- #1 The Doors of Trithius
96% matchVery Positive94% of 1,001 reviews2021
Dev: Jake Donkersgoed
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 14.9 hrs≥1hr: 77%
The Doors of Trithius is an open-world RPG roguelike. Engage in tactical turn-based combat in a living world of warring factions, wandering behemoths, and ancient magic. Level your skills, cook, craft, and explore dungeons. Will you follow the story, or let adventure be your guide?
Why similar: Turn-Based 16.6%, Roguelike 13.9%, Procedural Generation 12.2%, Dungeon Crawler 10.7%, Survival 10%
Why You'll Like It: Its open-world traditional-roguelike structure, dangerous travel, procedural dungeons, equipment-driven builds, and deliberate survival pacing make it one of the closest alternatives to Stoneshard.
- #2 Wayward
96% matchVery Positive86% of 1,370 reviews2016
Dev: Unlok
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 21.4 hrs≥1hr: 61%
You awake to discover yourself no longer in the company of good men or a fine seafaring vessel. Treasure... you remember something about treasure. Wayward is a challenging turn-based, top-down, wilderness survival roguelike. Explore, build, and most importantly survive in these unforgiving lands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.7% ★, Survival 13.7%, Roguelike 12.8%, Turn-Based 11.6%, RPG 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: A turn-based wilderness survival roguelike where every trip, craft, meal, wound, and hostile encounter requires careful preparation.
- #3 NEO Scavenger
95% matchVery Positive90% of 5,426 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 23.5%, Survival 20.8%, Roguelike 14%, RPG 12.6%, Procedural Generation 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: It delivers Stoneshard-like tension through brutal turn-based exploration, meaningful inventory management, injuries, hunger, and permanent consequences in a post-apocalyptic setting.
- #4 Battle Brothers
94% matchVery Positive88% of 28,918 reviews2017
Dev: Overhype StudiosPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 18.9 hrsMean: 94.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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: Turn-Based 42.6%, RPG 22.6%, Turn-Based Combat 21%, Strategy 11.2%, Singleplayer 2.6%
Why You'll Like It: Managing a battered mercenary company across a hostile procedural medieval world gives it a similarly grim tone, punishing injuries, and high-stakes tactical combat.
- #5 Wartales
94% matchVery Positive85% of 36,051 reviews2023
Dev: Shiro Games
Windows
Median: 21.5 hrsMean: 51.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Wartales is an open world RPG in which you lead a group of mercenaries in their search for wealth across a massive medieval universe. Explore the world, recruit companions, collect bounties and unravel the secrets of the tombs of the ancients!
Why similar: RPG 24%, Turn-Based 16.7%, Medieval 14.3%, Turn-Based Combat 13.8%, Survival 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: Its roaming mercenary-band structure, medieval exploration, resource upkeep, tactical battles, and focus on surviving contract-to-contract feel close to Stoneshard's caravan fantasy.
- #6 Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
93% matchVery Positive87% of 549 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: Roguelike 23.9%, RPG 21.9%, Survival 21.1%, Sandbox 13.7%, Pixel Graphics 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: This massive traditional roguelike offers an exceptionally deep sandbox of turn-based survival, crafting, scavenging, injuries, vehicles, and procedurally generated danger.
- #7 Quasimorph
91% matchVery Positive83% of 8,316 reviews2026
Dev: Magnum ScriptumPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 29.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Take on a role of a hardened PMC fighter in a dark turn-based cyberpunk RPG. Engage in unforgiving combat, manage your ship and pile up the bodies of your clones to unravel the dark mystery behind threat to all life.
Why similar: Turn-Based 23.4%, Roguelike 14%, RPG 13.8%, Turn-Based Combat 12.9%, Procedural Generation 11.6%
Why You'll Like It: This is a sci-fi counterpart to Stoneshard's deliberate expeditions, emphasizing turn-based combat, extraction decisions, injuries, supplies, and hostile procedural missions.
