The Roguelite Zone

Run-based games with resets plus lasting unlocks, upgrades, or account progress.

Latest Standouts

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

Neon Abyss 2 - Players say: Fight through a pixel-art cybermyth Abyss in side-scrolling roguelike runs, building weapon-and-item combos solo or with up to three friends. Players like: Chaotic Item Builds · Boss Variety · Co-op Runs ·
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Dive into the cybermyth roguelike chaos of Neon Abyss 2! Now featuring up to 4-player online co-op, more combat styles, and unlimited item synergies, every run delivers a dramatic, action-packed experience you won't forget.

Superhero Simulator - Players say: Patrol a city as a flying superhero, stopping crimes and rescuing civilians while working jobs to cover rent and daily needs. Players like: Enjoyable Flying · Hero-Life Premise · Character Customization ·
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Superhero Simulator is an open-world superhero game where you fight villains and save lives! But being a hero isn’t free! You’ll need to work, pay rent, and survive. Can you handle both sides of the superhero life?

Antivirus Survivors 2003 Professional - Players say: Defend a Windows XP-style desktop from viruses and pop-ups in survivor runs, upgrading cursor weapons and plugins. Players like: Windows XP Aesthetic · Survivor-Style Combat · Y2K References ·
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The family computer is infected again and it’s your job to fend off waves of viruses and adware foes with an arsenal of nostalgic Y2K-inspired weapons. Antivirus Survivors 2003 Professional is a survivor-like auto-shooter filled with nods to the days when computers were actually fun.

The Bell Echoes - The Bell Echoes is a story-driven tactical roguelite. Fight alongside a cast of distinctive companions as you venture deeper into the Corrupted Lands, defeat powerful foes, collect Echoes and memory fragments, and uncover the truth behind the characters and the world.
Deified - Players say: Lead Sator against seven cursed Lords in a tactical roguelite built around relic combos, constrained slots, and turn-based battles. Players like: Relic Build Variety · Tactical Combat · Satisfying Synergies ·
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Forge your strategy around powerful relics in this turn-based tactical roguelite. Choose your slots, manage their constraints, and face formidable bosses.

Driving Rogue - Drift, slipstream, and chain risky near-misses at insane speeds to build huge combos. Adapt to procedurally generated streets and challenges, upgrade your ride, unlock abilities, and stack powerful cards to break records. Climb the Redline rankings and fight your way to the top of the leaderboards.
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Kernel Hearts - Gather your allies. Eliminate Angels. Transform into a Magical Girl. Slay god. Kernel Hearts is a Multiplayer Co-Op Roguelike Action RPG about four magical girls and their attempt to save a world that's drowning in ashes
Fright Train - Fight through a train overtaken by monsters and survive Antarctica’s cold as paranormal special agent Doug Barker in this chilling single-player third-person survival horror roguelite.
Tenebris: Terra Incognita - A turn-based tactical RPG. Experiment with the talent trees of 23 heroes. Combine abilities with equipment. Defeat 17 terrifying bosses and uncover the secrets of the planet Tenebris!
Forsworn - Stack game-breaking synergies until your party can slay gods. Command a party of heroes, forge powerful synergies, and level them up across runs in this turn-based tactics roguelite. Battle the gods solo or in co-op, where defeat is just another beginning.

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Roguebook - Players say: Lead two heroes through a shifting book, uncover its map with ink, and build a deck for turn-based battles. Players like: Ink-Driven Map Exploration · Two-Hero Positioning · Hero Pair Synergies ·
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Embrace the challenge of a roguelike deckbuilder with unique mechanics from the developers of Faeria and Richard Garfield, creator of Magic: The Gathering™. Build a team of two heroes, unleash powerful combos and defeat the legends of the Roguebook!

Tower Hunter: Erza's Trial - Players say: As Erza, a demon-bound warrior, battle through tower stages, gather upgrades, and defeat bosses to earn a Hunter's License. Players like: Colorful Visual Style · Enjoyable Combat · Fluid Character Movement ·
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Tower Hunter: Erza’s Trial contains core elements of roguelite games, presented in a toon render style. The player explores a mysterious tower with Erza, vanquishes mutant monsters and defeats bosses to acquire a Hunter’s License and become the most powerful Battle Maiden.

PlateUp! - Players say: Build a restaurant, cook to order, and manage customers solo or with up to three friends as menus and upgrades reshape each run. Players like: Co-op Teamwork · Replayable Runs · Kitchen Automation ·
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Cook and serve your dishes, design and decorate your restaurants, and expand your culinary kingdom with new unlocks, abilities and dishes in procedurally-generated locations. Classic cooking action with permanent roguelite progression. Hire your friends - or do it all yourself!

