Games Like Welcome to Basingstoke

DEADBOLT is an extremely challenging stealth-action hybrid that allows you to take control of the reaper to quell the recent undead uprising.

Why similar: Stealth 39.4%, Great Soundtrack 19.1%, Difficult 11.8%, Action 10.3%, Zombies 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game shares the tense, stealth-heavy 2D action and high-lethality combat that makes every encounter in Basingstoke feel dangerous.

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: Action Roguelike 38.5%, Roguelite 23.6%, Stealth 12.1%, Action 8.5%, Indie 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similar top-down, emergent gameplay experience where stealth, combat, and environmental interaction are essential for surviving procedurally generated levels.

Uncompromising Sci-Fi survival on Mars! Manage the entire colony single-handed! Craft, Research, Explore and Fight against evolving mutants. Vast open world and randomly generated levels to explore! Can you survive long enough to escape the horror?

Why similar: Survival 32%, Crafting 21.5%, Zombies 21.1%, Survival Horror 16%, Indie 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: This top-down survival game mirrors the crafting and resource management intensity found in Basingstoke while exploring a desolate, hostile environment.

From the creators of The Last Stand: Union City and Dead Zone comes an all-new singleplayer rogue-lite action adventure. After you become infected by the zombie virus, you set out to explore the post-apocalypse and find hope for your fellow survivors. You can still make a difference. Don't give up.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 24.2%, Zombies 22.7%, Survival 17%, Roguelite 16%, Crafting 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: It perfectly captures the post-apocalyptic zombie survival loop with roguelite progression and a heavy emphasis on scavenging for limited resources.

World War III is over, the world's infested with mutants and your supplies are running out. Fight your way down this damned hotel, from your penthouse on top to the first floor. Craft weapons, search for food and reach the exit. Otherwise you'll be torn apart, starve to death or maybe both...

Why similar: Action Roguelike 37.9%, Survival 21.3%, Zombies 12.5%, Adventure 8.4%, Crafting 7%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the survival-roguelite structure where you must navigate a dangerous building floor-by-floor while managing health and crafting supplies.

Heat Signature is a game from the developers of Gunpoint where you break into spaceships, make terrible mistakes, and think of clever ways out of them. You take a mission, fly to the target ship, sneak inside, and make clever use of your gadgets to distract, ambush and take out the crew.

Why similar: Stealth 38%, Roguelite 19%, Action Roguelike 14.5%, Action 11.6%, Indie 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Like Basingstoke, it focuses on infiltration and stealth-based gameplay where you must use gadgets and clever movement to survive against overwhelming odds.

RAD is a 3D action rogue-like set in a post-post-apocalyptic world, where humanity has faced armageddon not once, but twice.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 38.6%, Roguelite 28.4%, Action 17.6%, Difficult 7.3%, Great Soundtrack 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: This post-apocalyptic roguelite features a similar sense of exploration and mutation-based progression in a world gone wrong.

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

Why similar: Action Roguelike 40.8%, Roguelite 21.9%, Action 11.8%, Adventure 10.1%, Indie 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a top-down, action-oriented roguelite experience that emphasizes exploration and managing sanity while fighting eldritch horrors.

Descend into the grim and gritty world of Purgatory in this cover-based shooter which combines the fluidity of twin-stick controls and tactical cover usage. Dodge behind cover as you try to outgun your enemies in the unknown procedurally generated hunting grounds.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 27.8%, Roguelite 17.9%, Zombies 17.4%, Survival 10.7%, Difficult 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: It combines atmospheric, top-down action with roguelite mechanics, focusing on cover-based movement and precise combat.

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: Stealth 42.7%, Roguelite 34.2%, Difficult 21.4%, Singleplayer 1.7%

Why You'll Like It: It is the gold standard for stealth-roguelite gameplay, requiring careful planning and tactical movement to avoid detection in high-stakes missions.

Tunguska: The Visitation is a single player top-down shooter RPG. Seek fortune as a Ghoul Hunter in an abandoned Soviet Exclusion Zone. Use your grit and ingenuity to survive deadly radiation, mysterious anomalies, and poisonous mutants. Go in guns-blazing, or stay in the shadows - your choice.

Why similar: Stealth 23.2%, Zombies 19%, Survival 18.4%, Crafting 14.6%, Survival Horror 13%

Why You'll Like It: This top-down survival shooter captures the gritty, post-apocalyptic atmosphere and scavenging mechanics of Basingstoke.

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

Why similar: Action Roguelike 48.9%, Roguelite 10.9%, Difficult 9.9%, Action 7.3%, Crafting 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game provides a brutal, top-down survival experience where scavenging and managing limited resources are the only ways to stay alive.

