appearance special Enemies. Your boldness, discretion and luck will determine your escape.
Why similar: Procedural Generation 25.2%, Roguelike 25.1%, Horror 18.8%, Psychological Horror 13.3%, Strategy 11.5%
- #30 Vultures - Scavengers of Death
76% matchVery Positive82% of 328 reviews2026
Dev: Team VulturesPub: Firesquid
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 76%
VULTURES is a tactical turn-based survival horror, inspired by 90's survival horror classics. As an operative, scavenge the infested metropolis for materials and information that could cure the infection plaguing the world.
Why similar: Tactical RPG 24.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 18.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.5%, Turn-Based Combat 12%, Psychological Horror 9.7%
- #31 BEAST: False Prophet
78% matchMostly Positive72% of 242 reviews2023
Dev: False Prophet
Windows
BEAST is a brutal, gridless tactical RPG that sends players to the dark ages rife with plague and raiders. Join forces with your warband, develop your skills, and unleash your inner beast to shred through your enemies. But take heed, as your choices have consequences – in and out of battle.
Why similar: Tactical RPG 16.8%, Strategy RPG 16.1%, Isometric 14.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 14%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.7%
- #32 Showgunners
77% matchVery Positive93% of 1,879 reviews2023
Dev: ArtificerPub: Good Shepherd Entertainment
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
As a contestant on a high stakes reality game show of the future, you must survive a dangerous urban environment packed with traps, confounding puzzles, and heavily armed psychopaths. Turn-based combat in hand crafted levels, built for entertainment.
Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 20.5%, Isometric 19.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 17.5%, Turn-Based Combat 15.6%, Tactical RPG 11.4%
- #33 The Bell Echoes
76% matchVery Positive97% of 109 reviews2026
Dev: 七颗枚
Windows
The Bell Echoes is a story-driven tactical roguelite. Fight alongside a cast of distinctive companions as you venture deeper into the Corrupted Lands, defeat powerful foes, collect Echoes and memory fragments, and uncover the truth behind the characters and the world.
Why similar: Tactical RPG 16.4%, Strategy RPG 13.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.7%, Isometric 10.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.4%
- #34 Moros Protocol
75% matchVery Positive81% of 780 reviews2025
Dev: Pixel ReignPub: Super Rare Originals
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Face the darkness in Moros Protocol, a pixel-painted sci-fi FPS roguelite. Survive the nightmare alone or with allies as you navigate the decaying warship, stalked by horrors and guided by a voice you don’t recognize. Adapt, upgrade, and push forward. You may be outnumbered, but not outmatched.
Why similar: Roguelite 34.3%, Procedural Generation 30.1%, Horror 21.3%, Strategy 14.3%
- #35 Blightstone
74% matchVery Positive80% of 519 reviews2026
Dev: Unfinished Pixel
Windows
A challenging, turn-based strategy with a roguelike edge. Lead a team of adventurers to destroy the Blightstone and free the world from corruption. Use free movement, dynamic environments and collectable skills to save the crystal, and save the world.
Why similar: Tactical RPG 23%, Isometric 17.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 16.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.5%, Roguelite 12.5%
- #36 Aethermancer
71% matchVery Positive92% of 2,358 reviews2025
Dev: moi rai gamesPub: offbrand games
Windows · Linux
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Roguelike 30.3%, Roguelite 27.3%, Procedural Generation 27.2%, Strategy 15.3%
- #37 20 Minutes Till Dawn
72% matchVery Positive91% of 28,804 reviews2023
Dev: flanne
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
20 Minutes Till Dawn is a survival roguelite where endless hordes of creatures lurk from the dark. Craft an array of overpowering builds and eradicate waves of Lovecraftian nightmares. Will you be able to survive the night?
Why similar: Gun Customization 47.1%, Roguelite 25.6%, Horror 16.6%, Strategy 10.7%
- #38 Forsaken Frontiers
73% matchVery Positive82% of 491 reviews2025
Dev: made in fairyland
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Step into the frozen unknown in Forsaken Frontiers, a cooperative analog horror adventure set in the unforgiving embrace of an everlasting winter.
Why similar: Procedural Generation 27.7%, Roguelike 26.8%, Psychological Horror 23.6%, Horror 22%
- #39 Transliminal: Beyond The Backrooms
74% matchVery Positive93% of 130 reviews2022
Dev: Corey JeffriesPub: Spatial Quotient
Windows
An unsettling rogue-lite survival horror adventure. Iconic levels reshape around you. Classic and original entities lurk as greater beings bid for your favor. Collect relics and strange items. Grow stronger. Survive, escape, or claim more uncertain fates. Fall in. Get lost. Go beyond The Backrooms.
