- #1 Caves of Qud
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 12,599 reviews2024
Dev: Freehold GamesPub: Kitfox Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 35.4 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Inhabit a deeply-simulated science fantasy world and chisel through layers of thousand-year-old civilizations. Build a character from over a hundred mutations and cybernetics. The award-winning sandbox roguelike & RPG full of robots, deep lore, and sentient plants.
Why similar: Transhumanism 30.8% ★, Turn-Based 17.6%, Turn-Based Combat 12.8%, Procedural Generation 10.4%, Roguelike 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: Offers an unparalleled depth of transhumanist themes and complex, turn-based tactical roguelike gameplay.
- #2 Stoneshard
96% matchMostly Positive75% of 35,466 reviews2020
Dev: Ink Stains GamesPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows · Linux
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 38.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Stoneshard is a hardcore turn-based RPG about the harsh life of a medieval mercenary: travel with your own caravan, descend into procedurally generated dungeons, learn new skills, survive hunger and injuries - and remember, every mistake can mean death and loss of progress.
Why similar: Turn-Based 23.2%, Roguelike 13.9%, RPG 13.7%, Turn-Based Combat 13%, Procedural Generation 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: Features a similarly gritty, unforgiving turn-based combat system with heavy emphasis on survival and resource management.
- #3 Cogmind
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,997 reviews2017
Dev: Grid Sage Games
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 41.4 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Cogmind is a sci-fi roguelike epic in which you play a robot building yourself from components found or salvaged from other robots. Explore a living, breathing world through turn-based tactical combat, or sneak, hack, and fly your way to victory.
Why similar: Turn-Based 29.9%, Difficult 15.2%, Roguelike 15.1%, Procedural Generation 14.3%, Sci-fi 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi traditional roguelike that excels at tactical combat and intricate item-based character customization.
- #4 ZERO Sievert
95% matchVery Positive85% of 15,372 reviews2024
Dev: CABO StudioPub: Modern Wolf
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 23.5 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Now with over 600,000 copies sold, ZERO Sievert is a tense top-down extraction shooter that challenges you to scavenge a procedurally-generated wasteland, loot gear, and explore what’s left of a devastated world. When the odds are stacked against you, you’ll need to do more than just survive...
Why similar: Extraction Shooter 81.7% ★, Pixel Graphics 7.7%, Strategy 5.4%, Action 3.1%, Singleplayer 2%
Why You'll Like It: Captures the core extraction-shooter loop and tense survival mechanics in a hostile, post-apocalyptic environment.
- #5 UnderRail
94% matchVery Positive86% of 7,229 reviews2015
Dev: Stygian Software
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 39.2 hrs≥1hr: 68%
UnderRail is an old-school turn-based isometric role-playing game that features a large open post-apocalyptic world, deep and challenging combat and an intricate storyline.
Why similar: Turn-Based 32.9%, Turn-Based Combat 20.3%, RPG 18.1%, Cyberpunk 10%, Sci-fi 7%
Why You'll Like It: A deep, isometric RPG that emphasizes tactical combat and exploration in a claustrophobic, post-apocalyptic setting.
- #6 Jupiter Hell
94% matchVery Positive92% of 2,108 reviews2021
Dev: ChaosForgePub: Hyperstrange
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 63%
True Roguelike. Turn-based shooter. Permadeath. Tribute to the sci-fi classics of the Golden VHS era. Successor to DRL. Just you and your gun against hordes of horrors and monstrosities. Give them hell to the rhythm of heavy metal.
Why similar: Roguelike 35.1%, Turn-Based 33.7%, RPG 7.9%, Strategy 7.8%, Procedural Generation 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a fast-paced, turn-based tactical experience set in a dark, sci-fi environment reminiscent of classic roguelikes.
- #7 Cyber Knights: Flashpoint
93% matchVery Positive94% of 3,100 reviews2025
Dev: Trese Brothers
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 20.3 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Cyberpunk mercenaries RPG! Turn-based squad tactics with unique heist-planning strategy. Build your crew wisely; their stories will become interwoven with your own. Pull off heists with powerful cyberware, faction connections, multiclassing, weapon modding, stealth, hacking, and more!
Why similar: Turn-Based 20.6%, Cyberpunk 17.8%, Turn-Based Combat 15.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.7%, Tactical 12.8%
Why You'll Like It: A tactical, turn-based cyberpunk RPG that focuses on high-stakes missions and permanent consequences.
