The Best Rogue-like Games

Update : Relapse added at rank #1.
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Relapse (2025)

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PC Windows

Relapse is a card-based game where you go on a crusade to lift mankind's curse. You get to draw ability cards and use them as long as your action points allow you to. In addition, you get allies to help you in your battles, but beware of environmental hazards that might change your course. There are over 170 unlockables and 240+ cards to choose from. Will you claim victory? Join the quest and find out! Made by a solo developer, who's always open to suggestions and feedback.

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What we like:
  • Affordable price
  • Fun and casual gameplay
  • Responsive developer who fixes bugs quickly
  • Unique classes and synergies
  • Good meta progression system
What could be improved:
  • Some graphics and design elements need more polish
  • Starting deck can be boring
  • Limited options for starting a fresh run
  • Mixed reviews on difficulty

  • turn-based
  • deckbuilder
  • rogue-like
  • card
  • battler
  • character
  • strategy
  • combat
  • customization
  • tactical

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Ocean Keeper: Dome Survival (2025)

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PC Windows Mac OS Linux Android IOS iPhone

Explore dungeons, fight hordes of monsters and survive on a huge map. This is Ocean Keeper - an action roguelike with tower defense elements. Mine resources in caves, customize your Mech Spider, upgrade different weapons and face dangerous bosses that won't leave you a chance!


  • rogue-like
  • underwater
  • mech
  • mining
  • spectacle
  • submarine
  • protagonist
  • base-building
  • top-down
  • procedural
  • time-management
  • villain
  • dungeon
  • dystopian
  • dungeon-crawler

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Blue Prince (2025)

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j Xbox Series X/s PC Windows Playstation 5 Xbox Series X

Welcome to Mt. Holly, where every dawn unveils a new mystery. Navigate through shifting corridors and ever-changing chambers in this genre-defying strategy puzzle adventure. But will your unpredictable path lead you to the rumored Room 46?


  • rogue-like
  • puzzle
  • mystery
  • exploration
  • story
  • strategy
  • nonlinear
  • atmospheric
  • investigation
  • political

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Bone To Gather (2024)

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PC Windows

"Bone To Gather" is a synergy-building action roguelike. Embark on an epic journey with a team of puny skeletons determined to revenge the Demon King. Recruit skeletons with unique synergies to create a powerful team and battle through monsters on your way to the final showdown.

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  • rogue-like-deckbuilder
  • rogue-like
  • collector
  • creature
  • deckbuilder
  • point-and-click
  • pve
  • linear
  • top-down
  • cute
  • funny
  • action
  • hand-drawn
  • 2d
  • strategy

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Rocket Rats (2024)

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j Playstation 4 PC Windows Xbox Series X Xbox One

Rocket Rats is a survivors-like game where you defeat cheese-based astral bodies in space – as a rat! Clear waves of enemies, collect cheese, upgrade your gear, and conquer the moon!

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  • rogue-like
  • survivors
  • bullet-hell
  • cheese
  • vampire
  • top-down
  • shooter
  • pixel

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Ballionaire (2024)

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PC Windows

BALLIONAIRE is a fast-paced, kinetic roguelike where strategy meets physics to create outrageous wealth! Find and exploit game-breaking synergies as you theorycraft your way to victory. Welcome to the autobonker genre!

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  • rogue-like
  • pinball
  • pachinko
  • card
  • deckbuilder
  • idler
  • battler
  • physics
  • strategy
  • sandbox
  • choices
  • rule-bending
  • relaxing
  • 2d
  • pixel

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Caves of Qud (2024)

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PC Windows Mac OS Linux

Caves of Qud is a science fantasy roguelike epic steeped in retrofuturism, deep simulation, and swathes of sentient plants. Come inhabit an exotic world and chisel through layers of thousand-year-old civilizations.


  • rogue-like
  • transhumanism
  • turn-based
  • rpg
  • procedural
  • post-apocalyptic

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Uncle Chop's Rocket Shop (2024)

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Xbox One PC Windows Xbox Series X Playstation 5 Nintendo Switch

Come on down to Uncle Chop’s Rocket Shop, for all your roguelite spaceship repair simulation needs! WARNING: Untested genre not suitable for people with tentacles for arms or an aversion to dying horrifically. Side effects include improved reading comprehension under pressure and a furry fetish.

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  • rogue-like
  • spaceships
  • satire
  • humor
  • multiple-endings
  • dystopian
  • lore
  • story
  • simulation
  • anthology
  • management
  • choices
  • dark
  • funny
  • crafting

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Ravenswatch (2024)

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Xbox Series X PC Windows Nintendo Switch Xbox One Playstation 4 Playstation 5

Fallen heroes of old folk tales and legends: you are on the verge of a crucial battle against the Nightmare invading and corrupting your world. A roguelike action game from the creators of Curse of the Dead Gods©, playable solo or in online co-op.

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  • rogue-like
  • cooperative

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Pyrene (2024)

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PC Windows Mac OS

Defeat hellish monsters and rebuild your home in Pyrene, a fast paced roguelike dungeon-crawler. Play with different heroes & spells, collect powerful relics to upgrade your deck while uncovering the mysteries behind your village’s destruction.

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  • rogue-like
  • deckbuilder
  • rogue-like-deckbuilder
  • turn-based
  • card
  • dungeon-crawler
  • mythology
  • lore
  • strategy
  • fantasy
  • dark
  • top-down
  • battler
  • demons
  • hand-drawn

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