Roguelike
101 games reviewed, ranked by score.
Slay the Spire
The Deckbuilder That Started It All Still Holds
Balatro
150 jokers and zero off-ramps
Dicevaders
Turn dice into board-breaking alien armies.
Emberward
Its tetromino maze-building is a stroke of genius.
Into the Breach
Three Mechs, Eight-By-Eight Grid, Endless Tactical Knots
Against the Storm
Settlements built to be abandoned, and you keep founding more
FTL: Faster Than Light
Twelve years of rerouted shields and panicked airlocks
Hades
The Roguelike That Made Death Worth Repeating
Slay the Spire 2
More Spire, Sharper Spire, Still Unfinished Spire
Hades II
Supergiant Sharpens Its Roguelike Until Only Story Drags
Monster Train 2
Leaves no reason to ride the first train again
Worlds Upon The Wind
Sequencing glyphs into a reborn world, no combat required
Combolands: Roguelike Citybuilder
Where finding the broken combo is the entire point.
VOID/BREAKER
Build a gun that breaks all the rules.
Heat Signature
Spaceship heists where every mistake becomes a story
Inscryption
A deckbuilder that won't sit still, for better and worse
Monster Train
Slay theSpire's formula, rebuilt as a train engine
Mycopunk
Its build-crafting fuels a perfect co-op chaos engine.
DRAPLINE
Feed her a sword, raise her stats, lose your heart.
Pronoun Palace
Spell your way out of a state that confiscated your pronouns
Shogun Showdown
Into the Breach's brain, Slay the Spire's pull
StarVaders
Chrono Tokens Turn Tactical Deckbuilding Into Chess on Steroids
Tape to Tape
Arcade hockey's perfect comeback, with roguelike power plays.
Darkest Dungeon
The Best Stress Simulator Ever Built
Omelet You Cook
Pan-tetris omelets with sound design that sings
Pathogenic
Sharp cellular shooter with a save-eating bug it can't shake
Vampire Survivors
Five Euros for the Genre's Founding Snowball
Cobalt Core
One-axis ship combat that clicks, enemies that don't keep up
Mini Motorways
Simple rules, traffic-induced rage, and one more city
RIG Riot
Build your perfect mech, then pilot it like it's 2002.
Sephiria
Grid-tablet build-crafting that soars solo, drops the run in co-op
SULFUR
Build the perfect gun. Then fight your inventory.
The Loopler
Build the perfect score engine, then let it run.
Zoominoes
Zoo tiles that combo into the millions, once the soft locks stop
Antivirus Survivors 2003 Professional
A flawless Y2K theme, running on a single map.
Backpack Battles
Tetris with bloodlust, and you can't stop arranging
Across the Obelisk
Co-op deckbuilder where the debuff stack breaks the fight
Black Jacket
Blackjack rebuilt as a deckbuilder, with a story that lands
Rift Wizard 3
Deepest wizard-building in the series, guarded by a merciless opening
Feed The Pit
A cult hunt with real heart, sold one act at a time
Griftlands
Negotiation gets its own deck, and it cuts deeper
He is Coming
An auto battler that hides real strategy under retro paint
BALL x PIT
Breakout Fused With Vampire Survivors, And It Sticks
Batomon Showdown
Addictive team-building that trips over a shallow endgame.
Bills Must Be Paid
Smashing piggies for coins that pays off, then clocks out
DAVE THE DIVER
A Circus of Minigames That Somehow Holds Together
Rogue Voltage
Wiring chain reactions that pay off, once the bugs settle
Tabletop Tavern
Total War skirmishes in roguelike runs, slack AI and all
How Many Dudes?
Absurd dude-drafting that snowballs long after the decisions dry up
Pax Autocratica
A tyrant loop that clicks, if the workers keep working
Quasimorph
Clone-fed raids that grip, until loot luck runs the late game
Shroom and Gloom
A beautiful hand-drawn deckbuilder that makes GPUs sweat.
