Games Like The Nightmare Cooperative

Control powerful mechs from the future to defeat an alien threat. Each attempt to save the world presents a new randomly generated challenge in this turn-based strategy game.

Why similar: Strategy 34.2%, Roguelike 29.8%, Turn-Based 25.4%, Indie 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly captures the puzzle-like, grid-based tactical combat found in The Nightmare Cooperative.

Dungeon of the ENDLESS™ is a Rogue-Like Dungeon-Defense game, in which the player and their team of heroes must protect the generator of their crashed ship while exploring an ever-expanding dungeon, all while facing waves of monsters and special events as they try to find their way out...

Why similar: Roguelike 54.3%, Strategy 34.5%, Indie 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: This title offers a similar blend of party management and strategic survival within a roguelike dungeon environment.

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: Roguelike 46.7%, Turn-Based 30%, Strategy 17.6%, Indie 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game matches the high difficulty and party-based management focus of the seed game.

Each step into the unknown heals you and reveals new obstacles as you guide fresh heros to glorious retirement or ignominious death. Master tactical spells, appease ancient gods and get rich through taxidermy in this award-winning quick-play puzzle-roguelike.

Why similar: Roguelike 64.8%, Turn-Based 35.2%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the same 'bite-sized' puzzle-roguelike philosophy where every movement and resource choice is critical.

Enter a labyrinth that moves as you move, where mastering the elements is key to defeating enemies and uncovering the mysteries of this underground world. With a new experience awaiting every time you enter the dungeon, let the power bestowed by the crown guide you in this challenging adventure!

Why similar: Roguelike 40.6%, Turn-Based 34.7%, Strategy 24.7%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based, grid-based roguelike that emphasizes tactical positioning and unique character abilities.

Take control of Invisible's agents in the field and infiltrate the world's most dangerous corporations. Stealth, precision, and teamwork are essential in high-stakes, high-profit missions, where every move may cost an agent their life.

Why similar: Turn-Based 35.1%, Roguelike 32.9%, Strategy 32.1%

Why You'll Like It: It features deep, turn-based tactical gameplay where every move on the grid carries significant risk.

Spellmasons is a magical, tactical roguelike where you customize your spells. Play solo or team up with your friends in online multiplayer, and explore a deep magic system where clever combinations yield powerfully satisfying results!

Why similar: Roguelike 34.3%, Turn-Based 33.9%, Strategy 23%, Indie 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical, turn-based game that supports co-op play and focuses on creative ability usage.

For The King is a strategic RPG that blends tabletop and roguelike elements in a challenging adventure that spans the realms. Set off on a single player experience or play cooperatively both online and locally.

Why similar: Turn-Based 36.5%, Roguelike 34.5%, Strategy 25.3%, Indie 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based roguelike that emphasizes party cooperation and strategic decision-making in a dangerous world.

Hellcard is a unique cooperative deck builder rogue-like game. Descend into the paper dungeons on your own, recruit computer-controlled companions or join other players' lobbies in fast-paced tactical card battles against the armies of darkness and the Archdemon himself!

Why similar: Roguelike 41.9%, Turn-Based 32.7%, Strategy 25.4%

Why You'll Like It: A co-op roguelike that emphasizes tactical positioning and card-based combat in a dungeon setting.

Lead your band of mercenaries in the land of Gloomhaven, work with unsavoury individuals, shape the fate of the region, fight your way through horrific places and get rich or die trying in this ruthless Tactical-RPG.

Why similar: Turn-Based 57.4%, Strategy 42.6%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a deep, grid-based tactical experience that requires careful party coordination and planning.

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: Roguelike 41.5%, Strategy 25%, Turn-Based 24.3%, Indie 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A squad-based roguelike that emphasizes tactical positioning and turn-based strategy.

Dungeon Drafters is a mystery dungeon adventure set in a world where magic is cards, and cards are magic. Explore ancient ruins, loot rare cards and employ clever combos to defeat your foes and build the legendary spell deck that could save the world.

Why similar: Strategy 71.9%, Indie 28.1%

Why You'll Like It: Combines grid-based movement and turn-based combat with deck-building mechanics for a tactical roguelike experience.

