Best Mystery Dungeon Games on Steam
Turn-based dungeon crawlers with procedural layouts, items, monsters, and resets.
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1Elin
- Players say: Create an adventurer in a strange open world, then survive, explore dungeons, craft, farm, and build a town. Players like: Open-Ended Freedom · Base Building · Activity Variety
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Successor to the roguelike RPG "Elona". Adventure, survival, crafting, home-building, myths passed down, and stories of humans and Elea spun. What scars will you leave on the land of Ylva?
Nov 1, 2024
In this game, you can…
- assign a pig to cleaning and a maid to livestock, because humans and animals can fill the same town jobs.
- buy a T-rex, hand it an assault rifle, and have it worship the machine god so it can stomp machine enemies.
- steal an entire waterfall from a town and take it home as an item.
- pull a 1200-pound god statue out of the water by fishing, then die instantly when you try to move with it.
- turn fertilizer into "corpses," butcher them into giblets, and recycle everything back into bait for an endless fishing loop.
- use hormone drugs to instantly change someone's gender, sometimes into "???" instead.
- ride a chicken while someone sits on your shoulders, so your whole party moves around as a stacked-up caravan.
- get crushed to death by elephant-sized vegetables while trying to harvest plants for money.
- drink from a well, mutate into iron skin with noodle arms, then go scythe heads off like you're harvesting wheat.
2One Way Heroics
- Players say: Race the advancing darkness in a turn-based roguelike, exploring shifting worlds and preparing to face the Demon Lord. Players like: Moving Darkness · Replayable Runs · Unexpected Depth
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Across all dimensions, the only constant is Darkness! A procedurally generated RPG-roguelike journey across the multiverse! In One Way Heroics, you take on the role of an intrepid adventurer who must travel across the land and face the Demon Lord before a mysterious darkness engulfs everything.
Feb 28, 2014
In this game, you can…
- throw a pill at the Demon Lord and make her nice for a little while.
- beat a run while completely nude, killing enemies with punches or by throwing armor and even corpses at them.
- meet ghosts of other players who died in your exact world seed, and sometimes loot an item from their inventory.
- outrun a wall of darkness that eats the world as you travel.
- lose time to the darkness by opening menus, using items, or picking fights.
- get trapped in a dungeon as the world outside disappears, then freeze time and spend three turns awakening to smash walls and escape.
- have the final boss show up early once enough time passes, even if you're nowhere near the end.
- bank rare gear across runs in a dimensional vault and keep building one ridiculous piece of equipment over multiple playthroughs.
- find alternative win conditions and secret endings that let you bypass the Demon Lord and even slip out of the whole dimension.
3Boyfriend Dungeon
- Players say: Fight through dungeons with weapons that become people, then build romantic or platonic bonds that make them stronger. Players like: Distinctive Weapon Dating · Charming Characters · Stylish Art and Music
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Date your weapons! Romance swords, daggers, and polearms to level them up in this “shack-and-slash” dungeon crawling adventure.
Aug 11, 2021
In this game, you can…
- date people who can literally transform into the weapons you fight with.
- level up a relationship by wielding your partner in combat, then unlock new dates in town as their love rank rises.
- romance multiple weapons at once, or keep it platonic, and still fully progress without anyone punishing you for it.
- rescue damaged weapon-people from the dungeon, give them a day out to recover, then bring them back into fights and dates.
- take mid-run breaks at dungeon rest stops to heal, relax, and have a small date moment before pushing deeper.
- play a run where each weapon has a completely different fighting style, like a fast-hitting dagger or a long-range scythe.
- replay the final boss with different weapons so you can finish each character's storyline, not just one ending.
4Shattered Pixel Dungeon
- Players say: Choose one of six heroes and descend procedurally generated dungeons, using turn-based tactics and found gear to survive. Players like: Tactical Problem-Solving · Hero and Build Variety · Replayable Random Runs
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Shattered Pixel Dungeon is a traditional roguelike dungeon crawler that's simple to start but hard to master! Every game is a unique challenge, with six different heroes, randomized levels and enemies, and hundreds of items to collect and use.
