Games Like Rogue Legacy

Rogue Legacy 2 is what you'd get if you mashed Rogue Legacy and a sequel together. Every time you die, your children will succeed you, and each child is unique. Your daughter might be a Colourblind Archer, and your son could be a Pacifistic Chef. Either way, one of them is getting conscripted.

Why similar: Platformer 31.3%, Metroidvania 23%, Roguelike 15.9%, Arcade 6%, Roguelite 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: The direct successor that refines every mechanic from the original with expanded classes and deeper metroidvania elements.

Dead Cells is a roguelite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer. You'll explore a sprawling, ever-changing castle... assuming you’re able to fight your way past its keepers in 2D souls-lite combat. No checkpoints. Kill, die, learn, repeat.

Why similar: Roguevania 52.8% ★, Roguelike 12.1%, Platformer 11.1%, Action Roguelike 8.1%, Metroidvania 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A premier roguevania that combines fluid, fast-paced combat with intricate platforming and permanent gear progression.

Guide 'Skul' on his quest to single-handedly take on the Imperial Army and rescue his King from captivity, in an action-packed rogue-lite 2D platformer for the ages.

Why similar: Roguelike 25.8%, Action Roguelike 24.4%, Platformer 14.1%, Metroidvania 9%, Indie 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: Features a unique head-swapping mechanic that provides the same variety and character-building depth found in the genealogical system of Rogue Legacy.

In this challenging, fast-paced roguelite, every death is a unique chance to rewrite fate, save Persia or die trying. Master fluid, acrobatic combat and parkour as you explore your kingdom to right your wrongs!

Why similar: Roguevania 25.4% ★, Platformer 22.1%, Roguelike 21.1%, Action Roguelike 17.7%, Roguelite 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: Offers highly polished parkour-based platforming combined with rogue-lite progression and intense combat encounters.

An action-adventure roguelike with a bit of RPG tossed in. Adventure deep into the UnderMine and discover powerful relics, deadly enemies, hidden secrets, and a few friends to help along the way.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 53.8%, Roguelite 12.4%, Roguelike 9.8%, Pixel Graphics 6%, RPG 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: Features satisfying dungeon exploration and a robust meta-progression system that allows you to upgrade your hero between runs.

Vagante is an action-packed platformer that features permanent death and procedurally generated levels. Play cooperatively with friends both locally and online, or adventure solo in this challenging roguelike-inspired game.

Why similar: Roguevania 50% ★, Roguelike 13.4%, Action Roguelike 12.7%, Platformer 9.3%, Roguelite 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging platformer-roguelite that emphasizes RPG character building and dangerous, procedural dungeon exploration.

Summum Aeterna is a fast-paced Roguelite inspired by the Metroidvania Aeterna Noctis. Create your own worlds, challenges, difficulty and influences in each new run. Die, learn, become stronger, and achieve victory. Death is inevitable, but glory is only for the chosen.

Why similar: Roguevania 58.9% ★, Roguelike 13.1%, Platformer 9.3%, Action Roguelike 9.2%, Roguelite 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced rogue-lite platformer that allows for deep customization of your runs through a unique seed-based system.

Have a Nice Death is a 2D action roguelike where you play as an overworked Death, whose employees have run rampant, completely throwing off the balance of souls - and his vacation plans. In order to restore order, you'll have to grab your trusty scythe and show your employees who's boss.

Why similar: Roguelike 26.7%, Action Roguelike 22.9%, Platformer 20%, Metroidvania 14%, Roguelite 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: A stylish action-roguelite with tight, responsive combat and a focus on challenging platforming sections.

Spelunky 2 builds upon the unique, randomized challenges that made the original a roguelike classic, offering a huge adventure designed to satisfy players old and new. Meet the next generation of explorers as they find themselves on the Moon, searching for treasure and missing family.

Why similar: Platformer 44.2%, Roguelike 23.6%, Action Roguelike 16.4%, Side Scroller 5.5%, Indie 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for procedural platforming, offering deep secrets and a high skill ceiling for those who enjoy challenging 2D movement.

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: Roguelike 34.1%, Platformer 24.1%, Action Roguelike 23.5%, Addictive 4.2% ★, Indie 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: A classic action-roguelike that focuses on scaling power and persistent unlocks through repeated runs.

