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$1.99
Games like The Between
Want something that feels replayable and story-driven the way The Between does? You will find a few strong contenders among these games.
Text Dungeon: The Ring of Life
No graphics, No tiles. Just text-RPG adventure! Explore a shifting labyrinth, regain the Ring of Life from the wizard Shingor. Classic roguelike-style messages guide your journey, with narrative scenes evoking the spirit of MUDs and gamebooks. Death is permanent. Every run brings new discoveries.
Replayable, Story-driven, Dark
65% of 17 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$7.99The Road Remembers
A roguelite told in plain words. Each seed is a road, and each hero who walks it leaves their mark: the thing they took stays taken, the village they saved holds a feast for the next stranger, their cairn holds their sword, and the guardian they fought is still wounded. The road remembers.
Replayable, Story-driven, Dark
100% of 1 Steam reviews are positive$11.99NO-SKIN
A horror roguelike about surviving a house that hides something behind every corner. Turn-based fights, scarce resources and a mystery around the No-Skin Man, told through photos overlaid with hand-drawn pixel art. Every run peels back another layer, and the layers go deep.
Replayable, Story-driven, Dark
95% of 1,244 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$6.99Songs of Rats
The Wreckage resounds with the echoes of countless songs, filling the air of a constantly shifting maze where bravery and sacrifice are key to staying alive. Then, without warning, one song goes silent. Will you step into this dicey labyrinth and uncover its secrets in this minimalist and dark RPG?
Replayable, Story-driven, Dark
75% of 52 Steam reviews are positive$14.99Rogue Girl
Rogue Girl is a roguelike game that will immerse you in an exciting adventure, where you will play as a beautiful devil girl called upon to fight an army of sinister zombies. Your path of progress depends on your decisions. Various types of enemies, random rooms, and skills.
Replayable, Dark
71% of 42 Steam reviews are positive$4.99Grim Quest - Old School RPG
A dark fantasy RPG blending dungeon crawling, turn-based combat and roguelike mechanics with hand-drawn art and written storytelling. Part solo tabletop campaign, part choose-your-own-adventure, it offers an immersive experience designed for both quick ventures and night-long sessions.
Replayable, Story-driven, Dark
91% of 155 Steam reviews are positive$5.99illumine
Experience a different take on the roguelike genre. Explore a world created on the fly by your actions. Wonder about your purpose.
Replayable, Dark, Surreal
88% of 67 Steam reviews are positive$1.99Dark Hollow RPG
Descend into an ever-changing dungeon, battle monsters, unlock dozens of achievements, and shape your legend in a fully text-based RPG inspired by classic terminal adventures.
Replayable, Story-driven, Dark
100% of 3 Steam reviews are positive$0.99Svarog's Dream
A Slavic-myth action RPG where death is a fresh start. You are a soul that keeps taking new bodies, in an open world that changes with your choices. Battle gods or side with them, explore, cook, take out a loan, and try not to think about the debt collectors.
Replayable, Story-driven, Dark
89% of 907 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$21GUILT: The Deathless
Slash your way through dark, ever-changing lands in this new blend of roguelike and shared-world adventure. Create your adventurer and undertake a perilous journey where all players’ choices alter the twisted landscape. Will you beg for forgiveness?
Replayable, Dark, Surreal
80% of 66 Steam reviews are positive$16.99Rogue's Tale
Rogue's Tale is a single player turn-based dungeon crawling game.
Replayable, Dark
74% of 651 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$6.99Rangedrifter
Journey along haunted, procedural paths toward the dormant center of a handmade world. Fight your way through atmospheric, varied regions and become the first to cross the Barrier, one turn at a time.
Replayable, Dark, Surreal
100% of 33 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Cheaper than The Between
Dark Hollow RPG
Descend into an ever-changing dungeon, battle monsters, unlock dozens of achievements, and shape your legend in a fully text-based RPG inspired by…
100% of 3 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
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: 11$3.49
EPIC IDLE TALE
A daring text adventurer sets out on an epic quest to find the princcess locked away in her tower far far away.
100% of 2 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
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
Rogue
Experience the commercial port of the game that spawned a thousand 'Rogue-likes'.
95% of 506 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$2.99
Nick's Text Adventure
Nick’s Text Adventure is a cruel text-based RPG where everything unfolds one line at a time.
50% of 2 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Roadwarden
An illustrated text RPG about being the one person willing to ride a dangerous peninsula alone.