Cryptark is a 2D sci-fi shooter where you take on the role of a heavily armed privateer seeking to earn government contracts by boarding deadly alien space-hulks. It's up to you to strategize a plan of attack, pick an equipment loadout, and destroy the central core to be victorious.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 49.7%, Roguelite 15.6%, Action 12.4%, Adventure 7.6%, Indie 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: It features strategic, top-down roguelite action where you must manage your gear and resources to survive against alien threats.

It's 3:00 a.m. Your neighbours are having a loud party. Stop them. Party Hard is tinyBuild's award-winning stealth strategy game about ruining parties by any means.

Why similar: Stealth 48.3%, Great Soundtrack 16.7%, Action 13.7%, Indie 10.2%, Difficult 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes stealth and environmental manipulation in a top-down perspective, requiring you to remain undetected while achieving your objectives.

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

Why similar: Action Roguelike 47%, Action 10.2%, Zombies 10.1%, Roguelite 9.4%, Survival 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced, action-roguelite that shares the chaotic, arcade-style intensity of fighting through waves of undead.

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

Why similar: Action Roguelike 42.7%, Roguelite 15.8%, Action 12.9%, Survival 11.3%, Indie 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: This top-down roguelite focuses on difficult, methodical combat that rewards players for being cautious and observant.

A rogue-like river journey through the backwaters of a forgotten post-societal America. Forage, craft, evade predators.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 33%, Survival 23.5%, Crafting 9.4%, Great Soundtrack 8.8%, Adventure 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the survival and crafting aspects of the genre, forcing you to navigate a dangerous, procedurally generated world.

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: Action Roguelike 39.1%, Roguelite 28.4%, Action 10.5%, Difficult 9.1%, Indie 8%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a fast-paced, top-down roguelite experience with deep weapon customization and tactical combat mechanics.

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

Why similar: Action Roguelike 46.3%, Roguelite 21.6%, Action 10%, Difficult 8.6%, Adventure 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: This bullet-hell roguelite features top-down exploration and a focus on finding gear to survive increasingly difficult encounters.

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

Why similar: Action Roguelike 41.3%, Roguelite 22.3%, Action 8.3%, Difficult 7.7%, Great Soundtrack 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: It is a fast-paced, top-down roguelite that emphasizes arcade action and survival against hordes of enemies.

You are the Warden. Enter the dense cornfields and gather the resources your village desperately needs. But beware: you are not alone. Build a deck of abilities and choose your weapons to face the growing dangers of the night. With a relentless monster after you, will you make it out alive?

Why similar: Stealth 23.5%, Roguelite 20.6%, Survival Horror 17.2%, Survival 14.2%, Action 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: This survival-horror game focuses on tension and stealth, forcing you to manage your resources while being hunted by a powerful entity.

A masterful combination of top-down shooter and endless replayability with procedural levels. Blast your way through walls & enemies with guns and cybernetic abilities. Install perks from cyber chambers and upgrade your character stats after each death. Can you stop the Overseer?

Why similar: Action Roguelike 44.1%, Roguelite 24.4%, Great Soundtrack 12.5%, Action 11.6%, Indie 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: This top-down roguelite features destructible environments and a focus on upgrading your character to survive increasingly difficult floors.

Tower defense reimagined! Dead Ground is a procedurally generated tower defense game with rogue-like elements. Each playthrough will offer randomly generated guns, skills and augments. You'll have to travel, collect scrap, water, manage your inventory and upgrade your base to survive!

Why similar: Action Roguelike 44.6%, Action 15.1%, Roguelite 14.7%, Indie 10.4%, Great Soundtrack 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: It blends tower defense and roguelite elements, requiring you to scavenge and build defenses to survive against incoming threats.

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

Why similar: Action Roguelike 57.7%, Roguelite 13.6%, Action 8.9%, Indie 7.5%, Difficult 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: This post-apocalyptic roguelite features top-down combat and exploration that feels very similar to the core loop of Basingstoke.

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

Why similar: Action Roguelike 52.7%, Roguelite 15%, Action 11.7%, Indie 9.2%, Adventure 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: This action-roguelite features top-down combat and a variety of character classes that encourage different playstyles.

Rescue hostages, disarm bombs and save the day in this old school, side-scroller action game with retro graphics and retro sensibilities. Online and Couch Coop Included.

Why similar: Zombies 53.9%, Action 26.6%, Indie 14.6%, Singleplayer 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a tactical, action-packed experience that requires careful room clearing and resource management in a 2D space.

Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine is a single player or co-op heist game. Assemble a crack team of thieves, case the joint, and pull off the perfect heist.

Why similar: Stealth 58.7%, Indie 14%, Action 12%, Great Soundtrack 8.7%, Adventure 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down stealth game that emphasizes clever movement and avoiding detection, much like the stealth-heavy segments of Basingstoke.