- #8 UnReal World
92% matchVery Positive94% of 1,386 reviews2016
Dev: Sami Maaranen (creator)Pub: Enormous Elk
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 20.2 hrs≥1hr: 75%
The cult classic open-ended wilderness survival roguelike taking place in the ancient North, iron-age Finland. Throughout the years, UnReal World has been praised for its incredible depth, realism, atmos and immersion. Lose yourself in the most intricate, detailed and enchanting iron-age game world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.1% ★, Turn-Based 17.7%, Roguelike 11.5%, Survival 10.4%, RPG 10%
Why You'll Like It: Its low-fantasy wilderness setting and uncompromising systems for hunting, shelter, wounds, food, weather, and exploration capture Stoneshard's grounded survival spirit.
- #9 Elin
90% matchVery Positive93% of 9,240 reviews2024
Dev: Lafrontier
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 70.8 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Successor to the roguelike RPG "Elona". Adventure, survival, crafting, home-building, myths passed down, and stories of humans and Elea spun. What scars will you leave on the land of Ylva?
Why similar: Roguelike 17.4%, RPG 15.2%, Dungeon Crawler 14.6%, Procedural Generation 13.2%, Difficult 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: Elin offers a huge open-ended roguelike life-sim sandbox where survival, crafting, exploration, dungeon delving, and character setbacks all matter.
- #10 Caves of Qud
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 12,678 reviews2024
Dev: Freehold GamesPub: Kitfox Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 35.5 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: Turn-Based 26.1%, Procedural Generation 15.1%, Turn-Based Combat 13.4%, Roguelike 10.2%, RPG 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: Although science-fantasy rather than medieval, its open-world turn-based roguelike exploration, deep character systems, procedural locations, and lethal emergent situations are an excellent fit.
- #11 Tales of Maj'Eyal
91% matchVery Positive94% of 7,468 reviews2013
Dev: Netcore Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 25.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Tales of Maj’Eyal is a roguelike RPG, featuring tactical turn-based combat and advanced character building. Play as one of many unique races and classes in the lore-filled world of Eyal, exploring random dungeons, facing challenging battles, and developing characters with your own tailored mix of abilities and powers.
Why similar: Turn-Based 31.8%, Roguelike 18.2%, Dungeon Crawler 17.5%, RPG 12.4%, Difficult 12.2%
Why You'll Like It: A deep traditional roguelike with turn-based grid combat, procedural dungeons, extensive character builds, and a challenging fantasy campaign.
- #12 Soulash 2
89% matchVery Positive85% of 2,438 reviews2023
Dev: Artur Smiarowski
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Soulash 2 is a sandbox RPG roguelike with a procedurally generated open world, simulated history, skill-based progression system, customizable abilities, material-based crafting, building, trading, and the possibility of total mayhem. Will you save your world or destroy it?
Why similar: Procedural Generation 18.6%, RPG 18.4%, Survival 13.7%, Turn-Based Combat 12.3%, Sandbox 11.4%
Why You'll Like It: Its dark sandbox world lets you explore, fight, craft, gather, and shape a procedurally generated fantasy realm with traditional-roguelike consequences.
- #13 Shattered Pixel Dungeon
88% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 2,206 reviews2022
Dev: Shattered Pixel
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 21.6 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Shattered Pixel Dungeon is a traditional roguelike dungeon crawler that's simple to start but hard to master! Every game is a unique challenge, with six different heroes, randomized levels and enemies, and hundreds of items to collect and use.
Why similar: Turn-Based 23.2%, Dungeon Crawler 14.2%, Roguelike 14%, RPG 11.8%, Procedural Generation 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: A compact but polished traditional roguelike built around tactical positioning, consumable conservation, unpredictable dungeon runs, and permanent death.
- #14 UnderRail
87% matchVery Positive86% of 7,264 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 33.4%, RPG 33.1%, Turn-Based Combat 14.5%, Difficult 4.9%, Open World 3.9%
Why You'll Like It: Its slow, demanding turn-based RPG combat, careful build planning, resource pressure, and dangerous dungeon-like exploration suit players who enjoy Stoneshard's challenge.
- #15 Terminus: Zombie Survivors
84% matchVery Positive94% of 4,509 reviews2024
Dev: Longplay Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 13.4 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: Open World Survival Craft 28.9% ★, Survival 12.3%, Roguelike 12%, Turn-Based 11.3%, RPG 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: It translates the same turn-based scavenging, hunger, crafting, injuries, and open-ended survival tension into a zombie-apocalypse setting.
