Games like Peglin
If Peglin is your kind of game, the closest matches are Ballionaire, Backpack Hero and Arrogue — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its comfort food gameplay loop, encourages experimentation with builds and chill. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Peglin is a turn-based roguelike deckbuilder released in 2024 that replaces traditional combat with Peggle-style pegboard mechanics. Players collect hero-specific orbs and launch them at a pegboard to deal damage to enemies, with relics that scale to create widely different runs. The game features cruciball progression and a reload mechanic that adds tactical depth to each turn. Players describe the gameplay loop as comfort food and the pegboard combat as satisfyingly tactile. The difficulty maintains a low-stakes feel that keeps runs enjoyable while encouraging experimentation with creative builds. Peglin is priced at $11.99 and runs verified on Steam Deck, holding an 88% positive rating from over 10,000 Steam reviews.
About Peglin: Peglin is a Pachinko Roguelike - Fight enemies by collecting special orbs and popping pegs to deal damage. Acquire special relics that radically change the game and ensure no two runs are the same. Aim carefully to survive in this unique turn-based RPG!
Players who liked Peglin also play
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Ballionaire
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Peglin.
Top pick for Peglin fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Peglin.
BALLIONAIRE is a fast-paced, kinetic roguelike where strategy meets physics to create outrageous wealth! Find and exploit game-breaking synergies as you theorycraft your way to victory. Welcome to the autobonker genre!
Backpack Hero
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Peglin.
Second-strongest match for Peglin fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Peglin.
The inventory management roguelike! Collect rare items, organize your backpack, and vanquish your foes!
Arrogue
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Peglin.
Third-strongest match for Peglin fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Peglin.
Collect, upgrade and unlock powerful arrows and relics to protect your village. For that you’ll have to fight against procedurally generated hordes of enemies in this turn-per-turn, physics-based, roguelike! Explore the map, find the right path and make decisive choices in random events.
Dungeon Clawler
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Peglin.
Ranked #4 for Peglin fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Peglin.
Dungeon Clawler is a Roguelike Claw Machine Deckbuilder. Build your deck, grab weapons and items from the claw machine to battle enemies, discover powerful perks that create game-changing synergies and unleash crazy combos as you fight your way through the dungeon!
Balatro
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Peglin fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Peglin.
The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Peglin fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Peglin.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Dicey Dungeons
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Peglin.
Ranked #7 for Peglin fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Peglin.
Become a giant walking dice, explore dungeons and defy Lady Luck in this dice powered roguelike! Now featuring "Reunion", a free DLC with six brand-new episodes!
Roguebook
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Peglin fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Peglin.
Embrace the challenge of a roguelike deckbuilder with unique mechanics from the developers of Faeria and Richard Garfield, creator of Magic: The Gathering™. Build a team of two heroes, unleash powerful combos and defeat the legends of the Roguebook!
Reviewers mention these as similar to Peglin
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Monster Train 2
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Peglin.
Reviewers of Peglin cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Peglin.
Monster Train returns with all new clans, new enemy factions, new challenges, new modes and more! Defend your Pyre in the classic three-tiered, vertical gameplay that made the original roguelike deckbuilder a hit.
Die in the Dungeon
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Peglin cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Peglin.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but dice! Deal with enemies by combining powerful dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and risk it all hoping for a good roll on unexpected encounters.
Peggle Extreme
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Peglin.
Reviewers of Peglin cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Casual with Peglin.
Peggle Extreme delivers fast-paced puzzle action that combines elements of pinball and pachinko to create a truly unique game experience. Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun, now exclusively themed with art and sounds from Half-Life: Episode 2, Portal, and Team Fortress 2.
Ballionaire
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Peglin.
Reviewers of Peglin cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Peglin.
BALLIONAIRE is a fast-paced, kinetic roguelike where strategy meets physics to create outrageous wealth! Find and exploit game-breaking synergies as you theorycraft your way to victory. Welcome to the autobonker genre!
Balatro
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Peglin cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Peglin.
The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
Dicey Dungeons
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Peglin.
Reviewers of Peglin cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Peglin.
Become a giant walking dice, explore dungeons and defy Lady Luck in this dice powered roguelike! Now featuring "Reunion", a free DLC with six brand-new episodes!
Monster Train
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Peglin cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Peglin.
Monster Train is a strategic roguelike deck building game with a twist. Set on a train to hell, you’ll use tactical decision making to defend multiple vertical battlegrounds. With real time competitive multiplayer and endless replayability, Monster Train is always on time.
Dungeon Clawler
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Peglin.
Reviewers of Peglin cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and RPG with Peglin.
Dungeon Clawler is a Roguelike Claw Machine Deckbuilder. Build your deck, grab weapons and items from the claw machine to battle enemies, discover powerful perks that create game-changing synergies and unleash crazy combos as you fight your way through the dungeon!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Peglin at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Peglin on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Peglin.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Peglin on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Peglin.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~48% under Peglin on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Peglin.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Peglin on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Peglin.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Peglin on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Peglin.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under Peglin on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Peglin.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Peglin on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Peglin.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Peglin on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Peglin.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Peglin.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Peglin.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Peglin.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Peglin.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Peglin.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Peglin.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Ballionaire
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Peglin.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Peglin.
BALLIONAIRE is a fast-paced, kinetic roguelike where strategy meets physics to create outrageous wealth! Find and exploit game-breaking synergies as you theorycraft your way to victory. Welcome to the autobonker genre!
Backpack Hero
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Peglin.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Peglin.
The inventory management roguelike! Collect rare items, organize your backpack, and vanquish your foes!
Dungeon Clawler
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Peglin.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and RPG with Peglin.
Dungeon Clawler is a Roguelike Claw Machine Deckbuilder. Build your deck, grab weapons and items from the claw machine to battle enemies, discover powerful perks that create game-changing synergies and unleash crazy combos as you fight your way through the dungeon!
Balatro
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Peglin.
The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Peglin.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Dicey Dungeons
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Peglin.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Peglin.
Become a giant walking dice, explore dungeons and defy Lady Luck in this dice powered roguelike! Now featuring "Reunion", a free DLC with six brand-new episodes!
Frequently asked about Peglin
- Is Peglin verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Peglin is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Peglin cost?
- Peglin is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Peglin?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Peglin are Ballionaire, Backpack Hero, Arrogue.
- Who developed Peglin?
- Peglin was developed by Red Nexus Games Inc. and published by Red Nexus Games Inc., IndieArk.
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