Mar 23, 2022
In this game, you can…
- stack up to nine optional challenges, then replay the exact same dungeon by reusing a seed.
- throw a honey pot to summon a bee that distracts enemies and buys you time.
- walk into a room stuffed with monsters and loot, then decide if you're taking the fight or fleeing.
- drink an unidentified potion and find out it was toxic gas.
- use doors to force enemies into ambushes, chokepoints, and surprise attacks.
- start as a rogue, turn invisible, and line up guaranteed stealth attacks on demand.
- play a mage whose starter wand always hits, letting you delete evasive enemies safely from range.
- get so hungry you cook or freeze raw meat using traps or potions when you can't find a station.
- hide in bushes, shove enemies off cliffs, or freeze time to escape fights you had no business winning.
5Gumballs & Dungeons
- Players say: Lead a team of collectible Gumballs through tile-revealing dungeons, combining their skills to fight, explore, and climb. Players like: No In-Game Purchases · Gumball Team Combos · Distinct Dungeon Themes
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Embark on a free, exciting roguelike adventure with Gumballs & Dungeons! Collect and find hundreds of Gumballs, all with their own unique abilities, and create a synergistic team to tackle procedurally generated dungeons, discovering secrets and a trove of easter eggs as you explore!
Mar 4, 2025
In this game, you can…
- build a party from hundreds of different gumballs, then link them so they can borrow each other's powers mid-run.
- push Endless Mode past floor 1200+ and see how long your build survives as the dungeon keeps scaling.
- hunt down specific gumballs with certificates, turning collection into targeted goals instead of random rolls.
- flip over dungeon tiles where each step can reveal a brutal enemy, a strange event, or a mystery cave.
- stumble into constant easter eggs and pop-culture jokes, including tiny interactions like petting a cat you walk past.
- hit a dungeon theme built around a space-time rift a thousand years later, where familiar places return warped and story-rich.
6Touhou Genso Wanderer -Reloaded-
- Players say: As Reimu investigates a strange tower in Gensokyo, explore shifting turn-based dungeons, battle enemies, and gather gear. Players like: Abundant Extra Content · Creative Item Mechanics · Distinct Character Abilities
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Based on the "Touhou Project" world, Touhou Genso Wanderer -Reloaded- is an addictive roguelike RPG that's easy for beginners to pickup and play, but with tons of advanced options for pros! Explore dungeons with your Touhou favorites characters, collect loot, and battle over the Golden Spheres!
Oct 25, 2018
In this game, you can…
- take on a 1000-floor endgame dungeon with enemy levels scaling higher and higher the deeper you go.
- keep your entire inventory after failing a run, even though you restart at level 1.
- freeze time as Sakuya, then teleport out of danger and turn boss fights into free turns.
- level up a weapon by using it, then fuse and evolve it into a completely different form.
- stack seals, attachments, and resonance pairings to unlock extra skills from matching specific items.
- bring along Rei'sen's Mech Rabbit that roams the floor, pulls enemies, tanks hits, and self-heals.
- pick characters with wild movement rules, like walking on water or floating permanently, to change how you navigate entire floors.
7The Classrooms
- Players say: Investigate an abandoned school as its halls rearrange, searching for clues and supplies while evading creatures with distinct rules. Players like: Liminal School Atmosphere · Distinct Entity Behaviors · Procedural Replay Variety
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The Classrooms is a procedural, liminal-space, found-footage, survival horror game. Explore The Classrooms and discover the various anomalies it contains; from malicious entities, to harmless oddities. And remember, it's different every time you play, so your found footage is uniquely yours.
Oct 28, 2022
In this game, you can…
- talk into your microphone to reveal your location to certain monsters.
