Best Dungeon Crawler Games on Steam
Games about delving through dangerous spaces for loot, fights, secrets, and exits.
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1The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
- Players say: Fleeing his mother’s demand for sacrifice, Isaac enters a shifting basement to fight monsters with tears and collect strange items. Players like: Huge Item Variety · Unexpected Item Combos · Different Every Run
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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.
2Lethal Company
- Players say: As Company crew, scavenge scrap from dangerous abandoned moons, survive their creatures, and meet quotas with friends. Players like: Funny Co-op Moments · Horror-Comedy Balance · Varied Creature Encounters
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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.
3Hades
- Players say: Fight through the Underworld as Zagreus, combining mythic weapons and Olympian boons while each escape attempt moves his story forward. Players like: Combat And Builds · Story And Characters · Art And Music
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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
- Players say: Climb a shifting tower through turn-based card battles, choosing cards and relics to shape a different deck each run. Players like: Deep Deckbuilding · Distinct Character Styles · Fresh Runs
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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®
- Players say: Lead flawed heroes through randomized dungeons, managing stress, supplies and turn-based battles as you reclaim an ancestral estate. Players like: Tactical Party Combat · Gothic Art and Atmosphere · Hero Stress System
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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.
6Cult of the Lamb
- Players say: A resurrected lamb builds a woodland cult, tending its followers at home and battling through shifting dungeons to defeat rival prophets. Players like: Cute Dark Art · Cult-Building Loop · Combat and Management Mix
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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.
7Grim Dawn
- Players say: Fight through a ruined dark-fantasy world, combine two classes, hunt for loot, and shape a build as humanity struggles to survive. Players like: Flexible Class Builds · Rewarding Loot Finds · Dark World Atmosphere
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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.
8Gunfire Reborn
- Players say: Choose a hero and shoot through randomized stages, collecting weapons and upgrades to shape each run solo or with three friends. Players like: Build Experimentation · Satisfying Gunplay · Weapon Variety
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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.
9Enter the Gungeon
- Players say: Choose a regretful gunslinger, fight through a shifting bullet-filled dungeon, and seek a weapon that can kill the past. Players like: Weapon And Item Variety · Skillful Bullet Dodging · Replayable Runs
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Enter the Gungeon is a bullet hell dungeon crawler following a band of misfits seeking to shoot, loot, dodge roll and table-flip their way to personal absolution by reaching the legendary Gungeon’s ultimate treasure: the gun that can kill the past.
Apr 5, 2016
In this game, you can…
- use a gun that's a bullet that shoots guns that shoot bullets — and even get shotguns that fire other shotguns.
- fight a giant mech rat boss, then immediately settle it in a Punch-Out-style fistfight.
- open a chest that suddenly glitches out and warps you straight into a hidden boss fight.
- dodge-roll through bullet patterns and flip tables into instant cover mid-fight.
- kick a barrel across the room, shoot it to explode enemies, then hit a switch to drop a chandelier on the survivors.
- find a rainbow chest that spits out a huge pile of guns and items at once.
- free NPCs during runs so they move into your hub and open new shops, quests, and gear for future runs.
- take a cursed run where a witch makes your gun change into a different one every five seconds.
- carry a slow little pig companion for most of a run, then watch it sprint in front of you and take a fatal shot meant for you.
10Noita
- Players say: Descend procedurally generated caverns as a spellcaster, building wands and surviving a world made of reactive pixels. Players like: Custom Wand Building · Reactive Pixel Physics · Secrets and Exploration
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Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
Oct 15, 2020
In this game, you can…
- swap positions with something you launched so far away it clips out of reality, and end up somewhere it shouldn't exist.
- trigger a chain reaction where electricity detonates a hanging bomb, the blast becomes gas, the gas ignites, and the whole oil pool erupts.
- turn an eldritch monster into a sheep, then teleport it into lava — or just dig a tunnel and ignore it.
- turn a harmless-looking spell into a face-level explosion or a portal to a tentacle realm.
- eat weird fungus, vomit, and watch the vomit transform into lava.
- build a wand that spawns a lava star with its own gravity and melts you instantly.
- kick objects like minecarts into enemies and use the physics as your weapon.
- get turned into a sheep by a pink potion even after you can vaporize mountains and turn ground into gold.