- #8 Battle Brothers
92% matchVery Positive88% of 28,621 reviews2017
Dev: Overhype StudiosPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 18.9 hrsMean: 94.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Lead a mercenary company in this tactical RPG set in a medieval fantasy world. Chase fame and fortune as you choose where to go, who to recruit, which contracts to pursue, and how to train and equip your men in a procedurally generated open world campaign.
Why similar: RPG 38%, Strategy 35.6%, Action 16%, Singleplayer 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: Delivers a brutal, mercenary-management loop where tactical turn-based combat and resource scarcity are constant threats.
- #9 NEO Scavenger
91% matchVery Positive90% of 5,410 reviews2014
Dev: Blue Bottle Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 8.4 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: Turn-Based 32.4%, Roguelike 16.4%, Procedural Generation 15.3%, Difficult 10.8%, RPG 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the harsh survival and scavenging aspects of a post-apocalyptic world through a turn-based, roguelike lens.
- #10 HighFleet
91% matchVery Positive88% of 7,394 reviews2021
Dev: Konstantin KoshutinPub: MicroProse Software
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 16.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Battle for survival in the skies of a mysterious future Earth in this unique action-strategy game mixing arcade combat, exploration, management and diplomacy. As giant flying ships wage spectacular aerial warfare, a prophecy tells of one who will save the world – could it be you?
Why similar: Tactical 31.8%, Choices Matter 23.8%, Sci-fi 16.8%, Strategy 15.6%, Action 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: Features an atmospheric, resource-heavy management loop combined with intense, tactical sci-fi combat.
- #11 Colony Ship: A Post-Earth Role Playing Game
90% matchVery Positive88% of 4,190 reviews2023
Dev: Iron Tower Studio
Windows
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Colony Ship is a turn-based, party-based role-playing game set aboard a generation ship launched to Proxima Centauri. The game features a detailed skill-based character system, multiple ways to handle quests, choices & consequences, and branching dialogue trees.
Why similar: Turn-Based 21%, Cyberpunk 14%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.5%, Dystopian 11.4%, Turn-Based Combat 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: A deep, turn-based tactical RPG that forces players to make difficult choices in a confined, decaying space environment.
- #12 Xenonauts 2
89% matchVery Positive81% of 5,738 reviews2026
Dev: Goldhawk InteractivePub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 20.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Wage a global war of resistance against an alien invasion. Command turn-based tactical battles, build a network of covert bases, directly control your fighter wings, and achieve strategic victory in a simulation of asymmetric warfare against a technologically superior foe.
Why similar: Turn-Based 20.9%, Turn-Based Combat 16.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 15%, Tactical 12.2%, Choices Matter 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a rigorous, turn-based tactical strategy experience focused on defending against an overwhelming alien threat.
- #13 Void Bastards
89% matchVery Positive86% of 5,433 reviews2019
Dev: Blue Manchu
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 69%
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: Extraction Shooter 51.5% ★, Procedural Generation 11.4%, Roguelike 10.7%, Space 10.1%, Sci-fi 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: Combines the extraction-shooter loop with a unique, stylized sci-fi aesthetic and roguelike progression.
- #14 SYNTHETIK: Legion Rising
88% matchVery Positive94% of 13,091 reviews2018
Dev: Flow Fire Games
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%
SYNTHETIK is an unforgiving tactical shooter rogue-lite where freedom and experimentation is key. Fight in a world overrun by the Machine Legion and their Gods. Experience the next level in gun-play and dive into unparalleled build options and Android upgrades. Can you defeat the Heart of Armageddon?
Why similar: Difficult 31.1%, Cyberpunk 24.4%, Roguelike 20.1%, Tactical 11.8%, Action 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: A tactical, cyberpunk-themed roguelike that emphasizes precise combat and complex weapon management.
- #15 Death Trash
87% matchVery Positive92% of 3,720 reviews2021
Dev: Crafting Legends
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Death Trash features a post-apocalyptic world where cosmic horrors long for humanity but meet punks with shotguns. It combines old-school role-playing, modern action gameplay and player freedom. Create your own character and explore a handcrafted world.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 40.3%, Choices Matter 22.1%, Pixel Graphics 18.7%, RPG 14.9%, Singleplayer 4%
Why You'll Like It: A gritty, post-apocalyptic RPG that shares a similar dark, unsettling atmosphere and focus on exploration.