94% of 4,545 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 54$2.74
Faith of Fate
The Fate Of This World Is On Your Hands, What Will You Do? Heaven Or Hell?
94% of 18 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Good Morning
Good morning! The story explores a distorted memory, blending reflection, twists, and roguelike chaos in a short game packed with hours of…
100% of 1 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
In Your Realm
In Your Realm gives an old-school, challenging, RPG roguelike experience with randomized encounters and a unique combat system.
100% of 5 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Disillusion
A mysterious muse calls upon you to investigate a Large tower in an oneiric land.
95% of 912 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$2.99
Hidden gems like The Between
NO-SKIN
Survive the house turn by turn, ration what little you have, and follow the photos toward what the No-Skin Man really is.
95% of 1,244 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$6.99
Veritas Tales: Witch of the Dark Castle
A dice-driven dark fantasy RPG inspired by solo tabletop adventures.
85% of 241 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$16.99
DEATH PENALTY
A grim hand-drawn dungeon crawl where one wrong step in the dark costs your life, and careful play carves devils apart piece by piece.
81% of 146 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$11.99
Svarog's Dream
A soul drifting from body to body through a mythic open world, where every death reshapes the story and the ending is yours to decide.
89% of 907 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$21
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
Knock on the Coffin Lid
Wake up dead, rebuild your memory card by card, and fight your way through a grim kingdom to the ones who killed you.
82% of 2,744 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 23$24.99
AI Roguelite
Type any action, roll dice against your stats, and let the AI conjure the places, people and nonsense that follow.
83% of 618 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 84$14.99
The Secret of Darkwoods
Open-world illustrated text-based RPG. Inspired by classic role-playing video games and fantasy gamebooks, the secret of darkwoods is a free game, a…
89% of 121 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Roadwarden
An illustrated text RPG about being the one person willing to ride a dangerous peninsula alone.
94% of 4,545 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 54$2.74
Grim Quest - Old School RPG
A dark fantasy RPG blending dungeon crawling, turn-based combat and roguelike mechanics with hand-drawn art and written storytelling.
91% of 155 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Rogue Loops
Rogue Loops is a roguelite action game where a trapped family battles to escape an endless loop.
71% of 264 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Unexplored 2: The Wayfarer's Legacy
Dynamic, procedurally generated adventure game that puts exploration first. Build your legacy as each wayfarer will change the fate of the world.
75% of 273 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Newest games like The Between
Veil of the Damned
Enter the Veil as a Bound Soul. Master your skills and survive the labyrinth’s corruption.
100% of 4 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
DEATH PENALTY
A grim hand-drawn dungeon crawl where one wrong step in the dark costs your life, and careful play carves devils apart piece by piece.
81% of 146 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$11.99
LABYRINTHOS: The Depths Want You
Ascend the sunken labyrinth called the Tower and choose your path to escape to the surface.
84% of 67 Steam reviews are positive$24.99
Greywind's Legacy - A Text Based, Skill Progression, RPG
This is a text based game that allows the player to step into the town of Alara as the grandson of the late adventurer Greywind.
100% of 9 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Joy Malignant
A surreal dice-based RPG in a cursed city of gut-wrenching suffering. Here, your choices shape your skills and your appearance.
97% of 75 Steam reviews are positive$8.99
Graphite
Unleash your creativity as a kid’s drawings spring to life in this thrilling roguelike RPG.
97% of 29 Steam reviews are positive$8.99
Game of Rebirth
A Roguelike multiverse adventure ruled by an unseen godlike being. Your life and death are part of its game.
71% of 89 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$12.99
Dark Hollow RPG
Descend into an ever-changing dungeon, battle monsters, unlock dozens of achievements, and shape your legend in a fully text-based RPG inspired by…
100% of 3 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Veritas Tales: Witch of the Dark Castle
A dice-driven dark fantasy RPG inspired by solo tabletop adventures.
85% of 241 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$16.99
EPIC IDLE TALE
A daring text adventurer sets out on an epic quest to find the princcess locked away in her tower far far away.
100% of 2 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Rangedrifter
Journey along haunted, procedural paths toward the dormant center of a handmade world.
100% of 33 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Return to ...
A loop-based text adventure where turn-based combat, exploration, and branching choices drive a haunting journey through death and memory.
100% of 3 Steam reviews are positive$9.99