Sparklite - Players say: As mechanic Ada, explore shifting top-down biomes, fight the Baron’s machines, and upgrade between runs to protect Geodia. Players like: Pixel-Art Style · Fun Exploration Loop · Pleasant Soundtrack ·
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Sparklite is an action-adventure set in a whimsical & ever-changing land. Battle foes using an arsenal of gadgets, guns, & gear. Gear up for adventure in the dangerous corners of the procedurally generated world, take down titans of the mining industry, & harness the power of Sparklite!

Kingdom: New Lands - Players say: As a monarch on horseback, spend coins to grow a kingdom by day, defend it from nightly raids, and sail to new islands. Players like: Pixel Art and Music · Resource Strategy · Island Exploration ·
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Kingdom: New Lands builds upon the award-winning gameplay and mystery of Kingdom by introducing an abundance of new content to the IGF-nominated title while maintaining the simplicity and depth that legions of monarchs have come to experience and enjoy.

Fury Unleashed - Players say: Shoot through shifting comic-book pages, chain kills, gather upgrades, and battle through roguelite runs solo or in co-op. Players like: Co-op Fun · Fast Combat Flow · Comic-Book Art ·
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Shoot your way through the pages of an ever-changing comic book in this fast-paced roguelike. Play solo, in local or online co-op, expand your weaponry, and upgrade your hero with each run. All that to find out why has your creator lost his faith in you and to prove him wrong.

Mainframe Defenders - Players say: Lead four prototype mechs through turn-based missions to repel a computer virus, using gear combinations to counter infected robots. Players like: Gear Build Variety · Tactical Enemy Counters · Retro Style And Music ·
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MAINFRAME DEFENDERS - Turn-based tactics centered around gear and unit customization. It offers simple combat, high replayability, and tons of loot. Items don't just provide stats boost, but also offer distinct mechanics that can be combined into powerful builds.

Mech Armada - Players say: Build a squad from modular Mech parts, then outmaneuver the Swarm in grid-based battles across procedurally generated runs. Players like: Custom Mech Builds · Tactical Grid Combat · Build Experimentation ·
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Create and command custom Mechs to outmaneuver The Swarm in this post-apocalyptic tactical turn-based rogue-lite. Leverage the terrain, learn each Mech's unique skills and use strategy and resources to survive an ever-changing series of battles to give humanity hope.

Darkest 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?

Star Renegades - Players say: Lead a squad against the Imperium in a repeating sci-fi campaign, using timed attacks and team synergies to outmaneuver foes. Players like: Tactical Timeline Combat · Detailed Pixel Art · Distinct Hero Builds ·
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Star Renegades is a dimension spanning rogue-lite strategy RPG. Outsmart uniquely generated adversaries, forge bonds between heroes and end the cycle!

Going Under - Players say: As an unpaid intern, Jackie fights through cursed startup dungeons with breakable office weapons, skills, and coworker perks. Players like: Startup Culture Satire · Colorful Corporate Art · Funny Character Writing ·
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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.

Dreamscaper - Players say: By night, Cassidy battles emotion-shaped nightmares in shifting dream runs; by day, she builds Redhaven bonds and lasting upgrades. Players like: Weapon And Build Variety · Dreamlike Art And Music · Emotional Story Themes ·
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By night, delve deep into your subconscious and discover powerful artifacts to conquer your nightmares. By day, explore the city of Redhaven and build relationships to unlock the power of your dreams. DREAM. DIE. WAKE. REPEAT.

Hidden Gems

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

Port of Jumanah - Pearl diving is an ancient tradition... until you showed up. Dive into the depths, poke things you probably shouldn't, battle sea monsters, recruit questionable allies, upgrade your gear, rebuild your port, and make increasingly questionable decisions in this roguelite action adventure.
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Sep 7, 2026
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Replicat - A roguelike memory deckbuilder where you bend the rules of card matching with wild combos, strategy-defining items and cards featuring some personality-packed cats.
MOCHI-O - A doomsday land defense adventure in which you raise MOCHI-O, a weapon of annihilation that looks a lot like a hamster, to protect your country. Pet and raise MOCHI-O to defeat the oncoming enemies and fight through the tender post-apocalypse.
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.
Sculplings - A creature-collecting roguelike where every monster is sculpted in real clay and brought to life! Collect and battle a random assortment of hand-sculpted monsters in order to become the #1 Sculpling Champion!
868-BACK - 868-BACK is a computer-hacking strategy roguelike game where your mission is to dismantle capitalism one server at a time! Use hacking powers to fight enemies, steal the servers' data, and face increasingly nasty situations before being disconnected (again!) by the richest corporations on earth.
RAM: Random Access Mayhem - Players say: As a bodiless rogue AI, hijack enemy robots in a top-down shooter and chain their movesets to survive procedurally generated runs. Players like: Body-Swapping Combat · Distinct Robot Movesets · Satisfying Trickshots ·
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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.