- #16 Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
86% matchVery Positive87% of 539 reviews2023
Dev: CleverRavenPub: KorGgenT
Windows · Linux
The epitome of a modern traditional roguelike: with turn-based play and a RPG-like skill progression system, it hearkens back to some of the major aspects of this genre. This game has an incredible depth, with a deep inventory system, vehicles and boats, NPCs with their own stories, and more.
Why similar: Transhumanism 49.6% ★, Roguelike 17.2%, Sci-fi 11.7%, RPG 10.2%, Pixel Graphics 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for deep, simulation-heavy survival roguelikes with extensive crafting and scavenging mechanics.
- #17 Despot's Game: Dystopian Battle Simulator
85% matchVery Positive84% of 3,351 reviews2022
Dev: Konfa GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Guide puny humans through Despot's Game - a rogue-like tactics army battler. Equip your team and sacrifice them through procedural dungeons as you fight enemies, and other players!
Why similar: Tactical 23%, Roguelike 20.5%, Procedural Generation 12.9%, Pixel Graphics 11.6%, Turn-Based 11%
Why You'll Like It: A tactical, roguelike experience that captures the dark, dystopian humor and strategic combat of the genre.
- #18 Exanima
86% matchVery Positive80% of 13,868 reviews2015
Dev: Bare Mettle Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 20.0 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Explore, fight, survive and unravel mysteries in this unique and unforgiving 3D isometric RPG set in an original dark, low fantasy world. Exanima's exceptional attention to detail and realistic simulation of all things aim to provide a deeply immersive and dynamic gameplay experience.
Why similar: Difficult 41.2%, RPG 30%, Roguelike 16.9%, Action 7.8%, Singleplayer 4.1%
Why You'll Like It: Features a unique, physics-based combat system that creates a similarly high-stakes, dungeon-crawling experience.
- #19 Mech Engineer
84% matchMostly Positive74% of 953 reviews2024
Dev: KiberKrekerPub: MicroProse Software
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 49%
A dark sci-fi mech assembling manager with semi-auto battles against mutating, alien bio-weapon.
Why similar: Strategy 47.6%, Pixel Graphics 44.4%, Singleplayer 8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the intense management and tactical deployment of mechs in a resource-constrained, dungeon-crawling environment.
- #20 ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game
84% matchVery Positive85% of 10,540 reviews2018
Dev: AtomTeam
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 27.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%
ATOM RPG is a post-apocalyptic indie game, inspired by classic CRPGs: Fallout, Wasteland, Deus Ex, Baldur's Gate and many others.
Why similar: Turn-Based 43.8%, Turn-Based Combat 19.8%, Tactical 12.4%, RPG 12.4%, Strategy 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic RPG that leans heavily into tactical combat and survival-based character development.
- #21 Dead Weight
81% matchVery Positive84% of 576 reviews2026
Dev: Klukva Games
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Face the Ancient Gods! Set the sails of your flying pirate ship and embark on a roguelite adventure in the steampunk world of Dead Weight. Explore floating islands in search of loot. Choose a class and enjoy turn-based tactical combat on tiny battlefields where every step matters.
Why similar: Turn-Based 22.8%, Turn-Based Combat 18.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.6%, Tactical 12.3%, Roguelike 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: A turn-based RPG that emphasizes tactical combat and replayability in a dark, atmospheric world.
- #22 Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut
82% matchVery Positive89% of 6,565 reviews2014
Dev: Harebrained SchemesPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Harebrained Schemes' biggest Shadowrun game to date, and the definitive Shadowrun RPG experience available on PC. Now a standalone title with tons of new content & improvements!
Why similar: Turn-Based 31.2%, Cyberpunk 30.2%, RPG 11.9%, Tactical 9.1%, Sci-fi 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a narrative-rich, turn-based tactical experience set in a classic cyberpunk universe.
- #23 Wasteland 3
81% matchVery Positive85% of 22,342 reviews2020
Dev: inXile Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 25.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Following the critically acclaimed 2014 Game of the Year winner Wasteland 2, the RPG series that pioneered the post-apocalyptic genre in video games returns with Wasteland 3.