Wildermyth follows heroes over their whole careers, from their pitchfork days to their powerful primes, and on into old age and memory. It’s a party-based procedural storytelling RPG where tactical combat and story decisions will alter your world and reshape your cast of characters.

Why similar: Turn-Based 57.4%, Strategy 29.6%, Indie 13%

Why You'll Like It: Offers procedural, party-based tactical combat that feels both personal and strategically demanding.

In this strategic rogue-like you become a famous expedition leader in the 19th century. You form your own crew with the skills and personality to discover legendary treasures, while exploring randomized locations and stories on every new adventure.

Why similar: Turn-Based 34.8%, Strategy 30.2%, Roguelike 26.1%, Indie 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on party-based strategy and turn-based encounters with a strong emphasis on character abilities.

Descend into Netherguild, a tactical grid-based roguelite. Lead expeditions deep into mysterious, strange depths. Explore, battle dangerous foes, and manage resources carefully. Push your limits before returning to resupply. What secrets await below?

Why similar: Roguelike 38.9%, Turn-Based 30.8%, Strategy 30.3%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based dungeon crawler that focuses on party management and strategic combat encounters.

Haque is a glitch fantasy roguelike adventure about cute monsters, low-bit hauntings, and a suspiciously talkative narrator. Choose your character and battle through forests, deserts and dungeons to defeat a mysterious evil. Die often. Try again!

Why similar: Roguelike 49.8%, Strategy 35.2%, Indie 15%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-focused roguelike that emphasizes tactical combat and character progression.

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 84.9%, Indie 15.1%

Why You'll Like It: A grid-based roguelike that forces players to think tactically about every move they make.

A Heroic-Parody tactical RPG combining dungeon crawler’s gameplay and turn-based fights. Dive in an off-beat universe, manage your team and craft mighty gear to equip them! Build your own dungeon by hiding traps and monsters in your galleries, then challenge other players to clean it!

Why similar: Roguelike 37.8%, Turn-Based 31.4%, Strategy 26.1%, Indie 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: A dungeon crawler that features turn-based combat and party management mechanics.

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 49.7%, Roguelike 47.5%, Indie 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: A deep, traditional roguelike with complex character builds and tactical combat depth.

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: Strategy 31.8%, Turn-Based 30.4%, Roguelike 23.4%, Indie 14.4%

Why You'll Like It: An indie strategy game that emphasizes tactical combat and difficult, replayable encounters.

Assemble your party. Answer the call. Win the war. Build a deck and fight a series of turn-based combats with up to 6 party characters through the city of Dawn's Point. Each character can unlock a set of unique cards and abilities that can augment your deck in powerful, exciting ways.

Why similar: Roguelike 37.1%, Turn-Based 37.1%, Strategy 25.8%

Why You'll Like It: Features party-based combat and roguelike progression with a focus on tactical card and ability management.

SFD is a unique hybrid of tactical RPG and roguelike. Manage a party of adventurers as you attempt to be one of the few to conquer the Sigma Finite Dungeon.

Why similar: Strategy 38.6%, Turn-Based 24%, Roguelike 21.2%, Indie 16.2%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical RPG that focuses on grid-based movement and character-specific abilities.

The Dungeon Beneath is a tactical rogue-like autobattler. Gather your party and descend into the dungeon, battling your way through room after room of nefarious enemies. Collect powerful artifacts and equipment to create an endless variety of strategies.

Why similar: Roguelike 52.4%, Strategy 37.1%, Indie 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based tactical game that uses auto-battler mechanics to manage party combat.

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: Strategy 37.9%, Turn-Based 35.3%, Roguelike 15.1%, Indie 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based strategy RPG with roguelite elements and a focus on party-based combat.

The Ouroboros King combines the strategic depth of chess with the build variety and replayability of roguelikes. Assemble a formidable army, discover powerful relics, and buy surprising gadgets to defeat the Coven.

Why similar: Roguelike 55.3%, Strategy 39.2%, Indie 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based tactical game that uses chess-like movement to create challenging combat puzzles.

Live through an epic role-playing Viking saga where your strategic choices directly affect your personal journey. Make allies as you travel with your caravan across this stunning yet harsh landscape. Carefully choose those who will help fight a new threat that jeopardizes an entire civilization.

