Best Roguelite Games on Steam
Unlike generic lists, our strategy game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated roguelite games.
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Legacy of Defense
Become the hero who protects the fantasy world and stop the monster invasion! 'Legacy of Defense' combines defense with deck-building. Build your deck, use powerful skills, gain experience, upgrade, clear stages, and defeat the final boss. Ready to test your strategy and luck?
Machick 2
A magical, chaotic roguelike-survivor. Craft insane wands, evolve and fuse powerful spells, equip crazy gear, and wield the power of divine relics. Get ready to wipe out hordes of hungry frogs and face mighty bosses in unique, unpredictable runs.
The Bleakest Keep
The Bleakest Keep is a challenging action horror roguelike. Survive the horrors of the Keep, upgrade your gear, and earn ranks as you ascend the tower and save the world!
Katanaut
Katanaut is a fast-paced, Metroidvania-inspired action roguelite blending fluid combat and cosmic horror. Slash, dodge, and wield powerful abilities as you battle through a station sprawling with twisted, once-human horrors. Adapt, survive, and descend into the shadows to uncover dark secrets.
Star Birds
Star Birds is a relaxing asteroid base-building and resource management game. Discover and mine countless asteroids, create production networks and guide your flock of spacefaring birds to new interstellar horizons!
Shape of Dreams
Shape of Dreams delivers fast-paced, dreamlike action in a vivid roguelite world. Dive into ever-changing realms with tight controls, fluid combat, and high-stakes battles. Whether playing solo or with up to three friends, each run is a thrilling test of reflexes and strategy.
Star Fire: Eternal Cycle
Star Fire is a love letter to classic arcade side-scrollers, reimagined with roguelite progression, modern action polish, and that “just one more run” itch. It’s fast, punchy, and all about no-pressure fun with tight combat, slick movement, and endless ways to cause chaos.
Mage and Monsters II
Recruit a hero to lead your army, and use spells while they fight for you. Mage & Monsters 2 is an active auto battler, where you choose to either enhance the strength of your hero, reinforce the might of your army, or increase the power of your spells.
Overlooting
Adapt your strategy to a skill tree that changes every run, combine pieces of equipment to form powerful synergies and create a game-changing build capable of defeating the bosses that will try to stop you. In this Inventory Management Roguelike two games never feel the same!
Dungeon Warfare 3
Forge invincible defenses with lethal traps and devious machines, and crush relentless waves of adventurers in the ultimate tower defense showdown!
DAVY x JONES
Command the skies. Crush the ground. Conquer The Locker. A grand action-adventure where you play as two halves of one legendary pirate — DAVY (Head) and JONES (Body). DAVY commands your flying ship in roguelite sky battles; JONES unleashes visceral first-person combat on the islands.
Little Witch Survivors
"Little Witch Survivors" is a magic pigeon barrage shooting game. You will play as a little witch, summoning and commanding eight unique magic guardians to fight side by side! Each guardian has dual skills, and you can switch strategies freely in the equipment slots - weave your own magic miracle!
Funguys Swarm
Funguys Swarm is a cartoony survivor bullet hell where the forest is on fire. Become a Funguy, arm yourself with forest-crafted weapons, and unleash some bonkers powers on the Fireking’s army. And maybe... just maybe, save the day if you’re skilled (or lucky) enough.
VOID/BREAKER
Dynamic and challenging Roguelite FPS 🔴 Fight relentless machines driven by a hostile AI. Escape an endless cycle. Craft infinite weapon variants with deep gun modding. Forge deadly synergies. Carve your way out through enviro destruction /BREAK THE SYSTEM /BREAK FREE
Inkshade
Inkshade is a turn-based tactics game carved out of strange wooden miniatures, wrapped in a web of locked rooms, and orchestrated by an otherworldly game master. Victory is not guaranteed, and the only constant is the cruel black ink that flows within the pieces.
OVIS LOOP
A pixel-art action roguelike with dynamic combat, player-led combo crafting and a post-apocalyptic battle of wolf and lamb. Step into the shoes of the robot-sheep Omega to wield sci-fi weapons and gather evolving skills to protect your flock. Jump into the loop and create a unique combat style.
Super Drift Blade
Most of your actions have been taken away. In each time loop, slide the mouse to kill monsters, crack the puzzles locked by knowledge, and explore the hidden paths! Go deeper in a limited time and discover the truth of the world.
Passant: A Chess Roguelike
Passant is a chess roguelike that changes all the rules. Progress through challenging rounds while collecting powerful pieces and game-changing items to seize victory.
Iron Core: Mech Survivor
100 years after a nuclear apocalypse, an AI-managed shelter and its guardian mechs await human survivors. The shelter’s reactor creates safe zones to improve living conditions. Players control mechs to gather reactor fuel, fend off mutants, complete missions, and protect survivors.
CleanFall
CleanFall is a survival rogue-lite that prizes player freedom and creativity. Build mobile death machines to fight off ravenous hordes, craft and alchemize gun turrets, and tunnel through subterranean ecosystems crawling with nameless horrors.
The Royal Writ
Sacrifice creates stories in this medieval roguelike deckbuilder. Watch your cards march to glory or permanent death as they battle toward the enemy. Each fallen hero becomes part of your kingdom's legend. Command wisely... some sacrifices are necessary.
GUNTOUCHABLES
Guntouchables is an online co-op doomsday roguelite for 1-4 players. You play as a gun-toting group of 'preppers' trying to reclaim the world from an ever-evolving horde of mutants, constantly working to develop new unique ways to kill you.