Mimic Logic - Players say: Descend a procedurally generated dungeon, deduce which talking chests are mimics, and risk loot to prepare for battles. Players like: Brain-Bending Puzzles · Varied Puzzle Modes · Procedural Replayability ·
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"Mimic Logic" is an automatically generated logic puzzle roguelike. Listen to the statements of the treasure chests, find the lying mimics, and open the rest of the treasure chests! Opening a mimic results in a game over.

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Feb 22, 2024
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Hungry Horrors - Feed legendary Horrors before they feed on the princess. Hungry Horrors is a roguelite card-based adventure through British and Irish mythology where you cook traditional dishes, build flavour synergies and serve the perfect meal. No prince. No servants. Just a recipe book and a talking cat.
Worlds Upon The Wind - Resettle the shards of a shattered world in this peaceful roguelite deckbuilder, covering centuries of classical Japanese art. Nurture communities, befriend animal spirits, and shape a new civilization through choices that echo across generations.
Red Rocket Defencism - You, a military officer from our great autocratic motherland, must protect our precious rockets from the evil capitalist enemy in this revolutionary base building strategy game. Bribe! Surveil! Purge! Imbibe! The end justifies the means when you have to protect our invaluable rockets!

Top Rated

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

HoloCure - Save the Fans! - Players say: Choose a Hololive talent, survive mind-controlled fan swarms, and build weapons and upgrades in an action roguelite. Players like: Distinct Character Builds · Weapon Combinations · Abundant Side Content ·
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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.

The Void Rains Upon Her Heart - Players say: Guide an alien girl through a side-scrolling bullet-hell boss rush, choosing fights and earning gifts that power each run. Players like: Distinctive Boss Battles · Satisfying Unlock Progression · Flexible Difficulty Options ·
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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!

Pronoun Palace - Players say: In a dystopian spelling roguelike, build words from altered letter tiles to battle the state and reclaim your pronouns. Players like: Clever Word Battles · Distinct Enemy Mechanics · Unique Character Styles ·
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Pronoun Palace is a word-spelling roguelike set in a dystopian future where the government has taken your pronouns. Use spells to manipulate letter tiles, catch fish, and abuse amphetamines to defeat the Party and get your pronouns back!

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Jun 4, 2026
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Hades - 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.

Vampire Survivors - Players say: Move through timed monster hordes as attacks fire automatically, choosing weapons and upgrades to build a survivor run by run. Players like: Addictive Run Loop · Weapon Build Synergies · Frequent Unlocks ·
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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
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Balatro - Players say: Build poker hands, reshape your deck with Jokers and other cards, and chase rising score targets in roguelike runs. Players like: Replayable Runs · Joker Synergies · Easy to Learn ·
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The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.

Disfigure - Players say: Survive shadowed monster arenas by switching vision modes, shooting escalating hordes, and shaping weapon-and-upgrade builds. Players like: Weapon And Build Variety · Restricted-Vision Tension · Satisfying Combat ·
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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 - Players say: Choose a Touhou fighter and battle through short action-roguelite runs, dodging bullet patterns and building skills to face powerful bosses. Players like: Satisfying Combat · Distinct Character Styles · Build Variety ·
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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
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Brutal Orchestra - Players say: After dying in Purgatory, recruit strange companions and use pigment-powered tactics in turn-based runs to pursue revenge. Players like: Tactical Combat Planning · Surreal Art Direction · Strange Story And Humor ·
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Brutal Orchestra is a Turn-Based Roguelike Strategy Game. You died, someone killed you. You are in Purgatory and you will never escape. Make a deal with the "demon" Bosch and set off into Purgatory finding ​all manner of demented friends and foes on your quest to get petty revenge.

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Take me, Vitaly - Players say: After waking in Vitaly's country home, Maria searches for escape items, solves environmental puzzles, and evades him through stealth. Players like: Meme-Filled Humor · Exploration Puzzles · Funny Voice Acting ·
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Do you remember the Scary Movie? I do ;) So... In every woman's life, there comes a moment when she walks into the wrong door... The last thing I remember is a masquerade party at a nightclub and a tall, muscular man with a Belarusian accent who offered to buy me a cocktail...

Slay 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!

Dead Cells - Players say: Possess fallen bodies and fight through a shifting island, combining fast 2D combat with branching routes and permanent unlocks. Players like: Fluid Combat · Weapon Variety · Replayable Runs ·
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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.