- #1 Nine Prophets: The Abyss
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Vyk1ing Productions
Windows
Nine Prophets: The Abyss, is a brutal, story-driven, horror RPG with roguelike elements. Featuring difficult, dismemberment turn based combat and strategic resource management. Craft Items, scavenge resources and fight alongside allies as you combat countless horrors and survive the unknowable.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 16.3%, Dark Fantasy 15.7%, Turn-Based Combat 14.4%, Party-Based RPG 13%, Horror 8.9%
- #2 Zjawa: Bloodstained Soul
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Platty Gems
Windows
Zjawa: Bloodstained Soul is a 2D Survival Horror RPG mixing turn-based combat with real-time elements and hand-drawn art, set in 13th century France during a crusade against heresy. Slash, parry, and collect items to survive to see the end, whatever it may be. Find absolution or damnation.
Why similar: Dark Fantasy 13.7%, Gothic 13.4% ★, Turn-Based Combat 13.1%, Lovecraftian 9.7%, Horror 8.5%
- #3 Darkest Dungeon®
96% matchVery Positive92% of 159,462 reviews2016
Dev: Red Hook Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.2 hrsMean: 44.7 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 22.5%, Lovecraftian 19.4%, Dark Fantasy 18.6%, Dungeon Crawler 16.6%, Gothic 6.6% ★
- #4 Perish Parade
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Antang Software
Windows
Perish Parade is a roguelike dungeon-crawler RPG with positional turn-based combat, and an entirely hand-drawn art style. Manage your resources carefully as you explore and fight your way through each area. Create powerful synergies between your party and skills to reach the end. Prepare or perish.
Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 20.6%, Dark Fantasy 16.7%, Dungeon Crawler 16.7%, Party-Based RPG 14.8%, Gothic 8.9% ★
- #5 Fear & Hunger
94% matchVery Positive94% of 21,597 reviews2019
Dev: Miro HaverinenPub: Happy Paintings
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 11.1 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 25.8%, Violent 12.2%, Lovecraftian 12%, Turn-Based Combat 10.6%, Horror 9.5%
- #6 Fear & Hunger 2: Termina
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 14,607 reviews2022
Dev: Miro Haverinen
Windows
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 24.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
F&H 2: Termina is oppressive, relentless and hopeless. A mix of jRPG and Survival Horror. Turn-based combat meets resource management. 3 days to explore the wicked town of Prehevil and find out about its dark secrets. 3 days until the pale and sickly green moon rises at its apex. Termina is upon us!
Why similar: Dark Fantasy 17%, Party-Based RPG 14.9%, Lovecraftian 14%, Gothic 13.9% ★, Dungeon Crawler 10.9%
- #7 Remnants Of Isolation
94% matchVery Positive81% of 124 reviews2015
Dev: Team IsolationPub: KOMODO
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Fight horrific enemies and utilize powerful spell fusions to overcome the cruel fate of mages and see the light of freedom.
Why similar: Party-Based RPG 17.7%, Turn-Based Combat 15.8%, Lovecraftian 13.1%, Dungeon Crawler 12.8%, Dark Fantasy 11%
- #8 Edge of Madness
92% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: The Yellow Sign
Windows
A Lovecraftian RPG with tactical card-based combat. Uncover dark secrets, face cult and eldritch horrors. Every choice shapes the battle—outplay your enemies or lose yourself to madness.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 22%, Turn-Based Combat 16.9%, Dark Fantasy 15%, Violent 9.4%, Horror 9%
- #9 Shadows Of Thornkeep
91% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: Tryzna83
Windows
A dark fantasy, grid-based dungeon crawler where every step hides peril. Loot, adapt, and survive in turn-based battles as you lead lost souls through cursed halls in this rogue-lite descent into madness.
