illumine
Experience a different take on the roguelike genre. Explore a world created on the fly by your actions. Wonder about your purpose.
88% of 67 Steam reviews are positive$0.79
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If the atmospheric and dark rhythm of RUINED stuck with you, this helps. These games are worth a look next.
Aethermancer
Monster taming meets roguelite. Bond with the fallen beasts of Terastae, lead a party of three through the shifting Fractured Ruins, and plan every turn in tough, tactical battles. Death is not the end: rebirth your monsters, and they come back changed and stronger.
Dark, Retro, Replayable
91% of 2,727 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 206$25.99Ruine
A sidescrolling fantasy RPG with roguelike elements and a souls-like setting. The world of Ruine is amorphous, its past long forgotten by most. Forests and ruins are inhabited by creatures that once lived and now refuse to die. Use what you can find or craft to eradicate them.
Atmospheric, Dark, Retro
92% of 12 Steam reviews are positive$4.99Monster Path
A procedurally generated monster collecting roguelike-JRPG with stacking power ups, a 2.5D storybook fantasy art style, and a dynamic score
Replayable
73% of 15 Steam reviews are positive$5.99Ruins
Run, jump, and teleport your way through a mysterious landscape where nothing is as it seems. Meet all the creatures of the land and learn their story. Help change the world and its future. You play as Timo, a curious boy, who wakes from a strange dream with some bizarre instructions.
Atmospheric, Retro, Mysterious
0% of 1 Steam reviews are positive$4.99Patch Quest
Patch Quest hands you a lasso and a blaster, then sets you loose in a jungle labyrinth where every monster can be caught and ridden. It looks adorable and plays like a bullet-hell with teeth: fast, tricky, and endlessly collectible. Ride a glider over a chasm, blend ammo smoothies, unlock shortcuts, and carve your path through Patchlantis.
Retro, Replayable, Hand-drawn
94% of 2,060 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$14.99Voidsayer
The world has fallen into darkness, cursed by the Abyss. You are one of the many hapless survivors at risk of being consumed. Unlike others, you have a chance to fight back. Voidsayer is a dark monster tamer jRPG. Assemble your monster team, take on eldritch horrors, and return hope to the world.
Dark, Retro, Replayable
67% of 93 Steam reviews are positive$14.99The wild darkness
A hand-drawn survival roguelike where you wake up in a strange world with nothing. Gather, craft and build by day, survive monsters by night, and let every death teach you something. Permadeath is real, but totems and knowledge carry over, so each run starts a little further ahead.
Atmospheric, Dark, Retro
80% of 166 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 26FreeMonster Sanctuary
Monster taming meets metroidvania. Hatch and train monsters from a roster of 111, each with its own skill tree, then chain their abilities into combos in turn-based 3v3 battles. Their skills also open the world: fly, ride and smash your way through a colorful pixel Sanctuary. Deep team building, online PvP and optional challenge modes included.
Retro, Replayable
91% of 10,475 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 94$19.99Lost Ruins
A schoolgirl wakes in a dungeon with no memory, a magician named Beatrice at her side and monsters everywhere else. Lost Ruins is a 2D survival action game where the right gear matters more than fast fingers: swap weapons, spells and accessories to counter each horror, and turn the dungeon itself against what lives in it.
Dark, Retro, Hand-drawn
86% of 4,663 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$19.99Rack N Ruin
Chaos reigns in this top down action adventure game starring Rack, a demon with an appetite for destruction. Pave a path of mayhem as you guide Rack on his quest to jump start the Apocalypse. Wield powerful magic, decimate your foes, unravel mind bending puzzles, and smite titanic bosses all while corrupting a vast open world.
Dark, Retro
76% of 54 Steam reviews are positive$9.99illumine
Experience a different take on the roguelike genre. Explore a world created on the fly by your actions. Wonder about your purpose.
Atmospheric, Dark, Replayable
88% of 67 Steam reviews are positive$0.79Abomi Nation
Abomi Nation is a roguelike monster-taming RPG. Every playthrough will create a new version of Abomi Nation and provide a unique world with different Abomis for you to find. Explore your universe, watch your Abomis bond, and battle it out as your adventure unfolds in a way totally unique to you!
Retro, Replayable
84% of 122 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Cheaper than RUINED
RuinsGate Survivors
Explore vast maps with companions, bring treasure home, and build your party in this RPG-flavored survivors-like.
100% of 7 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$3.49
Monster X Monster
This is a Rogue-like RPG card game. You team up 4 monsters to escape the castle defeating all the heroes. Monsters need freedom!