Why similar: Turn-Based 54.8%, Strategy 34.7%, Indie 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based tactical game that emphasizes party survival and difficult decision-making.

Wreak vengeance and retake lost mines from goblins, orcs, skeletons, and demons in this small-scale tactical roguelite RPG. Build the perfect expedition team and turn the underworld red with each challenging, fast-paced run.

Why similar: Roguelike 58.7%, Strategy 41.3%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical RPG that focuses on grid-based combat and party management in a roguelite structure.

Incredibly dynamic turn-based strategy, reviving the traditions of the old school tactics. Lead a team of the most desperate fighters, destroy alien monsters and uncover the secrets of the lost planet.

Why similar: Turn-Based 57.7%, Strategy 42.3%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based tactical game that features co-op elements and squad-based combat.

Runestone Keeper is a roguelike dungeon crawler that blends classic RPG elements and turn based strategy. Heroes, monsters, equipment, events, magic and skills, traps and devices, shrines and altars, Goddesses and merchants. Choose your weapon and begin an epic adventure!

Why similar: Roguelike 39.9%, Strategy 38.1%, Indie 11.6%, Turn-Based 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: A dungeon-crawling roguelike that blends strategy and RPG elements in a grid-based format.

Behold the first-ever Tactical Extraction Looter where you pit your courage and leadership against fears made manifest: the Dreadweavers. Lead a band of scavenger roughnecks into a devastated boom town of the alternative 1900s. Get in, face the monsters, grab what you can carry and get out. Alive.

Why similar: Roguelike 57.9%, Strategy 42.1%

Overcome limited communication with strategic cooperation in this co-op roguelike! Endure the Azoove desert to return a stolen spellbook — before it consumes your city. Trust your friends, play cards, manage resources and defeat the Fiend of Fortune!

Why similar: Roguelike 38.4%, Turn-Based 35.1%, Strategy 26.4%

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 58.1%, Strategy 41.9%

Deck-building meets monster catching in this turn-based roguelike. Recruit enemy cards to your party as you dive into the depths of the abyss. Will you kill them or will you tame them?

Why similar: Strategy 59.3%, Roguelike 31.8%, Indie 8.8%

Assemble a cyber agent team to infiltrate procedurally-generated bases in this co-op stealth roguelike adventure. Master highly tactical combat, a cache of cyber weaponry, and teamwork to save humanity from mind-control.

Why similar: Strategy 67.7%, Indie 32.3%

Why You'll Like It: A co-op strategy game that focuses on tactical movement and stealth in a hostile environment.

Tactical team-building roguelike auto-battler with active and passive playstyles. Draft a team as you explore maps full of monsters, build synergies, equip items and cast spells to support your team during battles and help them escape the Underboard.

Why similar: Roguelike 52.5%, Strategy 36.1%, Indie 11.4%

Delve into grid-based tactical combat in this roguelike deckbuilder. Coordinate your heroes, modify your cards with unique runes, construct powerful item builds, and sidestep card-corrupting terrain to survive a gauntlet of befouled enemies.

Why similar: Turn-Based 38.3%, Roguelike 36.6%, Strategy 25.1%

Dive into a nightmare-ridden world in this fast-paced roguelite! Choose from 42 characters, 84 weapons, and 176 items to forge your own build. Battle through 8 maps, slay hordes of monsters, level up, collect gold, and upgrade. Can you survive the endless nightmare?

Why similar: Roguelike 59%, Strategy 34.9%, Indie 6.1%

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 33.7%, Roguelike 32.8%, Strategy 24.5%, Indie 9%

Rescue your fellow Hunters, and with their help locate and destroy Dracula!

Why similar: Strategy 53.3%, Roguelike 26.6%, Indie 20%

Nightmare: The Lunatic is a parrying action rogue-lite platformer game about escaping a nightmare. Constantly swap between 3 weapons, use special attacks, and avoid and parry enemy attacks. Strengthen yourself by collecting powerful and unique totems.

Why similar: Roguelike 89.1%, Indie 10.9%

"Revelatio" is a turn-based strategy game that combines tile-based combat and elements of roguelike. Strategically summon and control units to claim victory. Stain the world with your darkness by corrupting various units, bosses and even NPCs.

