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1057 Roguelike games reviewed and scored, best first.
1057 reviews
A third-person sci-fi horde shooter that pairs Vampire Survivors-scale enemy counts with build-your-own ARPG crafting, launched into Early Access with a specific roadmap, an honest price and zero independent track record to check any of it against.
6 / 10
A Pocketpair-published metroidvania-roguelite hybrid about a cursed witch's hat that can possess fallen enemies earns a Mostly Positive Steam debut for its charm and combat feel, while a large share of its review sample argues it never fully commits to either half of its genre mashup.
6 / 10
A Cursed Nap for the Whole Party Not Sleep Hero is a $5.99 turn-based strategy RPG built around a simple, mildly absurd premise: the game's Hero and their companions get pulled
6 / 10
Wake Up, Keep Moving, Don't Overthink It Noxcode is a solo-developer movement game with a premise so minimal it barely needs a story: wake up at the bottom of a procedurally ge
6 / 10
A co-op roguelite boss-rush built around MMO-raid-style encounters, whose genuinely striking art, music, and boss design keep pulling reviewers back in even as pacing, balance, and a rough launch state hold it back from being an easy recommendation.
6 / 10
An Old-School Warcraft Fantasy, Built to Run in the Background Orc Incremental is exactly what it says on the tin: build an orc warband, set it loose against wave after wave of ene
6 / 10
A charming bullet-heaven roguelite that casts you as a frog defending your farm from corrupted critters while planting crops, fishing, and mining between waves, whose likable twist on the genre earns genuine affection undercut by a widely repeated, specific complaint that its weapon and build variety runs out well before its playtime does.
6 / 10
PinBall Escape (full title, Pinball Escape: The Library of God) is a $2.99 roguelike vertical pinball climber where a bickering Angel and Demon must flip their way to the top shelf of God's infinite library, and its single glowing review praises evolving mechanics and a forgiving, paddle-cushioned fall system, even as this review found several gaps, zero achievements, no visible post-launch patches, and a marketing/reality mismatch on the game's own visual style, worth flagging.
6 / 10
A swashbuckling roguelike deckbuilder sequel that layers a genuinely inventive card-merging upgrade system onto its predecessor, undercut early in Early Access by a save-corruption bug and a turn-counter management system that splits its own returning fans.
6 / 10
A pixel-art roguelite that bills itself as "Vampire Survivors meets Gauntlet," drawing real affection from arcade-era Gauntlet fans while a consistent share of newcomers expecting a faster bullet-heaven find its slow pacing, minimal stat upgrades and unfair-feeling enemy scaling a poor match for their expectations.
6 / 10
A Twenty-Fourth Consecutive Launch Without a Single Review Puzzle Loot released on Steam on 21 August 2026 and has zero user reviews at the time of writing, extending this stretch&
6 / 10
A genuinely inventive billiards-roguelike hybrid that lets you knock monster balls into holes across procedurally generated tables, executed with real physics polish, but held back for a real share of players by unpredictable cue-ball control and a build-variety ceiling reached faster than the genre's best examples.
6 / 10
A free, solo-developed idle roguelike that spent a full year in Early Access before its 9 May 2025 1.0 exit — Mixed at 64% lifetime across a small but genuinely long-playing corpus, whose own most-invested critics (one at over 4,700 hours) describe a game whose systems, especially crafting, arrive far too slowly for how much waiting it asks of you.
6 / 10
A stylish, well-produced isometric action roguelite set in the Callisto Protocol universe that reviewers repeatedly and directly call "Hades with guns," praised for its combat feel and presentation but marked down by a specific, unusual design choice that ramps difficulty up the more you play regardless of skill, alongside a confirmed, still-unresolved bug that can wipe an entire run's rewards.
6 / 10
Reenchant is a $5.99 cozy forest-defense game from developer Surfin Bird where players guide a Tree Spirit warding off lumberjacks at their own chosen pace, and this review's unanimous 5-review sample compares it favorably to the Kingdom series while consistently flagging a genuine, deliberately minimalist lack of in-game guidance.
6 / 10
An addictive Balatro-flavoured blackjack roguelite whose reception is dominated by a heavily upvoted, evidence-backed dispute over undisclosed AI-generated art and music, alongside real complaints about RNG swings, repetitive builds, and crashes.
6 / 10
Freedom is $1,000,000 ROGUE LIGHT DECK BUILDER's entire pitch lives in its title, and it knows it. Your house needs a deck — the wooden kind, not the card kind — and the light
6 / 10
A 4-player co-op tactical roguelite shooter from the studio behind Black Mesa, whose jump from Early Access to "1.0" this week delivered almost exactly what one detailed reviewer predicted it would — one new map and a few new guns, not the broader AI, economy and content overhaul the developer's own Early Access roadmap had promised.
6 / 10
A 2014 mashup of Doom-era corridor shooting and roguelike permadeath, still recognisable as an ancestor of the boomer-shooter roguelite boom — and still carrying a decade of unpatched jank to prove it.
6 / 10
A tower-defense roguelite whose constantly-expanding, self-branching map is a genuinely fresh idea, undercut for years by the one quality-of-life feature — a speed-up button — its developer never added before moving on to build a full, multiplayer-enabled sequel instead.
6 / 10
A NZ$7.39 idle tower-roguelite whose developer sold a $1.99 DLC for basic stat tracking, apologised and moved the information into the base game the same day the backlash hit — but whose most detailed, veteran-idle-genre critics argue the 2024 expansion buried the genre's core promise under RNG-gated progression and a zone-pushing "noob trap."
6 / 10
A card-battling roguelite deckbuilder about capturing land with teams of elemental "Gokai" monsters, praised for its distinctive Pokemon-and-Yu-Gi-Oh-flavoured card art and surprisingly deep land-control combat, while a real, recurring share of reviewers flag launch bugs, steep gold-grinding requirements and a confusing early tutorial.
6 / 10
A dollar-priced homage to the Flash-era shoot-'em-up Heli Attack, where picking wands and hats to "break the game" is genuinely fun for a few hours before the reviews agree, in striking numbers and across four years, that the meta-progression grinding it down into.
6 / 10
A solo-developed turn-based roguelike built around one sharp idea — retreating fills a curse gauge and makes the run harder — wrapped in hand-drawn comic-book art, released days ago to a market that hasn't weighed in on it yet.
6 / 10
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