Why similar: Turn-Based 29.9%, Turn-Based Combat 20.3%, Choices Matter 15.9%, Tactical 10.1%, RPG 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: Offers deep, squad-based tactical combat and significant narrative choices in a harsh, ruined world.
- #24 MENACE
78% matchVery Positive91% of 13,267 reviews2026
Dev: Overhype StudiosPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 25.8 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 20%, Turn-Based Combat 16.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.3%, Tactical 12.6%, Choices Matter 10.4%
- #25 Ruin Raiders
82% matchMixed67% of 88 reviews2021
Dev: OverPowered TeamPub: indie.io
Windows
Ruin Raiders is a turn-based tactical roguelike where you command customizable squads on a one-way journey into the ruins of an ancient civilization. Master turn-based combat, craft new technologies, and dive into ever-changing ruins to unveil the past!
Why similar: Turn-Based 17.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.4%, Turn-Based Combat 11%, Difficult 9.6%, Procedural Generation 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: A turn-based tactical roguelite that emphasizes squad management and challenging combat encounters.
- #26 Streets of Rogue
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 23,037 reviews2019
Dev: Matt DabrowskiPub: tinyBuild
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 15.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Fight, sneak, and hack your way through randomly generated cities. It's like Nuclear Throne meets Deus Ex, mixed with the anarchy of GTA. Rogue-lite meets immersive sim, and goes completely insane.
Why similar: Roguelike 32.8%, Pixel Graphics 21.1%, RPG 20.9%, Procedural Generation 17.1%, Action 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: A chaotic, cyberpunk-themed roguelike that offers immense freedom in how you approach tactical objectives.
- #27 Hardspace: Shipbreaker
79% matchVery Positive89% of 22,322 reviews2022
Dev: Blackbird Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 24.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Equipped with cutting-edge salvaging tech, carve & slice spaceships to recover valuable materials. Upgrade your gear to take on more lucrative contracts and pay your billion credits debt to LYNX Corp!
Why similar: Space 33.3%, Dystopian 23.6%, Sci-fi 20.8%, Procedural Generation 9.6%, Strategy 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: Captures the industrial, blue-collar sci-fi atmosphere and the tension of working in a dangerous, resource-heavy environment.
- #28 Steam Marines
83% matchMixed50% of 333 reviews2014
Dev: Worthless Bums
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Steam Marines is a squad based Roguelike set on a steampunk spaceship. It features tactical play focused on positioning and careful use of resources. Built to keep you on your toes as you progress through the decks of your besieged ship while clearing enemies and trying to reach each level's elevator.
Why similar: Turn-Based 20.7%, Roguelike 18.1%, Tactical 10.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.1%, Space 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A tactical, turn-based roguelike that focuses on squad-based combat in a claustrophobic, sci-fi setting.
- #29 Void War
77% matchVery Positive94% of 3,953 reviews2025
Dev: Tundra
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Command an ancient starship and fight your way to the heart of a dying Empire. Fend off attacks from demented cultists, craven space pirates, and xenophobic Imperial soldiers. Discover powerful artifacts and use them to build your ship into a fearsome war engine.
Why similar: Space 17.3%, Difficult 14.7%, Procedural Generation 12.7%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Roguelike 11.9%
- #30 Project Zomboid
78% matchVery Positive94% of 475,049 reviews2013
Dev: The Indie Stone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 15.6 hrsMean: 87.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..
Why similar: RPG 82%, Singleplayer 18%
Why You'll Like It: A deep survival simulation that emphasizes the slow, methodical scavenging and resource management found in extraction games.
- #31 Enter the Chronosphere
76% matchVery Positive95% of 454 reviews2026
Dev: Effort StarPub: Joystick Ventures
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Everything moves when you do in Enter the Chronosphere, the turn-based roguelike. Each chronosphere is procedurally generated with defenders and biomes from the worlds it has consumed. Break in, find exotic weaponry and gadgets, outsmart hostile aliens, and fight your way to the core.
Why similar: Turn-Based 16.9%, Space 12.3%, Difficult 12.1%, Cyberpunk 11.2%, Turn-Based Combat 10.5%
- #32 Robothorium
80% matchMostly Positive70% of 374 reviews2019
Dev: Goblinz StudioPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Robothorium is a cyberpunk dungeon crawler with turn-based fights, where all your choices will have a direct impact on your revolution against Humankind. Deep Strategy, Crafting, Party Based management, Talents and so much more in this roguelike!