Dungreed is a 2D side-scrolling action game with 2D Rogue-LITE elements. You become an adventurer exploring a continuously evolving dungeon to prevent the town from being destroyed. Eliminate enemies, use a variety of weapons and magic, eat food, and defeat evil in the dungeon!

Why similar: Roguelike 33.2%, Action Roguelike 27.2%, Platformer 13.1%, Roguelite 7.5%, Pixel Graphics 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: An action-roguelite that leans heavily into RPG stats and equipment management, mirroring the progression feel of the seed game.

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: Roguelike 47.5%, Action Roguelike 35.6%, Indie 5.6%, Pixel Graphics 3.6%, Roguelite 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive item-based roguelite that provides endless replayability through its massive pool of synergies.

In this fast paced twin-stick roguelite platformer, you play as an unnamed child ascending an ominous clocktower in pursuit of their lost memories. Harvest and sacrifice souls to grow your power in order to challenge procedural encounter rooms and intimidating bosses!

Why similar: Roguelike 38.2%, Action Roguelike 32.6%, Roguelite 10%, RPG 5.3%, Pixel Graphics 5%

Why You'll Like It: A twin-stick platformer-roguelite where you trade health for power, creating a high-stakes risk-reward loop similar to Rogue Legacy.

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: Roguelike 46.3%, Action Roguelike 33%, Roguelite 5.6%, Indie 4.6%, Pixel Graphics 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: A high-octane action-roguelike that rewards fast reflexes and aggressive playstyles.

Downwell is a curious game about a young person venturing down a well in search of untold treasures with only his Gunboots to protect him.

Why similar: Platformer 37.5%, Action Roguelike 27%, Roguelike 12.1%, Indie 5.4%, Pixel Graphics 5%

Why You'll Like It: A unique precision-platformer that turns the genre on its head with its vertical, fast-paced roguelite design.

Sundered is a chaotic hand­-drawn metroidvania where you resist or embrace ancient eldritch powers, a challenging and unique take on a classic genre from the creators of Jotun, now with local co-op!

Why similar: Roguevania 67% ★, Platformer 9.5%, Metroidvania 7.5%, Action Roguelike 7%, Roguelike 4%

Why You'll Like It: A hand-drawn metroidvania that incorporates rogue-lite elements and massive boss battles.

A Robot Named Fight is a Metroidvania roguelike focused on exploration and item collection. Explore a different, procedurally-generated labyrinth each time you play and discover randomized power-ups to traverse obstacles, find secrets and explode meat beasts.

Why similar: Roguevania 61.3% ★, Metroidvania 8.7%, Platformer 8.3%, Action Roguelike 8.1%, Roguelike 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A clever fusion of classic metroidvania exploration and roguelite procedural generation.

Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!

Why similar: Roguelike 73.3%, Pixel Graphics 6.5%, Indie 5.9%, Roguelite 4.1%, RPG 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: A rhythm-based roguelite that forces players to master movement and timing in a dungeon-crawling setting.

Blasphemous is a brutal action-platformer with skilled hack’n slash combat set in the nightmare world of Cvstodia. Explore, upgrade your abilities, and perform savage executions on the hordes of enemies that stand between you and your quest to break eternal damnation.

Why similar: Metroidvania 46.5%, Platformer 28.1%, Pixel Graphics 7.2%, 2D 4.6%, Indie 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging 2D action-platformer with deep lore and intricate combat that rewards careful exploration.

Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.

Why similar: Platformer 42.7%, Metroidvania 36.8%, Indie 5.6%, 2D 4.6%, Side Scroller 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: While not a roguelite, it is the definitive metroidvania experience for players who love tight platforming and atmospheric exploration.

Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove is the complete Shovel Knight collection, containing all 5 games in the epic saga! Dig, blast, slash, and bash your way through a fantastical, 8-bit inspired world of pixel-perfect platforming, memorable characters, and world-class action-adventure gameplay.

Why similar: Platformer 67%, Pixel Graphics 6.9%, Indie 6.2%, 2D 5%, Side Scroller 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: A masterclass in retro-inspired platforming that captures the feel of classic action games.

Explore a haunting, punishing island in this stylized 2D action RPG. Salt and Sanctuary combines fast and brutal 2D combat with richly developed RPG mechanics in a cursed realm of forgotten cities, blood-soaked dungeons, and desecrated monuments.

