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272 games like NetHack · 1980 – 2022
Epyx · Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari 8-bit +13
Rogue is a dungeon crawling video game first developed by Michael Toy and Glenn Wichman around 1980. It was a favorite on college Unix systems in the early to mid-1980s, in part due to the procedural generation of game content.
78 rating2 lists10 h main storyOften paired
Artificial Intelligence Design · Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari 8-bit +10
Rogue is a dungeon crawling video game first developed by Michael Toy and Glenn Wichman around 1980. It was a favorite on college Unix systems in the early to mid-1980s, in part due to the procedural generation of game content.
78 rating6 listsOften paired
Netcore Games · Linux, Windows, macOS
Tales of Maj'Eyal is a roguelike RPG, featuring tactical turn-based combat and advanced character building. Play as one of many unique races and classes in the lore-filled world of Eyal, exploring random dungeons, facing challenging battles
78 rating3 lists58 h main storyOften paired
Android, Browser, Linux +2
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup is a roguelike dungeon crawler. Available as pure ascii or with tile graphics, playable offline or as a web version. DCSS let's the player create a hero from a large number of races and classes, then sends him off
91 rating3 listsOften paired
Nintendo console exclusive
Freehold Games · Linux, Switch, Nintendo Switch 2 +2
Caves of Qud is a science fantasy roguelike epic steeped in retro-futurism, deep simulation, and swathes of sentient plants. The game weaves a handwritten narrative through rich physical, social, and historical simulations. The result is a
88 rating6 lists58 h main storyOften paired
Timed PlayStation exclusive
Brace Yourself Games · Android, Linux, Switch +6
Crypt of the NecroDancer is a hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Can you survive this deadly dungeon of dance, slay the NecroDancer, and recapture your still beating heart? Or will you be a slave to the rhythm for all eternity?
82 rating6 lists14 h main storyOften paired
Android, iOS
Final Fantasy: Brave Exvius a brand-new FINAL FANTASY experience, will launch for free (with in-app purchases) on iOS and Android devices this summer. The hit title has already drawn in more than six million players in Japan and is an entir
79 rating3 lists15 h main storyOften paired
Sega console exclusive
Dreamcast, Linux, Windows +1
An RPG set in a medieval land where all the women have been kidnapped and it is up to you to get them back. What starts as a mission to save the women soon turns into a battle against good and evil to the death.
78 rating1 list13 h main storyOften paired
Timed Sega exclusive
Game Gear, Legacy Mobile Device, Master System +1
A roguelike "dungeon" crawler that leads you through 30 levels on your quest to find a way to return to your own world. You're caught in a fantastic world of unearthly beauty and deadly demons. You'll pass through thirty worlds in search o
70 rating7 listsAlso in Roguelikes
Sega console exclusive
Linux, Sega Genesis, Windows +1
Dragonia, the castle of doom, has been resurrected! But the ghouls from the castle have stolen the Holy Goblet, the source of light. Without it, the world will be trapped in darkness forever. Don your armour and pick up your weapon.
69 rating4 listsAlso in Roguelikes
Linux, Windows, macOS
The Iron Oath is a turn-based tactical RPG that is set in a dark fantasy world. Recruit, manage, and embark on missions with a roster of adventurers, testing the limits of their mortality.
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Atari ST, MS-DOS, cross-platform
Larn is a roguelike video game written by Noah Morgan in 1986 for the UNIX operating system. Morgan's original version of Larn remains part of the NetBSD games collection. It can take many hours and tens (or even hundreds) of thousands of g
2 listsAlso in Roguelikes
Atari console exclusive
Atari, Inc. · Apple IIGS, Atari 2600
Adventure is a video game for the Atari 2600 video game console, released in 1980. In the game, the player controls a square avatar whose quest is to hunt an open world environment for a magical chalice, returning it to the golden castle. T
76 rating3 lists
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 vi
80 rating1 list42 h main storyAlso in Roguelikes
Priority Interrupt · Android, Linux, Windows +1
Delver is a first person action roguelike dungeon crawl with crunchy pixels. Take the role of an adventurer that tries their fate in the dark dungeons (and probably dies horribly). Fight monsters, grab loot, hoard potions, and level up!