Why similar: Turn-Based 33.3%, Turn-Based Combat 18.4%, Strategy 13.5%, RPG 12.4%, Procedural Generation 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: A cyberpunk-themed tactical RPG that features deep character customization and turn-based combat mechanics.
- #33 Path of Achra
75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 3,239 reviews2024
Dev: UlfsirePub: Slouching Beast LLC
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 19.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Path of Achra is a dark fantasy roguelike of the ancient earth, with a focus on streamlined controls and rapid hero customization. A "broken build sandbox." Fight through the deadly lands of Achra to reach the horrors of the Obelisk, and discover what lies beyond...
Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 33%, Roguelike 29%, Procedural Generation 13.2%, RPG 13.1%, Pixel Graphics 9.5%
- #34 Ostranauts
74% matchMostly Positive78% of 3,152 reviews2026
Dev: Blue Bottle GamesPub: Kitfox Games
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 32.0 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Navigate your scrappy ship through the boneyard in search of valuable parts in abandoned vessels. Use salvage to upgrade your ship, or sell it for cash to pay down your mounting debt, or restock fuel, air, or food. Fly and role-play aboard your dream spaceship in this hardcore noir space-sim.
Why similar: Difficult 21.7%, Space 21.5%, Cyberpunk 17.7%, Procedural Generation 13.1%, Roguelike 11%
- #35 Subterrain: Mines of Titan
76% matchMostly Positive76% of 741 reviews2024
Dev: Pixellore IncPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Awaken from an abandoned stasis pod and discover a doomed mining camp on Titan in an uncompromising turn-based survival RPG. Survive the evolving horrors that lurk below and craft equipment, research new gear, fight against overwhelming odds, or even discover your true fate.
Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 33.4%, Tactical 18.8%, Sci-fi 18.5%, RPG 16.7%, Pixel Graphics 9.6%
- #36 Shift'n Slay
75% matchVery Positive81% of 99 reviews2025
Dev: DREBOT game studio
Windows
Shift’n Slay is an amped-up turn-based tactical roguelike, where you fight your way through a cyberpunk hell step by step, trying to break a time loop engineered by corporate bastards.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 17.4%, Turn-Based 17.4%, Turn-Based Combat 15.9%, Tactical 14.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.3%
- #37 Twilight Wars
74% matchMostly Positive75% of 254 reviews2025
Dev: Comrade Bear Games
Windows
Twilight Wars is a tactical dungeon crawler set in a neon-drenched cyberpunk future. Corporations rule the world. Rebuild a shattered spy agency, assemble a team of elite operatives, and wage a covert war to reclaim the world from the shadows.
Why similar: Turn-Based 17.6%, Cyberpunk 16.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.1%, Turn-Based Combat 12.7%, Difficult 9.7%
- #38 Shadows of Doubt
72% matchVery Positive82% of 17,722 reviews2024
Dev: ColePowered GamesPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 15.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Take on the role of a private investigator in this immersive detective simulator. Solve murders and other crimes in a procedurally generated and persistent city where every NPC lives and breathes their own independent lives. Find the killer quickly… or they will kill again!
Why similar: Cyberpunk 36.5%, Procedural Generation 33.2%, RPG 11.7%, Pixel Graphics 9.6%, Action 5%
- #39 The Last Spell
71% matchVery Positive91% of 13,615 reviews2023
Dev: Ishtar GamesPub: Nacon
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 23.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Defend the last bastion of humanity with your squad of heroes! Exterminate fiendish monsters with magic and brute force by night and re-build your battered city defenses by day in this tactical RPG with rogue-lite mechanics.
Why similar: Turn-Based 23.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.7%, Turn-Based Combat 16.5%, Tactical 13.8%, Roguelike 8.1%
- #40 USC: Counterforce
73% matchMixed67% of 239 reviews2024
Dev: Angry Cat StudiosPub: Firesquid
Windows
Lead your Space Commandos in a revival of turn-based squad tactics inspired by UFO/XCOM and Aliens. Utilize in-depth skill & combat systems in multiple game modes, including a full campaign. Discover the truth behind the demise of colony MC83-A and join the USC in defending humanity!