Why similar: Party-Based RPG 28.2%, Dungeon Crawler 19.3%, RPG 15.1%, Turn-Based Combat 14.5%, Dark Fantasy 12.3%
- #10 Cyclopean: The Great Abyss
90% matchVery Positive89% of 157 reviews2025
Dev: Schmidt Workshops
Windows
Cyclopean: The Great Abyss is a small scale, mechanics driven CRPG/Roguelike in a retro, monochromatic style, that takes place in the underworld of H.P. Lovecraft's Dreamlands.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 19.7%, Turn-Based Combat 16.7%, Party-Based RPG 15.6%, Dark Fantasy 15.3%, Dungeon Crawler 14.4%
- #11 Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones
91% matchMixed66% of 2,511 reviews2019
Dev: Cultic GamesPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 11.4 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Delve into a role-playing game of horror, loss and madness set in the strange worlds of HP Lovecraft. Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones offers a mix of rich role-playing and turn-based tactical combat, represented in an illustrative visual style. Can you find salvation in a dead world?
Why similar: Lovecraftian 30.9%, Turn-Based Combat 17.4%, RPG 12.8%, Horror 10.6%, Violent 9.8%
- #12 Darkest Dungeon® II
89% matchMostly Positive75% of 25,853 reviews2023
Dev: Red Hook Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.3 hrsMean: 34.8 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: Lovecraftian 18.8%, Dark Fantasy 16.3%, Dungeon Crawler 13.7%, Gothic 13.1% ★, Party-Based RPG 12.4%
- #13 Pinku Kult Hex Mortis
89% matchPositive95% of 39 reviews2022
Dev: Dream OniPub: Valorware
Windows
Welcome to RAZORE CITY – a desolate, grim metropolis with one big problem: DEMONS. Control your own Razore City denizen as you investigate bizarre happenings around the city and track down the mastermind behind it all in this narrative-based RPG!
Why similar: Gothic 20.9% ★, Party-Based RPG 19.5%, Dark Fantasy 13.1%, Turn-Based Combat 10.5%, Supernatural 8.8%
- #14 End the Endless
88% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: WhalesPub: After Alive Studios
Windows
End the Endless is a dark fantasy turn based RPG set in the Purgatorial Realms. Harness unique directional based weapon systems in an oppressive environment. Utilize unique abilities, items and even your party members as a resource. Explore the Afterlife and seek to conquer the Seven Terraces.
Why similar: Party-Based RPG 18.8%, Dark Fantasy 18.7%, Turn-Based Combat 16.1%, Lovecraftian 14.5%, Dungeon Crawler 12.2%
- #15 Stray Magic
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Starlit Castle
Windows
The Everley University of Magic has fallen, but a quest led you here... a mission still waiting to be fulfilled. Explore, fight, recruit and survive as you cross paths with other lost souls. A turn-based JRPG influenced by dungeon crawlers and survival horror.
Why similar: Dark Fantasy 20.9%, Party-Based RPG 19.4%, Turn-Based Combat 17.3%, Dungeon Crawler 11.3%, Horror 11%
- #16 South of the March
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Small Gray Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
South of the March is an RPG that combines visual novel exploration with turn-based combat in a hand-drawn dark fantasy world. Meet the locals and unravel a mystery, equip your party for the dangers ahead, and set out into the unforgiving wilderness.
Why similar: Party-Based RPG 21.7%, Turn-Based Combat 21%, Dungeon Crawler 14.2%, Dark Fantasy 9.7%, Hand-drawn 8%
- #17 Dream Eater
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Knight Vision Games
Windows
Dream Eater is a turn-based RPG about exploring a dark land that dreams no more. Recruit new party members, slay monsters, manage resources, and craft items as you journey to Originaught Castle in search of answers. Can you help them dream again?