Why similar: Metroidvania 39.1%, Platformer 35.2%, RPG 7.2%, 2D 5.6%, Side Scroller 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D soulslike that offers deep RPG character customization and challenging combat in an interconnected world.

Daniel was just an average guy. He was a great videogame player, a big fan of sci-fi movies, and a novice RPG player. In the midst of an RPG, he was teleported to a castle. At first, Daniel believed that he was having a massive hallucination.

Why similar: Platformer 38.3%, Metroidvania 27.5%, RPG 11.7%, Indie 7.2%, Action 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: A platformer-RPG hybrid that focuses on exploration, gear management, and overcoming challenging dungeons.

Immerse yourself in a gorgeous hand-painted world on a search for your true identity. As the mysterious warrior, Dust, your action-packed journey will take you from peaceful glades to snowy mountaintops and beyond.

Why similar: Platformer 45.1%, Metroidvania 26.8%, RPG 5.6%, Indie 5.4%, Action 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: Features fluid combat and beautiful platforming in a classic metroidvania structure.

Plague Breaker is a retro roguelike platformer with heavy RPG elements. Pick your class and ascend a procedurally generated castle filled with undead monsters and corrupted plague doctors. Level up your character and find items, weapons, and traders along the way before taking on each floors boss.

Why similar: Roguevania 55.8% ★, Platformer 10.9%, Roguelike 10.4%, Action Roguelike 8.5%, Metroidvania 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: A roguevania that blends platforming with character customization and diverse class-based gameplay.

SteamWorld Dig is an action-adventure puzzler with strong Metroidvanian influences set in the SteamWorld Universe. You’ll need to dig deep into the earth, gather resources to upgrade your tools and abilities, take on enemies, solve challenging puzzles and uncover the secrets to save a dying town.

Why similar: Platformer 54%, Metroidvania 28.1%, Indie 5.5%, 2D 3.1%, Action 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: Combines metroidvania exploration with satisfying mining-based progression and platforming.

The infamous, tough-as-nails platformer comes to Steam with a playable Head Crab character (Steam-exclusive)!

Why similar: Platformer 75.4%, Indie 8.2%, Pixel Graphics 6.9%, 2D 4.8%, Singleplayer 1.9%

Why You'll Like It: The ultimate test of precision-platforming skill for players who enjoyed the platforming challenges of Rogue Legacy.

Heroes of Hammerwatch is a rogue-lite action-adventure. Explore and battle your way through procedurally generated levels on your own or with up to 3 friends.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 45.5%, Roguelite 16.2%, Roguelike 12.7%, RPG 7.7%, Pixel Graphics 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A dungeon crawler that emphasizes long-term meta-progression and character building across multiple classes.

A 2d action-packed roguelite about a monkey hero protecting the jungle from the rise of a corruptive power. Explore ever-changing dungeons, fight weird enemies and gear up with lots of weapons and relics you can combine for a new experience every run. Explore, fight, die, and repeat!

Why similar: Roguevania 66.5% ★, Roguelike 11.8%, Action Roguelike 10.2%, Metroidvania 2.7%, Roguelite 2.4%

This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.

Why similar: Roguelike 79.4%, Indie 7.5%, Roguelite 6.3%, 2D 3.1%, Singleplayer 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: A strategic roguelike that, while different in genre, shares the same core appeal of high-stakes decision-making and persistent progression.

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: Platformer 36.6%, Roguelike 30%, Action Roguelike 19.7%, Addictive 4.8% ★, Indie 3.8%

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Why similar: Roguelike 47%, Action Roguelike 32.8%, Addictive 7.2% ★, Indie 5.5%, Roguelite 2.2%

Conquer the forces of Death in A Wizard’s Lizard, an action RPG for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Explore ever-changing dungeons, filled with powerful weapons and items. Battle back the hordes of evil. Rescue villagers to improve your town and increase your power for your next trek into the dungeon.

Why similar: Roguelike 41.5%, Action Roguelike 31.7%, Roguelite 9%, RPG 6.4%, Indie 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: An action-roguelite that focuses on exploration and RPG-style combat in a procedurally generated world.