Why similar: Turn-Based 18.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.2%, Turn-Based Combat 12.1%, Procedural Generation 10%, Difficult 10%
- #41 SULFUR
70% matchVery Positive87% of 9,925 reviews2024
Dev: Perfect Random
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
SULFUR is a modern old-school action-adventure: Outsmart enemies, find treasure, improve weapons, harness powers. Delve deeper, find answers, make it end.
Why similar: Extraction Shooter 64% ★, Difficult 15.5%, Roguelike 13.2%, RPG 7.3%
- #42 ZEPHON
71% matchVery Positive83% of 1,898 reviews2024
Dev: Proxy Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
From the developers of Warhammer 40,000: Gladius, ZEPHON is a post-apocalyptic 4X strategy game built on Proxy’s unique tactical combat system. Guide survivors through a turbulent future, navigating unexpected disasters, eldritch horror and cyberpunk monstrosities. What will you do to survive?
Why similar: 4X 23.1% ★, Turn-Based 18%, Tactical 9.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.2%, Turn-Based Combat 9.1%
- #43 Xenomarine
73% matchVery Positive84% of 64 reviews2019
Dev: Fourfold Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Experience hardcore, sci-fi dungeon crawling in this dark, atmospheric roguelike. Xenomarine offers tactical turn-based combat with hundreds of unique items and upgradable weapons and armor, as well as massive replayability thanks to its randomly generated content.
Why similar: Roguelike 37.4%, Procedural Generation 20.6%, Turn-Based 18.2%, RPG 8.9%, Strategy 8.2%
- #44 Encased: A Sci-Fi Post-Apocalyptic RPG
71% matchMostly Positive77% of 4,794 reviews2021
Dev: Dark Crystal GamesPub: Prime Matter
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
A tactical sci-fi RPG set in an alternative 1970's, where an enormous and inexplicable artifact –the Dome– is discovered in a remote desert. Fight enemies, explore the anomalous wasteland, level up your character, join one of the forces in the ruined world.
Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 29.1%, Turn-Based 18.7%, RPG 11.8%, Strategy 10.7%, Sci-fi 10.2%
- #45 Intravenous 2
68% matchVery Positive95% of 4,704 reviews2024
Dev: Explosive Squat GamesPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Intravenous 2 is the ultimate blend of tactical gameplay and immersive storytelling. Will you embrace the shadows or confront your foes head-on? The choice is yours. Experience a new era of tactical stealth action. Save lives. Uncover secrets. Take vengeance.
Why similar: Tactical 47.8%, Difficult 26.7%, Pixel Graphics 11.9%, Action 8%, Singleplayer 5.8%
- #46 Depth of Extinction
73% matchMostly Positive75% of 209 reviews2018
Dev: HOF Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Explore a flooded world and save humanity from a terrible threat in this turn based, tactical RPG with roguelike elements
Why similar: Turn-Based 25.3%, Turn-Based Combat 13.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.5%, Cyberpunk 11.1%, RPG 8.1%
- #47 Showgunners
69% matchVery Positive93% of 1,958 reviews2023
Dev: ArtificerPub: Good Shepherd Entertainment
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 Combat 22.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 20.4%, Tactical 17.5%, Dystopian 16.1%, Sci-fi 10.6%
- #48 Breachway
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,496 reviews2024
Dev: Edgeflow StudioPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Explore the galaxy in this deckbuilding, sci-fi roguelike where ship upgrades and crew management are key to your survival. Optimize resource generation, engage in intense turn-based battles, and take on ever-growing threats as you seek out The Signal.
Why similar: Turn-Based 24.5%, Turn-Based Combat 20.7%, Roguelike 15.2%, Procedural Generation 14.8%, Difficult 14.2%
- #49 Songs of Syx
69% matchVery Positive94% of 9,164 reviews2020
Dev: Gamatron AB
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 14.7 hrsMean: 42.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Songs of Syx is a fantasy city-builder with vast battles simulating thousands of citizens and soldiers. Start off as a small village and build, scheme, and fight your way towards a mighty empire. The mechanics are deep and true to life, where tiny events can spiral into the collapse of kingdoms.