Why similar: Party-Based RPG 24.5%, Turn-Based Combat 24.1%, Dungeon Crawler 17%, Dark Fantasy 14.2%, RPG 10.2%
- #18 RAVENSBURG
84% matchPositive95% of 43 reviews2025
Dev: Lilian Duleroux
Windows
RAVENSBURG is a haunting RPG where you play as a vampire. Here Lovecraftian Horror meets Anime. Liberate a cult-ridden city, uncover mysteries, and fight horrors beyond imagination while befriending attractive companions. Unravel a gothic mansion, and explore the city’s darkest depths.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 22.9%, Turn-Based Combat 17%, Party-Based RPG 14.1%, Dark Fantasy 12.8%, Horror 10.3%
- #19 The Prophecy of Horn
85% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: ELITENKO
Windows
Lead your heroes through a psychedelic grimdark world in a fast-paced hybrid turn-based mode, where heroes take turns while hordes of enemies attack simultaneously. Execute devastating combos and gain extra turns through Rampage to annihilate the legions of the Demon Horn!
Why similar: Gothic 15.9% ★, Party-Based RPG 15.1%, Dark Fantasy 15%, Turn-Based Combat 14.4%, Lovecraftian 13.7%
- #20 Magic Cauldron - Dungeons
84% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2024
Dev: Manuel Schenk Games
Windows · Mac
Magic Cauldron - Dungeons is a classic dungeon crawler with a pixel art look. The game is reminiscent of the good old days of grid crawlers, which were still completely 3D-free.
Why similar: Dungeon Crawler 16.9%, Turn-Based Combat 16.9%, Gothic 16.5% ★, Dark Fantasy 15.1%, RPG 8%
- #21 Monsters' Den: Book of Vengeance
82% matchPositive86% of 37 reviews2025
Dev: Monstrum
Windows
An all-new dark fantasy dungeon-crawling RPG taking inspiration from the fan-favorite Monsters' Den: Book of Dread. Create your party of heroes using an innovative skill system and enter tactical turn-based combat against the enemies of humanity. Loot, optimize, strategize. Enact vengeance.
Why similar: Party-Based RPG 24.3%, Dungeon Crawler 20.7%, Turn-Based Combat 18.5%, Dark Fantasy 15.7%, RPG 14%
- #22 Alder's Blood: Definitive Edition
83% matchMixed62% of 258 reviews2020
Dev: Shockwork GamesPub: No Gravity Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Alder's Blood is a tactical strategy game with stealth-based combat, RPG elements, crafting, resources gathering, and management, exploration, and a rich storyline. Set in a grim world, where mankind killed their God and is facing extinction.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 19.2%, Gothic 18.7% ★, Dark Fantasy 15.5%, Turn-Based Combat 13.4%, Hand-drawn 8.2%
- #23 Torchless
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ink Eclipse Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Torchless is a dark and gothic dungeon crawler RPG played through a text-based retro console. Forge your party and take up arms against the horrors lurking within the dungeon halls in strategic, turn-based combat, clinging on to survival using everything at your disposal.
Why similar: Party-Based RPG 17.4%, Gothic 16.4% ★, Lovecraftian 15.9%, Dark Fantasy 14.1%, Dungeon Crawler 11.7%
- #24 Castle Greyrot
82% match9 user reviews89% of 9 reviews2022
Dev: sawworm Games
Windows
Castle Greyrot is a tactical boss-rush rogue-lite RPG where brutal battles await at every turn. Train your party, master powerful abilities, and face the horrors of the ever-changing Castle. Can you break its unending curse… or will you fall like the rest?
Why similar: Party-Based RPG 21.3%, Turn-Based Combat 19.3%, Dark Fantasy 18.7%, Dungeon Crawler 13.8%, Horror 6.9%
- #25 Scorched Sun
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Skeleton Coffee Games
Windows
Scorched Sun is a short experience that combines top down survival horror with turn based combat. As a new initiate, delve into the depths of a monastery of The Scorched Sun Order and discover the secrets within.
Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 26.7%, Lovecraftian 25.2%, Horror 12.9%, RPG 12.8%, Supernatural 10.9%
- #26 Cantarella: Dominion of Qualia
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: sound sepherPub: Mediascape
Windows
A dark turn-based RPG where you kill, devour, and command aberrations. In a mad tower where life itself is consumed as a resource, rewrite fate through choice and sacrifice in endless looping battles.