Explore, craft, and survive in this Multiplayer RPG Platformer with permanent death! Featuring many Rogue-like elements, Magicite randomly generates each underground dungeon for you and your friends to delve deep into.

Why similar: Roguelike 32.3%, Platformer 25.1%, Action Roguelike 18%, RPG 5.3%, Indie 4.8%

A hack and slash action adventure, set in a fantasy pixel art environment. Play solo or co-op in this adventure from bottom to top of Castle Hammerwatch. Kill hordes of enemies with varied looks and features through four unique environments with traps, hidden secrets and puzzles.

Why similar: Roguelike 27.4%, RPG 18.4%, Indie 17.2%, Pixel Graphics 12.8%, Action 9.1%

20XX is a roguelike action platformer that you can play with a friend. Jump and shoot your way through ever-changing levels, collect awesome new powers, and battle mighty bosses in the name of saving the human race maybe!

Why similar: Platformer 41.9%, Action Roguelike 26.1%, Roguelike 12.5%, Roguelite 6.4%, Side Scroller 3.8%

Super House of Dead Ninjas is an action arcade game with roguelite elements. Race against a 30 second timer as you descend floor after foe-filled floor and attempt to unlock the secrets of this deadly tower!Play as the fearsome Crimson Ninja, wielding an arsenal of deadly ninja weapons and attacks.

Why similar: Platformer 31.7%, Roguelike 26.4%, Action Roguelike 23.3%, Addictive 4.8% ★, Indie 3.4%

Discover the secrets of the Calamity, a surreal catastrophe that shattered the world to pieces.

Why similar: Indie 31.7%, RPG 25.6%, Action 20.1%, Singleplayer 9.9%, Fantasy 5.7%

bitDungeon II is fast action-adventure game with a giant overworld to explore. You are a spirit in an undead world of demons. Your "loved one's " grave has been desecrated. Fight through these corrupted lands, and bring peace to her soul.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 33.9%, Roguelike 31.6%, RPG 9.4%, Indie 6.4%, Pixel Graphics 6.3%

Aura of Worlds is a chaotic, creative tactics rogue-lite platformer. Explore multiple dangerous worlds where you utilize creative abilities & wield the environment to your advantage. Blast, dash, grapple, fight, and charm your way through ever-changing labyrinths & outwit powerful guardians!

Why similar: Roguevania 51.1% ★, Roguelike 13.2%, Platformer 12.5%, Metroidvania 7.7%, Action Roguelike 6.1%

Evoland is a journey through the history of action/adventure gaming, allowing you to unlock new technologies, gameplay systems and graphic upgrades as you progress through the game.

Why similar: RPG 40.8%, Indie 24.3%, Fantasy 7.2%, Singleplayer 6.8%, Adventure 6.8%

Abalyte is a 2D-roguelike metroidvania that focuses on the player's skill and inventiveness. While other games have crutches or progression systems that help the player beat the game, Abalyte does the opposite and throws you in a spike-pit.

Why similar: Roguevania 70.9% ★, Action Roguelike 10%, Platformer 7%, Roguelike 4.6%, RPG 1.4%

Moonlighter is an Action RPG with rogue-lite elements that demonstrates two sides of the coin – revealing everyday routines of Will, an adventurous shopkeeper that secretly dreams of becoming a hero.

Why similar: Roguelike 39%, Action Roguelike 26.1%, Roguelite 9.4%, RPG 6%, Pixel Graphics 5.5%

Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!

Why similar: Action Roguelike 44.2%, Roguelike 22.9%, Roguelite 10.2%, Pixel Graphics 5.6%, Indie 4.5%

Rogue Worlds is a chaotic tactical roguelite platformer where you wield the environment and creative abilities to overcome challenges. Outwit powerful guardians and blast, dash, grapple, fight, and charm your way through ever-changing labyrinths!

Why similar: Roguevania 51.1% ★, Roguelike 13.2%, Platformer 12.8%, Metroidvania 7.9%, Action Roguelike 5.9%

Gomez is a 2D creature living in a 2D world. Or is he? When the existence of a mysterious 3rd dimension is revealed to him, Gomez is sent out on a journey that will take him to the very end of time and space. Use your ability to navigate 3D structures from 4 distinct classic 2D perspectives.