- #16 ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery)
86% matchVery Positive84% of 1,617 reviews2015
Dev: Thomas Biskup
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery) is one of the most successful roguelike games ever created, boasting a brilliant mix of story, RPG, exploration, and intensely strategic & flexible combat. The Steam version adds various features like achievements, difficulty level customization & play modes.
Why similar: Turn-Based 26.9%, Dungeon Crawler 15.6%, Roguelike 15.2%, Difficult 10.3%, RPG 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: This classic roguelike combines harsh survival pressures, persistent character development, procedural dungeons, wilderness travel, and lethal turn-based encounters.
- #17 Darkest Dungeon®
85% matchVery Positive92% of 162,804 reviews2016
Dev: Red Hook Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.2 hrsMean: 45.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against unimaginable horrors, stress, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Can you keep your heroes together when all hope is lost?
Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 16.7%, Dungeon Crawler 15.3%, Turn-Based 15.2%, Roguelike 14.2%, RPG 12.6%
Why You'll Like It: Its dungeon expeditions revolve around attrition, stress, wounds, limited supplies, difficult tactical choices, and the constant possibility of losing valuable heroes.
- #18 Rogue Empire: Dungeon Crawler RPG
86% matchVery Positive86% of 397 reviews2019
Dev: Portal Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 11.3 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Build unique class-and-race combinations, shape your talents, and test your strategy in a tactical roguelike dungeon crawler packed with campaigns, challenge runs, loot, bosses, and replayable depth. Your plan may be brilliant. The dungeon may disagree.
Why similar: Turn-Based 20.7%, Dungeon Crawler 11.8%, Roguelike 11.7%, RPG 10.2%, Procedural Generation 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: It provides classic turn-based roguelike dungeon crawling with permadeath, loot-driven builds, tactical combat, and a serious fantasy tone.
- #19 Urtuk: The Desolation
84% matchVery Positive88% of 2,546 reviews2021
Dev: David Kaleta
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 20.0 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Urtuk is an open world, tactical turn-based RPG in a low-fantasy setting. Guide your band of adventurers through the ruins of an ancient world. Recruit new followers, loot the corpses of your fallen foes, and do your best to survive in this harsh and unforgiving realm.
Why similar: Turn-Based 24.9%, Procedural Generation 18.8%, Turn-Based Combat 15.4%, Dark Fantasy 14.3%, Difficult 13.9%
Why You'll Like It: Its unforgiving hex-based tactical battles, injury-driven mercenary management, scavenged equipment, and bleak world appeal to Stoneshard's more tactical fans.
- #20 Vagrus - The Riven Realms
83% matchVery Positive85% of 1,889 reviews2021
Dev: Lost Pilgrims StudioPub: Lost Pilgrims Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 18.7 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Embark on a perilous journey across a realm forsaken by the gods and devastated by an arcane cataclysm. Lead a traveling company through a harsh, unforgiving world where survival is never guaranteed in Vagrus, an award-winning turn-based post-apocalyptic fantasy RPG.
Why similar: Turn-Based 30.3%, RPG 19.9%, Dark Fantasy 15.1%, Difficult 14.6%, Open World 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: Leading a caravan through a merciless fantasy wasteland requires managing supplies, morale, injuries, travel risks, and tactical turn-based encounters.
- #21 Low Magic Age
82% matchVery Positive89% of 3,533 reviews2017
Dev: Low Magic Studios
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Adventure and fight in a medieval fantasy open world! Build heroic characters with various abilities, travel through villages, cities, or perilous dungeons. Strategic turn-based combat system and advanced character building - Fog of war, charging and flanking, and more in the fast-paced Arena mode.
Why similar: Turn-Based 30.4%, Turn-Based Combat 16.1%, Dungeon Crawler 15.9%, Roguelike 13%, Medieval 11.6%
Why You'll Like It: A challenging low-fantasy tactical RPG with detailed turn-based combat, dangerous encounters, party development, and an old-school tabletop sensibility.
