Games like Plague Breaker
If Plague Breaker is your kind of game, the closest matches are A Robot Named Fight!, Vagante and Dead Cells — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, intense and nostalgic. 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 →About Plague Breaker: Plague Breaker is a retro roguelike platformer with heavy RPG elements. Pick your class and ascend a procedurally generated castle filled with undead monsters and corrupted plague doctors. Level up your character and find items, weapons, and traders along the way before taking on each floors boss.
Players who liked Plague Breaker also play
Steam players who put hours into Plague Breaker also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
A Robot Named Fight!
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Plague Breaker.
Top pick for Plague Breaker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Plague Breaker.
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.
Vagante
WHY THIS
Shares class customization and a challenging mood with Plague Breaker.
Second-strongest match for Plague Breaker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Plague Breaker.
Vagante is an action-packed platformer that features permanent death and procedurally generated levels. Play cooperatively with friends both locally and online, or adventure solo in this challenging roguelike-inspired game.
Dead Cells
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Plague Breaker.
Third-strongest match for Plague Breaker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Plague Breaker.
Dead Cells is a roguelite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer. You'll explore a sprawling, ever-changing castle... assuming you’re able to fight your way past its keepers in 2D souls-lite combat. No checkpoints. Kill, die, learn, repeat.
Rogue Legacy
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Plague Breaker.
Ranked #4 for Plague Breaker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Plague Breaker.
Rogue Legacy is a genealogical rogue-"LITE" where anyone can be a hero. Each time you die, your child will succeed you. Every child is unique. One child might be colorblind, another might be a dwarf with vertigo. But that's OK, because no one is perfect, and you don't have to be to succeed.
Abyss Odyssey
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Plague Breaker.
Ranked #5 for Plague Breaker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Plague Breaker.
From indie Chilean developer ACE Team comes a new side-scrolling action adventure game featuring a complex fighting engine in procedurally generated levels that destines its three warriors to battle a different abyss each time! Choose your hero and also learn to possess your enemies in the abyss…
Legend of Dungeon
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Plague Breaker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Plague Breaker.
Legend of Dungeon is a randomly generated action RPG Beat'em'up with heavy Rogue-like elements, striking visuals, and dynamic music.
ScourgeBringer
WHY THIS
Shares ability synergy and an intense mood with Plague Breaker.
Ranked #7 for Plague Breaker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Plague Breaker.
ScourgeBringer is a fast-paced free-moving roguelite platformer. Help Kyhra to explore the unknown and slash her way through ancient machines guarding the seal of her past, and maybe the redemption of humanity.
30XX
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Plague Breaker.
Ranked #8 for Plague Breaker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Plague Breaker.
Jump, shoot, and slash your way through 30XX, the roguelike action platformer you can play with a friend! Explore lush, ever-changing worlds that mix precise platforming with fevered combat. Destroy fearsome Guardians. Master unique Powers. Rediscover the thousand years we've lost.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Plague Breaker at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Plague Breaker on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Plague Breaker.
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 Plague Breaker on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Plague Breaker.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~42% under Plague Breaker on Steam right now. Shares Action with Plague Breaker.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Plague Breaker on Steam right now. Shares Action with Plague Breaker.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~48% under Plague Breaker on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Plague Breaker.
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 Plague Breaker on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Plague Breaker.
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 Plague Breaker on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Plague Breaker.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under Plague Breaker on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Plague Breaker.
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?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Plague Breaker.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Plague Breaker.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Plague Breaker.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Plague Breaker.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Plague Breaker.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Plague Breaker.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Plague Breaker.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Plague Breaker.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
A Robot Named Fight!
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Plague Breaker.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Plague Breaker.
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.
Dead Cells
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Plague Breaker.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Plague Breaker.
Dead Cells is a roguelite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer. You'll explore a sprawling, ever-changing castle... assuming you’re able to fight your way past its keepers in 2D souls-lite combat. No checkpoints. Kill, die, learn, repeat.
Rogue Legacy
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Plague Breaker.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Plague Breaker.
Rogue Legacy is a genealogical rogue-"LITE" where anyone can be a hero. Each time you die, your child will succeed you. Every child is unique. One child might be colorblind, another might be a dwarf with vertigo. But that's OK, because no one is perfect, and you don't have to be to succeed.
Abyss Odyssey
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Plague Breaker.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Plague Breaker.
From indie Chilean developer ACE Team comes a new side-scrolling action adventure game featuring a complex fighting engine in procedurally generated levels that destines its three warriors to battle a different abyss each time! Choose your hero and also learn to possess your enemies in the abyss…
ScourgeBringer
WHY THIS
Shares ability synergy and an intense mood with Plague Breaker.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Plague Breaker.
ScourgeBringer is a fast-paced free-moving roguelite platformer. Help Kyhra to explore the unknown and slash her way through ancient machines guarding the seal of her past, and maybe the redemption of humanity.
Frequently asked about Plague Breaker
- Is Plague Breaker verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Plague Breaker 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 Plague Breaker cost?
- Plague Breaker is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Plague Breaker have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Plague Breaker supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Plague Breaker?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Plague Breaker are A Robot Named Fight!, Vagante, Dead Cells.
- Who developed Plague Breaker?
- Plague Breaker was developed by Wozzy Games Limited.
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