
Death Must Die
Fight through Death's minions with blessings and loot that stack into a different build every run.
Still thinking about Death Machine and its replayable and dark tone? You will find a few strong contenders among these games.
A Robot Named Fight is a Metroidvania roguelike focused on exploration and item collection. Explore a different, procedurally-generated labyrinth each time you play and discover randomized power-ups to traverse obstacles, find secrets and explode meat beasts.
Replayable, Dark, Retro
Descend into Death's realm with a pantheon of gods betting on you. Pick blessings, stack randomized loot and turn hordes of minions into paste in fast runs that end with one more go. A pixel art survivors-like with real build depth and a grim streak.
Replayable, Dark, Retro
A 2D action game where your best weapon is a cursed hat. Fight through shifting dungeons with sword and magic, or possess the enemies you defeat and borrow their powers. Back home, rebuild a ruined village, grow crops and cook meals that make your next run stronger. Play solo or with up to three friends.
Replayable, Dark, Tense
You came for riches, eternal life, divine powers. You got a cursed temple full of traps, monsters and gods who do not like visitors. Fight through the dark with sword, spear and torch, manage the corruption growing in you, and turn its curses to your advantage. Die, rise, delve deeper.
Also in Soulslike · Replayable, Dark, Tense
Fight through a machine-ruled world in this isometric rogue-lite adventure. As Erik, a man-turned-robot, outsmart waves of enemies and adapt to ever-changing levels. Change the world before it changes you in this relentless quest for vengeance.
Replayable, Dark, Tense
Hack scavenged parts into custom-made weapons and explore / shred your way through a multiverse of infested weapon facilities.
Replayable, Retro, Tense
A 2D dark fantasy pilgrimage through a fallen temple, where heavy, deliberate combat meets a roguelite twist: die and you lose your gear, but every boss and secret you uncover stays yours. Dozens of weapons, blessings, curses and one-way doors make each run a fresh act of devotion.
Also in Soulslike · Replayable, Dark, Retro
You are a blob of immortal goo steering one borrowed corpse after another through a shifting castle. Dead Cells is a fast, tough action-platformer about slashing, rolling and dying, then starting smarter. Every run unlocks more weapons and paths, so defeat still moves you forward.
Also in Soulslike · Replayable, Dark, Retro
A fantasy action roguelike of exploration and murder. Live, kill, die, improve, live again.
Also in Soulslike · Replayable, Dark, Retro
Fight as Heart, an innocent robot fighting to escape the grip of mindless machines in a future where humans are no more. A fast-paced 3D brawler with roguelike elements set in a colorful yet desolated world.
Replayable, Dark, Retro
A pixel-art action platformer where you pilot the M-Unit suit as Joanna, a soldier hunting her traitor sister across a besieged Earth. Death feeds your research, so every run moves you forward.
Replayable, Dark, Retro
Vampire of the Sands is a punishing action dungeon-crawler with roguelike elements.
Replayable, Dark, Retro

Fight through Death's minions with blessings and loot that stack into a different build every run.

Fight through a machine-ruled world in this isometric rogue-lite adventure.

Fight your way down through a cursed temple, lose everything on death, and keep just enough to try again.

A fantasy action roguelike of exploration and murder. Live, kill, die, improve, live again.

Vampire of the Sands is a punishing action dungeon-crawler with roguelike elements.

A fast 2D Metroidvania where you hunt the blood of gods beneath a star-scorched sky.

Dive into the decaying machine world of DREIFRAME, a pixel-art metroidvania packed with challenge.

You are a friendly-but-deadly Mech on a journey searching for your missing pilot in this action-packed roguelite shooter.

Take part in a difficult 2D Metroidvania adventure where you will fight through the Manor and surrounding areas to find the source of fog consuming…

Microbes and Machines is a roguelite action game where you control a little bubble robot that fights against the forces of evil.

Descend into the Halls of Torment, a horde survival roguelite with a pre-rendered look straight out of the late 90s.

A dark metroidvania with RPG elements, "Undivine" challenges you to explore, battle, and uncover secrets in a desolate, interconnected world.

Be the resistance in a world ruled by machines: fight, hack, and reignite hope.

Fight through a cursed dark fantasy world where every run deepens the mystery and every rune changes how you play.

Swap between fighters in the middle of a combo and carve through machine hordes in a ruined future, one run at a time.

Hack through a kingdom of ash as one of four heroes, fusing embers and spellcards into builds that break every run wide open.

A dark fantasy roguelite action RPG where dying is progress.

Into the Necrovale is an Action RPG in which you collect powerful items that interact with one another.

Slay demons and demigods in this fast-paced roguelite FPS. Create devastating weapon builds as you journey through massive dark fantasy environments…

Shoot stuff in a perfect pixel world, combine items, build guns, die every time!

Discover a vast alien world. Fight the ferocious local fauna and killer machines. Reveal its secrets and find a way to escape.

Fight shifting dungeons with sword, magic or a stolen body, then rebuild your village between runs.

A fast 2D Metroidvania where you hunt the blood of gods beneath a star-scorched sky.

Summum Aeterna is a fast-paced Roguelite inspired by the Metroidvania Aeterna Noctis.

Fight through a cursed dark fantasy world where every run deepens the mystery and every rune changes how you play.

The engineering roguelike. Construct your combos by wiring circuits. Build crazy machines to zap the monsters and trigger satisfying chain reactions.

Swap between fighters in the middle of a combo and carve through machine hordes in a ruined future, one run at a time.

Roguefall is an action rogue-lite following a lost player guided by the enigmatic Overseer to scavenge a world forgotten by humanity.

Hack through a kingdom of ash as one of four heroes, fusing embers and spellcards into builds that break every run wide open.

Fight shifting dungeons with sword, magic or a stolen body, then rebuild your village between runs.

Dive into the decaying machine world of DREIFRAME, a pixel-art metroidvania packed with challenge.

Be the resistance in a world ruled by machines: fight, hack, and reignite hope.

Slay demons and demigods in this fast-paced roguelite FPS. Create devastating weapon builds as you journey through massive dark fantasy environments…

A dark fantasy roguelite action RPG where dying is progress.

A fast 2D Metroidvania where you hunt the blood of gods beneath a star-scorched sky.

Into the Necrovale is an Action RPG in which you collect powerful items that interact with one another.