Games like Sword of the Stars: The Pit
If Sword of the Stars: The Pit is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dungeons of Dredmor, Hack, Slash, Loot and Tales of Maj'Eyal — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its deep tactical positioning matters, challenging and immersive. 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 Sword of the Stars: The Pit: A fun, fast, light-hearted, turn-based RPG, where the tradition of old school dungeon-diving games meets the sci-fi Sword of the Stars universe!
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Dungeons of Dredmor
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation with Sword of the Stars: The Pit.
Top pick for Sword of the Stars: The Pit fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Sword of the Stars: The Pit.
Test your luck and cunning in this exciting RPG as you craft, cast, and pillage your way through Lord Dredmor's Dungeons.
Hack, Slash, Loot
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Sword of the Stars: The Pit.
Second-strongest match for Sword of the Stars: The Pit fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Sword of the Stars: The Pit.
A single-player turn-based dungeon crawler. Take control of a lone hero and explore sprawling dungeons, fight dangerous monsters.
Tales of Maj'Eyal
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Sword of the Stars: The Pit.
Third-strongest match for Sword of the Stars: The Pit fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Sword of the Stars: The Pit.
Tales of Maj’Eyal is a roguelike RPG, featuring tactical turn-based combat and advanced character building. Play as one of many unique races and classes in the lore-filled world of Eyal, exploring random dungeons, facing challenging battles, and developing characters with your own tailored mix of abilities and powers.
Cogmind
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Sword of the Stars: The Pit fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sword of the Stars: The Pit.
Cogmind is a sci-fi roguelike epic in which you play a robot building yourself from components found or salvaged from other robots. Explore a living, breathing world through turn-based tactical combat, or sneak, hack, and fly your way to victory.
The Curse Of Yendor
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Sword of the Stars: The Pit.
Ranked #5 for Sword of the Stars: The Pit fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sword of the Stars: The Pit.
Kill monsters, get loot, solve puzzles, complete quests! A sword and sorcery adventure where your magic shapes the world. A classical rogue-like with a modern feel. "Your nemesis has found the Amulet of Yendor... Defeat him before he ascends to godhood!"
ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery)
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Sword of the Stars: The Pit.
Ranked #6 for Sword of the Stars: The Pit fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sword of the Stars: The Pit.
ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery) is one of the most successful roguelike games ever created, boasting a brilliant mix of story, RPG, exploration, and intensely strategic & flexible combat. The Steam version adds various features like achievements, difficulty level customization & play modes.
Golden Krone Hotel
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Sword of the Stars: The Pit.
Ranked #7 for Sword of the Stars: The Pit fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sword of the Stars: The Pit.
Golden Krone Hotel is a gothic horror roguelike. Fight vampires with sunlight or become a vampire yourself and sneak in the shadows. Combines classic turn-based combat with dynamic lighting, an innovative potion system, and fast paced gameplay.
Terra Randoma
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an immersive mood with Sword of the Stars: The Pit.
Ranked #8 for Sword of the Stars: The Pit fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Sword of the Stars: The Pit.
Terra Randoma is a turn-based roguelike RPG in a procedurally generated open world. Travel a world full of curiousity and perilous dungeons. Develop your character however you want with skills, talent stones and randomized items while you discover an ancient secret.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Sword of the Stars: The Pit
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Risk of Rain 2
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Sword of the Stars: The Pit.
Reviewers of Sword of the Stars: The Pit cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Sword of the Stars: The Pit.
Escape a chaotic alien planet by fighting through hordes of frenzied monsters – with your friends, or on your own. Combine loot in surprising ways and master each character until you become the havoc you feared upon your first crash landing.
Rogue Legacy
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Sword of the Stars: The Pit.
Reviewers of Sword of the Stars: The Pit cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with Sword of the Stars: The Pit.
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.
Enter the Gungeon
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Sword of the Stars: The Pit.
Reviewers of Sword of the Stars: The Pit cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Sword of the Stars: The Pit.
Enter the Gungeon is a bullet hell dungeon crawler following a band of misfits seeking to shoot, loot, dodge roll and table-flip their way to personal absolution by reaching the legendary Gungeon’s ultimate treasure: the gun that can kill the past.
Jupiter Hell
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Sword of the Stars: The Pit cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sword of the Stars: The Pit.
