The Best Rogue-like RPG Games

Update : Inkbound added at rank #21.
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Touhou: Lost Branch of Legend (2022)

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early access Mac OS PC Windows

Welcome to Eientei, combine multiple colors of mana to build your ideal deck, duel with gensokyo girls, and chase back the mysterious moon treasure. Also, enjoy the unpredictable Roguelike with fantasy Danmaku!

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  • rpg
  • japanese
  • rogue-like
  • battler
  • turn-based
  • card
  • tactical
  • deckbuilder
  • jrpg
  • strategy

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One Way Heroics (2014)

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PC Windows

In One Way Heroics, you race against the encroaching darkness to stay one step ahead of it. You explore a randomly generated world and try to make it to the end of your journey before the darkness catches up with you. With every step you take, the darkness encroaches more, so you have to think carefully about where you go and what you do. You must defeat enemies, acquire items and equipment, recruit allies and ultimately defeat the Demon Lord in order to win.


What we like:
  • Unique take on roguelike games
  • Fast-paced adventure
  • Fun challenge
  • Variety of character classes and perks
  • Online-centric mode for comparing performance against other players
What could be improved:
  • Unforgiving difficulty level
  • Quick play sessions may not be suitable for all players
  • Limited depth compared to other similar games

  • rogue-like
  • japanese
  • traditional
  • rpg
  • perma-death
  • turn-based
  • scroller
  • dungeon
  • jrpg

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Darkest DungeonA (2016)

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PC Windows Mac OS Linux Playstation 4 vita Nintendo Switch Xbox One

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?

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  • dungeon
  • turn-based
  • rogue-like
  • dungeon-crawler
  • rpg
  • gothic
  • battle
  • fight
  • psychological
  • narration

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Barony (2015)

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PC Windows Android Nintendo Switch Linux Mac OS

Barony is the premier first-person roguelike with cooperative play! Adventure alone, or gather a party with iconic and unusual RPG classes to face off against the brutal dungeons. Test your resourcefulness, wits, and friendships, on your quest to lift the evil lich's curse!


  • cooperative
  • rogue-like
  • campaign
  • dungeon-crawler
  • rpg
  • local
  • immersive
  • voxel
  • split-screen
  • 4-player
  • moddable
  • first-person
  • dungeon

5

Monster Girls and the Mysterious Adventure 2 (2022)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows

This is a "Mysterious Dungeon" style roguelike game where the terrain changes with each challenge. Make the monsters your "Friends" and go on a new adventure!

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  • rogue-like
  • traditional
  • hack-and-slash
  • dungeon
  • mystery
  • turn-based
  • procedural
  • strategy
  • simulation
  • rpg
  • tactical

6

Loop Hero (2021)

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Loop Hero is a rogue-like adventure RPG strategy card game featuring a top-down deck & dungeon-building auto-battler with resource and settlement management systems. The player must traverse an ever-looping route to defeat rivals and build the world around them while managing their resources, equipment and buffs.


What we like:
  • Easy to understand mechanics
  • Aesthetically minimalistic package
  • Procedurally generated path
  • On-the-fly item management
  • Resource management systems
  • 8 bit 80's goth flair soundtrack
What could be improved:
  • Dusty blue & orange colour palette may not be to everyone's taste
  • 40% resource tax when leaving the loop
  • 30% of resources lost when dying

  • card
  • rogue-like
  • tile
  • boss
  • rpg
  • deckbuilder
  • battle
  • pixel
  • strategy
  • endless
  • vampire

7

UnReal World (2016)

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dos Mac OS Linux PC Windows

The cult classic open-ended wilderness survival roguelike RPG taking place in the ancient North. Throughout the years, UnReal World has been praised for its incredible depth, realism, atmosphere and immersion. Lose yourself in the most intricate, detailed and enchanting iron-age game world.

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  • survival
  • rogue-like
  • simulation
  • rpg
  • procedural
  • roleplaying

8

The Enchanted Cave 2 (2015)

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PC Windows Mac OS Linux IOS iPhone Android

The Enchanted Cave 2 is an addicting dungeon crawler RPG with randomly generated layouts and familiar elements from other dungeon crawlers and RPGs. You can explore the city, visit taverns, craft spells, enchant weapons and battle monsters. With a great replay value and no IAPs, it's an instabuy for the fans of the genre.


What we like:
  • Intuitive controls and layout
  • Plenty of content
  • Familiar yet refreshing experience
  • Eye-pleasing visuals
  • Great replay value
  • No IAPs
What could be improved:
  • No visible change in character look when changing clothes or armor
  • Enchanting system is not intuitive at first

  • dungeon-crawler
  • rpg
  • rogue-like
  • dungeon
  • classic
  • pixel

9

Unexplored (2017)

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Android Linux Mac OS Nintendo Switch Xbox One Playstation 4 PC Windows

The ROGUELITE that feels like a ROGUELIKE. Praised for its fantastically generated dungeons, real-time combat and surprising amount of content and depth. One of the BEST GAMES OF THE YEAR according to PC Gamer and VICE Waypoint.


  • rogue-like
  • rpg
  • dungeon-crawler
  • action

10

Dungeonmans (2014)

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PC Windows

Crush monsters and get loots in the classic turn-based style of deep dungeons and high adventure! Grow the Dungeonmans Academy, a bastion of learning that expands as you play. Serious gameplay with a light-hearted atmosphere, combining the feel of history's great RPGs and dice-slinging adventures around the tabletop.

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  • rogue-like
  • traditional
  • click-to-play
  • rpg
  • movement
  • tongue-in-cheek
  • music

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