Why similar: Platformer 74.5%, Indie 9.7%, Pixel Graphics 5.9%, Exploration 3.4%, Metroidvania 2.1%

Children of Morta is a story-driven action RPG game about an extraordinary family of heroes. Lead the Bergsons, with all their flaws and virtues, against the forthcoming Corruption. Will you be able to sacrifice everything to save the ones you care for?

Why similar: Roguelike 45.8%, Action Roguelike 24.9%, Roguelite 8.1%, RPG 5.8%, Pixel Graphics 4.8%

Embark on your journey, travel through rifts and restore the balance as the Rift Keeper in this handcrafted 2D roguelite platformer with challenging, fast-paced action gameplay.

Why similar: Roguevania 73.6% ★, Action Roguelike 9.4%, Metroidvania 4.3%, Platformer 4.2%, Roguelite 2.6%

Enter the Gungeon is a bullet hell dungeon crawler following a band of misfits seeking to shoot, loot, dodge roll and table-flip their way to personal absolution by reaching the legendary Gungeon’s ultimate treasure: the gun that can kill the past.

Why similar: Roguelike 48.6%, Action Roguelike 33%, Pixel Graphics 5.6%, Roguelite 3.8%, Indie 3.6%

Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with dangers and lost technologies.

Why similar: Metroidvania 27.7%, Pixel Graphics 18.9%, Indie 14.4%, Action 8.5%, RPG 8.4%

Run, jump, shoot, fly and explore your way through a massive action-adventure reminiscent of classic 8- and 16-bit games.

Why similar: Platformer 50.3%, Metroidvania 29.8%, Indie 6.1%, Pixel Graphics 4.1%, Action 3.1%

Xenon Valkyrie is a rogue-like with many RPG elements in which you will have to get to the deepest part of a moon and finish the plans of a wicked witch. You will be able to get many weapons randomly as you fight in a world that is created every time you play.

Why similar: Roguevania 65.4% ★, Roguelike 12.9%, Action Roguelike 9.2%, Roguelite 4.6%, Platformer 3.7%

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: Roguelike 36.2%, Action Roguelike 29.7%, Roguelite 8.2%, RPG 7.2%, Indie 5.7%

An Amazing Wizard is a 2D fast-paced metroidvania-inspired spell-slinging roguelike where you'll create spells. Master 7 elements and merge 120 unique spells in any order to create endless possibilities. Choose from 250+ perks and 200 artifacts. Collect your lost memories and reclaim true name!

Why similar: Roguevania 62.5% ★, Roguelike 12.3%, Action Roguelike 9.1%, Metroidvania 8.2%, Roguelite 2.9%

A "blood-pumping, face-bashing" roguelike brawler. Master heroes of your choice, craft uniquely broken builds, and hack & pummel through a myriad of dungeons in a thrilling rampage.

Why similar: Roguevania 64.5% ★, Roguelike 14.5%, Metroidvania 8.7%, Roguelite 3.1%, RPG 2.3%

In Mark of the Ninja, you'll know what it is to truly be a ninja. You must be silent, agile and clever to outwit your opponents in a world of gorgeous scenery and flowing animation. Marked with cursed tattoos giving you heightened senses, every situation presents you with options.

Why similar: Platformer 73.3%, Indie 7.5%, Side Scroller 5.9%, 2D 5.6%, Action 4.5%

What happens when DLC practices go too far? An indie developer makes a game that mocks the industry and its foibles, that's what! Defeat the bad guy, save the world and get the girl! But first you'll need to find coins to buy DLC to enable animation, sound and even pausing.

Why similar: Platformer 71.8%, Indie 8.4%, Metroidvania 6.8%, Pixel Graphics 3.8%, 2D 3.2%

The Lich has thrown the world into a timeless loop and plunged its inhabitants into never ending chaos. Wield an expanding deck of mystical cards to place enemies, buildings, and terrain along each unique expedition loop for the brave hero.

Why similar: Roguelike 56.3%, Roguelite 11.9%, Indie 7.1%, Pixel Graphics 6.9%, RPG 6.8%

Gunpoint is a stealth puzzle game that lets you rewire its levels to trick people. You play a freelance spy who takes jobs from his clients to break into high security buildings and steal sensitive data.

Why similar: Platformer 54.1%, Indie 15.7%, Pixel Graphics 9.8%, 2D 8.9%, Action 6.8%