Best Dungeon Crawler Games on Steam
Games about delving through dangerous spaces for loot, fights, secrets, and exits.
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1Lethal Company - A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Oct 23, 2023
In this game, you can…
- sell every last scrap, then haul a teammate's body to the counter for the final few credits to hit quota.
- stay on the ship as mission control, use the terminal to open doors and spot threats, and talk your team back alive through the maze.
- listen to your friend's voice get muffled and cut off mid-sentence as a monster grabs them in proximity chat.
- hear a teammate dying over the radio while you keep scavenging, and the person guiding you keeps talking after they're already dead.
- open a trapped teleporter room, watch one rescue turn into a chain of monster attacks, and still have to find a way out.
- step into a mineshaft because your friends told you to, then they later find you cocooned and hanging from the ceiling.
- watch a teammate calmly warn you about a landmine, then immediately scream about a spider and get blown up mid-run.
- buy gear like jetpacks, ladders, and stun grenades, then accidentally turn them into hazards that kill your own crew.
2The 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.
3Hades - 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.
4Slay the Spire - We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Jan 23, 2019
In this game, you can…
- cut your deck down until you can loop actions forever and take turn after turn without running out.
- stack armor so high you can copy a card and turn that defense into a one-hit kill.
- upgrade a key card at a campfire, via an event, or even mid-fight, and have the new version change how every combat plays out.
- build a deck from scratch, choosing one of three new cards after every fight.
- pick a route each act, weighing shops, campfires, mystery events, and elite fights that can define your whole run.
- find a single relic that permanently changes what strategies are even possible for the rest of the run.
- walk into a question-mark event that can hand you a blessing, a curse, or a new rule you have to build around on the spot.
5Darkest Dungeon® - 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. Can you keep your heroes together when all hope is lost?
Jan 19, 2016
In this game, you can…
- watch a hero snap from stress and start refusing orders or even attacking teammates mid-fight.
- deliberately let the torch go out to change how battles work and gamble for better loot before looting a chest.
- come back from a failed mission diseased and traumatized, then send heroes to the tavern, abbey, brothel, or sanitarium to recover.
- bail out of a dungeon run mid-expedition, turning the rest of the crawl into a constant push-or-retreat decision.
- have a random miniboss like the Collector appear out of nowhere and wreck an expedition that was going fine.
- build parties where each character can only use certain moves from certain positions, so rearranging your lineup changes what anyone can do.
- lose heroes permanently, then recruit replacements and keep the campaign going with the town upgrades you managed to bring back.
6Escape the Backrooms - Escape the Backrooms is a 1-4 player co-op horror exploration game. Traverse 30+ eerie backrooms levels while avoiding entities and other dangers. Try to escape but be warned: survival isn't guaranteed.
Oct 23, 2025
In this game, you can…
- crouch-walk right past certain entities in Level 5 and they'll completely ignore you as long as you stay low.
- bunny hop across the Habitable Zone, then keep pushing toward safe zones even after the lights go out.
- sprint forever while talking in proximity voice chat, with your friends' screams echoing and distorting through different areas.
- bait a giant bug into chasing you, then feed it your friends to buy time.
- hear a teammate scream like it's a monster, spot the real monster behind them, and end up sprinting together in full panic.
- cool off in the pool rooms, drink water, and use them as a safe rest stop as long as you avoid the dark rooms.
- slam a door shut behind you while a monster barrels down the hallway, praying you picked a room in time.
- toggle an old camera filter that makes the whole place look like found footage.
7Cult 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.
8Hades II - Battle beyond the Underworld using dark sorcery to take on the Titan of Time in this bewitching sequel to the award-winning rogue-like dungeon crawler.
Sep 25, 2025
In this game, you can…
- mute the music mid-boss and get a unique reaction for doing it.
- fight a boss whose music is so catchy you might stop attacking just to listen.
- run two separate campaigns with different routes, locations, and bosses: one in the Underworld, one on the surface.
- drop a binding circle on the floor and build your whole run around it.
- charge attacks, specials, and your cast into omega moves that spend magick and slow time while you aim.
- craft upgrades between runs with a cauldron, using reagents you gathered during your last escape attempt.
- swap keepsakes between regions mid-run to change what powers you're leaning on for the next stretch.
- get new dialogue and character reactions popping up even after dozens of runs.
9Grim Dawn - Enter an apocalyptic fantasy world where humanity is on the brink of extinction, iron is valued above gold and trust is hard earned. This ARPG features complex character development, hundreds of unique items, crafting and quests with choice & consequence.
Feb 25, 2016
In this game, you can…
- pick a second class at level 10 and fuse them into weird hybrids, like a shielded shaman or a gun-slinging mage.
- find gear that adds its own active skills, then end up rotating a whole extra set of attacks and buffs from equipment.
- get hunted by unique nemesis enemies you spawned by making a faction hate you, then take that build into 170-wave arenas and roguelike dungeons.
- start as a prisoner headed for the gallows, get possessed, survive your execution, then get drafted into rebuilding a survivor stronghold.
- cleanse hidden shrines to unlock a second progression board that grants new trigger powers, not just stats.
- wander off the road, crack open hidden paths and secret rooms, and stumble into optional bosses you weren't ready for yet.
- make choices that decide whether an entire village lives or dies, and push factions to treat you as ally or enemy.
- respec skills and devotion points cheaply, then completely pivot your character when a single build-defining item drops.
10Gunfire Reborn - Gunfire Reborn is a level-based adventure game featuring FPS, Roguelite and RPG. Players can control heroes with various abilities to experience diverse Build gameplay, use various weapons to explore procedurally-generated levels. You can play the game alone, or join 4-player coop.
Nov 17, 2021
In this game, you can…
- abuse a gun's reload to repeatedly drop mecha chickens for millions of damage.
- reload a living lizard gun by smacking it on the head.
- play co-op where everyone gets their own loot drops, then freely hand the perfect weapon or scroll to a teammate.
- feed fish snacks to a shotgun with a mouth to reload it.
- turn a close-quarters brawler into a sniper who quickscopes enemies across the room.
- build around elemental combos like electro plus corrosion to strip defenses and melt shields and armor.
- watch your scrolls and passives start triggering each other nonstop until you're a walking chain reaction.
- take secret vault detours with bonus platforming and challenge rooms that change the stage and swing your build.
