- #1 End the Endless
97% 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 blades, sanity, limbs and even your party members as a resource. Explore the Afterlife and seek to conquer the Seven Terraces.
Why similar: Party-Based RPG 17.2%, Dark Fantasy 14.8%, Turn-Based Combat 13.6%, Dungeon Crawler 11.9%, Lovecraftian 10.2%
- #2 Nine Prophets: The Abyss
96% matchNo user reviews2026
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: Dark Fantasy 17.5%, Lovecraftian 15.6%, Turn-Based Combat 15.2%, RPG 10.5%, Horror 10%
- #3 Zjawa: Bloodstained Soul
96% matchNo user reviews
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 13.8%, Gothic 13.4% ★, Turn-Based Combat 13.1%, Lovecraftian 9.6%, Horror 8.5%
- #4 Darkest Dungeon®
95% matchVery Positive92% of 158,223 reviews2016
Dev: Red Hook Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.2 hrsMean: 44.6 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 19.3%, Dark Fantasy 18.6%, Dungeon Crawler 16.6%, Gothic 6.6% ★
- #5 Fear & Hunger 2: Termina
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 14,176 reviews2022
Dev: Miro Haverinen
Windows
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 25.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 17.1%, Party-Based RPG 14.9%, Lovecraftian 14%, Gothic 13.9% ★, Dungeon Crawler 10.9%
- #6 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 16.2%, Turn-Based Combat 14.5%, Lovecraftian 11.9%, Dungeon Crawler 11.7%, Dark Fantasy 10.2%
- #7 Fear & Hunger
93% matchVery Positive94% of 21,050 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 23.9%, Violent 11.3%, Lovecraftian 11.1%, Turn-Based Combat 9.5%, Horror 8.9%
- #8 Edge of Madness
92% matchNo user reviews
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 21.8%, Turn-Based Combat 16.9%, Dark Fantasy 15.1%, 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 19.4%, RPG 15.2%, Turn-Based Combat 14%, Dark Fantasy 12.4%
- #10 Cyclopean: The Great Abyss
90% matchVery Positive90% of 140 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 19.5%, Turn-Based Combat 16.7%, Party-Based RPG 15.6%, Dark Fantasy 15.5%, Dungeon Crawler 14.4%
- #11 Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones
91% matchMixed66% of 2,493 reviews2019
Dev: Cultic GamesPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 11.5 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 30.6%, Turn-Based Combat 17.6%, RPG 12.9%, Horror 10.5%, Violent 9.9%
- #12 Break Wolf
89% matchVery Positive99% of 156 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 20.2%, Turn-Based Combat 16.6%, Violent 10.9%, Choices Matter 9.2%, Dungeon Crawler 8.8%
- #13 Darkest Dungeon® II
88% matchMostly Positive75% of 25,172 reviews2023
Dev: Red Hook Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.8 hrsMean: 34.7 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 16.5%, Dungeon Crawler 13.8%, Gothic 13.2% ★, Party-Based RPG 12.2%
- #14 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 21% ★, Party-Based RPG 19.4%, Dark Fantasy 13.1%, Turn-Based Combat 10.5%, Supernatural 8.8%
- #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 19.2%, Party-Based RPG 17.6%, Turn-Based Combat 15.8%, Dungeon Crawler 10.4%, Horror 10%
- #16 RAVENSBURG
86% 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 22.8%, Turn-Based Combat 17%, Party-Based RPG 14%, Dark Fantasy 12.9%, Horror 10.3%
- #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 24.4%, Turn-Based Combat 24.1%, Dungeon Crawler 17%, Dark Fantasy 14.3%, RPG 10.2%
- #18 Echoes of Choice
85% matchNo user 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 20.6%, Dark Fantasy 16.1%, RPG 12.5%, Choices Matter 9.8%
- #19 Monsters' Den: Book of Vengeance
84% matchPositive89% of 36 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 24.2%, Dungeon Crawler 20.7%, Turn-Based Combat 18.5%, Dark Fantasy 15.8%, RPG 14%
- #20 Alder's Blood: Definitive Edition
84% matchMixed62% of 257 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 19.1%, Gothic 18.7% ★, Dark Fantasy 15.6%, Turn-Based Combat 13.4%, Hand-drawn 8.2%
- #21 Castle Greyrot
83% match8 user reviews88% of 8 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 21.1%, Turn-Based Combat 19.3%, Dark Fantasy 18.8%, Dungeon Crawler 13.8%, Horror 6.9%
- #22 Torchless
82% 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 16.5% ★, Lovecraftian 15.8%, Dark Fantasy 14.2%, Dungeon Crawler 11.7%
- #23 Cantarella: Dominion of Qualia
82% 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 22.3%, Turn-Based Combat 15.9%, Dark Fantasy 15.6%, Dungeon Crawler 10.5%, Choices Matter 9.2%
