Games like Desktop Dungeons
If Desktop Dungeons is your kind of game, the closest matches are Desktop Dungeons: Rewind, Guild of Dungeoneering Ultimate Edition and Crown Trick — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its dungeons are solvable puzzles, challenging and contemplative. 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 Desktop Dungeons: Each step into the unknown heals you and reveals new obstacles as you guide fresh heros to glorious retirement or ignominious death. Master tactical spells, appease ancient gods and get rich through taxidermy in this award-winning quick-play puzzle-roguelike.
Players who liked Desktop Dungeons also play
Steam players who put hours into Desktop Dungeons 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.
Desktop Dungeons: Rewind
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a contemplative mood with Desktop Dungeons.
Top pick for Desktop Dungeons fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Desktop Dungeons.
Desktop Dungeons: Rewind bestows bites of tactical roguelike action, which will quickly fester into a deep, lingering, and strategic obsession. Bargain with gods, equip your spoon and pick your battles, before retreating into the healing darkness. But beware… there are still many monsters to face!
Guild of Dungeoneering Ultimate Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Desktop Dungeons.
Second-strongest match for Desktop Dungeons fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Desktop Dungeons.
Now fully rebuilt and remastered, Guild of Dungeoneering Ultimate Edition is a turn-based dungeon crawler with a twist: instead of controlling the hero you build the dungeon around them.
Crown Trick
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Desktop Dungeons.
Third-strongest match for Desktop Dungeons fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Desktop Dungeons.
Enter a labyrinth that moves as you move, where mastering the elements is key to defeating enemies and uncovering the mysteries of this underground world. With a new experience awaiting every time you enter the dungeon, let the power bestowed by the crown guide you in this challenging adventure!
Dungeons of Dredmor
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Desktop Dungeons fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Desktop Dungeons.
Test your luck and cunning in this exciting RPG as you craft, cast, and pillage your way through Lord Dredmor's Dungeons.
Dungeon Rushers
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Desktop Dungeons.
Ranked #5 for Desktop Dungeons fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Desktop Dungeons.
A Heroic-Parody tactical RPG combining dungeon crawler’s gameplay and turn-based fights. Dive in an off-beat universe, manage your team and craft mighty gear to equip them! Build your own dungeon by hiding traps and monsters in your galleries, then challenge other players to clean it!
HELLCARD
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Desktop Dungeons.
Ranked #6 for Desktop Dungeons fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Desktop Dungeons.
Hellcard is a unique cooperative deck builder rogue-like game. Descend into the paper dungeons on your own, recruit computer-controlled companions or join other players' lobbies in fast-paced tactical card battles against the armies of darkness and the Archdemon himself!
生嚿叉燒好過生你
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a whimsical mood with Desktop Dungeons.
Ranked #7 for Desktop Dungeons fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Desktop Dungeons.
你將會扮演一塊壞了的叉燒，在陰間展開一場無厘頭超低能勁搞笑大癲全配音地獄式非工業用無添加眼碌碌反高潮多重結局高清無碼免運費無炭用䟴䟴腳經濟實惠非主流已讀不回壞腸胃超級無敵超過一百個Steam成就鬼咁多玩法的大冒險！ 這塊叉燒最後能投個好胎嗎？還是只能投個怪胎呢？全看你了~
Legend of Keepers: Career of a Dungeon Manager
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Desktop Dungeons.
Ranked #8 for Desktop Dungeons fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Desktop Dungeons.
Legend of Keepers is the perfect mix between Dungeon Defender and Roguelite. You have been hired as a dungeon manager by the Dungeons Company. Your job is simple: protect their dungeons!
Reviewers mention these as similar to Desktop Dungeons
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Darkest Dungeon®
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Desktop Dungeons cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Desktop Dungeons.
Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against unimaginable horrors, stress, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Can you keep your heroes together when all hope is lost?
Super Meat Boy Forever
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Desktop Dungeons.
Reviewers of Desktop Dungeons cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desktop Dungeons.
Super Meat Boy is back! This time around Meat Boy is always running, literally it's an auto-runner. You will jump, dive, slide and punch your way through brutal levels and mean boss fights. We designed 5,000+ levels so you can play the game over and over without seeing the same level twice.
Baba Is You
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Desktop Dungeons.
Reviewers of Desktop Dungeons cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Desktop Dungeons.
Baba Is You is a puzzle game where the rules you have to follow are present as blocks you can interact with. By manipulating them, you can change how the game works, repurpose things you find in the levels and cause surprising interactions!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Desktop Dungeons at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Desktop Dungeons on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Desktop Dungeons.
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 ~67% under Desktop Dungeons on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Desktop Dungeons.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Desktop Dungeons on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desktop Dungeons.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Desktop Dungeons on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Desktop Dungeons.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Desktop Dungeons.
Priced ~58% under Desktop Dungeons on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Desktop Dungeons.
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!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Desktop Dungeons on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Desktop Dungeons.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Desktop Dungeons on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Desktop Dungeons.
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 ~67% under Desktop Dungeons on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Desktop Dungeons.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 Desktop Dungeons.
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 and Adventure with Desktop Dungeons.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Desktop Dungeons.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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 Desktop Dungeons.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Desktop Dungeons.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
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More from QCF Design
Other recommendable Steam games by QCF Design, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Desktop Dungeons: Rewind
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a contemplative mood with Desktop Dungeons.
Another title from QCF Design, the studio behind Desktop Dungeons. Shares Strategy and Indie with Desktop Dungeons.
Desktop Dungeons: Rewind bestows bites of tactical roguelike action, which will quickly fester into a deep, lingering, and strategic obsession. Bargain with gods, equip your spoon and pick your battles, before retreating into the healing darkness. But beware… there are still many monsters to face!
Drawkanoid
WHY THIS
Another title from QCF Design, the studio behind Desktop Dungeons. Shares Indie and Casual with Desktop Dungeons.
Hyperspeed neon brick-breaking with bullet time and explosions. What more do you need? How about ludicrous powerups and multiple game modes? You're welcome.
Drawkanoid: Review Breaker
WHY THIS
Another title from QCF Design, the studio behind Desktop Dungeons. Shares Indie and Casual with Desktop Dungeons.
Smash through Steam reviews at hyperspeed, then guess which game they came from. Key resellers are bad for the industry, support developers directly!
Desktop Dungeons: Rewind - Daily Demo
WHY THIS
Another title from QCF Design, the studio behind Desktop Dungeons. Shares Strategy and Indie with Desktop Dungeons.
Desktop Dungeons: Rewind - Daily Demo is a new, procedurally generated challenge, designed to rack the strongest minds…DAILY! So grab your sword, embark on this brain-teasing roguelike adventure, explore dangerous dungeons, and prepare for the full game! Do you have what it takes to be the GOAT?!
Frequently asked about Desktop Dungeons
- Does Desktop Dungeons run on Steam Deck?
- Desktop Dungeons is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Desktop Dungeons cost?
- Desktop Dungeons is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Desktop Dungeons?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Desktop Dungeons are Desktop Dungeons: Rewind, Guild of Dungeoneering Ultimate Edition, Crown Trick.
- Who developed Desktop Dungeons?
- Desktop Dungeons was developed by QCF Design.
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