Top 15 Darkest Dungeon Alternative and Similar Games | Dec 2024

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 through twisted forests, forgotten warrens, ruined crypts, and beyond. You'll battle not only unimaginable foes, but stress, famine, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Uncover strange mysteries, and pit the heroes against an array of fearsome monsters with an innovative strategic turn-based combat system.

1. Pathos:Nethack Codex

Pathos:Nethack Codex Pathos is a roguelike adventure game based on the rule set from Nethack. Choose from 13 classes and journey deep into the dungeon. Descend to hell to defeat your nemesis before escaping the dungeon with all the loot you can carry!......

2. Quest of Dungeons

Quest of Dungeons Quest of Dungeons is a turn based dungeon crawler game, a roguelike.An evil Dark Lord has stolen all the light, so your mission is to enter his lair and defeat him. The dungeons layout is procedural so you won't find items/enemies in the same place each time you play.......

3. Angband

Angband Angband is a free, single-player dungeon exploration game. You play an adventurer seeking riches, fighting monsters, and preparing for a final battle with Morgoth, the Lord of Darkness.......

4. Moria

Moria Moria is a roguelike computer game based heavily on J. R. R. Tolkien's novel The Lord of the Rings. The game's objective is to kill a Balrog, presumably Durin's Bane, deep within the Mines of Moria. A later port of Moria called Umoria (UNIX Moria) inspired the Angband roguelike game.......

5. Hack, Slash, Loot

Hack, Slash, Loot Hack, Slash, Loot is a single-player turn-based dungeon crawler. Take control of a lone hero and explore sprawling dungeons, fight dangerous monsters, and most importantly, plunder valuable treasures. With a new dungeon created every game you can be sure that no two playthroughs will ever be the same. Boasting easy......

6. The Quest

The Quest The Quest is a turn-based, open-world RPG in the vein of classic dungeon crawlers like The Bard's Tale . Featuring beautiful, hand-drawn graphics, the game casts players in an epic adventure with scores of optional, side quests.......

7. The Deep Paths

The Deep Paths The Deep Paths: Labyrinth Of Andokost is a traditional, turn-based RPG in the vein of classics like Lands of Lore (series) . Discover a massive, richly detailed labyrinth full of perils and treasure.......

8. Tales of Maj'Eyal (ToME)

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9. Egoboo

Egoboo Egoboo is an open source, cross-platform computer game. It's a three-dimensional dungeon crawling adventure that borrows a lot of elements from the roguelike genre. Egoboo is still under development, but it is fully playable.......

10. Ananias Roguelike

Ananias Roguelike Explore the ancient ruins, survive to the bottom level and save the world. Every time you play the game will create a new dungeon full of challenges and surprises for you in 5 different environments populated with monsters and ancient magical artifacts.There are eight different player classes, each one designed......

11. Geared

Geared Geared is a side-scrolling RPG with real-time strategy elements. Geared is all about building, crafting and exploring. We built Geared fully from the ground up for android and iOS, with easy controls and light specs. In Geared, you take on the role of a lost little guy, out all alone......

12. Deadly Dungeons

Deadly Dungeons Deadly Dungeons is a traditional, turn-based 3D RPG dungeon crawler set in an original fantasy game universe.FEATURESMassive and deadly dungeon environments to adventurer through.Randomly generated dungeon levels, creatures, and items.Pages worth of dialog, journal entries, and environmental descriptions of the dungeon environment.First-person dungeon crawlingTouch-based interface.......

13. Heroes of a Broken Land

Heroes of a Broken Land Heroes of a Broken Land is a classic style, turn-based RPG with distinctive gameplay elements like world randomization, town building and multiple party control.FEATURES Procedurally generated worlds and dungeons for unlimited replay Customize your world - from tiny worlds to epic adventures Choose one of six Wizards to control, each......

14. The Bard's Tale

The Bard's Tale The Bard's Tale is a legendary RPG that achieved fame through releases on early computer systems including Apple II, Amiga and Commodore 64 and finally a smash PC hit through a DOS release. It's the turn-based, first person, dungeon crawler that set the bar for many others to follow. It's......

15. Edge of Space

Edge of Space Suit up as an operative of the Ark Corporation, sent to the farthest reaches of the universe in search of habitable planets to terraform.Key FeaturesOpen World Exploration– Dynamically-generated 2D sandbox set in the deepest recesses of space, explore randomly generated caverns, wormhole anomalies and dive deeper into the planet to......