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1057 Roguelike games reviewed and scored, best first.
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Asterogue is a $5.99 solo-developed sci-fi roguelike from Chris McCormick that deliberately revives the original Rogue's permadeath, no-meta-progression formula across 17 procedurally generated asteroid levels, and this review's small, unanimously Positive sample praises its tight, addictive "coffeebreak" loop while several reviewers noted the content feels a little light for now.
5.4 / 10
A coin-based deckbuilding roguelike in the Luck Be a Landlord mould that reviewers find genuinely addictive, undercut by a forced-grind unlock structure and a launch-week controversy over undisclosed AI use in development.
5.4 / 10
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Liquidating Zombie Hordes for a Corporate Afterlife Insurer R.I.P. - Reincarnation Insurance Program is a top-down bullet-heaven shooter from WarmCore Studio that grafts Diablo-sty
5.4 / 10
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A grid-based tactics roguelike fused with deckbuilding, praised by reviewers for its ambitious hybrid combat and pixel art but held back by a genuinely mixed Steam sample dominated by bug reports and unclear UI feedback.
5.4 / 10
Read review of Shuffle Tactics Review: A Brilliant Idea Buried Under Bugs
A Necromantic Extraction Shooter on a Bombed-Out Planet 33 Days till Extraction is a top-down sci-fi action RPG from Three Whales Studio that fuses roguelike run structure with ext
5.3 / 10
Solo developer Radical Byte's mash-up of base defense, tower defense, roguelite mining, and mech-piloting shows real ambition and a responsive developer, but reviewers report crashes, unclear signposting, and clunky inventory management holding it back from its potential.
5.3 / 10
Read review of Citadel Anew Review: Promising Bones, Rough Edges
HUSKRAFTS' arcade spaceflight roguelite nails the feel of a dogfight but ships with a progression system, control scheme, and content loop that all feel like they arrived a year early.
5.3 / 10
Read review of Rogue Eclipse Review: Gorgeous Dogfights, Threadbare Everything Else
A tower defense and incremental hybrid with striking pixel art and a genuinely clever skill tree, undercut by targeting bugs, softlocks, and a runtime measured in single-digit hours.
5.2 / 10
Kervado's free-to-play survivor-style tower defense has a genuinely addictive core loop and devs who responded fast to a rocky launch, but reviewers consistently describe a missing tutorial, narrow build balance, and pay-to-win monetisation holding it back.
5.1 / 10
Read review of Fortress Fury Review: An Addictive Loop Buried Under Rough Edges
A solo-developer physics-bounce incremental combat game from LeenGameDev, tasking players with automating an arena of ricocheting weapons against escalating enemy waves, drawing a genuinely divided Mixed review sample that credits its satisfying core mechanic and short, completable loop while flagging heavily corroborated complaints about bugs, shallow build depth, and frustrating RNG-gated progression.
5 / 10
A dark fantasy roguelike deck-builder from solo studio Grayfox set in a cursed forest under the watch of a creepy circus ringmaster, drawing an extremely small English review sample that praises its distinctive atmosphere and flexible deck-building, tempered by fair, corroborated complaints about a confusing, poorly explained onboarding experience.
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
A NZ$13.25 roguelite auto-battler whose own top-voted review calls it "extremely misleading" for shipping under an idle/clicker banner — its solo developer admitted within three days of launch that he "didn't realize" how different an idle game and an autobattler are to players, then stopped adding content two weeks later.
5 / 10
One Ship, an Idle Loop, and a Deck of Pirates Corsair Fleet: Tides of Plunder pitches itself as a cozy pixel-art idle RPG about building a pirate empire from a single humble sloop.
5 / 10
A Vampire Survivors-style horde survivor with a hub town and RPG progression layered on top, whose Early Access development stopped dead months before an abrupt 1.0 launch that shipped roughly half of what its own roadmap promised.
5 / 10
Deckbuilder Fantasy is a free, solo-built RPG Maker take on the roguelike deckbuilder, technically impressive for one person's work but undercut by card math several reviewers say doesn't add up and an engine that was never built for this kind of game.
5 / 10
A likeable single-character autobattler roguelike with a genuine "minmax and watch the number go up" dopamine loop, whose solo developer stopped patching within a month of release and, according to multiple reviewers, said outright that they no longer enjoyed working on the game.
5 / 10
A budget co-op survivors-like whose real appeal is playing alongside friends, undercut by a specific, independently verified bug where percentage stat bonuses don't actually apply the percentages they advertise.
5 / 10
A mining extraction roguelite from a solo developer that launched broken enough to earn a "Mostly Negative" tag — softlocks, an unexplained tutorial, and rough performance — while simultaneously earning some of the most sympathetic, patient negative reviews this library has seen, because the developer has been visibly fighting to fix it in real time.
5 / 10
Dyping Escape is a $9.99 PLAYISM-published typing horror game, expanded from a free browser game played by over 500,000 people, and this review's Very Positive sample (86 of 93 reviews) praises its clever fourth-wall-breaking premise, while a detailed, more skeptical minority argues it doesn't fully commit to being a typing game, a puzzle game, or a horror game.
5 / 10
A monster-farming action RPG featuring Fairy Tail creator Hiro Mashima's character designs, whose menu-driven, visual-novel-adjacent structure badly mismatched the Rune Factory and Harvest Moon comparisons its marketing invited, with reviewers on both sides of the split agreeing its premium price outran the content on offer.
5 / 10
A charming incremental city-building RPG that launched into Early Access with real promise and genuine early support, then went quiet after one substantial update -- reviewed here from a small but complete sample that shifts, year by year, from excited to abandoned.
5 / 10
A solo-developed roguelite extraction shooter with genuinely satisfying, overwhelming gunplay and a compelling tower-climbing loot premise, widely acknowledged even by its fans as shockingly buggy at launch, missing an advertised gun-modding feature, and carrying a reproducible progression-blocking softlock and a sudden, punishing difficulty spike.
5 / 10
A Thirty-Fourth Consecutive Launch Without a Single Review HEX released on Steam on 4 September 2026 and has zero user reviews at the time of writing, extending this stretch's
5 / 10
