Top 15 Desktop Dungeons Alternative and Similar Games | Sep 2024

Desktop Dungeons is a quick-play roguelike puzzle game that gives you roughly 10 minutes of dungeon-crawling action per serving. It straddles the casual and hardcore boundary in that, while you might die frequently because the game is tricky and unforgiving, it’s so approachable and quick to get into that you keep wanting just one more round.

1. 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.......

2. Swap Sword

Swap Sword Swap Sword is the match-3 puzzle battle game with roguelike battles. Out-smart and out-slice your enemies on a battlefield that changes with every step. It’s the right mix of tactics, spells, and match-3 madness.FEATURESUNSHEATH YOUR WITS - Swap to kill, match to dispatch, but don’t get caught with your sword......

3. Dungeon of the Endless

Dungeon of the Endless Dungeon of the Endless is a Rogue-Like Dungeon-Defense game, in which the player and their team of heroes must protect the generator of their crashed ship while exploring an ever-expanding dungeon, all while facing waves of monsters and special events as they try to find their way out...GATHER A TEAM-......

4. 100 Rogues

100 Rogues 100 Rogues is a dungeon crawling fantasy adventure available on iOS for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. It features vivid pixel art, charming characters, and is a quick, pick-up-and-play challenge.......

5. 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.......

6. 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.......

7. Unleashed Pixel Dungeon

Unleashed Pixel Dungeon Unleashed Pixel Dungeon is a game based on the open-source Shattered Pixel Dungeon, with scores of enhancements.FEATURESDifficulty Levels:Tutorial - adds useful hints to the dungeon, badges earned only on deathEasy - easier mobs, tougher hero, better drops, badges only on death, save anywhereNormal - base game, save only at level......

8. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup is an open-source, single-player, role-playing roguelike game of exploration and treasure-hunting in dungeons filled with dangerous and unfriendly monsters in a quest to rescue the mystifyingly fabulous Orb of Zot.......

9. 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!......

10. Dungeons of Dredmor

Dungeons of Dredmor The Dungeons of Dredmor await. Are you ready for them? Key features:- Classic Roguelike gameplay with the sweet, refreshing taste of point-and-click interfaces. No longer must you press CTRL-ALT-SHIFT-x to drink a potion. - Randomly generated dungeons entice you with the sweet, sweet promises of treasure and … things.......

11. Shattered Pixel Dungeon

Shattered Pixel Dungeon Shattered Pixel Dungeon is a Roguelike RPG, with pixel art graphics and lots of variety and replayability. Every game is unique, with four different playable characters, randomized levels and enemies, and over 150 items to collect and use. The game is simple to get into, but has lots of depth.......

12. Darkest Dungeon

Darkest 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 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......

13. 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......

14. Brogue

Brogue Brogue is a Roguelike game for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux by Brian Walker.......

15. Tales of Maj'Eyal (ToME)

Tales of Maj'Eyal (ToME) Tales of Maj'Eyal (ToME) is an open-source, single-player, tactical role-playing roguelike and action game set in the world of Eyal.This is the Age of Ascendancy, after over ten thousand years of strife, pain and chaos the known world is at last at relative peace. The Spellblaze last effects are now......