Why similar: 4X 68% ★, Strategy 14.7%, Pixel Graphics 13%, Singleplayer 4.3%
- #50 Dwarf Fortress
67% matchVery Positive95% of 31,421 reviews2022
Dev: Bay 12 GamesPub: Kitfox Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 39.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
Why similar: Strategy 47.9%, Procedural Generation 19.5%, Roguelike 18.5%, Difficult 14.2%
- #51 Mechajammer
72% matchMixed52% of 240 reviews2021
Dev: Whalenought StudiosPub: Modern Wolf
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 72%
A tactical cyberpunk turn-based RPG set on an off-world grindhouse jungle colony. Skulk through the shadows or charge in guns blazing. Recruit a unique party for large squad-based assaults as your adventure plunges you deep into the city’s secrets.
Why similar: Turn-Based 16.3%, Tactical 16.2%, Cyberpunk 16%, Turn-Based Combat 15.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.9%
- #52 Terminus: Zombie Survivors
67% matchVery Positive94% of 4,475 reviews2024
Dev: Longplay Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 13.3 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: Turn-Based Strategy 23%, Turn-Based 19.4%, Roguelike 17.6%, Turn-Based Combat 13.6%, RPG 8.7%
- #53 Darkest Dungeon® II
68% matchMostly Positive75% of 26,731 reviews2023
Dev: Red Hook Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 34.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Darkest Dungeon II is a roguelike road trip of the damned. Form a party, equip your stagecoach, and set off across the decaying landscape on a last gasp quest to avert the apocalypse. The greatest dangers you face, however, may come from within...
Why similar: Turn-Based 27.7%, Turn-Based Combat 18.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.9%, Roguelike 15.5%, Procedural Generation 12.8%
- #54 Space Haven
65% matchVery Positive86% of 11,081 reviews2026
Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 20.9 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
Why similar: Space 37.8%, Sci-fi 23.5%, Strategy 18.7%, Pixel Graphics 15.4%, Singleplayer 4.7%
- #55 SYNTHETIK 2
69% matchVery Positive80% of 3,473 reviews2021
Dev: Flow Fire Games
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 21.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
SYNTHETIK 2 is a unrelenting tactical-shooter rogue-lite. Play alone or with friends. Loot powerful tech. Experience the next level in gun-play. Upgrade your androids to rival the machine gods!
Why similar: Roguelike 35%, Tactical 33.8%, Sci-fi 22.7%, Action 8.5%
- #56 Zero Division
67% matchVery Positive88% of 289 reviews2024
Dev: Robot Cat LimitedPub: Astrolabe Games
Windows
A roguelite deckbuilder crossed with a CCG, set in a dark cyberpunk world. You will lead a three-man squad against competing factions fighting among the ashes of a world-wide war. Each operator comes with a unique deck that can be customized and augmented.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 25.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 17%, Roguelike 12.5%, Turn-Based Combat 11.3%, Difficult 9.3%
- #57 Peripeteia
66% matchVery Positive86% of 3,395 reviews2025
Dev: Ninth Exodus
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 71%
You are Marie, a cyborg mercenary dropped into the rot of a post-Soviet city of corruption and opportunity. Shoot, sneak, hack, climb or talk your way through alt-history cyberpunk Poland in an immersive sim where every problem has multiple solutions and every rooftop is reachable.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 34.6%, Dystopian 33.5%, Sci-fi 14%, RPG 11.4%, Action 3.9%
- #58 Metroplex Zero: Sci-Fi Card Battler
67% matchVery Positive97% of 129 reviews2023
Dev: Enigma Dragons LLC
Windows · Linux
Neo-cyberpunk roguelike card battler. Strategically construct your decks, gain powerful cybernetic upgrades, and vanquish sinister MegaCorps in challenging card combat. Dive into a replayable single-player experience that blends RPG progression, deck-building strategy, and a futuristic sci-fi world.
Why similar: Turn-Based 21.8%, Cyberpunk 17.1%, Turn-Based Combat 13.6%, Roguelike 9.7%, Difficult 8.7%
- #59 Rencounter
70% matchMostly Positive71% of 375 reviews2016
Dev: SPVDPub: GrabTheGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 23.8 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Rencounter is a difficult, turn-based, RPG, roguelike game with a mysterious atmosphere. Help your squad survive while navigating through a network of tunnels and rooms. Distribute provisions and medicine to keep them alive.
Why similar: Turn-Based 26.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 17.9%, Difficult 15.4%, RPG 11.9%, Strategy 10.5%