True Roguelike. Turn-based shooter. Permadeath. Tribute to the sci-fi classics of the Golden VHS era. Successor to DRL. Just you and your gun against hordes of horrors and monstrosities. Give them hell to the rhythm of heavy metal.
Rogue Legacy 2
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an immersive mood with Sword of the Stars: The Pit.
Reviewers of Sword of the Stars: The Pit cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with Sword of the Stars: The Pit.
Rogue Legacy 2 is what you'd get if you mashed Rogue Legacy and a sequel together. Every time you die, your children will succeed you, and each child is unique. Your daughter might be a Colourblind Archer, and your son could be a Pacifistic Chef. Either way, one of them is getting conscripted.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Sword of the Stars: The Pit at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Sword of the Stars: The Pit on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Sword of the Stars: The Pit.
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 ~50% under Sword of the Stars: The Pit on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Sword of the Stars: The Pit.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Sword of the Stars: The Pit on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sword of the Stars: The Pit.
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 ~50% under Sword of the Stars: The Pit on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Sword of the Stars: The Pit.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Sword of the Stars: The Pit on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sword of the Stars: The Pit.
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 ~50% under Sword of the Stars: The Pit on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Sword of the Stars: The Pit.
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 ~70% under Sword of the Stars: The Pit on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sword of the Stars: The Pit.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Sword of the Stars: The Pit on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Sword of the Stars: The Pit.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Sword of the Stars: The Pit.
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.
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Sword of the Stars: The Pit.
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 RPG with Sword of the Stars: The Pit.
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.
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sword of the Stars: The Pit.
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 dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Sword of the Stars: The Pit.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
South Scrimshaw, Part One
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Sword of the Stars: The Pit.
South Scrimshaw is the story of a newborn whale in a vast alien ocean. It is a richly illustrated experimental visual novel, written in the style of a nature documentary.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sword of the Stars: The Pit.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
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More from Kerberos Productions
Other recommendable Steam games by Kerberos Productions, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Sword of the Stars II: Enhanced Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Sword of the Stars: The Pit.
Another title from Kerberos Productions, the studio behind Sword of the Stars: The Pit. Shares Strategy with Sword of the Stars: The Pit.
The Enhanced Edition contains Sword of the Stars II: The Lords of Winter and the first expansion, the End of Flesh. The new expansion introduces the new playable race, the Loa. All previous DLCs containing new avatars, new combat music, alternate voices, skins, and new badges for the warships are also included.
The Pit: Infinity
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a tense mood with Sword of the Stars: The Pit.
Another title from Kerberos Productions, the studio behind Sword of the Stars: The Pit. Shares Indie with Sword of the Stars: The Pit.
Enter a legendary alien facility dug deep into the Feldspar Mountains... a massive Pit, built by the ancient Suul'ka. Enter The Pit again for the first time, in this unique Roguelike / FPS hybrid!
Hoards of Glory
WHY THIS
Another title from Kerberos Productions, the studio behind Sword of the Stars: The Pit. Shares Strategy and Casual with Sword of the Stars: The Pit.
Hoards of Glory is a dice placement game for 1-4 players. Players take on the role of a Viking captain forced to follow through on his grand boasts! Developed as an answer for how to playtest a tabletop during a pandemic, Hoards of Glory grew into a video game in its own right!
Planetary Control!
WHY THIS
Another title from Kerberos Productions, the studio behind Sword of the Stars: The Pit. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sword of the Stars: The Pit.
Invade strange worlds with alien armies! populate and shield your planets! Assassinate, Sabotage and Nuke your opponents! Collect victory points and achieve... PLANETARY CONTROL!
Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a stressful mood with Sword of the Stars: The Pit.
Another title from Kerberos Productions, the studio behind Sword of the Stars: The Pit. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sword of the Stars: The Pit.
The Pit2 returns to the turn-based Roguelike roots of the indie classic and takes you to another alien facility filled with broken machines, warped creatures, and new surprises!
Frequently asked about Sword of the Stars: The Pit
- How much does Sword of the Stars: The Pit cost?
- Sword of the Stars: The Pit is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Sword of the Stars: The Pit?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Sword of the Stars: The Pit are Dungeons of Dredmor, Hack, Slash, Loot, Tales of Maj'Eyal.
- Who developed Sword of the Stars: The Pit?
- Sword of the Stars: The Pit was developed by Kerberos Productions.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Sword of the Stars: The Pit.
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