The Best Traditional Games

Update : Unreal Island added at rank #20.
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Zorbus (2022)

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PC Windows

Zorbus is a fantasy-themed, tile-based, turn-based, traditional roguelike game.

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  • rogue-like
  • traditional
  • perma-death
  • movement
  • dungeon-crawler
  • procedural
  • fantasy
  • rpg
  • grid
  • top-down
  • turn-based

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Approaching Infinity (2020)

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early access PC Windows

Explore an infinite procedural universe in this turn-based, tile-based, open-world, sci-fi rogue-like RPG in the spirit of classics like Star Control 2 and Starflight. 17 factions vie for dominance, survival, or redemption in this broken galaxy. Can you survive long enough to make a difference?

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

3

OMFG: One Million Fatal Guns (2021)

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PC Windows

OMFG: One Million Fatal Guns kicks back into action in this fast-paced, over-the-top, roguelike, first person shooter. Shoot your way through a robot-hijacked space station, collecting more and more powerful guns as you go. There are over 30 million differently named guns at your disposal!

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  • rogue-like
  • traditional
  • shooter
  • shoot-em-up
  • arena
  • first-person
  • fps
  • 3d
  • minimalist

4

Golden Krone Hotel (2016)

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Linux Mac OS zx spectrum commodore 64 amstrad cPC Windows PC Windows

Golden Krone Hotel is a gothic horror roguelike. Fight vampires with sunlight or become a vampire yourself and sneak in the shadows. Combines classic turn-based combat with dynamic lighting, an innovative potion system, and fast paced gameplay.


  • rogue-like
  • traditional
  • vampire
  • gothic
  • dungeon-crawler
  • perma-death
  • procedural

5

Cogmind (2017)

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early access PC Windows

Cogmind is a sci-fi roguelike epic in which you play a robot building yourself from components found or salvaged from other robots. Explore a living, breathing world through turn-based tactical combat, or sneak, hack, and fly your way to victory.

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  • rogue-like
  • traditional

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Rogue Fable III (2018)

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Mac OS PC Windows

Rogue Fable III is a traditional rogue-like game which combines the depth, complexity, and challenge of the genre classics with a shorter, more tightly focused game length.

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  • traditional
  • rogue-like

7

Echoes (2023)

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wii PC Windows Mac OS gamecube

Fears are not always just rustles in the dark. And death is not always a bad ending.


  • rogue-like
  • traditional
  • visual-novel
  • 2d
  • fiction
  • psychedelic
  • interactive
  • bullet-hell
  • rpg
  • space
  • hand-drawn
  • casual
  • dungeon
  • atmospheric

8

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

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Blazing Aries (2022)

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PC Windows

The game tells the story of a new adventurer named Aries. She visits all kinds of cities, travels around the unknown world, fights against the "Calamities" that spread all over the world. This game's core is the orthodox action fighting mode!

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  • japanese
  • rpg
  • traditional
  • lore
  • jrpg
  • dungeon-crawler
  • action-adventure
  • memes
  • rogue-like
  • third-person
  • 2d
  • action
  • fantasy

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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