Why similar: Party-Based RPG 22.5%, Turn-Based Combat 15.9%, Dark Fantasy 15.5%, Dungeon Crawler 10.5%, Choices Matter 9.1%
- #27 Hatred and Blood
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lia CallanPub: Amos Shade SRL
Windows · Mac
Baptized in Dismay is a psychological horror RPG set in a dystopian 1980s. Nations have turned to isolation and walls to prevent another war. But a curse, or sickness, spreads... consuming people from within and erasing their humanity. Will you endure… or be Baptized in Dismay?
Why similar: Lovecraftian 18.6%, Party-Based RPG 17.5%, Dark Fantasy 14.8%, Turn-Based Combat 14.5%, Hand-drawn 8.1%
- #28 Parting Shadows
78% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Blake WunderlePub: Wunderelf Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
A narrative RPG where every choice reshapes the story. Build your party from 56 unique classes, fight through three branching tales of mystery and betrayal, and discover that some paths can't be retraced.
Why similar: Party-Based RPG 26.4%, Turn-Based Combat 20%, Dark Fantasy 15.8%, Choices Matter 10.4%, RPG 8.9%
- #29 Hellslave
79% matchVery Positive85% of 3,209 reviews2022
Dev: Ars GoetiaPub: Dear Villagers
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 43%
Hellslave is a dark fantasy dungeon crawler where you make a pact with the Devil to fight back a demon invasion. Customize your character with powerful demonic abilities, explore a cursed world, and battle nightmarish enemies to save humanity if you can resist the darkness.
Why similar: Dark Fantasy 19.4%, Turn-Based Combat 18.7%, Dungeon Crawler 18.4%, Hand-drawn 10.1%, RPG 8.2%
- #30 Dungeon of Calibris: Demon Orb
77% match8 user reviews88% of 8 reviews2026
Dev: Dalex Software Planning
Windows
Descend into a sprawling, perilous dungeon in this old‑school first‑person RPG. Build your party, uncover hidden rooms, battle deadly creatures, and meet a large cast of adventurers trying to survive the depths. Designed with the spirit of classic “dad‑era” dungeon crawlers.
Why similar: Party-Based RPG 29.2%, Dungeon Crawler 23.5%, Dark Fantasy 22.1%, RPG 17.3%, Turn-Based Combat 7.1%
- #31 Moonshadows
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bagged Tacos LLC
Windows
Moonshadows is a streamlined yet thoughtful 2D turn-based RPG where eight friends get lost in Eveshame forest, a still, unforgiving mockery of a forest hellbent on preventing their escape. Reunite the friends and discover the yet-deeper secrets buried within and around them.
Why similar: Party-Based RPG 29.5%, Turn-Based Combat 16.1%, PvE 15.7%, Dark Fantasy 15.2%, RPG 12.4%
- #32 Queen Slayer
76% matchMixed57% of 23 reviews2026
Dev: Mantaray161
Windows · Mac · Linux
A tightly focused, streamlined turn-based roguelike RPG you can finish in 2–3 hours. Challenge the short but razor-sharp journey to slay 8 corrupted queens.
Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 20.6%, Gothic 19.1% ★, Dark Fantasy 18.9%, Dungeon Crawler 17.5%, Dark 7.3%
- #33 DEORUM
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Joyhop Games
Windows
Descend into the forsaken dungeon and fight the horrors in the dark. Gather occult materials, craft nightmarish coins, and settle your debt to the cosmic powers. Obey the Divine Festival.
Why similar: Dark Fantasy 20.2%, Dungeon Crawler 19.6%, Lovecraftian 16.6%, Turn-Based Combat 14.8%, Horror 11.1%
- #34 Break Wolf
75% matchVery Positive99% of 161 reviews2025
Dev: RE Atelier
Windows
"Have we all been acting waywardly?" An Adventure RPG that deals with the life and death of wayward humans, striving to escape a syndicate that creates monsters.