- #22 Zorbus
81% matchVery Positive91% of 380 reviews2022
Dev: Zorbus
Windows
Zorbus is a fantasy-themed, tile-based, turn-based, traditional roguelike game.
Why similar: Roguelike 20.3%, Dungeon Crawler 18.8%, RPG 16.7%, Procedural Generation 15.7%, Turn-Based Combat 14%
Why You'll Like It: A polished modern traditional roguelike featuring tactical party recruitment, procedural dungeon exploration, permanent death, and numerous build options.
- #23 Lost Flame
79% matchVery Positive97% of 180 reviews2026
Dev: Bartosz Bojarowski
Windows · Linux
Lost Flame is a modern roguelike game featuring unique and challenging turn-based combat. Find your way in the ruined kingdom of Hiraeth while fighting against legendary warriors of the past and spawn of the unfathomable Abysm.
Why similar: Roguelike 49.9%, Turn-Based 20.7%, RPG 20.3%, Difficult 6.3%, Indie 2.7%
Why You'll Like It: This dark fantasy roguelike focuses on lonely, dangerous exploration and measured turn-based combat where positioning and limited resources are critical.
- #24 Exanima
82% matchMostly Positive80% of 13,988 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: Dungeon Crawler 22.6%, RPG 22.4%, Dark Fantasy 17.3%, Medieval 14.8%, Difficult 12.3%
Why You'll Like It: While combat is physics-driven rather than turn-based, its oppressive medieval dungeon exploration, careful equipment use, and severe consequences create a similarly tense experience.
- #25 The Iron Oath
81% matchMostly Positive77% of 926 reviews2023
Dev: Curious Panda GamesPub: Balor Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Command, endure, and prosper in The Iron Oath, a turn-based tactical RPG where the fate of your mercenary company rests on your decisions. Customize your roster, build your renown, and discover the secrets that await in the medieval fantasy realm of Caelum.
Why similar: Turn-Based 28.4%, RPG 18.1%, Turn-Based Combat 16.7%, Medieval 12.3%, Pixel Graphics 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: Managing a mercenary company through a bleak fantasy world, including injuries, aging, contracts, and tactical battles, makes it a strong thematic match.
- #26 SKALD: Against the Black Priory
78% matchVery Positive94% of 3,660 reviews2024
Dev: High North Studios ASPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 74%
SKALD:Against the Black Priory is a retro-style party-based RPG set in a grim-dark fantasy world of tragic heroes, violent deaths and Lovecraftian horror. Take a chance and roll the dice as you embark on a compelling story filled with deadly creatures, branching story and tactical, turn-based combat
Why similar: RPG 36%, Dark Fantasy 29.9%, Strategy 27.3%, Singleplayer 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: This grim retro CRPG offers deliberate turn-based combat, hazardous expeditions, inventory management, and a grounded dark-fantasy atmosphere.
- #27 Fear & Hunger
79% matchVery Positive94% of 22,918 reviews2019
Dev: Miro HaverinenPub: Happy Paintings
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Fear & Hunger is a horror dungeon crawler set in the dark and hopeless dungeons of fear and hunger. The game is a hybrid of survival horror and dungeon crawler genres with its influences ranging from Silent Hill to Nethack. There are roguelike elements to the game as well as a heavy foundation of a j-RPG.
Why similar: Dark Fantasy 27.8%, RPG 22.6%, Turn-Based Combat 12.8%, Difficult 11.9%, Dungeon Crawler 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: Its oppressive dark-fantasy setting, punishing save structure, lasting injuries, dungeon survival, and willingness to punish mistakes strongly echo Stoneshard's harshness.
- #28 Dungeonmans
80% matchVery Positive91% of 1,234 reviews2014
Dev: Adventurepro Games LLC
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 14.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Crush monsters and get loots in the classic turn-based style of deep dungeons and high adventure! Grow the Dungeonmans Academy, a bastion of learning that expands as you play. Serious gameplay with a light-hearted atmosphere, combining the feel of history's great RPGs and dice-slinging adventures around the tabletop.
Why similar: Roguelike 45.8%, Turn-Based 24.2%, RPG 16.5%, Dungeon Crawler 7.1%, Strategy 4.5%
Why You'll Like It: Its humorous presentation hides a satisfying traditional roguelike with turn-based dungeon exploration, strong character builds, loot, and demanding tactical fights.
