Games Like Paranautical Activity: Deluxe Atonement Edition

Dungeon-Crawling First Person Shooting at its finest! Fast-paced combat! Dozens of perks, spells and enemies! Level ups! Random Dungeons! Traps! Badass bosses! Carrots!

Why similar: Action Roguelike 24%, FPS 22.4%, Roguelike 14.3%, Roguelite 14.3%, Shooter 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: It mirrors the arena-shooter style of the seed game while adding a fantasy twist and procedural dungeon generation.

Gunfire Reborn is a level-based adventure game featuring FPS, Roguelite and RPG. Players can control heroes with various abilities to experience diverse Build gameplay, use various weapons to explore procedurally-generated levels. You can play the game alone, or join 4-player coop.

Why similar: FPS 30.7%, Roguelike 27.9%, Roguelite 15.7%, Action Roguelike 13.5%, Shooter 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly captures the blend of fast-paced FPS combat and deep roguelite character progression with high replayability.

Tower of Guns is a fast paced first-person-shooter for the twitch gamer... with a few randomized elements to keep it fresh with each playthrough. It's a short burst "Lunch Break FPS"... not unlike Binding of Isaac mixed with Doom 2. Tower of Guns was made by a guy named Joe (with his brother Mike composing the music).

Why similar: Action Roguelike 25.9%, FPS 24%, Roguelike 16.9%, Roguelite 7.8%, Difficult 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: It is a pure, chaotic FPS roguelike that focuses on bullet-hell dodging and randomized weapon upgrades.

Roboquest is a fast FPS Roguelite in a scorched futureworld. You're a rebooted Guardian, ready to kick some metal ass! Fight with your buddy or by yourself and annihilate hordes of deadly bots in ever-changing environments.

Why similar: FPS 29.9%, Action Roguelike 29.8%, Roguelike 11.6%, Roguelite 11.1%, Fast-Paced 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: This title offers incredibly fluid, high-speed movement and satisfying gunplay that feels like a modern evolution of the arena-shooter roguelite.

STRAFE® is the worlds bloodiest roguelike first-person shooter! Featuring mind melting secrets and persistent gore that allows you to paint levels red with the excessive entrails of your enemies. 30+ weapons, 20+ enemies, & a red hot soundtrack.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 22.3%, FPS 21.7%, Roguelike 15.5%, Roguelite 13%, Action 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: It leans heavily into the 90s-style retro FPS aesthetic, pairing it with roguelike level generation and brutal difficulty.

Immortal Redneck is a FPS set in Egypt with rogue-lite elements. Frantic gameplay, twitch controls and an arcade-style feel meet randomly generated dungeons, a complete skill tree, permanent death and 9 classes with different traits.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 30.3%, FPS 27.9%, Roguelite 10.7%, Roguelike 7.8%, Fast-Paced 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: This fast-paced shooter combines Egyptian-themed arena combat with a persistent skill tree and procedural rooms.

Eldritch is the original imsim roguelike: a first-person action game inspired by roguelikes, immersive sims, and H. P. Lovecraft.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 33.8%, Roguelike 26.3%, FPS 9.7%, Roguelite 7.5%, Voxel 7.1% ★

Why You'll Like It: This game shares the voxel-based aesthetic and first-person roguelike structure, focusing on stealth and exploration.

BPM is a rhythm-action FPS rogue-like where you must shoot, jump and dodge to the beat of an epic rock soundtrack. Delve into a randomly generated dungeon where one missed note can lead to your death. Gain game-changing abilities and loot powerful weaponry to defeat your ancient enemy: Nidhogg.

Why similar: FPS 30.3%, Roguelike 23.1%, Action Roguelike 16%, Great Soundtrack 6.4%, Action 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: It adds a unique rhythm-based mechanic to the FPS roguelike formula, requiring you to time your shots to the beat.

MOTHERGUNSHIP is a bullet-hell FPS where you craft your own guns, fight gigantic bosses, and defeat a robotic alien armada that conquered Earth. Face off against overwhelming odds in brutal, non-stop combats where thinking on your feet is the only way to survive.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 29.6%, FPS 25.1%, Roguelike 15.4%, Roguelite 8.3%, Action 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes massive, customizable weaponry and intense bullet-hell combat within a procedural framework.

Get ready to put a sizable dent in the profits of megacorporations in Deadlink, a guns-blazing cyberpunk FPS with roguelite elements. Your mission is to conduct covert ops while piloting a humanoid combat shell. And no, "covert" doesn’t mean "quiet."