Why similar: Dark Fantasy 23.1%, Turn-Based Combat 19.1%, Violent 12.5%, Choices Matter 10.4%, Gore 7%
- #35 The Depths of Duskraven Manor
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Apoptosis Games
Windows
First-person dungeon crawling meets turn-based horror. Lead five fugitives into the depths of a cursed manor—and survive what’s waiting below.
Why similar: Party-Based RPG 27.5%, Turn-Based Combat 18.9%, Dungeon Crawler 18.4%, Horror 12.1%, RPG 9.1%
- #36 The Season of the Warlock
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: enComplot
Windows · Mac · Linux
The Season of the Warlock is a weird adventure game inspired by the gothic tale tradition, with two storylines to choose from. The soul of a warlock of yore, trapped in a portrait, will present Lord Alistair Ainsworth with an offer he will not be able to resist. Or will he? It’s your call...
Why similar: Gothic 22.1% ★, Lovecraftian 18.6%, Dark Fantasy 13.7%, Horror 10.5%, Choices Matter 8.4%
- #37 Innerworld
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Nemoto Keisuke
Windows
Horror-RPG game with anthropomorphic casts called “Beastchild”. Defeat monsters and cults tring to kill Nicolas, and rescue his friends and family. It features speedy, and tense battles with ATB system. Analyze the enemy and gain advantages. Make full use of the items and destroy them.
Why similar: Party-Based RPG 28.7%, Turn-Based Combat 19.7%, Horror 11.9%, Violent 11%, RPG 9.8%
- #38 Remnants Of The Witch
73% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Daniel Freitas
Windows
Follow the story of Mari, as she becomes a witch hunter and discovers what's really going on in Sthalgrave city. Use various skills in the fast-paced turn-based battles! Use free time after missions to hang out with teammates!
Why similar: Party-Based RPG 24.9%, Turn-Based Combat 20.8%, Hand-drawn 11.4%, Dungeon Crawler 10.4%, Dark Fantasy 10.1%
- #39 Undernauts: Labyrinth of Yomi
74% matchMostly Positive79% of 238 reviews2021
Dev: EXPERIENCEPub: Aksys Games
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Escape from “Yomi” – a dungeon filled with riches – and danger. Make use of your powerful skills and magic items to create exits and reach the surface alive.
Why similar: Dungeon Crawler 28.9%, Turn-Based Combat 20.2%, RPG 15.3%, Violent 10.3%, Dark 8.1%
- #40 The Backworld
73% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Numor GamesPub: Top Hat Studios, Inc.
Windows
Slip between the cracks of reality into a world where danger awaits at every turn. Survive with strategy, battling when necessary or fleeing when the odds are stacked against you. Collect strange items, unlock new abilities, and recruit unique companions. Forge your own path; every choice matters.
Why similar: Party-Based RPG 18.8%, Lovecraftian 14.3%, Turn-Based Combat 13.7%, Horror 12%, Violent 10.2%
- #41 Vestenelon
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Vestenelon
Windows
This is a comedy RPG/Visual Novel hybrid which does not follow conventional rules. Fight monsters for a meager paycheck, fight trained mercs who steal said paycheck (Like the bullies at lunch!), watch your family starve, watch the news to see how badly you screwed up, get yelled at for not tipping.
Why similar: Party-Based RPG 23.4%, Lovecraftian 22.9%, Turn-Based Combat 20.5%, Dungeon Crawler 15.6%, RPG 9.3%
- #42 Nimaat
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: RaObscura
Windows
Face corrupted gods, survive brutal combat, and shape Nimaat’s fate in a world where faith itself has turned hostile in this dark psychological turn-based RPG set in a fractured vision of ancient Egypt.
Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 24.7%, Dark Fantasy 21.9%, RPG 14.6%, Horror 9.5%, Choices Matter 8.1%
- #43 Look Outside
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 12,602 reviews2025
Dev: Francis CoulombePub: Devolver Digital
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Look Outside is a survival horror RPG set in a single apartment building. A mysterious event turns anyone who looks out the window into grotesque monsters, leaving the world in absolute chaos. Scavenge the building to seek food, supplies, and weapons while encountering strange characters.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 27.6%, Turn-Based Combat 20.1%, Horror 14.2%, RPG 13.8%, Violent 6.8%
- #44 Skiv
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SvnDev
Windows
Skiv is a dungeon crawler RPG set in dark fantasy world. With systems blending turn based combat and soulslike elements.
Why similar: Dark Fantasy 31.6%, Dungeon Crawler 30.9%, Turn-Based Combat 18.7%, RPG 11.6%, Hand-drawn 6.5%
- #45 What Could Possibly Go Wrong
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alicorndragon
Windows
Play as the rival to the destined chosen hero. See the world through a lenses not warped to you. Follow the path or fight to choose who you are, in this turn-based strategy adventure, that is super customizable in terms of actions.
Why similar: Party-Based RPG 29.1%, Dark Fantasy 17.1%, RPG 15.9%, Violent 9.6%, Turn-Based Combat 8.8%
- #46 The Inverted Tower
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: cmrn_
Windows · Mac
A dark fantasy CRPG with multiple routes and endings, all surrounding the hunt for a wish-granting chalice guarded beneath a dungeon known as the INVERTED TOWER.
Why similar: Party-Based RPG 27.7%, Dungeon Crawler 22.9%, Turn-Based Combat 12.5%, Dark Fantasy 10.8%, RPG 10.8%
- #47 Starshard Brigands
69% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Zomia Studio
Windows
Starshard Brigands is a first-person dungeon crawler with grid-based movement, where shifting loyalties and hard choices shape your fate. As a nameless mercenary in a fractured world, decide where you stand—or stand alone.
Why similar: Party-Based RPG 23.7%, Turn-Based Combat 18.5%, Dungeon Crawler 18.2%, Dark Fantasy 16.2%, Choices Matter 6%
- #48 Children´s Fear
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Bloody GameworksPub: GRUPO SAMDEL SA DE CV
Windows
Children's Fear is a turn-based RPG with horror elements where you will meet Zala, Luka, and Darko. After a series of events, they find themselves trapped in a journey where they must eliminate the darkness that stalks them in order to regain the life they had before arriving in the Paura Valley.
Why similar: Party-Based RPG 16.9%, Turn-Based Combat 16.6%, Gore 14.7%, Horror 13.7%, RPG 12.5%
- #49 From the Deep
70% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2023
Dev: Mage's Hat
Windows
A warrior finds himself on the darkest of the dungeons. He does not know how or why he came to be there. He does not know how to get out of it. To conquer his freedom, he will have his fears challenged, his will tested, and his courage tried.
Why similar: Party-Based RPG 27.6%, Dungeon Crawler 17.3%, RPG 15.2%, Dark Fantasy 13.8%, Turn-Based Combat 9.1%
- #50 the Line
71% matchMixed55% of 38 reviews2017
Dev: Marginal act
Windows · Mac · Linux
The Line is a rogue-like / dungeon crawler with a turn-based combat system. The main object is to stand out the long line for resettlement from the oppressive east segment of the city.
Why similar: Dark Fantasy 18.9%, Turn-Based Combat 18.3%, Dungeon Crawler 16.7%, Violent 14.3%, Gore 7.3%
- #51 Antadin DX
70% matchPositive82% of 32 reviews2020
Dev: Red Skald
Windows
A dark jrpg with tough choices that change the story. You play as the last of the antadins, the protector of the queen of your colony. You have to traverse bleak, corrupted caverns, inhabitated by a myriad of different insects. Trying to protect your ward.
