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1057 Roguelike games reviewed and scored, best first.
1057 reviews
A turn-based tactical roguelite with a genuinely inventive three-phase combat system, Very Positive with the players who found it — undercut by an Early Access status that has sat completely frozen since a single update in September 2022, alongside an unresolved softlock bug reviewers say the developer stopped answering around the same time.
5.5 / 10
Flandre Scarlet, Streamer, Chasing a Million Subscribers Internet Survivor Survivors, a $14.99 full release from veteran Touhou arrangement act COOL&CREATE (BeatMARIO), launched Au
5.5 / 10
ITER-8 sends expendable mining drones up a tower to dig, defend, and die repeatedly in a loop its own review sample calls "Dome Keeper but in 3D," and while that satisfying core loop earns real praise, a large share of reviewers converge on thin long-term content, unresolved bugs, and a developer who appears to have gone quiet since a March 2026 launch.
5.5 / 10
Discovery, one card combination at a time Kingdom of Cards belongs to the small but growing genre of card-combination crafting games popularised by titles like Stacklands: place re
5.5 / 10
A nostalgic, Kingdom Rush-flavoured tower-defense roguelike hybrid that reviewers repeatedly compare to beloved childhood flash games, undercut by a severe and extremely well-corroborated Chinese-language text rendering bug, thin overall content completable in an hour or two, an unfairly RNG-dependent final difficulty level, and a friendly-fire explosion bug that kills the player's own troops across the whole map.
5.5 / 10
Pirates, Stretchy Arms, and a Genre That's Suddenly Very Crowded Last Pirates: Die Together entered Early Access on August 18, 2026, from RetroStyle Games (published alongside
5.5 / 10
A confident turn-based roguelite spinoff of Ironhide's tower-defense franchise, held back from its own beloved series' standard by a mobile-carried-over interface, thin content for its price, and a single major post-launch update before the studio moved on to its bigger releases.
5.5 / 10
A turn-based roguelike RPG about guiding a randomly assembled six-character party through twenty floors of a cursed labyrinth, built on a genuinely promising resource- management core that launched rough enough to frustrate even its own admirers.
5.5 / 10
A bullet-heaven crossed with incremental progression, openly built with AI-assisted art, music and code — genuinely addictive to a real slice of its audience, and "not really an idle game" to detailed critics who wanted actual decisions inside the auto-play.
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
Pac-Man, SUPERHOT, and Vampire Survivors, blended into one idea Maze Mice takes three genuinely distinct influences and fuses them into a mechanic that reviewers consistently descr
5.5 / 10
A roguelite idle RPG built around throwing emojis at internet celebrities, with a genuinely large perk pool and a satirical premise that a large review base says doesn't survive contact with how random the runs actually are.
5.5 / 10
Mixatro is a $1.99 merge puzzle game from solo developer Davopia Games that blends Suika Game-style ball-merging with Balatro-style roguelike deckbuilding upgrades, and this review's small, unanimous 3-review sample describes an addictive, relaxing loop backed by a genuine pre-launch demo cycle.
5.5 / 10
Ludogram's "Tower-Survivor" mashup of tower defence and Vampire Survivors-style horde combat, protecting an ever-moving city instead of a fixed base, wins over players with a genuinely fresh premise and strong art direction, while a large, detailed and specific majority of its critical reviews argue the difficulty curve, meta-progression grind and shallow upgrade synergies needed considerably more time in the oven before launch.
5.5 / 10
A Bullet Heaven That Took The Dice Away Mycofall, an Early Access bullet heaven from Lazy KodKod Games, launched on Steam on July 21, 2026, priced at $7.99, following a February 20
5.5 / 10
A hack-and-slash monster-collecting auto-battler from MachHabaneroGames and publisher Kodansha, built around the hook of looting and wielding the exact weapons your defeated enemies were using, earning a Mixed launch reception for its addictive loot-chasing loop and rough charm, tempered by honest reviewer complaints about a frustrating level cap, thin content, and unpolished UI.
5.5 / 10
A gorgeously animated necromancer deckbuilding roguelite whose art and central fantasy of commanding an undead horde win real affection, undercut by a difficulty curve reviewers describe as wildly miscalibrated between tiers and a strategic layer several call thin once its opening hours wear off.
5.5 / 10
A distinctive Hades-meets-Vampire-Survivors hybrid with a striking board-game-piece art style, undercut by a shallow late-game progression curve and a well-corroborated, undisclosed AI-generated content controversy that a large, high-upvoted share of its own audience treats as a dealbreaker.
5.5 / 10
A synthwave-styled grid-tactics deckbuilder with a genuinely acclaimed soundtrack, whose central design choice — enemies that automatically rotate to face the player — undercuts the exact positional-outsmarting appeal reviewers came to it looking for from its clearest genre touchstones.
5.5 / 10
Octogeddon casts you as a mutant octopus rampaging through cities, attaching increasingly absurd animal weapons to your tentacles as you spin through waves of enemies. Its opening hours land as genuinely fun arcade destruction, but a steep, achievement-confirmed difficulty wall and a permadeath structure gated behind grindy meta-progression draw sustained, specific criticism.
5.5 / 10
A roguelike tower defense game built around defending a single, upgradeable tower against endless waves, praised by reviewers as an addictive, unique take on the genre with a strong foundation, but held back at launch by targeting bugs, a lack of meta-progression, and an economy several reviewers said funnels players into the same handful of viable builds.
5.5 / 10
A childhood memory game, rebuilt as a roguelite Pairs & Perils takes a genuinely distinctive approach to the roguelite deckbuilder formula: rather than chaining combos through typi
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