Why similar: Action Roguelike 30.8%, FPS 27.5%, Roguelite 11.9%, Difficult 8.4%, Fast-Paced 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A high-octane cyberpunk FPS roguelite that rewards aggressive play and constant movement.

Heavy Bullets is a randomized FPS dungeon crawler where players make their way through a colorful maze, while protecting themselves from aggressive creatures and malfunctioning security devices. The goal lies at the end of the 8th level, where they must reset the security mainframe to restore order and reap the rewards.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 30%, FPS 27.7%, Roguelike 15.4%, Roguelite 7.5%, Indie 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: It is a minimalist FPS roguelike that emphasizes resource management and careful movement in tight corridors.

Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter. Not 'the final hope of humanity' post-apocalyptic, but 'humanity is extinct and mutants and monsters now roam the world' post-apocalyptic. Can you reach the Nuclear Throne?

Why similar: Action Roguelike 37.2%, Roguelike 28.4%, Roguelite 7.6%, Difficult 7.2%, Great Soundtrack 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Though top-down, it shares the exact same frantic, high-difficulty, and fast-paced design philosophy as the seed game.

Blast through a cursed nightmare solo or with up to 3 friends. A retro-inspired FPS where looter shooter weapons meets boomer shooter chaos and rogue-lite elements.

Why similar: FPS 55%, Roguelite 20.6%, Shooter 9.2%, Action 6.1%, First-Person 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: This title blends retro-inspired FPS action with deep loot systems and roguelite dungeon exploration.

Risk of Rain is an action platformer with roguelike elements. With permanent death as a primary feature, players will have to play their best to get as far as possible. Fight on a mysterious planet with randomly spawning enemies and bosses, either alone or with 3 friends in online co-op.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 38.5%, Roguelike 30.3%, Great Soundtrack 9.1%, Difficult 5.2%, Roguelite 5%

Why You'll Like It: This classic action-roguelike focuses on scaling difficulty and intense combat encounters that feel very similar in spirit.

Devil Daggers is a fast-paced shooter that places you in an abyssal arena to face endless legions of demons. Armed with versatile magic daggers and a fluid movement system, fight to survive as long as you can.

Why similar: FPS 50.8%, Difficult 13.3%, Fast-Paced 9.4%, Indie 6.8%, Action 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: While not a traditional roguelike, it captures the extreme difficulty and arcade-style intensity found in the seed game.

Inspired by BioShock and System Shock 2, Void Bastards is a revolutionary new strategy-shooter that will test your wits as well as exercise your aim. Can you lead the misfit prisoners of the Void Ark through the derelict spaceships and myriad dangers of the Sargasso Nebula?

Why similar: Action Roguelike 27.2%, FPS 25.9%, Roguelike 20.4%, Roguelite 7.8%, Shooter 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a strategic, roguelite take on the FPS genre with a distinct visual style and challenging resource management.

One More Dungeon is a first person shooter roguelike with procedurally generated levels and pixel-art graphics.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 34.1%, FPS 22.2%, Roguelike 20.5%, Roguelite 6.8%, Indie 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: This title provides a straightforward, retro-styled FPS roguelike experience with simple mechanics and dungeon crawling.

Rogue-like FPS with strong RPG elements set in a 22nd century reality-show parody. Win a fortune or die, but never disappoint your audience. And audience is virtual or real with revolutionary but optional features for streamers and their fans.

Why similar: FPS 26.5%, Roguelike 21%, Action Roguelike 17.7%, Roguelite 10.1%, Action 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: It features a dark, satirical game show premise with FPS mechanics and roguelike elements that mirror the seed game's vibe.

Post Void is a hypnotic scramble of early first-person shooter design that values speed above all else. Keep your head full and reach the end; Kill what you can to see it mend; Get the high score or try again.

Why similar: FPS 32.2%, Action Roguelike 32.2%, Difficult 8.4%, Fast-Paced 8%, Shooter 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: A hyper-fast, psychedelic FPS that demands constant aggression and precision to keep your health from depleting.

Delve into the shifting dungeons on your hunt for the Yithidian orb, but getting it might just be the easy part. Delver is a single player first-person action roguelike dungeon crawler, just like you wished they used to make.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 33.5%, Roguelike 22.2%, FPS 11.6%, Roguelite 11.3%, Indie 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person dungeon crawler with retro aesthetics and permadeath that emphasizes exploration and survival.

