The Action Roguelike Zone

Run-based action games with procedural threats, resets, upgrades, and repeat attempts.

Latest Standouts

Recent releases that landed well, newest first, filtered to games with enough reviews to trust the score.

Pass the Fear - PASS THE FEAR is a roguelite bullet-hell shooter. A catastrophic Witch’s Disaster strikes without warning, and chaotic magic forms the ancient Wall of Storms. Its corruption spreads relentlessly across the island. As a demon hunter trapped within, you must find a way to escape before dawn breaks.
Hand of Fate: Hordes - HAND OF FATE: HORDES is a dark-fantasy bullet heaven auto-shooter powered by your strategic deckbuilding mastery. Survive the horde, forge your build, and unleash devastating attacks to escape a netherworld beyond the 13th Gate. Thrive in chaos!
Reap and Rush - Reap and Rush is an absurdly addictive action roguelike. Step into the role of an underworld envoy thrust into a chaotic underworld. Fight through hordes of Yaoguai, leveling-up skills to become a soul-harvesting reaper and unravel a shocking conspiracy across endless cycles...
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Jul 21, 2026
87% 👍
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DUNGEON SLASHER - Navigate maps filled with enemies, destroying all who get in your way! Use a variety of character, artifact, and skill synergies to defeat the dungeon!
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Jul 16, 2026
70% 👍
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Pathogenic - You are a disease. Infect the human body as a lone pathogen in this cellular roguelike shooter. Collect organelles to evolve your parasite in a microscopic arms race against your host's immune system. Conquer a beautiful, procedurally generated world of tiny proportions.
Happy's Humble Burger Cult - The original cooking horror returns in an unhinged co-op experience for 1-4 players. Grill burgers, serve customers, and hit your quota before the kitchen turns into a nightmare. When Asset Joy begins her hunt, try to escape alive and extract your hard-earned cash to survive another shift.

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嗜血印 Bloody Spell - This is a martial arts action role-playing game. The core of the game is battle-oriented, and it combines many fighting elements. If you are a player who pursues blood and is brave enough to challenge the limits, it will definitely inspire your adrenaline and bring you the best combat experience.
Trip to Vinelands - Trip to Vinelands is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame.
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Oct 21, 2016
88% 👍
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Going Under - Going Under is a satirical dungeon crawler about exploring the cursed ruins of failed tech startups. As an unpaid intern in the dystopian city of Neo-Cascadia, you’ll wield office junk as weaponry as you make your way through the offbeat procedural dungeons beneath your company campus.
Lovecraft's Untold Stories - Lovecraft’s Untold Stories is an action roguelite with RPG elements. Explore randomly generated levels based in Lovecraft's stories, fight cultists and all kinds of monsters from the Mythos, improve your gear, solve puzzles, and find clues and knowledge to defeat the Great Old Ones.
Roundguard - Roundguard is a bouncy dungeon crawler with pinball physics, lots of loot, and a randomized castle full of oddballs. Press your luck against hordes of dangerously cute monsters and challenging roguelike elements in this all-round bouncy adventure!
Rogue Heroes: Ruins of Tasos - Rogue Heroes is a topdown, roguelite adventure game inspired by the Zelda franchise. Play solo or team up with your friends to combat procedurally generated dungeons and take down the evil Titans that threaten to overwhelm the land of Tasos!
Heroes of Hammerwatch - Heroes of Hammerwatch is a rogue-lite action-adventure. Explore and battle your way through procedurally generated levels on your own or with up to 3 friends.
Larva Mortus - Larva Mortus is a fast-paced hack and slash top-down shooter. As an agent specializing in exorcism, you are tasked to hunt monsters of the supernatural in a dark, ominous, and randomly generated atmosphere full of undead, terrifying and demonic nightmares.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate - TMNT Splintered Fate - Unleash the Turtles in a roguelike quest to rescue Splinter from the Foot Clan! Master ninja skills, unite in bodacious co-op gameplay, and conquer iconic NYC locales.
Entropy Survivors - Entropy Survivors is a bullet hell roguelike where you simultaneously control a powerful mech and a sharpshooting space frog, featuring outrageously creative abilities and powerful weapon customization. Save the universe in single player or 2-4 player online co-op!
Trinity Fusion - Three fractured realities. One collapsing multiverse. Fast, fluid combat in a dark sci-fi Roguevania where each run begins in a separate universe — then lets you fuse your parallel selves, powers, and worlds to create brutal, ever-evolving builds.
Ship of Fools - Ship of Fools is a seafaring cooperative roguelite. Set sail, man the cannons and battle sea monsters through the tempestuous seas of the Archipelago. Are you fool enough to stop the Aquapocalypse?