SWAPMEAT
Wearing your enemies is a blast, until three planets run dry
Ascend to ZERO
Time-stop combat worth the tenner, if the crashes spare your save
Die in the Dungeon
Dice on a grid that clicks, until the board clutters
DIVE or DIE - Children of Rain
Oxygen-gauge dread worth the plunge, if crashes spare your haul
Fogpiercer
Cliff-throwing tactics that outshine their own card decks
Grail
Build the perfect deck. Then pray it knows how to play.
LONESTAR
Make Your Number Bigger Has Never Felt This Deep
Ogre Chambers 2222
Gravity-tugged bullet-hell that clicks, then runs out of upgrades
Stackflow
Bee-and-casino block builds shine before the deck runs shallow
33 Immortals
A 33-player boss rush worth joining, if the servers hold
Garden of Witches
Charming witches and a killer soundtrack, roguelike depth left thin
Arms of God
Fusing five weapons feels great, the circle-running maps don't
Dome Keeper
Dig, defend, repeat: the perfect 30-minute itch
Loop Hero
A Brilliant Loop That Eventually Devours Itself
Sol Cesto
Gorgeous grotesque odds-juggling, tripped up by unfair dice and no save
Tears of Metal
Crisp clan warfare, marginal upgrades and no mid-run save
Yet Another Zombie Survivors
Squad synergies lift the survivors loop before the builds converge
Cursemark
Rune-breaking synergies worth chasing, if the bugs and thin content don't stop you
Lost Castle 2
Hundreds of weapons, one game-ending boss softlock
Meta Ghost: Breaking Show
Sharp cyberpunk build-crafting, sabotaged by run-ending crashes
Apocalypse Express
Frantic train defence that sings in co-op, strains solo
Beastro
Cook-the-deck charm let down by shallow fights and save-wiping bugs
Dead Weight
Ledge-shoving fights that dazzle, then repeat themselves dry
Funguys Swarm
A charming swarm that crashes before it burns out
Gordian Quest
Deckbuilder Depth Buried Under D&D Sprawl
GRAIN ROT
Extraction looting with a base that finally sticks
Hell Maiden
Gorgeous descent into Hell, tripped by run-ending crashes
Stacklands
Drag a villager onto a berry bush and lose an evening
Anomaly President
Campaign by day, brawl by night, restart from scratch
Bingle Bingle
Spin-the-wheel buildcraft that hides its own rules
The Scroll of Taiwu : Beyond The Dome
Generations of kung-fu builds, walled behind no tutorial
STAR WARS: Galactic Racer™
A thrilling race engine, bolted to a bare-bones frame.
Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes
Crisis after crisis, until the BSG dread becomes admin
EVERSPACE
Gorgeous space roguelike that mistakes grind for difficulty
Asgard's Fall — Viking Survivors
A sharp build-web, snagged by crashes and lag
Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault
A smarter shop loop buried under crashes and clumsy combat
Ostranauts
Salvaging derelicts thrills, until a bug eats your save
R.I.P. - Reincarnation Insurance Program
Its loot-and-shoot loop clicks. The controls do not.
Stick It to the Stickman
Its physics comedy lands. The 1.0 launch does not.
Unrailed 2: Back on Track
Glorious with three friends, hollow with bots and stutter
Breachway
Modular ships reshape your deck mid-run. The balance doesn't hold.
Cursed Companions
Killing friends with a word delights, when the mic cooperates
Sir, We Have an Orc Problem
Fluid orc hordes shine, then the upgrade tree runs on empty
The Mound: Omen of Cthulhu
Shared-sanity dread that its own timer and crashes work against
Dark Scrolls
Weighty arcade combat undercut by no rebinding and an ear-stabbing bug
Ratatan
A beautiful parade marching in circles
Wanderburg
Its mobile fortress is a joy to build, a pain to run.
Sineus Arena Survivors
Sharp horde rush, wrecked by late-wave scaling and spawn bugs
Killer Bean
Ricochet kills that delight, in a build that barely functions