A fast-paced mashup of roguelikes and first-person shooters.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 35.2%, Roguelite 24.2%, FPS 20.2%, Action 7.4%, Shooter 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: It is a direct attempt to combine classic shooter tropes with procedural generation and roguelite progression.

Still Not Dead is a challenging roguelite FPS that merges the fast satisfying gunplay of Doom with open stages, insane weaponry, tactical choice and being pursued by death itself. The unique blessing and curse system, plus unlockable skill skulls set the game apart from everything else.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 46.1%, FPS 15.8%, Great Soundtrack 6.6%, Action 6.4%, Roguelite 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced, pixelated FPS roguelike that focuses on chaotic combat and high-speed movement.

Spelunky is a unique platformer with randomized levels that offer a challenging new experience each time you play. Journey deep underground and explore fantastic places filled with all manner of monsters, traps, and treasure.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 41.8%, Roguelike 34.6%, Difficult 8.8%, Indie 6.6%, Procedural Generation 3%

Why You'll Like It: While a platformer, it is the gold standard for the procedural difficulty and 'one more run' mentality found in the seed game.

In a cold, dark future dominated by mega-corporations, a small lonely planet on the edge of habitable space is the site of a shadowy research facility specializing in necrotic tissue reactivation. You are a scientist who has suddenly awoken to the realization that you are the lone survivor.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 40.9%, Roguelike 32%, Difficult 6.9%, Roguelite 6.3%, Indie 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down shooter that is notoriously difficult and rewards the same kind of twitch reflexes as the seed game.

Revulsion takes classic Doom and Quake style gameplay and combines it with a loot based shooter.This involves getting better and better weapons and armor as you climb toward the level cap. In addition to that, there is a large amount of potential loot that you can discover to help you along the way.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 33.5%, Voxel 21.9% ★, FPS 18.3%, Indie 9.5%, Roguelite 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based FPS that focuses on intense combat and procedural level design in a sci-fi setting.

The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is a randomly generated action RPG shooter with heavy Rogue-like elements. Following Isaac on his journey players will find bizarre treasures that change Isaac’s form giving him super human abilities and enabling him to fight off droves of mysterious creatures, discover secrets and fight his way to safety.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 40%, Roguelike 29%, Great Soundtrack 7.7%, Difficult 7.5%, Indie 5.2%

Combining its own unique take on the real-time roguelike genre, with a nostalgic 16-bit look and feel, Diehard Dungeon is a game that feels both familiar and quite different at the same time. Followed by a trusty, treasure collecting companion chest, you must make your way through the dungeons many randomly-generated rooms and levels.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 40.3%, Roguelike 31.6%, Roguelite 7.7%, Action 6.6%, Indie 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: It features dungeon-crawling action with a focus on loot and procedural generation in a retro style.

Skelly Selest is a score-attack hack slash dash run 'n' gun-athon. Venture into the procedurally generated perdition depths of Hell to purge the evil taint of the Deamonica Netherlords and their fiendly followers.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 36.1%, Roguelike 22%, Roguelite 13.4%, Great Soundtrack 7.9%, Difficult 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced arena action game that shares the retro, roguelite nature of the seed game.

Embark - if you dare - upon a desperate battle against the unknown horrors of the beyond; featuring roguelike elements, including procedural generation and permanent death, CTHON seamlessly blends visceral combat with strategic character building.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 53.6%, FPS 26.4%, Action 9.4%, Shooter 7.7%, First-Person 1.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a Lovecraftian, first-person shooter experience with roguelike elements and challenging combat.

Overture is an action-adventure roguelike which draws heavy inspiration from hits such as Diablo, Realm of The Mad God, Zelda, and The Binding of Isaac. Explore vast randomly generated dungeons and slay hordes of cunning enemies!

Why similar: Action Roguelike 46.2%, Roguelike 22.2%, Roguelite 9%, Indie 7.3%, Action 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: This title provides a fast-paced, action-oriented roguelike experience with a focus on character classes and combat.

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Why similar: Action Roguelike 40.8%, Roguelike 31.8%, Difficult 6.6%, Indie 5.6%, Great Soundtrack 5.5%

Get wasted or get wasted trying in WASTED, a roguelike post-apocalyptic pub crawler. Fight tooth and nail, bullets and baseball bats in search of Booze, gain strange mutational Hangovers, and explore the Coolers in search of powerful weapons, armor, and a nice stiff drink to top it all off.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 40.6%, FPS 23.1%, Roguelike 13.1%, Roguelite 9.5%, Action 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: It combines post-apocalyptic exploration with FPS combat and roguelite mechanics in a unique, stylized world.