- #24 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 25.1%, Horror 12.9%, RPG 12.8%, Supernatural 11%
- #25 Hatred and Blood
81% 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 18.5%, Party-Based RPG 17.5%, Dark Fantasy 14.9%, Turn-Based Combat 14.5%, Hand-drawn 8.2%
- #26 Moonshadows
80% 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 29.3%, Turn-Based Combat 16.1%, PvE 15.9%, Dark Fantasy 15.3%, RPG 12.3%
- #27 Queen Slayer
78% 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%
- #28 The Backworld
79% matchNo user reviews2026
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 19.5%, Turn-Based Combat 13.4%, Lovecraftian 12.7%, Horror 11%, Violent 9.5%
- #29 Hellslave
79% matchVery Positive85% of 3,129 reviews2022
Dev: Ars GoetiaPub: Dear Villagers
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 10.0 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 19.5%, Turn-Based Combat 18.7%, Dungeon Crawler 18.3%, Hand-drawn 10.1%, RPG 8.1%
- #30 DEORUM
78% matchNo user reviews
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 20.3%, Dungeon Crawler 19.6%, Lovecraftian 16.4%, Turn-Based Combat 14.7%, Horror 11.2%
- #31 The Depths of Duskraven Manor
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Apoptosis Games
Windows
Follow the exploits of five fugitives as they fight their way through the horrors that lurk under Duskraven Manor. With the promises of a clean slate, wealth and freedom from the pasts that haunt them, they fight through unimaginable terror while uncovering a reality-shattering mystery.
Why similar: Party-Based RPG 27.4%, Turn-Based Combat 18.9%, Dungeon Crawler 18.5%, Horror 12.1%, RPG 9.1%
- #32 Undernauts: Labyrinth of Yomi
77% matchVery Positive81% of 221 reviews2021
Dev: EXPERIENCEPub: Aksys Games
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 10.2%, Dark 8.1%
- #33 The Season of the Warlock
76% 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 18.4%, Dark Fantasy 13.7%, Horror 10.4%, Choices Matter 8.5%
- #34 Look Outside
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 11,497 reviews2025
Dev: Francis CoulombePub: Devolver Digital
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 14.9 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 25.1%, Turn-Based Combat 18.7%, Horror 13%, RPG 13%, RPGMaker 8.6% ★
- #35 Innerworld
76% 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 28.8%, Turn-Based Combat 19.9%, Horror 11.9%, Violent 11.1%, RPG 9.9%
- #36 Magic Cauldron - Dungeons
75% 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 16.8%, Gothic 16.6% ★, Dark Fantasy 15.2%, RPG 8%
- #37 The Inverted Tower
75% 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 26.6%, Dungeon Crawler 22.1%, Turn-Based Combat 12.1%, Dark Fantasy 10.5%, RPG 10.4%
- #38 Vestenelon
74% 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 22.8%, Turn-Based Combat 20.5%, Dungeon Crawler 15.7%, RPG 9.3%
- #39 Skiv
74% 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 31.7%, Dungeon Crawler 30.9%, Turn-Based Combat 18.6%, RPG 11.5%, Hand-drawn 6.5%
- #40 Nimaat
73% 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 24.6%, Dark Fantasy 22%, RPG 14.5%, Horror 9.5%, Choices Matter 8.2%
- #41 What Could Possibly Go Wrong
73% 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%, Dark Fantasy 17.2%, RPG 15.8%, Violent 9.6%, Turn-Based Combat 8.8%
- #42 Antadin DX
72% matchPositive84% 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 26.5%, Turn-Based Combat 20.6%, Dark Fantasy 19.8%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Story Rich 6.7%
- #43 Children´s Fear
71% 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 16.7%, Turn-Based Combat 16.6%, Gore 15%, Horror 13.7%, RPG 12.5%
- #44 From the Deep
71% 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 27.5%, Dungeon Crawler 17.4%, RPG 15.2%, Dark Fantasy 13.8%, Turn-Based Combat 9.1%
- #45 Shieldwall Chronicles: Realm of Madness
70% 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 21.2%, Dark Fantasy 21.1%, Turn-Based Combat 18.3%, Violent 12.2%, RPG 8.7%
- #46 The Fortress
68% matchMixed70% of 136 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 20.2%, Dark Fantasy 19.4%, Horror 9.3%, Turn-Based Combat 9%
- #47 Immortal Darkness: Curse of The Pale King
72% matchVery Positive86% of 51 reviews2018
Dev: Giant Space Monster
Windows
A dark fantasy RPG dungeon crawler, with challenging real-time tactical combat, a wide variety of spells, and a dark and brooding dungeon full of lethal enemies, sadistic traps, and mind-bending puzzles.