- #29 Aethermancer
77% matchVery Positive92% of 2,722 reviews2025
Dev: moi rai gamesPub: offbrand games
Windows · Linux
Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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: Turn-Based 21.5%, Roguelike 12.5%, Dungeon Crawler 11.4%, RPG 10.5%, Procedural Generation 10.3%
- #30 Project Zomboid
78% matchVery Positive94% of 484,416 reviews2013
Dev: The Indie Stone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 15.9 hrsMean: 89.0 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: Open World Survival Craft 45% ★, Survival 27%, Sandbox 8.8%, RPG 8.3%, Open World 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Its isometric survival sandbox demands careful scavenging, medical treatment, food management, skill growth, and long-term planning in an unforgiving world.
- #31 Path of Achra
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 3,269 reviews2024
Dev: UlfsirePub: Slouching Beast LLC
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 20.2 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: Roguelike 22%, RPG 15.4%, Turn-Based Combat 15%, Dungeon Crawler 14.2%, Dark Fantasy 10.1%
- #32 Darkest Dungeon® II
77% matchMostly Positive75% of 27,056 reviews2023
Dev: Red Hook Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 35.1 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 21.7%, Dungeon Crawler 16.5%, Roguelike 14.2%, Dark Fantasy 14%, Turn-Based Combat 10.2%
- #33 Dungeon Settlers
74% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,361 reviews2026
Dev: CanOpener
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 70%
A colony sim based dungeon crawler where you manage your expedition to build a settlement in barren land, provide food and shelter for your people, lead them deep into the merciless dungeon, overcome challenging combat by your strategy.
Why similar: Dungeon Crawler 20.9%, Survival 17.2%, RPG 14.8%, Medieval 13.4%, Dark Fantasy 13.1%
- #34 The Last Spell
75% matchVery Positive91% of 13,760 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 27.6%, RPG 15%, Turn-Based Combat 13.7%, Dark Fantasy 11.4%, Roguelike 11.2%
- #35 Sandwalkers
76% matchMostly Positive75% of 565 reviews2025
Dev: Goblinz StudioPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Sandwalkers is a roguelike turn-based exploration game. Build your team, traverse varied hostile environments, face countless dangers, and gain knowledge that will help you find and resurrect the Mother Tree Umama.
Why similar: Turn-Based 19.7%, Turn-Based Combat 16.4%, Survival 14.4%, Roguelike 12.4%, Dungeon Crawler 11%
- #36 Mirklurk: Every Step Matters
73% matchVery Positive96% of 158 reviews2026
Dev: Edym Pixels
Windows
You've been exiled to The Mirk - an unforgiving swampland where every step could be your last. You must constantly make choices: what paths to take, which tree to shelter under, what beasts to engage or avoid, what items to bring into the darkness of dungeons, and what treasures to leave behind.
Why similar: RPG 16.1%, Roguelike 16%, Survival 15.1%, Turn-Based Combat 14.5%, Procedural Generation 10%
- #37 Lootbound
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,392 reviews2026
Dev: ArtDockPub: Dreland Enterprises
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Lootbound is a tactical roguelite with turn-based combat, loot management and D&D elements set in a dark fantasy world. Fight dangerous enemies, collect epic loot, recruit allies and lead them on a path of adventure.
Why similar: Turn-Based 20.9%, Roguelike 14.8%, Dungeon Crawler 13.3%, Turn-Based Combat 12.5%, RPG 12%
- #38 Of Blades & Tails
75% matchMostly Positive76% of 412 reviews2023
Dev: Felix LaukelPub: Pineapple Works
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
A turn-based RPG that is action-oriented but rewards a thoughtful approach. Explore a fantastic land populated by different animal tribes. Follow the main story or hunt for treasures in ancient ruins and mysterious dungeons. Develop your character and gain powerful equipment.