Why similar: Party-Based RPG 26.7%, Turn-Based Combat 20.6%, Dark Fantasy 19.7%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Story Rich 6.7%
- #52 Shieldwall Chronicles: Realm of Madness
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Wave Light Games Inc.Pub: V Publishing
Windows
Shieldwall Chronicles: Realm of Madness is a strategic turn-based tactics RPG. Forge legendary heroes as you venture through a corrupted land ruled by dark forces. Be warned: heroes don’t fare well in the North…
Why similar: Party-Based RPG 21.3%, Dark Fantasy 21%, Turn-Based Combat 18.3%, Violent 12.2%, RPG 8.7%
- #53 Book of Abominations
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Studio Catloaf
Windows
Book of Abominations is a cosy Lovecraftian monster tamer that combines the cute with the grotesque. Capture and battle Eldritch horrors in snappy turn based combat, explore a mysterious, moody yet vibrant world, and unravel the secrets within the book!
Why similar: Lovecraftian 24.6%, Party-Based RPG 21.2%, Turn-Based Combat 18.9%, Supernatural 11.1%, RPG 6.6%
- #54 DEATH PENALTY
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: HACKJOBPub: UnderWare
Windows
YOU ARE SENTENCED TO DEATH... Slither your way through an impenetrable fortress crawling with devils faster, stronger, and more cunning than any human. By sheer luck you've slipped through the cracks, but discovery means certain death. How long are you going to delay the inevitable?
Why similar: Dungeon Crawler 16.3%, Turn-Based Combat 14%, Dark Fantasy 12%, Horror 11.4%, RPG 8.4%
- #55 Souls Inferno
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: simulinatiPub: simulinati games
Windows
A minimalist soulslike with turn-based combat. Enter a cursed realm, defeat demonic knights, collect souls, and shape your build as you uncover a deeply interconnected world.
Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 22.5%, Dungeon Crawler 21.1%, Gothic 17% ★, Dark Fantasy 14%, RPG 11.4%
- #56 The Fortress
66% matchMostly Positive70% of 147 reviews2026
Dev: Baryonyx Games
Windows · Mac
The Fortress is a dark fantasy dungeon crawler with turn-based combat, mixing strategy and risk. Choose a class, delve into cursed chambers, roll dice to fight brutal enemies, and grab loot. Face tough choices, survive epic bosses, and fight to escape... or fall to the shadows
Why similar: Gothic 21.3% ★, Dungeon Crawler 20.3%, Dark Fantasy 19.3%, Horror 9.3%, Turn-Based Combat 9%
- #57 Blood Sword
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Prime Games
Windows
An ancient evil returns. A sword lost to legend. A party bound by fate. Forge your legacy in a story-rich RPG of turn-based combat and branching choices, inspired by the classic Blood Sword saga.
Why similar: Party-Based RPG 25.5%, Turn-Based Combat 20.5%, Dark Fantasy 20.1%, RPG 9.4%, Choices Matter 7.7%
- #58 ACCURSED
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bleedline Studios
Windows
Investigate the cursed town of Midnight Falls in a roguelike horror RPG. Scavenge powerful relics, outlast vicious foes, and cut down the awakened Ancient Deity before it devours everything. Every run is different, and the town hides secrets in every shadow.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 20.5%, Dark Fantasy 17.6%, Turn-Based Combat 13%, Supernatural 11.2%, Horror 8.8%
- #59 Dirge of the Scarlet Star
67% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Omnibatsu
Windows
A JRPG and Survival Horror,featuring turn based combat and 12 different playable characters.A day, morning ,afternoon,and evening under the Scarlet Star, to end the insanity,or join it.Dirge of the Scarlet Star is a descent into isolation,madness,and a slow death under the heat of the Scarlet Star.
Why similar: Dark Fantasy 22.4%, Party-Based RPG 20.6%, RPG 16%, Turn-Based Combat 15.6%, Violent 10.7%
- #60 Untold Story
65% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2026
Dev: Meowsticks Games
Windows
A modernized turn-based RPG. Go on an adventure with your party, battle tough monsters and fierce foes, and save the world! A large cast with unique skills creates strategic turn based combat, with plenty of challenges to face.
Why similar: Party-Based RPG 33.9%, Turn-Based Combat 25.4%, RPG 20.1%, Story Rich 9.5%, RPGMaker 6.6% ★