Hidden Gems

Well-liked but under-played: strong scores, small review counts.

性感史莱姆派对(Slime Sexy Party) - This is an adventure game set in a fantasy world without the concept of time, telling the story of a player rescuing his wife from the hands of monsters. In the game, players will embark on a thrilling adventure by operating their brainpower, intelligence and other aspects.
BEERCRUSH - Enter the world of John Beer in this psychotic, fast-paced roguelike where you drink beer to stay alive! Dash as fast as you can through unique and crazy worlds to break the vicious cycle. So what are you waiting for!? LIVE LIFE. EVERY GOLDEN MINUTE OF IT!
CAPTURED 2 - You're trapped in an apartment with ever-changing rooms. Capture anomalies on camera, survive deadly entities and escape an endless nightmare.
Second Stellar - Join the enigmatic Starfarers as they traverse the cosmos in this unique dual-character action roguelite, unraveling the mysteries of their galaxy and beyond in pursuit of the Voyager.
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Dec 10, 2025
99% 👍
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Nautical Survival - Captain an armed sea vessel to fight off hordes of oceanic terrors! Navigate between outposts to upgrade your boat, equip powerful weapons, manage your economy and hire crew members to your aid in this unique take on the survivors-like formula.
RAM: Random Access Mayhem - The roguelike where you play as the enemies. Take control of your foes, turn them against each other in fast-paced combat, and leap to a new host before your current body breaks down.
Black Gunner Wukong - Wukong Survivors" is a TPS + ROGUE game where players control Sun Wukong and his friends, sweeping through all visible enemies and rescuing their captured master.
Evolve or Die - A co-op voice-controlled action game where yelling is the combat system. Team up, scream into your mics, and unleash absurd sound-powered attacks. Coordinate, panic, or just shout nonsense until the enemies—and your friends—totally melt down.
Kitty's Last Adventure - Cute Survivor where you play as Kitty the cat aboard her flying cat-saucer🛸 created by her distraught human.
Blood Rush - BLOOD RUSH is a fast paced, skill based FPS, mixed with roguelites elements. Upgrade yourself, buy unique guns, drain miracles from relics and destroy anyone or anything standing on your way!
KUNKUN League - Rougelite + Russian Roulette, but using a more powerful cannon. Survive and take all the prizes!

Top Rated

Defining examples of the genre, all rated 85%+ across 1,000+ reviews.

HoloCure - Save the Fans! - Play as your favorite Vtubers from Hololive! Fight, explore, and clear your way through armies of fans and save them from their mind-control in this unofficial free fan-game.
Picayune Dreams - Picayune Dreams is a roguelike blend of bullet heaven horde survival, and bullet hell gameplay. Adrift across the endless void, you must fend off thousands of nightmarish and otherwordly creatures. Uncover a mysterious and surreal story. And don't forget. You mu [TRANSMISSION INTERRUPTED...]
The Void Rains Upon Her Heart - Help her heart battle tough bosses in this Boss Rush, Bullet-hell with rogue-like elements. Fight through several randomly chosen boss battles leading up to a final battle. Each defeated monster will give her random gifts that power up her heart. Don't let her heart break!
Hades - Defy the god of the dead as you hack and slash out of the Underworld in this rogue-like dungeon crawler from the creators of Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre.
Vampire Survivors - Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
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Oct 20, 2022
98% 👍
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Crab Champions - Claw your way across exotic islands combining fluid movement with fast paced combat to become a Crab Champion in this third person roguelike shooter.
Disfigure - Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
Touhou Dystopian - Touhou Project's Brand New Action Roguelite Fan Game! Strange incidents erupt in the Animal Realm and Primate Spirit Garden. Embark on an unknown journey, uncover the truth behind the anomalies, and break through this 'Touhou Dystopian'!
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Oct 17, 2025
98% 👍
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The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth - The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is a randomly generated action RPG shooter with heavy Rogue-like elements. Following Isaac on his journey players will find bizarre treasures that change Isaac’s form giving him super human abilities and enabling him to fight off droves of mysterious creatures, discover secrets and fight his way to safety.
Dead Cells - 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.
Post Void - Post Void is a hypnotic scramble of early first-person shooter design that values speed above all else. Keep your head full and reach the end; Kill what you can to see it mend; Get the high score or try again.
Rabbit and Steel - RABBIT & STEEL is a co-op action roguelike that recreates the essence of high-level MMO raiding in a randomized, simplified, bunny-sized package. Choose your class, gather your rabbit-eared companions and battle your way to the Moonlit Pinnacle!
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May 9, 2024
97% 👍
of 11k