Fancy Skulls is a challenging first person shooter with procedural generation, permadeath and distinct art style. Intense and tactical combat, unique weapon mods and items that change the way you play.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 56.7%, FPS 23.3%, Indie 10.6%, Action 9.3%

Straimium Immortaly is a shmup roguelike dungeoncrawler. Explore the butts-hard procedurally generated Cubicus battling beasties, looting endless item and weapon upgrades and defeating huge boss meanies in your vengeful quest to eradicate the Queeni Emperess.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 32.3%, Roguelike 22.4%, Roguelite 12.1%, Great Soundtrack 8.5%, Difficult 8%

A fast run and gun horror shooter with roguelike elements

Why similar: Roguelike 36.8%, FPS 28.6%, Action 9.2%, Shooter 7.4%, Procedural Generation 5.5%

Wayward Souls is a randomly generated action-RPG with a heavy focus on story. Play as seven different heroes, all with their own sets of abilities. Fight through steadily greater hordes of enemies.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 53.9%, Roguelite 15.9%, Indie 11.1%, Action 10.9%, RPG 6.8%

The Madness of Little Emma is a difficult action platformer with roguelike elements. Featuring over 250 items with insane synergies, varied enemies, and numerous secrets and mysteries to discover.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 50.9%, Roguelike 17.4%, Great Soundtrack 8.6%, Indie 7.9%, Action 7.5%

Deathstate is a roguelike bullet hell adventure set in a bizarre world of dimensional exploration. Play as a number of unique characters trying to discover the fate of Professor Elinberg who opened a portal to the void. Are you ready to venture deep into the abyss?

Why similar: Action Roguelike 45.5%, Roguelike 16%, Roguelite 14.5%, Difficult 7%, Action 6.3%

Schism is a challenging action roguelike RPG with deep synergies and high broken build potential. The combination of robust stat systems, fully moddable guns, deity worship, intense frequency-switching bullet hell combat, and difficult bosses make for a unique and highly replayable experience.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 43.1%, Roguelike 29.3%, Difficult 10.4%, Action 5.6%, Procedural Generation 4.4%

Spaceship Looter is an action roguelike game, where mercenaries of all stripes rob drifting schooner, lost transtport ships and abandoned military cruisers - all what is filled with tons of valuable loot and hidden in the deep space.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 40.1%, Roguelike 22.4%, Roguelite 11.2%, Great Soundtrack 7%, Action 5.5%

Lovecraft’s Untold Stories is an action roguelite with RPG elements. Explore randomly generated levels based in Lovecraft's stories, fight cultists and all kinds of monsters from the Mythos, improve your gear, solve puzzles, and find clues and knowledge to defeat the Great Old Ones.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 44.7%, Roguelite 16.3%, Action 8.2%, Roguelike 7.5%, Indie 7.3%

Live the life of space captain Flinthook! Armed with your mighty hookshot, your uncanny slow-motion powers and your trusty blasma pistol, plunder and fight your way through an infinite variety of randomly-assembled spaceships for treasure, loot and fame!

Why similar: Action Roguelike 45.1%, Roguelike 20.1%, Roguelite 10.7%, Indie 6.8%, Action 6.4%

Mortal Sin is a chaotic, blood-soaked roguelike where skill is power, and overconfidence is death. Carve through procedurally generated nightmares with brutal melee and flashy, satisfying combos.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 41.5%, Roguelike 21.7%, Roguelite 12.1%, Indie 5.4%, Action 5.4%

Double Down is a roguelike FPS for high-octane high rollers. Smash robots and spin slots to win powerful upgrades, and make your way through growing waves of enemies to face The House and take back the casino.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 45.3%, Roguelike 29.2%, Action 8.7%, Shooter 8%, Indie 3.5%

Katanaut is a fast-paced, Metroidvania-inspired action roguelite blending fluid combat and cosmic horror. Slash, dodge, and wield powerful abilities as you battle through a station sprawling with twisted, once-human horrors. Adapt, survive, and descend into the shadows to uncover dark secrets.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 31.8%, Roguelike 25.3%, Roguelite 11.6%, Difficult 8.5%, Fast-Paced 6.8%

The Dungeoning is a difficult action platformer with character levelling, set in a procedurally generated dungeon. Kill enemies, level up using experience and master varied weapons and magic. Collect gold to spend with traders and buy better weapons. Try NG+ and beyond for an extra challenge.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 47.1%, Roguelike 23.3%, Roguelite 9.7%, Indie 7.6%, Action 7.5%