79% of 135 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
The Rangers In The South
Purge the lands in this 2.5D HD Pixelart RogueLike ARPG! Create hundreds of characters with unique strategies and abilities, face hordes of enemies…
81% of 785 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Dream Catcher
Find over 70 unique monsters to battle, collect and raise. Your monsters will go through a branching path of evolutions to help you explore a…
100% of 17 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$2.99
Tinyfolks
Tinyfolks is a minimalist strategy RPG with crisp pixel art: train a tiny squad of folks, upgrade a tiny town and march them out against 70+…
93% of 1,077 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
One Way Heroics
A turn-based roguelike where every step you take, the Darkness takes one too, so you march right, loot towns and hunt the Demon Lord before the void…
93% of 3,527 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$3.49
Rogue Heroes: Ruins of Tasos
Fight through shifting dungeons alone or with friends, then turn your spoils into a rebuilt village.
77% of 2,719 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 27$3.99
Expect The Unexpected
Expect The Unexpected is a roguelike, fast-paced, turn-based game with RPG elements.
65% of 69 Steam reviews are positive$1
3DRPG
3DRPG is a voxelized old-school RPG where you explore a Randomly Generated world filled with random dungeons, towns and people!
64% of 167 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Crumbling World
Bridging the gap between old-school dungeon crawlers (Diablo I), arcade RPGs (Ghouls’n’Ghosts) and combo-driven fighters, Crumbling World is a…
80% of 15 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Hidden gems like RUINED
Sculplings
A creature-collecting roguelike where every monster is sculpted in real clay and brought to life!
99% of 187 Steam reviews are positive$10.99
Paper Animal Adventure
Paper Animal Adventure is a cute roguelike game where you can explore a colorful world, fight scary enemies, and relax with your friends at the…
95% of 140 Steam reviews are positive$9.74
Aethermancer
Monster taming meets roguelite. Bond with the fallen beasts of Terastae, lead a party of three through the shifting Fractured Ruins, and plan every…
91% of 2,727 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 206$25.99
Moonring
A turn-based open world RPG where every run uncovers new secrets, from shifting dungeons to a throne you may claim for yourself.
95% of 2,489 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 14Free
The wild darkness
A hand-drawn survival roguelike where you wake up in a strange world with nothing.
80% of 166 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 26Free
The Rangers In The South
Purge the lands in this 2.5D HD Pixelart RogueLike ARPG! Create hundreds of characters with unique strategies and abilities, face hordes of enemies…
81% of 785 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Patch Quest
Catch and ride every creature in a fast, tricky jungle dungeon where each run unlocks something new.
94% of 2,060 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$14.99
Terra Randoma
Terra Randoma is a turn-based roguelike RPG in a procedurally generated open world. Travel a world full of curiousity and perilous dungeons.
87% of 147 Steam reviews are positive$7.49
Into the Restless Ruins
A roguelike deckbuilder where you create the dungeon you fight through.
81% of 111 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Tinyfolks
Tinyfolks is a minimalist strategy RPG with crisp pixel art: train a tiny squad of folks, upgrade a tiny town and march them out against 70+…
93% of 1,077 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Into the Emberlands
Venture out into the Emberlands and uncover an ever-changing world filled with surprising encounters and mystical creatures!
79% of 256 Steam reviews are positive$6.59
Buriedbornes - Dungeon RPG
A grim text dungeon crawler where every death is final, and fallen heroes return to fight you deeper down.
88% of 1,444 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8Free
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Monster Alchemy
Create unique creatures, use them to gather rare resources, and fuse them into even more powerful beings!
89% of 89 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$18.99
Mistaken
A dark fantasy progression RPG set in a world swallowed by eldritch mist.
82% of 45 Steam reviews are positive$16.99
Rangedrifter
Journey along haunted, procedural paths toward the dormant center of a handmade world.
100% of 33 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Shadows of the Ruins
Venture yourself into the ancient Ruins of a fallen evil empire in order to loot treasures and save your village from eternal poverty.
100% of 11 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Sculplings
A creature-collecting roguelike where every monster is sculpted in real clay and brought to life!
99% of 187 Steam reviews are positive$10.99
Monster Path
A procedurally generated monster collecting roguelike-JRPG with stacking power ups, a 2.5D storybook fantasy art style, and a dynamic score
73% of 15 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
The wild darkness
A hand-drawn survival roguelike where you wake up in a strange world with nothing.
80% of 166 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 26Free
Aethermancer
Monster taming meets roguelite. Bond with the fallen beasts of Terastae, lead a party of three through the shifting Fractured Ruins, and plan every…
91% of 2,727 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 206$25.99
No Name Village
No Name Village is a top-down adventure rpg game, set in a peaceful village on the brink of being swallowed by the Black Sea.
81% of 64 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Necromancer For A Week
The ultimate power-fantasy monster-battler roguelike. Over 7 nights you'll reanimate Monsters, teach them busted Moves, and build the most…
96% of 27 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Paper Animal Adventure
Paper Animal Adventure is a cute roguelike game where you can explore a colorful world, fight scary enemies, and relax with your friends at the…
95% of 140 Steam reviews are positive$9.74
Rusty Rangers
Rusty Rangers is an action platformer and roguelike with elements of metroidvania. Choose your ranger and explore procedurally generated dungeons.
91% of 32 Steam reviews are positive$14.99