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339 Roguelike games reviewed and scored, best first.
339 reviews
A Slay the Spire and Into the Breach hybrid deckbuilder whose satisfying core loop has kept some players logging hundreds of hours, held back by real balance complaints about build diversity and a specific, concrete motion-sickness accessibility issue.
7 / 10
Campaign for votes by day, fight the incumbent's gangs by night, and steal each boss's supernatural power when you beat them. A genuinely novel roguelike from the Anomaly Agent studio — one day old, visibly unfinished, and carrying a 97% score that needs reading carefully.
7 / 10
A small co-op action roguelike that grew out of a public alpha and beta into a full release its handful of long-term testers say has transformed since those early builds. Ten reviews, all positive, and a developer shipping patches at a pace that matches the enthusiasm.
7 / 10
A roguelike deckbuilder that swaps cards for dice and damage/block for a dual Purification/Corruption system -- gorgeous, genuinely inventive, and Very Positive on Steam, but close to half its negative reviews cite overwhelming complexity and a similar share cite dice variance that several reviewers call unfair rather than merely risky.
7 / 10
A gorgeous, minimalist real-time tactics roguelite where you evacuate a doomed Viking-era island kingdom one procedurally shaped island at a time — Very Positive at 93.2% across 6,561 reviews for seven years running, with a remarkably consistent complaint from its own fans that the whole experience is over, and starts repeating itself, well before it should be.
7 / 10
A solo-developed deckbuilder whose one real twist — you draft cards mid-fight instead of only between them, and your wounds follow you into the next battle — has convinced every single one of its handful of Steam reviewers, three months after a launch almost nobody noticed.
7 / 10
A 3D roguelike ARPG dungeon crawler with ten character classes and a distinctive hand-painted-meets-pixel-art look — well liked a week into launch, with real, repeated complaints about shallow combat and a genuinely unusual design choice: no mid-run save system at all.
7 / 10
A dice-poker deckbuilder set in a shamanic purgatory, reviewed one day after launch on a single professional review, a demo-era user corpus, and Steam's own early data — because the full game itself has exactly one Steam review to its name so far.
7 / 10
A Kickstarter-funded "date your weapons" dungeon crawler from the Moon Hunters team -- Very Positive on Steam for its style, music and genuinely distinctive premise, and shadowed since launch week by a specific, heavily-upvoted complaint that its story talks about consent far more than its mechanics actually practice it.
7 / 10
A 2.5D sci-fi roguelike deckbuilder that turns "how much fuel is too much" into its entire combat system — cards feed a shared gauge for ceiling-mounted flamethrowers, and overshooting the target window backfires on you instead of the aliens.
7 / 10
A dungeon-crawling incremental where the monsters are also the ingredients — charming, tightly made, and finished by most of the people who buy it in a single sitting, for better and for worse.
7 / 10
A gorgeous, narrator-driven roguelite about a family of seven heroes defending their mountain from a spreading Corruption -- still Very Positive on Steam seven years on, with a remarkably consistent complaint pattern: reviewers love the pixel art and story, and just as consistently find the combat repetitive and the co-op unreliable.
7 / 10
A solo-developed, Bevy-built wizard-defense roguelite where four playable archetypes control like four different games, released eight days ago to just two Steam reviews and a five-patch first week.
7 / 10
Weather Factory's card-driven cosmic horror sim deliberately refuses to explain itself -- a design choice its own creators later softened for its 2023 successor after eight years of Steam reviews split almost exactly along the line between players who find that opacity thrilling and those who find it simply punishing.
7 / 10
A tight, dark-fantasy dungeon-crawling roguelite where every choice trades short-term power for a rising curse meter — critically well-reviewed and Very Positive on Steam, with a vocal minority who bounce hard off its late-game difficulty and its lack of a Hades-style hub to soften the loop.
7 / 10
A beloved hybrid of Vampire Survivors, Diablo-style gearing and Hades-style god powers, still in Early Access nearly three years after launch — with even its most loyal fans now openly asking whether it will ever actually finish.
7 / 10
A creature-taming roguelike deckbuilder with a genuinely distinctive hook — recruit your enemies into your deck instead of collecting pre-made cards, then lose them permanently if they die in battle — undercut for a meaningful slice of players by steep, RNG-heavy difficulty spikes that a dedicated "Difficulty Update" only partly resolved.
7 / 10
A voxel-styled match puzzle that swaps the usual click-and-swap for sliding whole rows and columns like a stone tablet, wraps it in a roguelite deckbuilding run, and backs it with a real 8-player online mode that almost nobody is around to fill.
7 / 10
A Cult of the Lamb-shaped roguelite about taming, breeding and battling with dinosaurs that a large majority of players genuinely enjoy for its cute art and satisfying core loop, worn down for a real minority by breeding RNG and small-feeling maps.
7 / 10
A tiny, genuinely one-of-a-kind dungeon crawler played entirely inside the Windows File Explorer — drag your character folder into new rooms, equip loot by dropping files into an equipment folder, fight in auto-resolved combat narrated by a console window — that earned a clean 100% positive Steam reception for an idea executed with real charm, even though the combat underneath the gimmick is thin and most runs are over in under two hours.
7 / 10
Read review of Directory Dungeon: File Explorer Dungeon Crawler
Real chess rules underneath a board that fights back — pieces carry hit points and their own fog-of-war vision, captures aren't guaranteed kills, and a mid-turn real-time window lets you burn a cooldown spell before the clock passes to your opponent. Two days into Early Access it already has a working single-player mode against AI, up to four-player online lobbies, and eight patches.
7 / 10
A cheap, frenetic top-down shooter where a destruction witch demolishes dungeon walls instead of fighting through them, Very Positive on Steam for a tight, satisfying thirty-minute main campaign that unlocks a genuinely addictive Endless Mode -- with a small but specific negative sample flagging balance and localization rough edges around the edges of an otherwise well-loved power fantasy.
7 / 10
A 20-minute survival roguelite that lets you rebuild your creature from over 125 evolutions every run, wrapped in a living ecosystem where you're just as often the prey as the predator — sharp and addictive early, but the same handful of builds start resurfacing once the novelty wears off.
7 / 10
Read review of Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite
A stylish hybrid of deck-building and turn-based tactics staged as John Wick-style action- movie fight choreography -- Very Positive on Steam, with a consistent balance and replayability complaint against genre giants like Slay the Spire, and a recent, specific monetisation grievance from its most invested players.
7 / 10