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: Survival 35%, Zombies 34.9%, Crafting 12%, Survival Horror 9.9%, Indie 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: While more simulation-heavy, it is the ultimate top-down zombie survival game that emphasizes scavenging, crafting, and stealth.

Scavenger SV-4 is a highly replayable atmospheric first-person science fiction game. Part simulator, part roguelike, it has elements of action, combat, resource management, and a dash of horror. It is not quite like any game you have played before.

Why similar: Roguelite 26.4%, Action 25.2%, Adventure 25.1%, Indie 19.3%, Singleplayer 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the isolation and resource management aspects of survival in a hostile, alien environment.

Fight to survive against zombies in a pixel-art post-apocalyptic city. Loot and merge items, expand your backpack. In your camp, recruit survivors but burn the bitten. Trading uncovers haunting survivor stories.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 34.6%, Zombies 19.2%, Roguelite 13.6%, Survival 12.2%, Action 8%

Battle and survive hordes of monsters in this high octane casual game with rogue-lite elements. Defeat bosses, hot-wire cars and stack powerups. How long will you survive?

Why similar: Action Roguelike 38.2%, Roguelite 20.2%, Zombies 15.4%, Survival 13.1%, Action 10.8%

Explore a city thrust into disarray by an unknown event and survive the hordes of mutated abominations that lurk at every corner. You’ll have to fight through enemies & bosses, scavenge loot and survive the hostile city.

Why similar: Zombies 22.9%, Roguelite 21.4%, Survival 19%, Crafting 17.8%, Action 10.1%

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

Why similar: Action Roguelike 39.6%, Roguelite 21.1%, Difficult 12.8%, Adventure 9.9%, Action 9.3%

Survive waves! Choose new abilities! Modify your hero in any way you like! Craft a powerful masterpiece, or a horrible concoction of awful ideas! Discover secrets! Sandbox your way to victory! Boost! Survive! Boosted Survivors!

Why similar: Action Roguelike 73.5%, Action 18.2%, Indie 6.4%, Singleplayer 1.9%

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: Difficult 46.6%, Indie 38.2%, Great Soundtrack 15.2%

Why You'll Like It: It is a tactical, turn-based roguelite that emphasizes careful positioning and resource management in a dark, atmospheric setting.

The God - Forsaken Land is a roguelike survival adventure game that combines the features of Diablo. In this abandoned land of despair, you fend off endless monsters, light a fire in the darkness, and search for that faint glimmer of hope.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 57.8%, Zombies 19.7%, Action 9.8%, Adventure 6.7%, Indie 4.4%

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

Why similar: Action Roguelike 56.1%, Difficult 12.7%, Roguelite 9.6%, Great Soundtrack 8.9%, Indie 7.9%

Unravel a thrilling sci-fi mystery in this action-packed twin-stick roguelite shooter. Select your load-out, stack up temporary and persistent upgrades, and delve into the depths of a subterranean base, either alone or in a group of up to 3 players.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 31.9%, Zombies 18.8%, Roguelite 18.2%, Survival 14.3%, Action 7.7%

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

Why similar: Action Roguelike 41.6%, Action 14.4%, Roguelite 13.2%, Adventure 12.9%, Indie 10.2%

Survive through four days at the end of the world in this post-apocalyptic point-and-click thriller where your choices could keep you alive... or not.

Why similar: Survival 29.6%, Adventure 27.6%, Indie 19.6%, Great Soundtrack 18.5%, Singleplayer 4.7%

Convoy is a tactical roguelike-like inspired by Mad Max and FTL in which you cross a wasteland in search of parts for your broken ship. Presented in pixel art and set in a future post-apocalyptic setting, Convoy is a squad based tactical combat roguelike-like in its core.

Why similar: Roguelite 28.8%, Action 15.6%, Adventure 13.9%, Difficult 13.4%, Great Soundtrack 13.3%

Dreadzone is a survival game set in a deadly quarantine zone. Scavenge for resources, craft tools, build shelter, and survive against dangerous animals, zombies, mutants, and other survivors. Explore the zone where desperation drives everyone to do whatever it takes to survive.

Why similar: Survival 28.3%, Zombies 26.8%, Crafting 23.8%, Adventure 10.5%, Action 8.4%

CleanFall is a survival rogue-like that prizes player freedom and creativity. Build mobile death machines to fight off ravenous hordes, craft and alchemize gun turrets, and tunnel through subterranean ecosystems crawling with nameless horrors.

Why similar: Roguelite 26.8%, Crafting 22%, Survival Horror 21.9%, Difficult 16.7%, Action 12.7%

iZolated - This is a post-apocalyptic 2D action game with elements of survival and RPG, which throws you into a harsh open world where the slightest mistake costs you your life. Find equipment, engage in fights, and prove that you are the top of the food chain in this chaos!