Why similar: Roguelike 55.1%, Strategy 44.9%

Rogues Like Us is a hack n' slash rogue-lite unlike any other! Stand against a resurging threat by yourself or with a friend in local co-op. Collect weapons, armor, enchantments, and more by exploring dangerous locales and defeating powerful bosses! Stop the constructs, save the town.

Why similar: Roguelike 70.4%, Indie 29.6%

Turn-based strategy horror. Terror in a confined space. Manage your limited power and time to protect yourself from the oncoming enemies and survive until dawn.

Why similar: Strategy 72.4%, Indie 27.6%

Smash demons and deflect bullets in a hardcore arcade clicker with the RPG elements.

Why similar: Strategy 61.9%, Indie 38.1%

Discover one of the hardest tower defense games with strategic elements, individual gameplay and challenging mechanics. Play together with your friends in co-op mode, create a team and compete with other players in the online ranking.

Why similar: Strategy 73.1%, Indie 26.9%

Tower Escape is a reverse tower defense game, where instead of defending against incoming enemies, you play the baddies and guide your minions to the exit. Recruit a team of minions, and collect powerful gems and relics that make each run unique.

Why similar: Roguelike 48.7%, Strategy 35.1%, Indie 16.2%

Freaky Awesome is a hectic action rogue-lite. You explore a randomly generated old factory, fighting weird monsters and avoiding traps. Toxic wastes will make you mutate, gaining different powers every time. You will need to adapt to your mutations to survive!

Why similar: Roguelike 75.6%, Indie 24.4%

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 51.8%, Roguelike 48.2%

Roguelike twist on tile-matching puzzle games. Collect relics. Learn spells. Unlock new equipment. Fight bosses and monsters. Use your abilities by matching tiles, creating combos, and solving puzzles!

Why similar: Strategy 38.7%, Turn-Based 24.8%, Roguelike 24.4%, Indie 12%

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 37.8%, Strategy 29%, Roguelike 23.2%, Indie 10%

Conquest of Elysium 5 is a quick turn based fantasy strategy game with a touch of rogue-like. The game is full of depth, details and monsters. There are also a huge number of factions, each with its own unique gameplay and magic rituals.

Why similar: Roguelike 50.8%, Strategy 46.2%, Indie 3%

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 38.1%, Roguelike 35.8%, Strategy 26.2%

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: Strategy 61.3%, Turn-Based 38.7%

A Tactical Auto-Battler set in a Dark Fantasy world- complete with Roguelike Dungeons, a PVP Arena, Crafting and Kingdom Building.

Why similar: Turn-Based 33.2%, Roguelike 30.9%, Strategy 25.5%, Indie 10.4%

Explore an outlandish outer space, gather Loot Cards, and fight your way to The Thing Below in this innovative and offbeat strategy roguelike.

Why similar: Roguelike 56.4%, Indie 43.6%

Boogey Hunters is a strategic ammo-building game where you travel the world hunting mythical creatures from different folklore. Plan your moves carefully, combine bullets to unleash powerful moves, battle terrifying boogies, and save the world in the shortest day possible!

Why similar: Roguelike 52.8%, Strategy 47.2%

Dungeon Divers is a dungeon-themed roguelike puzzle game about clearing derelict dungeons. As the newest employee of Dungeon Divers Inc., you must advance through multiple levels, use your wits, and tools you acquire along the way to get to the core to defuse it and bring home the cash.

Why similar: Roguelike 44.4%, Turn-Based 35.4%, Strategy 20.2%

Corpse Keeper is a very challenging action-strategy roguelite. You'll need to lead a squad of three corpses to explore the grim and dark medieval world within limited time, build a powerful army of the living dead, and finally kill the demon lurking in the deep end of the cathedral.

Why similar: Roguelike 57.1%, Strategy 42.9%

Seven Deadly Sins. Have you heard about the 8th? Delve into madness in Sin Slayers, a challenging RPG Roguelite where you decide how much sin to bear as you transform the world. Assemble a party of wicked adventurers, kill, and pillage to drive off a gluttonous nightmare in turn-based battles

Why similar: Roguelike 58.3%, Strategy 41.7%