The Best Traditional Games

Update : Shadowed: The Demon Castle of Ooe added at rank #1.
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Shadowed: The Demon Castle of Ooe (2025)

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With a focus on stealth, combat, and long-term planning, Shadowed offers 6 unique classes, over 200 perks, and a heavy emphasis on level and enemy design. Synergistic and brutal in both style and difficulty, Shadowed is a traditional Roguelike experience like no other.

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  • traditional
  • rogue-like
  • ninja
  • perma-death
  • procedural
  • class
  • dark
  • stealth
  • movement

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Jupiter Hell Classic (2025)

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Jupiter Hell Classic is the demake of a remake of a roguelike unmake of a famous 1993 FPS shooter. Rip and Tear!

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  • rogue-like
  • traditional
  • turn-based
  • movement
  • perma-death
  • procedural
  • dungeon-crawler
  • tactical
  • grid
  • sci-fi

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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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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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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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