Why similar: Zombies 28.6%, Survival 22.2%, Crafting 20.7%, Action 13.5%, Adventure 12.8%

The Bleakest Keep is a challenging action horror roguelike. Survive the horrors of the Keep, upgrade your gear, and earn ranks as you ascend the tower and save the world!

Why similar: Action Roguelike 50.2%, Roguelite 21.1%, Survival Horror 19.5%, Action 9.1%

Explore Westminster, London on a journey to the ruins of Hanwell. Fight with whatever you can find or use the environment to defend yourself against an ever increasing scourge of Anomalies.

Why similar: Survival Horror 56.4%, Action 19.4%, Adventure 18.8%, Singleplayer 5.4%

Fight to survive on a mysterious alien planet, outwit its vicious inhabitants, and do whatever it takes to find a way off that wretched rock.

Why similar: Zombies 32.2%, Action 16.9%, Adventure 14.1%, Great Soundtrack 12.1%, Difficult 11.2%

Now with over 500,000 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 38.1%, Survival Horror 21.9%, Action 14.7%, Adventure 12.3%, Indie 9.6%

Junk Survivor is a zombie post-apocalypse game where you loot, craft, build and farm in a struggle to survive. With a vast map to explore, a robust skillset to unlock this customizable sandbox awaits the adventurer. How long before you die!

Why similar: Zombies 25.9%, Survival 21.9%, Crafting 14.7%, Survival Horror 13.6%, Action 12.1%

Into the Necrovale is an Action RPG in which you collect powerful items that interact with one another. You must be clever with your build if you hope to pierce the mysteries and dangers of the Necrovale, where a thousand generations of miscreants and criminals have been banished.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 53.7%, Roguelite 23.1%, Action 9.6%, Adventure 7.8%, Indie 4.3%

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: Stealth 21.3%, Action Roguelike 20.3%, Action 15.7%, Indie 13.2%, Adventure 13.1%

Deadzone: Rogue is a roguelite FPS set in space. Blast through swarms of hostile machines, combine powerful augments and elements to forge your build, and grow stronger with each run — solo or in co-op.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 40.2%, Roguelite 25.5%, Zombies 23.5%, Action 10.8%

EVERSPACE™ combines fast-paced combat with roguelike elements, great visuals and a captivating story. It takes you on a challenging journey through an ever-changing, beautifully crafted universe full of surprises. Shoot, craft and loot your way to victory while the odds are stacked against you.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 53.6%, Roguelite 13.8%, Action 13.3%, Indie 6.8%, Survival 5.1%

Explore, loot and fight in an open world action game set in a post-apocalyptic future after a devastating meteor strike. Assemble your team and take the fight to the enemy or choose a stealthy approach to gain the upper hand. Expand your base to research new gear and get ready to survive the fall.

Why similar: Stealth 32.3%, Survival 23.5%, Crafting 20.6%, Action 11.7%, Adventure 8.6%

Disfigure is a grim-dark rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 56.5%, Roguelite 24%, Difficult 13.6%, Action 5.9%

Travel by train through a dying world. Look after your passengers, keep your train operational, and make sure you can always reach the next station. Make your way through swarms of infected at each station. Explore mysterious and abandoned stations looking for supplies and survivors.

Why similar: Survival 29.6%, Zombies 27.4%, Adventure 12.5%, Action 11.3%, Indie 10.5%

A rogue-lite game where you must face hundreds of monsters with increasingly difficult bosses that strong enough to take you down. Choose your abilities, build your favorite combat style, become stronger and survive as long as you can!

Why similar: Action Roguelike 38.5%, Roguelite 22.2%, Survival 18.4%, Action 11.8%, Adventure 6.5%

Hyperjump into the dark recesses of space with Genesis Alpha One - a roguelike FPS where you must build, maintain and navigate your ship through a galaxy filled with hostile alien and human threats. Explore, create and survive the militarized space race in order to secure humanity’s future.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 41.7%, Roguelite 23.5%, Survival 18.5%, Survival Horror 16.2%

Darkwood - a new perspective on survival horror. Scavenge and explore a rich, ever-changing free-roam world by day, then hunker down in your hideout and pray for the morning light.

Why similar: Survival Horror 31.3%, Survival 31.1%, Action 17.5%, Adventure 16.2%, Singleplayer 3.9%

Into the Haze is a single-player survival game set at the beginning of the apocalypse. You wake up on the rooftop on the 40th floor of the abandoned tower. The whole city is cover with poisonous gas. Gather resources, craft, build, and fight zombies. Survive until help arrives.

Why similar: Stealth 20.3%, Zombies 17.9%, Survival 15.8%, Survival Horror 15.1%, Crafting 13.5%