Best Action Roguelike Games on Steam
Run-based action games with procedural threats, resets, upgrades, and repeat attempts.
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1The 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.
Nov 4, 2014
In this game, you can…
- shoot tears that orbit you, float in place, explode, become knives, or turn into screen-filling lasers.
- sell your soul for devil powers like wings, then keep descending into your mother's womb and even hell.
- unlock a dead version of yourself, use it to kill yourself, and get dice powers as the reward
- turn one item pickup into a complete reroute of how you fight and survive.
- find secret rooms and hidden shops by probing walls, then turn a quiet floor into a jackpot of weird items.
- step into a dice room and reroll the whole run's fate in a single gamble.
- start as a naked baby, get a cat for making a deal, then climb deeper through basement floors via holes in the ground.
- stack item synergies until bosses die instantly and your attacks become an unstoppable flood.
2R.E.P.O. - An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Feb 26, 2025
In this game, you can…
- get dumped into a boxing arena when the mission fails and beat your friends to crown a winner.
- run over a teammate with the cart, pick up their body, and use it to kill a monster.
- watch a monster sprint up, snatch a 20k statue you can barely lift, and hurl it back hard enough to wipe the team.
- revive teammates mid-round by cashing out their head, or dragging them back to the truck for a revive.
- haul fragile, fully physics-based treasure like pianos and antique vases that can smash, drop, or lose value on the way out.
- pick up crouching teammates, throw them onto shelves, and turn their bodies into weapons or hazards.
- sneak past monsters while dragging sofa-sized loot, then get yanked down a hallway by a ghost as someone drops into an elevator shaft.
- hide under furniture and whisper in proximity voice chat while monsters search, with the dead and living stuck in separate comms.
3Deep Rock Galactic - Deep Rock Galactic is a 1-4 player co-op FPS featuring dwarven space miners, procedurally-generated destructible environments, and endless hordes of alien monsters. Explore cave systems, mine for minerals, and work together to survive!
May 13, 2020
In this game, you can…
- drink a round that rockets the whole team forward, then slam into each other and the station while shouting and tossing mugs.
- freeze enemies solid, drill them to pieces, and heal off them while they can't move or fight back.
- hit the drop pod with seconds left, spot a teammate down far away, and turn the escape into a full rescue run mid-extraction.
- turn a pre-mission lobby into a hangout with beer, dancing, minigames, and physical goofing around instead of menus.
- grapple to impossible-to-reach minerals, then have a teammate shoot a platform under you so you can mine safely and get out.
- finish the objective, call extraction, then carve a brand-new tunnel straight to the drop pod while bugs race you through it.
- fight off swarms in caves that aren't preset arenas, so every defense turns into a new improvisation based on cliffs, tunnels, and open voids.
- bring a solo drone that mines, lights caves, carries minerals, digs paths, and can revive you so you can still finish missions alone.
4Risk of Rain 2 - Escape a chaotic alien planet by fighting through hordes of frenzied monsters – with your friends, or on your own. Combine loot in surprising ways and master each character until you become the havoc you feared upon your first crash landing.
Aug 11, 2020
In this game, you can…
- turn a minigun build so toxic that a teleporter spawns four bosses, one dies in seconds, and the chain explosions wipe the entire map.
- reach a point where normal enemies are bosses, and teleporter bosses stop spawning because everything on the map already counts as a boss.
- interrupt a wedding, kill the bride and groom, steal their rings, and then use those rings to kill more enemies.
- activate a giant teleporter, hold its circle against nonstop spawns, and watch a boss erupt before you're allowed to leave.
- stack damage boosts, crit bursts, and on-hit effects until one kill triggers explosions, lightning, fireworks, and orbital lasers across the whole area.
- loop a run until the game starts spawning hundreds of enemies that immediately die, flooding the screen with coins, missiles, and chained effects.
- feed a boss-killing item to equipment drones and grind boss loot until the payoff becomes "Ahoy!" over and over.
- go from a crash survivor to firing hundreds of homing missiles and calling orbital bombardments within ten minutes.
- fight on the moon to end a run, or keep looping until even a godlike build can still collapse during the final test.
5PEAK - PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Jun 16, 2025
In this game, you can…
- shoot a teammate with a blow dart, stick them to a cactus, and then eat them.
- die and keep playing as a ghost, floating alongside your team and guiding them upward even though you can't touch anything.
- play in a modded lobby with up to 20 climbers, coordinating rescues and supplies while the whole group screams in voice chat.
