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1057 Roguelike games reviewed and scored, best first.
1057 reviews
Five Nights, A Livestream, And A Suspiciously Named AI JunkTok: Paranormal Investigators Challenge released on Steam on August 31, 2026 from small developer nordissimo, and its pit
5 / 10
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A solo-developer clicker that grafts a Vampire Survivors-style build-picking loop onto the "just mash a button" premise, earning real praise for its opening run before this review's sample converges on the same complaint from multiple angles — the fun evaporates fast, RNG frustrates, and support stopped within weeks of launch.
5 / 10
A first/third-person action roguelike adapting Jeff Lew's cult-favourite Killer Bean animated short films, built and rapidly patched entirely solo, currently rough and buggy enough that a large share of reviewers explicitly recommend waiting despite real goodwill toward the beloved source material and an unusually responsive post-launch fix record.
5 / 10
A genuinely charming co-op action roguelite with cute character design and an addictive loot-and-defend loop, undermined at launch by severe, specific co-op-breaking bugs, a local co-op mode one reviewer says openly admits it isn't finished, and a short main campaign — softened considerably by a developer reviewers repeatedly praise as unusually fast and responsive at patching.
5 / 10
Last Man Sitting is a $9.99 office-themed roguelite arena shooter from developer DoubleMoose Games and publisher Raw Fury, and this review's large Mostly Positive sample praises an addictive, easy-to-learn core loop while repeatedly flagging real bugs, thin content, and balance problems that leave many weapon and chair combinations feeling pointless.
5 / 10
A roguelite auto-battler that launched broken enough to soft-lock in its own tutorial, dug out over sixteen patches in under three weeks — including one that fixed that exact freeze.
5 / 10
A villain-perspective dark-fantasy tactical RPG whose battle system draws real praise at launch, undercut by genuine game-breaking bugs, a scaling system reviewers call badly tuned, and — most damaging of all — a developer whose Steam news feed shows exactly one hotfix in the nine months since release, leaving launch-week problems unresolved.
5 / 10
A roguelike deckbuilder with a genuinely clever hook — you choose which enemy attack hits you — trapped inside a game that left Early Access unfinished in February 2023 and hasn't been updated since.
5 / 10
An idle game built around a genuinely clever hook, clearing increasingly improbable challenges like matching cards or rolling every die the same, undercut by a passive upgrade loop, a reward-piling bug, and permanent upgrades several reviewers say stop scaling with difficulty.
5 / 10
A Slay the Spire-style roguelike deckbuilder built around confronting phobias with coping-mechanism cards — a genuinely distinctive premise that a meaningful share of its own reviewers, including a reviewer identifying as a psychology lecturer, say the game doesn't earn, on top of a separate, more familiar complaint that the card system itself is too shallow to sustain repeat runs.
5 / 10
A pixel-art idle clicker built around a genuine hook — a hardcore mode that permanently wipes your progress on death — undercut at launch by bug reports and price complaints that have since given way to a calmer, more forgiving Mixed reception.
5 / 10
An Early Access deckbuilding gladiator roguelite whose telegraphed, timing-based combat earns real praise for originality, undercut throughout this review's sample by a persistently rough English translation and, more recently, a major system overhaul that a large share of longtime players describe as a step backward from the game they originally bought into.
5 / 10
A pre-alpha top-down pirate survival adventure that starts you with a rowboat, three apples and 25 gold and dares you to earn everything else from four escalating seas — a freshly launched Early Access title with essentially no review base yet, so this account leans on its unusually detailed official mechanics description and early achievement data instead.
5 / 10
A turn-based roguelite RPG that quietly relaunched after the original 2020 Sin Slayers was pulled from Steam, offering free replacement keys to affected owners, but running into the same grindy pacing and shallow combat complaints that dogged the original, alongside new balance and UI issues from the rebuild itself.
5 / 10
A Vampire Survivors-style bullet heaven crossed with Backpack Battles-style inventory management and weapon forging, landing "Mixed" on a launch sample that loves the core loot loop but flags an overwhelming tutorial dump, thin monster variety, and a rough early-access-feeling launch state for a full release.
5 / 10
A co-op survivors-like set in the Stolen Realm universe whose 1.0 launch a large number of reviewers say is functionally identical to the free demo and playtest builds they'd already finished, with marketed content still absent, though a genuinely low price and an actively updating developer soften the backlash for some.
5 / 10
Pew Pew Games' free-to-play co-op roguelite shooter has a genuinely enjoyable Hades-meets-Warframe core, but persistent performance issues, an unpopular kernel-level anti-cheat, and a review-bombing Discord promotion have left it drowning in Mixed reviews.
5 / 10
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A cheap dragon-collecting clicker RPG with genuine "one more turn" appeal for some players, undercut by disclosed AI-generated art several reviewers actively dislike, punishing inflation-based economy balance, and a development cycle the solo developer has since confirmed, in the developer's own words quoted by a reviewer, is finished for good.
5 / 10
A charming, distinctively-styled insect-hero roguelike autochess whose "cyber cricket-fighting" concept and hybrid genre execution draw real praise from its majority Chinese-language review base, badly undermined by a specifically-quantified exponential difficulty spike that can make a fully-built team obsolete within days, a combat mechanic interaction reviewers say collapses team variety down to only one or two viable compositions, an extensive list of specific crash and save-corruption bugs, and a broken, mistranslated English localisation that led every English-language reviewer in this sample to refund.
5 / 10
A demon-hunting Vampire Survivors-like with genuinely satisfying core combat and a strong first couple of hours, undercut by a review sample that repeatedly describes drip-fed content, punishing difficulty scaling, and stability issues that live up to the title a little too literally.
4.9 / 10
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Nightmarena is a $5.99 RPG Maker fighting game blending turn-based combat with Punch-Out-style timed dodging, and while this review's Positive sample (15 of 16 reviews) praises its demanding, attention-hungry combat and creative enemy design, the sample's one detailed critical review lays out a specific, credible case that the game's telegraphing, controls, and economy are genuinely unfinished.
4.9 / 10
ProbablyMonsters' co-op roguelite platformer has genuinely satisfying combat and mobility, but reviewers describe a level-3 bug severe enough to crash runs, a campaign clearable in about an hour, and a launch that feels closer to Early Access than a finished release.
4.8 / 10
Read review of Storm Lancers Review: Fun Movement Undercut by Bugs and Thin Content
BananaDogGames' cheap incremental tower-defense autobattler hooks players fast, but reviewers describe a game riddled with balance-breaking bugs, unfinished systems, and repeated accusations of AI-generated content.
4.7 / 10
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A small Norse-mythology platformer with a striking art style and a review base too thin and scattered to support a confident verdict either way -- read in full and reported honestly rather than padded into something more authoritative than the evidence allows.
4.5 / 10
