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339 Roguelike games reviewed and scored, best first.
339 reviews
A Team17-published fantasy alchemy-adventure about a masked Warden brewing potions and taming creatures to stop a spreading corruption -- genuinely atmospheric and well-loved by a devoted minority, but let down by threadbare tutorials, a locked camera and a developer who shipped two patches in its first two weeks and then largely went quiet.
6 / 10
A cheap, cheerfully-written Early Access merchant RPG whose title promises trading and whose actual difficulty curve punishes it — this review's full read of every English-language negative review finds a consistent, two-year-old complaint that carrying trade goods is what gets a caravan killed, alongside a smaller but serious cluster of reports of full system crashes.
6 / 10
A sci-fi roguelite built around a genuinely inventive parallel-universe fusion mechanic, praised for its art and animation, undercut by controls a large share of reviewers describe as unresponsive and floaty next to genre benchmark Dead Cells, plus real progression-blocking bugs that outlasted the patch meant to fix them.
6 / 10
Reviewed the same day as its predecessor, this sequel draws a genuinely different complaint than the original — rather than being measured against Advance Wars for tactical depth, Wargroove 2's dominant criticism is excessive, often unskippable dialogue and exposition, alongside a specific features trade several longtime fans see as a net loss.
6 / 10
A charming, well-liked Vampire Survivors-style roguelite whose marketing promises explicit content it doesn't deliver — and whose main menu has carried a completely non-functional "Extra" button since launch, still unrepaired three years and one bug-fix patch later.
6 / 10
Motion Twin's lightning-fast co-op roguelite from the creators of Dead Cells, nearly two years into an Early Access run that has seen the developer visibly respond to community backlash (removing a widely hated "sudden death" co-op mechanic), while solo players, value-for-money and content depth remain real, recurring points of contention.
6 / 10
A stylish co-op survival roguelite about wizards who shoot rather than cast, widely described at launch as feeling rushed and early-access-like — and, as of June 2024, permanently frozen in that state after developer Galvanic Games officially disbanded.
6 / 10
A neon cyberspace tower-defense roguelite from Clockwork Origins, released September 2023 with co-op and versus multiplayer, card-draft upgrades and weekly challenges, undercut by a design that gives you exactly one tower to defend with and no say over the maze around it.
5.5 / 10
A stylish roguelite spin-off of the beloved Dungeon of the Endless that split its own fanbase over how far it strayed from the original, undercut further by a co-op design where only the host earns progression and a detailed, highly-upvoted account of the game's DRM and telemetry connections.
5.5 / 10
A zombie-survivors auto-shooter that bolts a permadeath mercenary camp onto the Vampire Survivors formula, then largely stopped receiving new content the year after it left Early Access. The base-building risk-reward loop is genuinely distinct; the 330-achievement grind underneath it is not.
5.5 / 10
An idle incremental RPG wrapped around a genuinely creepy generational-horror premise — die, pass your DNA to the next generation, grow stronger, discover who's really benefiting — undercut by a specific, well-corroborated complaint from two independent reviewers that the core power fantasy runs backwards.
5.5 / 10
A retro-arcade roguelite built around a genuinely clever idea — rotating a shared shield to reposition a four-hero party mid-fight — undercut by a crash problem this review's full read of the review history finds so persistent the developer built a consolation message for it instead of fixing the source.
5.5 / 10
A one-mechanic dragon-hunting action RPG — hold a direction, auto-fight, buy four stats — that most players clear in well under an hour, with an eleven-year-old windowed-mode bug still being reported the week before this review was written.
5.5 / 10
A charming wand-crafting survivors-like about magic chickens fighting an anti-magic toad army, whose developers patched intensely for its first month before support tapered off and eventually pivoted to announcing a sequel rather than fixing the bugs still reported years later.
5.5 / 10
A NZ$6.95 Vampire Survivors-style bullet-heaven from Amrita, Very Positive across 470 lifetime reviews but carrying a consistent, dated accusation from its own players — 19 of the 52 most-helpful English negatives name Vampire Survivors directly, several call it a near-identical asset-flip, and the developer's own patch history shows active Early Access support stopping the moment 1.0 shipped in February 2023, replaced since by two entirely new games from the same studio.
5.5 / 10
A Nordic-folklore action roguelite that launched with a secretly always-online requirement for a single-player game, patched it out within months after backlash, then wound down development entirely by October 2023 — leaving real structural complaints about exploration and weapon variety permanently unaddressed.
5.5 / 10
A roguelite tactics-autobattler hybrid set in the Legend of the Five Rings universe that launched to real praise for its lore fidelity and build variety, but whose more recent reviews have swung sharply negative around one specific, damning complaint — the developer has stopped updating it.
5.5 / 10
A relaxed, Yahtzee-inspired dice roguelike with real charm and a genuine "just one more round" pull, undercut by a severe reported Steam Deck stability issue at launch and an unresolved progression-breaking bug still being reported months after the last visible patch.
5.5 / 10
A solo-developed auto-battler that dresses itself up as an idle RPG, delivers a genuinely satisfying handful of boss fights through three distinct heroes, and then ends before its skill trees, weapon collection or "idle" framing ever get the room to matter.
5.5 / 10
A pixel-art village-and-heroes RPG from the Punch Club and Graveyard Keeper studios that markets itself as idle and plays like a part-time job — genuinely funny writing and strong art undercut by a loop that never lets go of the mouse.
5.5 / 10
A single-tower roguelite defense game with a genuinely neat central hook — build and upgrade one tower instead of placing many — undercut at launch by narrow build viability, a cramped view window and a price several of its own fans said was too high for what shipped.
5.5 / 10
A gorgeous, story-driven Darkest Dungeon-alike from a four-person South Korean studio, still stuck at a Mixed Steam rating seven years on -- gorgeous art and an unusually generous first-week patch run against a punishing UI, a party-wipe-on-main-character-death rule, and cosmetic unlocks that reviewers consistently call not worth chasing.
5.5 / 10
A gorgeous, Breath of the Wild-indebted survival roguelite about a shipwrecked warrior sailing between procedural islands — praised for its art and boat-building, undercut by a identity crisis between story, survival and permadeath that most players never resolve, since fewer than one in eleven ever finishes it.
5.5 / 10
A solo developer's 21-day, AI-assisted experiment that welds a card-driven survival day-loop onto Vampire Survivors-style crowd combat — playable, oddly ambitious for its scope, and readable only if you know Simplified Chinese.
5 / 10
