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Nightmare: The Lunatic

Nightmare: The Lunatic is a parrying action rogue-lite platformer game about escaping a nightmare. Constantly swap between 3 weapons, use special attacks, and avoid and parry enemy attacks. Strengthen yourself by collecting powerful and unique totems.

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Dead Cells

97% 👍 OF 182K
About This Game

Dead Cells is a roguelite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer. You'll explore a sprawling, ever-changing castle... assuming you’re able to fight your way past its keepers in 2D souls-lite combat. No checkpoints. Kill, die, learn, repeat.

In this game, you can…

  • …start as a headless corpse piloted by a green blob, die, then hop into a fresh body and grow yourself back before the next run.
  • …unlock permanent movement powers like wall-running, teleporting, and growing vines, then use them to open areas that were impossible before.
  • …grab one random drop mid-run and suddenly rebuild your whole combat style around poison, bleed, traps, backstabs, or a totally different weapon.
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Katanaut

90% 👍 OF 406
About This Game

Katanaut is a fast-paced, Metroidvania-inspired action roguelite blending fluid combat and cosmic horror. Slash, dodge, and wield powerful abilities as you battle through a station sprawling with twisted, once-human horrors. Adapt, survive, and descend into the shadows to uncover dark secrets.

In this game, you can…

  • …take a syringe upgrade that costs 1 hit point and keep pumping your stats until you're sitting on 75% crit and about 200% katana damage.
  • …pet a cat during a mission and trigger a memorable "don't do that" consequence.
  • …beat the game once and have later runs start changing fights with new enemies, modifiers, and altered encounter behavior.
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Astral Ascent

95% 👍 OF 8.5K
About This Game

Choose one of four heroes and explore the Garden, an astral prison guarded by 12 powerful mystical bosses: the Zodiacs. Challenge them with dozens of unique spells and faithful friends by your side to unfold the story of this platform roguelite with lightning fast combat.

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Summum Aeterna

85% 👍 OF 390
About This Game

Summum Aeterna is a fast-paced Roguelite inspired by the Metroidvania Aeterna Noctis. Create your own worlds, challenges, difficulty and influences in each new run. Die, learn, become stronger, and achieve victory. Death is inevitable, but glory is only for the chosen.

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Devil Slayer - Raksasi

85% 👍 OF 2.9K
About This Game

Devil Slayer - Raksasi is a top-down action game with procedurally generated dungeons, profound roguelike elements, and intuitive soul-like fighting. It's a fair and challenging game, dodging, timing, striking, you need to master them all to fight your way out of this cursed world.

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Ninja Soul

80% 👍 OF 167
About This Game

Ninjasoul is a platform action game that combines roguelite with Galaxy warrior demon city. Kunoichi, Tachibana Yachiyo unexpectedly awakened the ability of "death backtracking". She will find the truth in the land that used to be her hometown in the fight and death again and again.

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Gloom

82% 👍 OF 349
About This Game

Afflicted by severe amnesia, you drift deep into the Common Dream. You scour for the lost pages of the Necronomicon, while clinging on to any little purpose you have left. Faced with mad dreamers, horrible abominations and eldritch deities, you feel drawn to the dark Abyss deep within.

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Tower Hunter: Erza's Trial

71% 👍 OF 2.0K
About This Game

Tower Hunter: Erza’s Trial contains core elements of roguelite games, presented in a toon render style. The player explores a mysterious tower with Erza, vanquishes mutant monsters and defeats bosses to acquire a Hunter’s License and become the most powerful Battle Maiden.