80 rating3 lists2 h main storyAlso in Roguelikes
Failbetter Games · Linux, Windows, macOS
SAIL THE STARS. BETRAY YOUR QUEEN. MURDER A SUN. Set a course for the heavens in your steam locomotive! Lose yourself in a changing universe where even time can be bought. A Victorian Gothic adventure for PC, Mac and Linux. It is the dawn
84 rating1 list30 h main story
Tarn Adams · Linux, Windows, macOS
Dwarf Fortress is a single-player fantasy game. You can control a dwarven outpost or an adventurer in a randomly generated, persistent world.
86 rating8 lists5083 h main storyAlso in Roguelikes
Atari exclusive
Starpath · Atari 2600
Battle your way along the trail of enchantment to the lair of the evil dragon! Detailed fantasy gamescapes. Three separate Multi Load game chapters. Inventories of your strength, gold, dexterity, and articles of magic. Full-screen interiors
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Nintendo exclusive
h.a.n.d. Inc. · Wii
Randomly generated dungeons and turn-based battles are highlighted in the second Wii title set in the Final Fantasy universe. A yellow, bird-like Chocobo migrates from a successful stint on the DS handheld to console in this exclusive relea
79 rating3 listsAlso in Roguelikes
Timed Nintendo exclusive
Four Quarters · Android, Linux, Switch +5
The Lich has thrown the world into a timeless loop and plunged its inhabitants into never ending chaos. Wield an expanding deck of mystical cards to place enemies, buildings, and terrain along each unique expedition loop for the brave hero.
80 rating3 lists20 h main story
Linux, MS-DOS, Windows +1
UnReal World is a unique combination of roguelike roleplaying game and survival simulation set in the Far North long, long ago. Throughout the years, UnReal World has been praised for its depth, realism, atmosphere and immersion. The game i
84 rating3 lists20 h main storyAlso in Roguelikes
h.a.n.d. · Nintendo DS, Switch, PS4 +1
Randomly generated dungeons and turn-based battles are highlighted in the second Wii title set in the Final Fantasy universe. A yellow, bird-like Chocobo migrates from a successful stint on the DS handheld to console in this exclusive relea
79 rating3 lists12 h main story
Android, Browser, Windows +1
Explore floor after floor of a dungeon in this minesweeper styled roguelike.
80 rating1 listAlso in Roguelikes
Amiga, Atari ST, Atari ST/STE +2
The little town of Spielburg is populated mostly by beer-drinking humans and some centaurs who like working in the field. Spielburg is surrounded by forests and mountains, where all kinds of weird creatures dwell: ogres, goblins, talking fo
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Timed PlayStation exclusive
Red Hook Studios · Linux, Switch, PS4 +5
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.
82 rating8 lists48 h main storyAlso in Roguelikes
Nintendo exclusive
Chunsoft · Nintendo Switch 2, SNES
Torneko No Daibouken is a overhead view game similar to Hack, what might be called a "dungeon crawl". Torneko must venture into the mysterious dungeon gathering treasure. He may equip any weapons and shields he finds there, as well as gathe
1 list10 h main story
Misfits Attic · Linux, Windows, macOS
In Duskers you pilot drones into derelict spaceships to find the means to survive and piece together how the universe became a giant graveyard. You are a drone operator, surrounded by old gritty tech that acts as your only eyes and ears to
74 rating1 list9 h main story
Apple II, Apple II Plus, Atari 8-bit +9
Telengard is an earlier example of a "dungeon crawler" role-playing game--albeit with a top-down view- with either real time movement (DOS version) or turn-based movement and turn based combat. Telengard is also played in real time, which m
73 rating5 listsAlso in Roguelikes
Timed PlayStation exclusiveBrace Yourself Games · PS4, Linux, Windows +5
Crypt of the NecroDancer is a hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Can you survive this deadly dungeon of dance, slay the NecroDancer, and recapture your still beating heart? Or will you be a slave to the rhythm for all eternity?