- build custom nightmare runs by mixing maps, multiple entities, and even an army of dolls in the same level.
- die and have the current level reshape into a new layout, letting you intentionally reset for a different seed and room set.
- crawl through vents to travel between rooms, hide, and wait out danger nearby.
- push to the next level by solving a puzzle while monsters keep pressuring you the whole time.
- sneak into a bathroom stall while something patrols outside, forcing a standoff until you risk moving.
- collect tapes and lore entries during procedural runs, turning each run into a scavenger hunt for found-footage fragments.
- deal with monsters that have distinct rules like blind-but-hearing hunters and entities that inspect doors you close.
8Vivid Knight
- Players say: Recruit jewel-bound friends, build a symbol-synergized knight party, and guide its auto-battles through a changing dungeon. Players like: Party Synergy Builds · Cute Character Art · Team-Building Decisions
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"Vivid Knight" is a "party-building roguelike" game in which you collect friends who have been turned into jewels and fight by combining their abilities! Explore the ever-changing dungeon and harness the gems you have gathered to challenge the labyrinth!
May 26, 2021
In this game, you can…
- merge three identical jewels into an upgrade that keeps its traits unlocked for the rest of the run, even if you later sell it.
- stack enough matching symbols that every fight can start with all enemies burning, shocked, shielded against, or taking doubled damage.
- chain upgrades by merging three copies into an upgraded unit, then merging three upgraded units into a gold version.
- collect friends who got turned into jewels.
- cast a hero spell once per turn to heal, shield, buff, reposition, or blast enemies mid-fight while the rest of the battle runs automatically.
- wear rings, necklaces, and earrings that add symbols too, so a "worse" accessory can be the right pick if it completes a set bonus.
- trade party size for power by combining duplicates into fewer, much stronger units, and reshape your whole run around that choice.
9Stonemachia
- Players say: As chess-piece pawn Zefiro, fight through angel-haunted Medhelan using parries, dodges, and on-the-fly transformations. Players like: Distinctive Art Direction · Memorable Soundtrack · Parry-Focused Combat
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Fight, Zefiro! Arm yourself with the power of chess and explore Medhelan, a land haunted by the Plague of Angels, in a dark action-adventure with soulslike elements. Will you be able to return to Heaven?
May 26, 2026
In this game, you can…
- swap between pawn, bishop, knight, and rook forms on the fly.
- refill your only healing potion by parrying enemies.
- fight things like two-legged bidets and even murder a windmill.
- attack while parrying, cancel attacks into a parry, and swap forms mid-move to chain abilities.
- perfect-dodge at the last second to trigger a counterattack animation.
- use the knight form's air-dodge boost to zoom through areas at high speed.
- time special attacks with parries so they transform into a stronger version.
- unlock a hidden devil-trigger-like transformation after defeating yourself/the queen.
10Villages & Dungeons
- Players say: Build a creature-and-support-card team, then send it into randomized dungeons where elemental synergies shape automatic battles. Players like: Build Synergies · Tactical Deck Crafting · Replayable Runs
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A hardcore roguelite card game where deck-building strategies are at the core of everything! With a vast array of cards, random dungeons, a wealth of encounter events, and diverse enemies, it awaits your exploration and challenge.
May 19, 2025
In this game, you can…
- build a whole combat plan out of just five cards.
- beat an elite enemy and take one of their exact cards.
- save three different card-and-rune setups, swap to a hard counter before a fight, then swap back after.
- upgrade or fuse cards mid-run, reshaping your deck and even your attack style as you go.
- get stuck in a 75-turn boss stalemate, then fuse an anti-heal poison card and immediately flip the fight.
- line up elements in your five-card deck so synergies activate, unlocking poison loops, explosive turns, healing chains, or rapid combos.
- spend resurrection stones to revive a run you think is still salvageable, instead of starting over.
- survive a dungeon, upgrade runes, then return to the village to stock up on passive buffs for the next run.