Why similar: Dark Fantasy 22.8%, Dungeon Crawler 20.6%, Lovecraftian 15.9%, Horror 12%, Violent 9.6%
- #48 Book of Abominations
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Studio Catloaf
Windows
Book of Abominations is a Lovecraftian-inspired monster taming JRPG. Capture and battle adorably grotesque Eldritch horrors in snappy turn based combat, explore a mysterious, moody yet vibrant world, and unravel the secrets within the book!
Why similar: Lovecraftian 24.5%, Party-Based RPG 21.1%, Turn-Based Combat 18.9%, Supernatural 11.1%, RPG 6.6%
- #49 ACCURSED
70% 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 20.3%, Dark Fantasy 17.6%, Turn-Based Combat 13%, Supernatural 11.2%, Horror 8.8%
- #50 Dirge of the Scarlet Star
69% matchNo user reviews
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 22.5%, Party-Based RPG 20.5%, RPG 15.9%, Turn-Based Combat 15.6%, Violent 10.7%
- #51 Dungeon Mercenaries
69% match6 user reviews17% of 6 reviews2024
Dev: Redboy GamesPub: Endless Magic Entertainment
Windows
Dungeon Mercenaries is an endless replayability RPG. Every time you wake up, it's a new start, procedurally generated map, randomly generated characters,explore the dungeon with different mercenaries, get reasure chests, gold coins, mercenaries, potions, food, and glory!
Why similar: Lovecraftian 20.8%, Turn-Based Combat 19.6%, Dark Fantasy 19%, Dungeon Crawler 16.5%, Party-Based RPG 13.8%
- #52 Dungeon of Final Glory
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pulsar Storm
Windows
Roguelite turn-based RPG with pencil drawn graphics. Fight the big waves of Lovecraftian monsters and experience a journey of the unholy hero through the horrors of underworld.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 17.4%, Gothic 15.9% ★, Dungeon Crawler 15.7%, Dark Fantasy 13.5%, Hand-drawn 9.1%
- #53 Untold Story
67% 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 34.1%, Turn-Based Combat 25.7%, RPG 20.2%, Story Rich 9.6%, RPGMaker 5.7% ★
- #54 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 19%, Turn-Based Combat 18.3%, Dungeon Crawler 16.6%, Violent 14.3%, Gore 7.4%
- #55 Edenwound
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: NoEye-Soft
Windows
A brutally difficult dungeon crawler rpg with roguelike elements. Face the horrors of Eden and discover the secrets buried deep within the abyss...
Why similar: Dungeon Crawler 23.2%, Turn-Based Combat 22.3%, Dark Fantasy 16.1%, RPG 15%, Violent 8.2%
- #56 Phantom Chains
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GoolWorks
Windows
Phantom Chains is a first person action dungeon crawler with an emphasis on exploration and mystery in a dark fantasy world.
Why similar: Dungeon Crawler 23%, Gothic 22.8% ★, Dark Fantasy 21.5%, RPG 14.7%, PvE 9.4%
- #57 Hero Well
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Zera
Windows
Hero Well is a grid-based roguelike RPG with a minimalistic aesthetic. Choose your hero, manage your resources, and prepare yourself to delve ever deeper into the unexplored wells to cleanse the vile beasts once and for all.
Why similar: Gothic 23.7% ★, Dark Fantasy 22.3%, Dungeon Crawler 17.7%, Lovecraftian 14.1%, RPG 7.4%
- #58 False Ages - The Fading Light
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: False Raccoon
Windows
Immerse yourself in False Ages - The Fading Light, a dark fantasy dungeon-crawling RPG. Join Cain, marked by an ancient power, as he assembles a party to face deadly foes, explore shadowy dungeons, and make choices that shape his path to salvation—or doom. Can you endure the darkness?
Why similar: Party-Based RPG 22.4%, Dark Fantasy 21.5%, Dungeon Crawler 20.3%, Gothic 16.8% ★, RPG 9.5%
- #59 Old School RPG
66% matchMostly Positive77% of 53 reviews2024
Dev: Head Buzz Games, LLC
Windows
Old School RPG is a first-person fantasy role playing game. It is heavily influenced by The Bard's Tale, Might and Magic and Wizardry series of games. Create a party of adventurers and clear out dungeons and solve puzzles. Find and eliminate the source of evil that has come to your lands.
Why similar: Party-Based RPG 41%, Turn-Based Combat 30.2%, Dungeon Crawler 17%, RPG 11.1%, Singleplayer 0.7%
- #60 Mycelium
65% matchPositive100% of 19 reviews2024
Dev: Alex Grim
Windows
Mycelium is a mind-boggling turn-based RPG game with action elements, set inside an ancient infamous cave system with the same name. It tells a story about a diverse cast of characters exploring their inner selves and the cave.
Why similar: Party-Based RPG 20.7%, Dark Fantasy 16.3%, Dungeon Crawler 16.2%, Turn-Based Combat 13.3%, Choices Matter 11.4%