Why similar: Roguelike 11.1%, Dungeon Crawler 10.9%, RPG 9.8%, Procedural Generation 9.8%, Turn-Based Combat 8.9%
- #39 Escape The Mad Empire
73% matchVery Positive88% of 433 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: Roguelike 16.4%, Dungeon Crawler 16%, RPG 15.2%, Survival 14.2%, Dark Fantasy 11.8%
- #40 Dead Monarchy
74% matchVery Positive81% of 139 reviews2023
Dev: Kevin Zhang
Windows
Dead Monarchy is an open-world, turn-based tactical RPG set in a low fantasy world. Personally lead and manage your mercenary company as the captain and embark on your personal quest to defeat the arena champions.
Why similar: RPG 23%, Turn-Based 20.6%, Strategy 11.7%, Turn-Based Combat 8.7%, Roguelike 8.4%
- #41 Lost In The Open
72% matchMixed64% of 166 reviews2025
Dev: Black Voyage GamesPub: WhisperGames
Windows
An unexpected assassination attempt leaves you wounded and fleeing across no man's land. To survive in this roguelike, low-fantasy tactical RPG, you must recruit strategically, fight desperately and repent sincerely.
Why similar: Turn-Based 24.2%, Roguelike 15.6%, RPG 13.1%, Procedural Generation 10.5%, Turn-Based Combat 10.5%
- #42 Terra Randoma
71% matchVery Positive89% of 167 reviews2024
Dev: Deniz K.
Windows
Terra Randoma is a turn-based roguelike RPG in a procedurally generated open world. Travel a world full of curiousity and perilous dungeons. Develop your character however you want with skills, talent stones and randomized items while you discover an ancient secret.
Why similar: Turn-Based 28.6%, Procedural Generation 13.5%, Dungeon Crawler 13%, Roguelike 11.3%, RPG 9.6%
- #43 Subterrain: Mines of Titan
71% matchMostly Positive76% of 743 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: RPG 31.4%, Survival 27.6%, Turn-Based Combat 24.5%, Pixel Graphics 11.7%, Indie 2.4%
- #44 Crawl Tactics
70% matchVery Positive92% of 221 reviews2022
Dev: icefill
Windows · Mac · Linux
Crawl Tactics combines classic turn-based tactics with roguelike progression. In Dungeon Mode, face challenging, ever-changing encounters as you explore procedurally generated maps. In Quest Mode, develop your village, train your mercenaries, and defend against growing enemy invasions.
Why similar: Turn-Based 30.1%, RPG 17.7%, Turn-Based Combat 14%, Roguelike 11%, Strategy 8.3%
- #45 ZERO Sievert
68% matchVery Positive85% of 15,588 reviews2024
Dev: CABO StudioPub: Modern Wolf
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 23.8 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: Survival 44%, Pixel Graphics 22.6%, Open World 13%, Strategy 13%, Singleplayer 3.9%
- #46 Scavland
67% matchVery Positive84% of 983 reviews2026
Dev: NoShadow
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Scavland is a hardcore Top-Down Pixel Art survival RPG set in a Post-Apocalyptic Soviet world. Scavenge the wastes and forgotten bunkers, take dangerous jobs, build your reputation, and customize your arsenal as you fight to survive mutants, hostile survivors, radiation, and the deadly Mist.
Why similar: Survival 34.1%, RPG 24.1%, Pixel Graphics 21.5%, Open World 10.9%, 2D 6.5%
- #47 Blightstone
68% matchMostly Positive79% of 550 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: Turn-Based 35.1%, Roguelike 19.8%, Dark Fantasy 18.3%, RPG 18%, Strategy 8.8%
- #48 Dungeon No Dungeon
72% matchMixed58% of 506 reviews2021
Dev: 302 StudioPub: 302 GAMES INC
Windows · Mac
Dungeon No Dungeon is a turn-based roguelike game with a unique hand-drawn art style, with a strategy system based around body parts that you've likely never encountered before.
Why similar: Turn-Based 18.9%, Roguelike 14.7%, RPG 13.8%, Dungeon Crawler 13.1%, Dark Fantasy 11.9%
- #49 UnderMine
69% matchVery Positive90% of 9,862 reviews2020
Dev: Thorium
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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: Dungeon Crawler 31.9%, RPG 22.3%, Pixel Graphics 18.9%, Procedural Generation 12.4%, Roguelike 7.5%
- #50 Iratus: Lord of the Dead
69% matchVery Positive86% of 8,273 reviews2020
Dev: UnfrozenPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Iratus: Lord of the Dead is a turn-based tactical roguelike RPG set in a dark fantasy universe. Lead an army of undead to help an angry necromancer in his quest to reach the surface world and bring death to the mortal realms!