- help each other up ledges with hand boosts, ropes, and climbing spikes so the route you build becomes the route your friends climb next.
- hear a friend's screams fade in proximity chat as they fall off a cliff and their voice disappears into the distance.
- start on a beach and climb through jungle rain, a stamina-draining blizzard, lava mountains, and an almost-vertical volcano crater escape.
- find survival gear in suitcases and shrines, including rare items that only show up if everyone in the party is still alive.
- use a lollipop to reach an otherwise impossible ledge, then drop a rope to teammates who are starving below.
- slip on a banana peel that spawns when you feed someone a banana, sending them off a cliff if they're standing too close.
6Hades - 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.
Sep 17, 2020
In this game, you can…
- choose a power-up and trigger a new bit of gossip between gods mid-run.
- die, walk out of a blood pool at home, then talk to everyone for new dialogue and upgrades before trying again.
- give gifts to characters and get powerful keepsakes back, so your friendships directly change your combat build.
- swap between six weapons that play wildly differently, including aspects that can completely change how the weapon works.
- stack your own difficulty modifiers for better rewards, choosing exactly which new handicaps you want to deal with.
- finish a room, pick between two next paths, and watch your build evolve choice by choice until it collides with a boss fight.
- have the story react to exactly how your last run ended, with characters teasing or comforting you about specific deaths and wins.
7Vampire 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!
Oct 20, 2022
In this game, you can…
- fight a giant praying mantis while 10,000 skeletons pack the screen around you.
- turn into the bullet hell: you only move while your weapons auto-fire until the screen is pure lasers and explosions.
- stack golden eggs to turn even the weakest character into a ridiculous monster.
- start with a whip and end up an immobile tree that kills by radiating garlic.
- open a chest and instantly level up multiple weapons at once, plus grab a big cash payout mid-run.
- combine the right weapon and passive to evolve them into dramatically stronger versions.
- use a shield and a time-freeze as panic buttons, then calmly reposition while everything else is stuck.
8Muck - Muck is a survival-roguelike. Collect resources, find items & build a base to survive for as long as you can.
Jun 5, 2021
In this game, you can…
- get chased across the island by a giant golem, scramble to craft a bow mid-pursuit, then have more golems spawn until you're fighting two, then five, plus their minions.
- play a versus mode where the world border shrinks, forcing survivors into an inevitable endgame showdown.
- build towering bases into the sky until the world starts failing to load correctly.
- survive nightly sieges as enemies pour out of the dark and keep coming until you're dead or the sun rises.
- crack open chests for random powerups that stack into absurd speed, double-jumps, damage, and knockback.
- race the short day-night cycle by sprinting for resources all day, then hunkering down as each night spawns tougher waves.
- have a teammate accidentally summon a night boss and turn a normal run into a full group emergency.
- trigger an altar, instantly spawn aggressive golems, and watch exploration flip into a fight you didn't plan for.
- stack enough upgrades to become effectively unkillable for dozens of days, turning early desperation into a late-game power trip.
9Dead 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.
Aug 6, 2018
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.
- take a different route every run as the castle rearranges exits, secrets, enemies, and rewards across the island.
- freeze an enemy with a parry, then swap weapons and crush them with a heavy hit while you keep moving.
- take a cursed chest for better rewards, then have to get a streak of kills where one hit ends the run.
- chain double jumps, aerial hits, rolls, weapon swaps, and skills into one continuous combo that carries you through a whole room.
10Cult of the Lamb - Start your own cult in a land of false prophets, venturing out into diverse and mysterious regions to build a loyal community of woodland Followers and spread your Word to become the one true cult.
Aug 11, 2022
In this game, you can…
- tell a follower about the afterlife, let them volunteer to die for you, and watch a tentacled void drag them away mid-ritual.
- recruit enemies and even bosses you just defeated, then decide whether to marry them, humiliate them, chain them up, or keep them working.
- start a romance quest for a follower, botch the love spell, still hold the wedding, and then get asked to arrange a fight to the death with their crush.
- get executed as a sacrificial lamb, then get resurrected by an imprisoned god who hands you a crown.
- build a cult camp with farms and kitchens, then sprint back from dungeon runs to feed, shelter, and sermonize so your cult powers up combat.
- marry followers, kiss them for loyalty, then sacrifice or resurrect them later when it suits your cult.
- revive a dead follower, gift them a longer lifespan, promote them into leadership, then imprison and re-educate them when they resist.
- run fast combat dungeons where you swap weapons and curses on the fly, stack tarot-style buffs, and learn bosses' patterns to topple four bishops.
