Best Roguelite Games on Steam
Run-based games with resets plus lasting unlocks, upgrades, or account progress.
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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.
2Risk 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.
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.
4Vampire 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.
5Slay 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.
6Balatro - 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.
Feb 20, 2024
In this game, you can…
- reshape your deck until it's 20 Aces or a single suit.
- turn a normal poker hand into an impossible one, like five of a kind.
- stack two effects so one adds a new card every round and the other immediately buffs it, creating a self-feeding deck growth loop.
- make a straight or flush using only four cards.
- reroll the shop until you find the exact upgrade you're missing, burning all your cash to do it.
- start from a basic deck, buy wild upgrades between rounds, and watch one tiny combo turn into billions of points.
- skip early rounds for cash, ride interest, then pivot your whole deck plan and crush a 1M+ blind later.
- keep playing after you "win" in Endless mode, turning runs into a high-score lab for crazier combos.
7Dead 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.
8Darkest 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.
9DAVE THE DIVER - DAVE THE DIVER is a casual, singleplayer adventure RPG featuring deep-sea exploration and fishing during the day and sushi restaurant management at night. Join Dave and his quirky friends as they seek to uncover the secrets of the mysterious Blue Hole.
Jun 28, 2023
In this game, you can…
- harpoon fish all day, then run a sushi restaurant at night by setting the menu, managing staff, and serving customers for upgrade money.
- hunt Godzilla in a crossover event during your dives.
- care for a Tamagotchi-like fish on your in-game phone by feeding it, cleaning up poop, training it, and putting it to sleep.
- dive into a shifting underwater sinkhole where each trip turns up new fish, loot, and surprises.
- go from peaceful exploration to fighting sharks and a megalodon when something huge shows up in the dark.
- watch customers taste your special dishes and launch into over-the-top Food Wars-style reaction cutscenes.
- unlock a whole farm loop where you grow crops, raise and name chickens for eggs, and feed it all back into your restaurant recipes.
- keep unlocking side activities like seahorse racing, card collecting, photography, gambling, rhythm sequences, and brawling missions as the story escalates.
10Inscryption - Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Oct 19, 2021
In this game, you can…
- have the game reach outside itself to use your actual files and even turn your Steam friends into cards.
- watch the whole game abruptly switch from a 3D tabletop in a cabin to a Game Boy-style pixel world mid-story.
- pull a dagger at the table, then fight the moon as a final boss when the rules say that should be impossible.
- get trapped in a remote cabin, play cards for your life, then stand up and solve the room's secrets between rounds.
- sacrifice squirrels and other creatures to summon bigger beasts, making each turn about timing, placement, and painful choices.
- finish the story and still keep discovering secret rooms, hidden dialogue paths, and new interactions by poking around.
- unlock a replayable roguelite mode with endless runs, new challenges, and modifiers that change how every run plays.
- accidentally build a combo deck that suddenly becomes absurdly overpowered and snowballs into a runaway win condition.
