Games like Spelunky
If Spelunky is your kind of game, the closest matches are Spelunky 2, Legend of Dungeon and Caveblazers — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its factory for fun, fair difficulty and outrageously deep. 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 →Spelunky is a 2013 indie platformer where players descend into procedurally generated underground caves filled with monsters, traps, and treasure. The physics-based movement and tight controls reward skilled navigation through each randomly arranged level. Players describe the experience as challenging, punishing, and tense, with reviewers highlighting the fair difficulty that keeps them returning. The game supports local co-op for up to four explorers and offers substantial replay value through secret areas and depth that veteran players find outrageously deep. Spelunky is verified for Steam Deck and currently priced at 14.99 USD, holding a 92% positive rating from over 10,000 Steam reviews. Dungeon-crawling exploration and speedrunning appeal to players seeking both casual runs and mastery-level challenges.
About Spelunky: Spelunky is a unique platformer with randomized levels that offer a challenging new experience each time you play. Journey deep underground and explore fantastic places filled with all manner of monsters, traps, and treasure.
Players who liked Spelunky also play
Steam players who put hours into Spelunky 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.
Spelunky 2
WHY THIS
Shares physics based movement, procedural generation and a tense mood with Spelunky.
Top pick for Spelunky fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Spelunky.
Spelunky 2 builds upon the unique, randomized challenges that made the original a roguelike classic, offering a huge adventure designed to satisfy players old and new. Meet the next generation of explorers as they find themselves on the Moon, searching for treasure and missing family.
Legend of Dungeon
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Spelunky fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Spelunky.
Legend of Dungeon is a randomly generated action RPG Beat'em'up with heavy Rogue-like elements, striking visuals, and dynamic music.
Caveblazers
WHY THIS
Shares a punishing mood with Spelunky.
Third-strongest match for Spelunky fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Spelunky.
Caveblazers is a challenging and brutal roguelike platformer. Journey into a mysterious cave, fighting orcs and goblins with an abundance of weapons and magical items! Make friends along the way, then watch in despair as they are crushed in to a bloody pulp under a troll's fist.
Freaky Awesome
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Spelunky.
Ranked #4 for Spelunky fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Spelunky.
Freaky Awesome is a hectic action rogue-lite. You explore a randomly generated old factory, fighting weird monsters and avoiding traps. Toxic wastes will make you mutate, gaining different powers every time. You will need to adapt to your mutations to survive!
Spirits Abyss
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Spelunky.
Ranked #5 for Spelunky fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Spelunky.
Spirits Abyss is a roguelite platformer with destructible terrain. Cast into the Abysm you must explore its diverse depths battling phantasmic meanies and plundering its useful treasures to find a way home... but does something nestle beyond the realmic veil of death?
Catacomb Kids
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Spelunky fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Spelunky.
Catacomb Kids is a brutal platformer roguelike that pits you against the deadly Catacombs aided only by magic, steel, and your quick reflexes. Traverse procedurally generated dungeons and hack, slash, burn, and blast your way through hordes of things that want to kill you.
30XX
WHY THIS
Shares co op and a challenging mood with Spelunky.
Ranked #7 for Spelunky fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Spelunky.
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.
Abyss Odyssey
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Spelunky.
Ranked #8 for Spelunky fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Spelunky.
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…
Reviewers mention these as similar to Spelunky
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Rogue Legacy
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a punishing mood with Spelunky.
Reviewers of Spelunky cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Spelunky.
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.
The Swindle
WHY THIS
Shares a punishing mood with Spelunky.
Reviewers of Spelunky cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Spelunky.
The Swindle is a steampunk cybercrime caper about breaking into buildings, hacking their systems, stealing all their cash, and quickly running away again before the police show up.
SteamWorld Dig
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Spelunky.
Reviewers of Spelunky cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Spelunky.
SteamWorld Dig is an action-adventure puzzler with strong Metroidvanian influences set in the SteamWorld Universe. You’ll need to dig deep into the earth, gather resources to upgrade your tools and abilities, take on enemies, solve challenging puzzles and uncover the secrets to save a dying town.
Rogue Knight
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Spelunky cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Spelunky.
Experience fast-paced roguelite gameplay. Explore ever-changing locations and fight vicious enemies in souls-inspired 2d combat. Every run you will find variety of items and spells to compliment your playstyle, as well as resources to upgrade your town for future runs.
Spelunky 2
WHY THIS
Shares physics based movement, procedural generation and a tense mood with Spelunky.
Reviewers of Spelunky cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Spelunky.
Spelunky 2 builds upon the unique, randomized challenges that made the original a roguelike classic, offering a huge adventure designed to satisfy players old and new. Meet the next generation of explorers as they find themselves on the Moon, searching for treasure and missing family.
Hades
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Spelunky cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Spelunky.
Defy the god of the dead as you hack and slash out of the Underworld in this rogue-like dungeon crawler from the creators of Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre.
Vagante
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a punishing mood with Spelunky.
Reviewers of Spelunky cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Spelunky.
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.
Enter the Gungeon
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Spelunky.
Reviewers of Spelunky cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Spelunky.
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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Spelunky at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Spelunky on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Spelunky.
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 Spelunky on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Spelunky.
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 Spelunky on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Spelunky.
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?
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Spelunky on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Spelunky.
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 Spelunky on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Spelunky.
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 Spelunky on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Spelunky.
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 Spelunky on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Spelunky.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Spelunky.
Priced ~47% under Spelunky on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Spelunky.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
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 with Spelunky.
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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Spelunky.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Spelunky.
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 with Spelunky.
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 Spelunky.
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.
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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.
Spelunky 2
WHY THIS
Shares physics based movement, procedural generation and a tense mood with Spelunky.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Spelunky.
Spelunky 2 builds upon the unique, randomized challenges that made the original a roguelike classic, offering a huge adventure designed to satisfy players old and new. Meet the next generation of explorers as they find themselves on the Moon, searching for treasure and missing family.
Caveblazers
WHY THIS
Shares a punishing mood with Spelunky.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Spelunky.
Caveblazers is a challenging and brutal roguelike platformer. Journey into a mysterious cave, fighting orcs and goblins with an abundance of weapons and magical items! Make friends along the way, then watch in despair as they are crushed in to a bloody pulp under a troll's fist.
Freaky Awesome
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Spelunky.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Spelunky.
Freaky Awesome is a hectic action rogue-lite. You explore a randomly generated old factory, fighting weird monsters and avoiding traps. Toxic wastes will make you mutate, gaining different powers every time. You will need to adapt to your mutations to survive!
Spirits Abyss
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Spelunky.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Spelunky.
Spirits Abyss is a roguelite platformer with destructible terrain. Cast into the Abysm you must explore its diverse depths battling phantasmic meanies and plundering its useful treasures to find a way home... but does something nestle beyond the realmic veil of death?
Catacomb Kids
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Spelunky.
Catacomb Kids is a brutal platformer roguelike that pits you against the deadly Catacombs aided only by magic, steel, and your quick reflexes. Traverse procedurally generated dungeons and hack, slash, burn, and blast your way through hordes of things that want to kill you.
Abyss Odyssey
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Spelunky.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Spelunky.
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…
Frequently asked about Spelunky
- Is Spelunky verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Spelunky 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 Spelunky cost?
- Spelunky is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Spelunky have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Spelunky supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen PvP, Shared/Split Screen Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Spelunky?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Spelunky are Spelunky 2, Legend of Dungeon, Caveblazers.
- Who developed Spelunky?
- Spelunky was developed by Mossmouth.
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