Woodpunk is an exhilarating roguelike bullet hell retro pixel art shooter in a medieval Woodpunk universe, where the primary energy resource is WOOD.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 42.2%, Roguelike 17.9%, Roguelite 9.2%, Action 7.1%, Difficult 7%

In Enlightenment, you play in a roguelike action-shooter with a fast-paced challenging journey deep into a underground complex called "the Ark". Players will be tested by large varieties of enemies in a procedurally-generated dungeon, and become stronger by learning from the inevitable deaths.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 47.3%, Roguelike 12.7%, Roguelite 11.9%, Action 9.1%, Indie 8.8%

Danger Gazers is a post-apocalyptic roguelite top-down shooter where you pave your own path. The choices you make will decide your fate, it will either turn you into the new ruler or... the ashes to be windswept away.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 53.6%, Roguelike 9.4%, Roguelite 8.6%, Indie 6.3%, Great Soundtrack 6.1%

99 Levels to Hell is a platform shooter with lots of guns, upgrades, magic, traps and monsters to kill. 99 Levels to Hell is a rogue-like, which means surviving is key and every time you play you get a new set of levels to play. When you complete 10 levels, the 10th being a boss-fight you unlock a door to the next dungeon.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 36.4%, Roguelike 16.8%, Roguelite 16%, Shooter 8.5%, Indie 7.3%

Riptale is a challenging 2D roguelike action game aiming to make sword combat be as bloody and impactful as possible. The player collects gems that allow them to execute different attacks in the order of their choosing. All this results in a symphony of combos that fill the screen with blood and guts.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 58.2%, Great Soundtrack 11.5%, Roguelite 11%, Indie 9.7%, Action 9.5%

Decidit is a fast FPS roguelike in which you must use all the arsenal and movement abilities at your disposal in order to progress in an unstable demonic maze. Be fast, precise but also strategic using all the demonic weapons and abilities collected on the way to create powerful synergies.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 33%, FPS 28.4%, Roguelike 23.8%, Shooter 6.4%, Action 4%

Prodeus is a first-person shooter of old, re-imagined using modern rendering techniques and technology. Experience the quality you’d expect from a modern AAA game, designed with retro aesthetics and gameplay that invoke the tech-imposed limits of older hardware.

Why similar: FPS 64.1%, Shooter 8%, Action 7.2%, Great Soundtrack 6.8%, Indie 5.5%

DOOMED is a First Person Shooter with horror elements, heavily inspired by old-school shooter classics.

Why similar: FPS 33.4%, Action 15.6%, Indie 13%, Great Soundtrack 12.4%, Difficult 7.9%

Platformines is a unique 2D platformer packed with exploration, RPG and shooter elements, set in a vast 16-bit underground world! Customise your character, master all difficulty levels and literally jump to the top of the leaderboards to prove your skills!

Why similar: Action Roguelike 78.7%, Action 9.6%, Indie 7.5%, Shooter 2.5%, RPG 1.1%

Experience a different take on the roguelike genre. Explore a world created on the fly by your actions. Wonder about your purpose.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 43.7%, Roguelike 14.9%, Indie 9.8%, Great Soundtrack 9.8%, Action 9.6%

Project Warlock is a first-person shooter that fans of Doom, Hexen, and Wolfenstein cannot miss. It serves you an exploding cocktail of bullets, spells, and monsters. Battle through 60 levels of non-stop action, packed with bloodthirsty enemies and challenging bosses.

Why similar: FPS 47.9%, Roguelike 19.7%, Fast-Paced 7.3%, Shooter 5.8%, Action 5.5%

Fast-paced twin stick shooter rogue-lite action

Why similar: Action Roguelike 41.8%, Roguelike 15.5%, Roguelite 14.9%, Great Soundtrack 9.4%, Action 6.5%

Pixel Descent is an action rogue-lite in which you navigate a series of complex dungeons packed to the brim with monsters that want you dead. Sign the contract and descend into the deepest depths of the abyss knowing full well that you will definitely die there, it's just a matter of when.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 47.1%, Roguelike 28.5%, Indie 7.7%, Action 7.4%, RPG 4.3%

Void Raiders is "radical" top down rogue-lite shmup, with permanent character progression, character centric gameplay and never ending carnage in randomly generated environments.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 59.8%, Roguelite 13.5%, Indie 9.6%, Action 9.3%, RPG 5.5%