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1057 Roguelike games reviewed and scored, best first.
1057 reviews
A charming, well-priced fusion of maze-building tower defense and auto-battler unit drafting that hooked players hard through late 2022 with a dense first-year patch record, before its RNG-heavy unit pool and rough UI complaints outlived the developer's attention.
6.5 / 10
Designing the maze yourself, not just defending it Tower Dominion takes the standard tower-defense formula and hands players an unusually large amount of control over the battlefie
6.5 / 10
Fuse any two cards together, and see what happens Trizon is a roguelike deckbuilder that borrows its combat rhythm from the genre's autobattler wing — creatures fight it out on
6.5 / 10
A stylish inventory-battler splices Backpack Battles-style tile management with an asynchronous PvP coin-flip that too often decides fights before the shopping even starts.
6.5 / 10
A small, elegant turn-based tactics roguelite built around one sharp twist -- every unit must move and attack each turn -- earning strong early praise for its puzzle-like combat, while its very small review sample and an unforgiving permadeath structure leave open questions about broader appeal.
6.5 / 10
Pixeljam's vector-drenched, Missile-Command-inspired base-defense roguelite pairs a nearly universally praised aesthetic and moment-to-moment feel with a large, specific, and remarkably consistent negative-review consensus that its upgrade system is too linear, its late-game difficulty spikes too sharply, and its current Early Access content too thin to sustain repeat runs.
6.5 / 10
A solo/small-team deckbuilding roguelite auto-battler built around a deliberately minimalist "1+4" card system, Very Positive across 225 English reviews for genuinely addictive run-to-run strategy and a year-plus of monthly content updates -- while carrying an unusually loud and well-corroborated controversy over AI-generated art and music that the developers disclose openly on the store page rather than deny.
6.5 / 10
Vlad the Landlord is a $5.99 solo-developed pixel-art vampire management sim from Melinus Games that has players stocking a mansion "pantry" of tenants, managing thirst, and unlocking vampiric powers to eventually become human again, and this review's small, unanimously Positive sample praises its unusually genuine take on vampire fantasy and surprising depth.
6.5 / 10
A corporate-ladder roguelike deckbuilder from WageeWare where you play cards and roll dice from behind a desk, Positive across a small but heavily one-sided English review sample for its addictive card synergy and retro office aesthetic, with a fair complaint about an unclear core mechanic and one substantive negative review calling its pacing slow.
6.5 / 10
A strike team, a contaminated city, and a merciless clock Welcome Back, Commander sends a small squad into the plague-ridden city of Sun Stone, alternating between narrative-flavou
6.5 / 10
A Long-Awaited Third Chapter in a Cult Horror Series Reflect Studios built a following on a strange, singular idea: horror games where the scariest thing isn't a monster in a h
6.5 / 10
A dark fantasy strategy RPG that flips Darkest Dungeon's premise — you're the cult building up to destroy the hamlet, not the party defending it — wrapped in some of the most striking art in the genre and undercut by a tutorial that still can't explain its own systems more than a year after launch.
6.5 / 10
A gorgeous multiplayer co-op deckbuilding roguelite about scheduling witches' daily lives and crafting your own custom cards, praised widely for its art and card system but repeatedly criticised by its own reviewers for incomplete translation and cluttered UI persisting well past launch.
6.5 / 10
A Balatro-inspired word game that nails its addictive core loop of building high-scoring words against a rising target, but whose Very Positive score sits atop a widely and specifically corroborated complaint that it launched thin on content, balance, and dictionary polish.
6.5 / 10
A satirical survivors-like about incompetent superheroes causing more damage than the threats they're fighting, backed by an unusually rapid Early Access update cadence — reviewed from a small, currently spotless but geographically narrow sample, with the caveats that honestly deserves.
6.5 / 10
A fast-paced 2D bullet-heaven survivor built around a xianxia (Chinese cultivation-fantasy) identity rather than a generic reskin, with over a hundred "Arts" to combine into distinct builds — praised in its almost entirely Chinese-language review sample for genuine build depth and a strong visual identity, but held back by a steep early difficulty spike and a widely reported gap between melee and ranged/caster viability.
6.5 / 10
A hand-drawn Slavic-folklore action RPG about a one-handed, cursed blacksmith, still Very Positive on Steam seven years on -- but critics and players have agreed, with striking consistency since launch week, that the art, story and Romanian folk soundtrack are carrying a combat and crafting system that never got fixed.
6.5 / 10
A gorgeous Edo-period fantasy action RPG with three distinct heroes and fluid combat, whose shallow run variation draws real roguelite complaints -- and whose launch was upended a week in when its publisher abandoned the project, not the small developer some angry reviews initially blamed.
6.5 / 10
A stylish, Slay the Spire-inspired roguelike deckbuilder about blasting sentient planets apart with trash and junk, whose distinctive art style and card-fusion mechanic earn real affection, tempered by a widely reported launch-era feeling of unfinished polish that this review can confirm the developer directly addressed through a substantial post-launch content patch.
6.5 / 10
A turn-based roguelike built entirely around combining scavenged items into spells and weapons, delivering a genuinely satisfying discovery loop that its shallow combat and thin replayability can't quite match.
6.4 / 10
A Solo Deduction Game Where Math Matters More Than Bluffing Dungeon Tells casts you as a dungeon boss trying to figure out which heroes in a captured lineup are lying about their s
6.4 / 10
Fuel Me Up is a $9.99 roguelite shoot 'em up from solo developer O Rei Luiz, built around a leaking fuel tank that forces constant forward momentum across over 5,000 possible ship, pilot, and add-on combinations, and this review's full 9-review sample is unanimously positive, praising its addictive loop, generous customization, and genuine community-driven post-launch support.
6.4 / 10
A chain-reaction inventory game wearing a bullet-hell coat "SealChain: Call of Blood" builds its entire identity around one central idea: items in your bag aren't jus
6.4 / 10
A Deckbuilder Wearing a Survivorlike's Clothes Slay the Horde is a roguelike from solo studio Regretware that grafts card-based deckbuilding directly onto the screen-filling ho
6.4 / 10