82 rating2 listsAlso in Roguelikes
DreamForge Intertainment · MS-DOS, PC-9800 Series, Windows
Welcome to Dungeon Hack. Explore countless new dungeons in a game that never has to be the same twice. Send your character on quest after quest, down through the many pits, traps, and puzzles of Dungeon Hack. Take control, if you wish and g
1 listAlso in Roguelikes
Android, Linux, Windows +2
Pixel Dungeon is an exciting and extremely popular roguelike (more than 2 million mobile installs!). Explore the depths of Pixel Dungeon, collect useful items and fight fierce monsters to find the Amulet of Yendor - the ultimate artefact of
74 rating1 list4.5 h main story
Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX, Commodore VIC-20 +2
The pawn has to climb down into an underground dungeon and search for a sword between the fifteenth and twentieth level. He shall hand over this "Sword of Fargoal" to the blind knight Gedwyn, so he can fight the devilish Umla. As soon as th
2 lists5 h main storyAlso in Roguelikes
Interplay Entertainment · Apple II, Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX +4
The game mechanics were based directly on those used in the tabletop role-playing games Tunnels and Trolls and Mercenaries, Spies and Private Eyes created by Wasteland developers Ken St. Andre and Michael Stackpole. Characters in Wasteland
90 rating3 lists25 h main story
Android, Java virtual machine, Legacy Mobile Device +2
Biniax is a free and open-source puzzle video game which was first released in 2005.
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Spiderweb Software · Windows, macOS
A follow-up to the Exile series that comes with three short adventures as well as a scenario editor for players to create their own.
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Nintendo exclusive
Konami · Game Boy
Cave Noire is a roguelike video game revolving around four quests: killing monsters, freeing fairies, or collecting gold/orbs with ten difficulties each. Starting a quest creates a randomly generated dungeon where the player has one chance
2 listsAlso in Roguelikes
Timed Xbox exclusive
Android, Switch, PS4 +4
In Dungeon of the Endless, the player takes the role of the survivors of a prison spaceship, its escape pod having crashed to the surface of a strange planet. To escape, they must take an energy crystal through several floors, each floor fi
78 rating6 lists7.5 h main storyAlso in Roguelikes
Android, Java virtual machine, Linux +3
Frozen Bubble is a puzzle game that started out on Linux and has later been ported to other systems.
3 lists
Subset Games · Linux, Windows, iOS +1
FTL: Faster Than Light is a single-player strategy game with roguelike design. The player commands a spaceship from a top-down view, managing systems such as weapons, engines, shields, and life support while recruiting crew and upgrading th
86 rating4 lists12 h main storyAlso in Roguelikes
Suspicious Developments · Windows
Fly your tiny defenceless pod up to larger ships, dock with their airlock, and sneak inside. Once you're in, you creep through their corridors, ambushing guards, hiding bodies, stealing new weapons, blowing them up from the inside, or hijac
79 rating2 lists15 h main storyAlso in Roguelikes
Android, Windows, iOS
Protect your creator! Keep defence by deflecting the waves of opponents with your shield. Fight them Hoplite!
60 rating1 listAlso in Roguelikes
Obsidian Entertainment · Linux, Switch, PS4 +3
Obsidian Entertainment proudly presents the sequel to our crowdfunded and critically-acclaimed role-playing game, Pillars of Eternity. Welcome to Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire. With Pillars II, we are revisiting the rich narrative, beaut
84 rating5 lists50 h main story
Nintendo exclusive
Chunsoft · Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, Wii U
You, a regular human, find yourself trapped in the body of a Pokémon in a world inhabited by Pokémon. Without any other choice, you go on rescue missions through randomly generated dungeons with your newly-acquired partner and friend to sav
71 rating2 lists
PlayStation exclusive
Nippon Ichi Software · PS3
God has never had it so rough! Meet Renya, who happened to become God through a lottery. And then, his self-proclaimed personal angel named Lilliel took him to Celestia right away. Together, they will tackle countless randomly-generated dun
78 rating4 listsAlso in Roguelikes
Ouya, iOS
100 Rogues is a turn-based, dungeon-crawling. With memorable characters, exciting gameplay full of surprises, charming pixel art and an original retro soundtrack, you won't find another game that feels or plays anything like 100 Rogues.
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AurumDust · Android, Legacy Mobile Device, Linux +5
Ash of Gods is а multi-genre project that features most of the typical elements of a visual novel, tactical turn-based role-playing game and card strategy. This is a story intending to show all the complexity and ambiguity of moral choice.
68 rating2 lists21 h main story
Timed Nintendo exclusive
NExT Studios · Switch, PS4, Windows +2
CrownTrick is a procedurally generated maze game with Roguelike gameplay and hand drawn art style. Take up the unbelievable crown and start your underground adventure with the power...
82 rating2 lists16 h main story