Why similar: RPG 22.4%, Roguelike 15.8%, Turn-Based Combat 15.4%, Turn-Based 13%, Dark Fantasy 10.9%
- #51 Loop Hero
68% matchVery Positive93% of 36,571 reviews2021
Dev: Four QuartersPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 12.1 hrsMean: 28.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 31.6%, RPG 21.9%, Dark Fantasy 20.1%, Pixel Graphics 17.4%, 2D 5.9%
- #52 Robothorium
71% matchMostly Positive70% of 375 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 28.2%, RPG 18.9%, Strategy 11%, Turn-Based Combat 11%, Dungeon Crawler 9.5%
- #53 Vagabond
70% matchMostly Positive77% of 100 reviews2023
Dev: Pierre Vigier
Windows · Linux
Explore procedurally generated living worlds in this 2D sandbox RPG. Meet hundreds of characters in cities, complete quests, craft powerful items, buy and furnish your home or fight monsters in dungeons.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.3% ★, RPG 14.7%, Procedural Generation 14.3%, Sandbox 8.9%, Pixel Graphics 8.6%
- #54 MENACE
65% matchVery Positive91% of 13,728 reviews2026
Dev: Overhype StudiosPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 12.4 hrsMean: 26.3 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 42%, RPG 23%, Turn-Based Combat 20.9%, Strategy 11.4%, Singleplayer 2.6%
- #55 THYSIASTERY
66% matchVery Positive81% of 356 reviews2026
Dev: DIRGA
Windows · Linux
THYSIASTERY is a dungeon crawler RPG featuring traditional roguelike and turn-based gameplay. Command a party of bearers of the Brand, drawn into a vast Labyrinth. Recruit while exploring the Labyrinth in hope of finding a way out, and its secrets will be revealed as you delve deeper.
Why similar: Turn-Based 21.7%, Dungeon Crawler 13.6%, Roguelike 12.2%, RPG 11.6%, Dark Fantasy 9.3%
- #56 The Adventurers
66% matchMostly Positive77% of 155 reviews2026
Dev: Eternal Vigilance Entertainment
Windows
The Adventurers is a turn-based tactical RPG where every decision shapes your legacy. Lead your party of heroes in an open world filled with random events that affect your story. Survive a high fantasy landscape where your epic saga is waiting to be written.
Why similar: RPG 25.1%, Roguelike 21.2%, Medieval 16.2%, Pixel Graphics 11.8%, Strategy 11.7%
- #57 Below the Stone
67% matchVery Positive84% of 440 reviews2023
Dev: StrollartPub: Apogee Entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Below the Stone is an extraction roguelike about dwarves on the quest for the deepest depths. A place where each and every descent will lead to new adventures -- and where only the most determined dwarves with many lost lives will be rewarded by the hidden world lying below the stone.
Why similar: Roguelike 30.1%, Dungeon Crawler 28.1%, Procedural Generation 24.8%, Pixel Graphics 16.9%
- #58 Little Dungeon Stories
69% matchMostly Positive74% of 116 reviews2019
Dev: David Moralejo SánchezPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 1.2 hrs≥1hr: 30%
Little Dungeon Stories is a challenging roguelike card-based RPG. Enter the dungeon full of secrets, hostile monsters, deadly traps, and legendary loots. How long can you survive?
Why similar: Turn-Based 29.5%, RPG 20.8%, Roguelike 14.2%, Pixel Graphics 11.4%, Difficult 10%
- #59 TRADESMAN: Deal to Dealer
63% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,591 reviews2026
Dev: AZAMATIKA
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 56%
A challenging trading and combat game with a story and quests, where goods have unique properties, and the more you carry, the more dangerous the journey becomes.
Why similar: Medieval 26.2%, Pixel Graphics 23%, Sandbox 22.4%, Open World 13.9%, 2D 9.6%