Top 15 Rogue Alternative and Similar Games | Sep 2024

1. Ancient Domains of Mystery

Ancient Domains of Mystery (ADOM for short) is a roguelike game which means that it is a single-user game featuring the exploration of a dungeon complex (and in the case of ADOM a few other games of this genre: the exploration of a large wilderness area with villages and many...... TpSort Score | 235,000

2. Brogue

Brogue is a Roguelike game for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux by Brian Walker....... TpSort Score | 282,000

3. Pixel Dungeon

Pixel Dungeon is a traditional roguelike game with pixel-art graphics and simple interface.Explore the depths of Pixel Dungeon, collect useful items, fight fierce monsters to find Amulet of Yendor (surprise!) - the ultimate artifact of this game world.Features- Pixel-art graphics- Music by Cube_Code- Basic sound fx- Simple touch interface- 25...... TpSort Score | 769,000

4. 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....... TpSort Score | 196,000

5. Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead is a roguelike set in a post-apocalyptic world. Surviving is difficult: you have been thrown, ill-equipped, into a landscape now riddled with monstrosities of which flesh eating zombies are neither the strangest nor the deadliest....... TpSort Score | 1,240,000

6. POWDER

Descend into the depths of the dungeon until you reach the foul daemon known as "He who the author cannot spell consistently", or, Baezl'bub. When you have slain Baezl'bub in heroic combat, or, if Baezl'bub dies in any way, retrieve his black heart and bring it to the surface world.To...... TpSort Score | 11,300,000

7. Desktop Dungeons

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...... TpSort Score | 220,000

8. Ascii Sector

Ascii Sector is a free space combat/exploration/trading game for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. You start with a simple spaceship and can then accept missions or trade goods to earn enough money to upgrade your ship or buy a new one.You can engage in deadly fights both in space,...... TpSort Score | 7,020,000

9. 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....... TpSort Score | 1,100,000

10. Frozen State

Frozen State is an open-world survival game with roguelike elements. The game casts players into a man-made ice age where hunger, thirst and sleep present constant threats in an already dismal world.FEATURES Rogue-like and normal modes Three main characters Diverse enemies Large open world Dynamic weather conditions Procedurally generated building...... TpSort Score | 30,000,000

11. Sunless Sea

Explore the dark and foreboding waters of Fallen London as captain of a steamship. Sunless Sea is an epic, roguelike game of discovery set in the Victorian Gothic universe of Fallen London and played from a real-time, top-down perspective.FEATURES A deep, compelling world packed with 350,000+ words of...... TpSort Score | 1,620,000

12. Streets of Rogue

Streets of Rogue is a rogue-lite about player choice, freedom, and anarchic fun. The game takes inspiration from fast-paced top-down rogue-lites like Binding of Isaac and Nuclear Throne, and adds free-form, experimentation-driven, emergent gameplay elements of RPGs like Deus Ex.Rather than taking place in a dungeon, the game is set...... TpSort Score | 1,510,000

13. The Flame in the Flood

Travel by foot and by raft down a procedurally-generated river as you scrounge for resources, craft tools, remedy afflictions, evade the vicious wildlife, and most importantly, stay ahead of the coming rains....... TpSort Score | 16,300,000

14. Darkwood

Darkwood is a roguelike, survival horror set in ominous, randomly generated woods.FEATURES By day, explore the woods, scavenge for materials and weapons, discover secrets, solve mysteries and talk, trade with or kill the various inhabitants of Darkwood. By night, return to your hideout, barricade, set up traps and hide or...... TpSort Score | 5,590,000

15. A Wizard's Lizard

Conquer the forces of Death in A Wizard’s Lizard, an action RPG for Windows, Mac and Linux. Explore ever-changing dungeons, filled with valuable treasure and powerful items, while battling back the hordes of evil. Rescue townsfolk to improve your town and aid your next trek into the dungeon. Fans of...... TpSort Score | 18,400,000