The Best Traditional Games

Update : Touhou Crawl added at rank #1.
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Touhou Crawl (2025)

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"Touhou Crawl" is a Touhou derivative roguelike game. Conquer the dungeon-ified Gensokyo using items, faith, and tactics!

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  • rogue-like
  • traditional
  • dungeon-crawler
  • movement
  • parody
  • procedural
  • grid
  • fan-made
  • turn-based
  • combat
  • anime
  • rpg
  • 2d
  • pixel

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CardScrawl (2025)

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Enter the Chaotic Tower and take part in the Tower Lord's gambit in this Old-School, Tactical, Roguelike Deckbuilder. Wielding the power of your Creature and Enchantment decks, the limits of your strategy will be tested. The Tower Lord awaits a worthy opponent. Are you ready?

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  • turn-based
  • tactical
  • traditional
  • rogue-like
  • gothic
  • fantasy
  • pve
  • deckbuilder
  • resource-management
  • movement
  • strategy
  • perma-death

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Shi's Summer Battle (2025)

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A raising breakout casual self-movement game, breakout + Roguelike, can allow players to reduce the operation at the same time, can be high degree of freedom to control the actions of the team, tailored for your team to create a set of powerful builds, to defeat all the enemies.

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  • rogue-like
  • strategy
  • traditional
  • auto-battler
  • real-time
  • tower-defense
  • wargame
  • 2d
  • rpg
  • casual
  • stylized
  • simulation
  • building
  • base-building
  • tactical

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Lost in Prayer (2025)

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Solve intricate tactical challenges to escape purgatory —through Hell or Heaven — or die trying. When you die (and you will), you unlock a new creature, with a unique skill set and multiple playstyles to master. The challenge is to survive, yet the reward lies in dying

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  • dark
  • rogue-like
  • unforgiving
  • loot
  • traditional
  • magic
  • tactical
  • collector
  • stylized
  • creature
  • 3d
  • turn-based
  • old-school
  • dungeon-crawler
  • replay-value

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Cataclysm: The Last Generation (2025)

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A post-apocalyptic roguelike set in modern-day New England. Scavenge tools to craft an arsenal capable of dealing with the ever-evolving hordes of zombies, mutants, aliens, and robots in one of the deepest survival sims around.

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  • traditional
  • rogue-like
  • survival
  • post-apocalyptic
  • customization
  • gun
  • crafting
  • zombies
  • character
  • sci-fi
  • simulation
  • inventory
  • management

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Magic Frog (2025)

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Control a magic student who, after messing up a spell, turned into a frog. Fly on a broomstick, dodge and shoot obstacles and enemies, collect items, and gain new abilities while trying to survive as long as possible.

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  • rogue-like
  • traditional
  • cats
  • attack
  • score
  • bullet-hell
  • scroller
  • magic
  • comic
  • fantasy

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Approaching Infinity (2025)

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Approaching Infinity is a turn-based space RPG in the spirit of the sci-fi classics, with endless progression and exploration. Fight tactical battles or use diplomacy. Seek powerful artifacts. Quest, mine, trade, and craft. Level up forever or attempt 10 victories in hardcore or adventure mode.

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  • rogue-like
  • space
  • traditional
  • sci-fi
  • perma-death
  • procedural
  • turn-based
  • replay-value
  • exploration
  • dungeon-crawler
  • open-world
  • strategy
  • crafting
  • multiple-endings
  • old-school

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Collateral Dungeon (2025)

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Collateral Dungeon is a tactical puzzle dungeon crawler. Explore as an archaeologist trapped in your most recent dig: an enemy-infested dungeon. However, you are a lover, not a fighter. Without weapons, you must turn to your wit and clever traps to defeat enemies lest you relive your failings.

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  • rogue-like
  • traditional
  • perma-death
  • dungeon-crawler
  • dungeon
  • top-down
  • procedural
  • pixel
  • travel
  • mystery
  • turn-based
  • logic
  • time
  • investigation
  • arcade

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Convalescent Codex: An Alchemist's Story (2025)

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Take control of an exiled alchemist seeking the Philosopher's Stone. Build your lab, plant and farm alchemical ingredients to use in various alchemical recipes. Mine ore underground. Smoke potent pipeweed to unlock secrets of the mind. Journey through the Steps of the Great Work and ascend!

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  • rogue-like
  • traditional
  • farming
  • hand-drawn
  • lore
  • building
  • top-down
  • simulation
  • nature
  • movement
  • exploration
  • 2d
  • crafting
  • atmospheric

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Mangui (2025)

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Mangui is a turn-based roguelike game inspired by spooky traditional Korean folklore. Play as one of four protagonists, unraveling the mysteries of the dark Mangui mountains. Live to tell the tale in this dangerous world filled with ghouls and monsters!

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  • rogue-like
  • perma-death
  • turn-based
  • traditional
  • tutorial
  • pve
  • demons
  • drama
  • mythology
  • combat
  • linear
  • pixel
  • 2d
  • story
  • rpg

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