Why similar: Procedural Generation 28.4%, Psychological Horror 26.6%, Roguelite 23.5%, Horror 21.5%
- #40 No Escape from Madness
73% matchMixed67% of 273 reviews2025
Dev: qiqin
Windows
No Escape from Madness is a thrilling shooting adventure game that blends Lovecraftian elements with extraction gameplay. You will guide the self-sacrificing infantry operators into the Sector where The Elder One is poised to descend.
Why similar: Top-Down 100%
- #41 Tarnished Blood 🩸 [Tactic RPG]
72% matchVery Positive90% of 99 reviews2024
Dev: Juggler GamesPub: Galaktus
Windows
Tarnished Blood is a turn-based roguelite RPG with a unique time-bending battle mechanic. Hunt massive beasts, harvest their essence, and help a group of hunters survive in the brutal world beneath the Dome!
Why similar: Strategy RPG 44.4%, Roguelike 26.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 18.9%, Turn-Based Combat 7.6%, Strategy 2.2%
- #42 Lost Eidolons: Veil of the Witch
71% matchVery Positive82% of 1,322 reviews2025
Dev: Ocean Drive Studio, Inc.
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Veil of the Witch is a roguelite strategy RPG with turn-based combat and branching progression. Set in the world of “Lost Eidolons,” build a nimble squad of five, pick your skills as you level, and adapt to each unique run. May the gods favor the bold and the wise.
Why similar: Tactical RPG 16.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.1%, Grid-Based Movement 11.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.9%, Strategy RPG 10.3%
- #43 Fear Equation
75% matchMostly Positive76% of 94 reviews2016
Dev: Screwfly Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Fear Equation is a turn-based horror strategy game where you play the engineer of a modified freight train, built to protect its occupants from a deadly fog that brings their nightmares to life. Survival depends on analysing passengers' dreams, crafting defenses, upgrading, scavenging and resource management.
Why similar: Roguelike 33.3%, Psychological Horror 26.6%, Horror 24.4%, Strategy 15.8%
- #44 Lethal Company
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 507,841 reviews2023
Dev: Zeekerss
Windows
Median: 12.2 hrsMean: 29.0 hrs≥1hr: 94%
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Why similar: Horror 34.4%, Psychological Horror 25%, Procedural Generation 20.7%, PvE 20%
- #45 Siege of Dungeon
71% matchVery Positive85% of 299 reviews2023
Dev: Binary Tree StudioPub: FirePillar2
Windows
Siege of Dungeon is a strategic team-based rogue-lite, where you challenge strong, cunning monsters and combine relics and skills to build up your team in turn-based combat. What’s waiting for you deep in the dungeon? Could it be a rare treasure or the beginning of despair...?
Why similar: Tactical RPG 24.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 16.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.7%, Roguelite 15.4%, Roguelike 13.4%
- #46 Ergastulum: Dungeon Nightmares III
73% matchMostly Positive71% of 84 reviews2020
Dev: K Monkey
Windows · Mac
Ergastulum is a first-person fantasy horror adventure game that blends a mix of Asian and Western folklore to create a terrifying vision that will test a player's faith to the extremes. The game focuses on psychological horror which relies on the character’s fears and abnormal psyche to frighten players.
Why similar: Roguelite 24.4%, Roguelike 21.2%, Procedural Generation 19%, Psychological Horror 18.1%, Horror 17.3%
- #47 Dark and Darker
69% matchMixed65% of 82,908 reviews2024
Dev: IRONMACE
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 34.1 hrs≥1hr: 73%
An unforgiving hardcore fantasy FPS dungeon PvPvE adventure. Band together with your friends and use your courage, wits, and cunning to uncover mythical treasures, defeat gruesome monsters, while staying one step ahead of the other devious treasure-hunters.
Why similar: PvE 100%
- #48 MENACE
66% matchVery Positive91% of 11,482 reviews2026
Dev: Overhype StudiosPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 11.4 hrsMean: 23.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Lead a strike force against an alien threat in this turn-based tactical RPG from the developers of Battle Brothers. Answer distress calls across different worlds, train and equip infantry, deploy tanks and mechs, and plan and execute missions in detailed turn-based battles.
Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 31.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 28.9%, Turn-Based Combat 27.3%, Strategy 12.2%
- #49 NightMare King
69% matchVery Positive88% of 78 reviews2025
Dev: Starmoon Cat
Windows
Dive into a nightmare-ridden world in this fast-paced roguelite! Choose from 42 characters, 84 weapons, and 176 items to forge your own build. Battle through 8 maps, slay hordes of monsters, level up, collect gold, and upgrade. Can you survive the endless nightmare?
Why similar: Roguelike 31.6%, Strategy RPG 30.5%, Roguelite 25.4%, Strategy 12.5%
- #50 Stygian: Outer Gods
68% matchVery Positive84% of 662 reviews2025
Dev: Misterial GamesPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Dive into a hostile world that challenges your very existence, in this survival horror game with RPG elements. Unravel a thousand-year-old mystery, risk your sanity and face the Outer Gods with your skills. Every bullet and every decision counts now, are you up to the task?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 55.5%, Horror 44.5%
- #51 Entity Researchers: Prologue
70% matchVery Positive84% of 77 reviews2022
Dev: Newbuild-CPub: G-DEVS.com
Windows · Linux
You just got hired by EIRI; researching and battling the Visitors, a dark sci-fi RPG with themes of exploration and survival.
Why similar: Isometric 24.1%, Roguelite 19.7%, Roguelike 17.2%, Turn-Based Combat 14.1%, Procedural Generation 14%
- #52 Rogue Waters
67% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,149 reviews2024
Dev: Ice Code GamesPub: Tripwire Presents
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Rogue Waters is a Pirate Tactical Turn-Based Rogue-lite. Play as Captain Cutter, commanding your ship and crew through procedurally generated encounters to seek revenge. Recruit, train, and upgrade crew, use powerful sea creatures, and engage in dynamic naval and melee combat to gain the upper hand.
Why similar: Tactical RPG 22.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 15.8%, Isometric 12.1%, Roguelite 11.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 11%
- #53 Oneiro
70% matchVery Positive96% of 50 reviews2021
Dev: Ryan Olah
Windows
Utilize skill, creativity, and knowledge to reach the depths of your mental labyrinth. By collecting and stacking items, gears, and weapons, you'll stand a chance against the brutal manifestations of your fears.
Why similar: Procedural Generation 46%, Roguelike 41.1%, 3D 12.9%
- #54 Cthulhu's Reach: Devil Reef
68% matchVery Positive84% of 77 reviews2024
Dev: The Fine ArcPub: First Break Labs
Windows
1923. You owe a gangster money. The answer is buried beneath Devil Reef — if the horrors lurking in the dark don’t claim your mind first. A Lovecraftian co-op roguelite for 1–4 players where your sanity is the real final boss.
Why similar: Roguelite 28.4%, PvE 28%, Horror 24.2%, Top-Down 19.5%
- #55 Bunker Invaders
67% matchVery Positive81% of 135 reviews2024
Dev: Kelecik
Windows
A co-op horror game where you must scavenge for loot and maintain the bunker to keep it standing
Why similar: PvE 33.2%, Horror 32.1%, Psychological Horror 23.1%, Strategy 11.5%
- #56 Harvest Hunt
67% matchVery Positive97% of 71 reviews2024
Dev: Villainous Games StudioPub: CULT Games
Windows
You are the Warden. Enter the dense cornfields and gather the resources your village desperately needs. But beware: you are not alone. Build a deck of abilities and choose your weapons to face the growing dangers of the night. With a relentless monster after you, will you make it out alive?
Why similar: Roguelite 42%, Horror 28.8%, Strategy 16.2%, 3D 13.1%
- #57 Fracturefront
65% matchVery Positive95% of 102 reviews2025
Dev: 梦行志远
Windows
Fracturefront is a fantasy-themed third-person 3D action Roguelike. Centered on random equipment, it delivers highly variable, deeply strategic, and thrilling combat through unique character skill synergies. From barren deserts to tech planets, every rift traversal is a life-or-death gamble.
Why similar: Roguelite 86.4%, 3D 13.6%
- #58 The Backrooms
69% matchMixed63% of 122 reviews2022
Dev: Ionized Games
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 73%
The Backrooms is a first person survival horror game set in one of the most terrifying environments of the human psyche. Explore an ever evolving nightmare while running from terrifying creatures to stay alive.
Why similar: Roguelite 49.7%, Psychological Horror 25.9%, Horror 24.3%