Games like Rogue Legacy
If Rogue Legacy is your kind of game, the closest matches are Rogue Legacy 2, Plague Breaker and Dead Cells — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative and punishing. 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 →Rogue Legacy is a 2013 action-adventure roguelite from Cellar Door Games featuring procedurally generated castles and permanent upgrades that carry between runs. Players control heirs who inherit the quest after each death, with each generation presenting unique traits and abilities that shape gameplay. The game combines precision platforming with boss-rush encounters and mana-based combat, offering long-form solo engagement. The 92% positive rating from over 10,000 Steam reviews reflects sustained player appreciation for its challenging design. Players describe the experience as punishing yet contemplative, and reviewers highlight memorable boss encounters and darkly humorous writing alongside meaningful progression that makes each death feel productive. The game is verified for Steam Deck play at $14.99.
About Rogue Legacy: 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.
Players who liked Rogue Legacy also play
Steam players who put hours into Rogue Legacy 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.
Rogue Legacy 2
WHY THIS
Shares permanent upgrades, procedural generation and a challenging mood with Rogue Legacy.
Top pick for Rogue Legacy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rogue Legacy.
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.
Plague Breaker
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Rogue Legacy.
Second-strongest match for Rogue Legacy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rogue Legacy.
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.
Dead Cells
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Rogue Legacy.
Third-strongest match for Rogue Legacy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rogue Legacy.
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.
Betrayer: Curse of the Spine
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Rogue Legacy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rogue Legacy.
Betrayer: Curse of the Spine is an Action-Adventure Metroidvania. The game features decision making, crafting, fast-paced combat, multiple endings, intricate storytelling, an open world to explore, and more!
Xenon Valkyrie
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Rogue Legacy.
Ranked #5 for Rogue Legacy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rogue Legacy.
Xenon Valkyrie is a rogue-like with many RPG elements in which you will have to get to the deepest part of a moon and finish the plans of a wicked witch. You will be able to get many weapons randomly as you fight in a world that is created every time you play.
ScourgeBringer
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Rogue Legacy.
Ranked #6 for Rogue Legacy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rogue Legacy.
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.
Aura of Worlds
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Rogue Legacy.
Ranked #7 for Rogue Legacy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rogue Legacy.
Aura of Worlds is a chaotic, creative tactics rogue-lite platformer. Explore multiple dangerous worlds where you utilize creative abilities & wield the environment to your advantage. Blast, dash, grapple, fight, and charm your way through ever-changing labyrinths & outwit powerful guardians!
Metal Unit
WHY THIS
Shares permanent upgrades and a contemplative mood with Rogue Legacy.
Ranked #8 for Rogue Legacy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rogue Legacy.
Metal Unit is a sprawling side-scrolling platformer with roguelite features. Play as Joanna, a soldier on a mission to capture her treasonous sister. Wear the M-Unit 11 suit and battle against monsters and aliens while uncovering the truth about humanity.
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Dead Cells
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Rogue Legacy.
Reviewers of Rogue Legacy cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Rogue Legacy.
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 2
WHY THIS
Shares permanent upgrades, procedural generation and a challenging mood with Rogue Legacy.
Reviewers of Rogue Legacy cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Rogue Legacy.
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.
Moonlighter
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Rogue Legacy.
Reviewers of Rogue Legacy cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Rogue Legacy.
Moonlighter is an Action RPG with rogue-lite elements that demonstrates two sides of the coin – revealing everyday routines of Will, an adventurous shopkeeper that secretly dreams of becoming a hero.
Children of Morta
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Rogue Legacy.
Reviewers of Rogue Legacy cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Rogue Legacy.
Children of Morta is a story-driven action RPG game about an extraordinary family of heroes. Lead the Bergsons, with all their flaws and virtues, against the forthcoming Corruption. Will you be able to sacrifice everything to save the ones you care for?
Salt and Sanctuary
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Rogue Legacy cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Rogue Legacy.
Explore a haunting, punishing island in this stylized 2D action RPG. Salt and Sanctuary combines fast and brutal 2D combat with richly developed RPG mechanics in a cursed realm of forgotten cities, blood-soaked dungeons, and desecrated monuments.
Metroidvania Maker
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Rogue Legacy cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Rogue Legacy.
Create, play, and share custom Metroidvania worlds with a built-in world editor, co-op play, and player-made adventures.
The Binding of Isaac
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Rogue Legacy.
Reviewers of Rogue Legacy cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Rogue Legacy.
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Spelunky
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a punishing mood with Rogue Legacy.
Reviewers of Rogue Legacy cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Rogue Legacy.
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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Rogue Legacy at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Rogue Legacy on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rogue Legacy.
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
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Rogue Legacy.
Priced ~67% under Rogue Legacy on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Rogue Legacy.
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 ~53% under Rogue Legacy on Steam right now. Shares Action with Rogue Legacy.
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.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Rogue Legacy on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Rogue Legacy.
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?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Rogue Legacy on Steam right now. Shares Action with Rogue Legacy.
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 ~58% under Rogue Legacy on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rogue Legacy.
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 Rogue Legacy on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rogue Legacy.
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 Rogue Legacy on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rogue Legacy.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Rogue Legacy.
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.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rogue Legacy.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Rogue Legacy.
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 Rogue Legacy.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rogue Legacy.
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!
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Rogue Legacy.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
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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.
Rogue Legacy 2
WHY THIS
Shares permanent upgrades, procedural generation and a challenging mood with Rogue Legacy.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Rogue Legacy.
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.
Plague Breaker
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Rogue Legacy.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Rogue Legacy.
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.
Dead Cells
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Rogue Legacy.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Rogue Legacy.
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.
ScourgeBringer
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Rogue Legacy.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Rogue Legacy.
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.
Aura of Worlds
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Rogue Legacy.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Rogue Legacy.
Aura of Worlds is a chaotic, creative tactics rogue-lite platformer. Explore multiple dangerous worlds where you utilize creative abilities & wield the environment to your advantage. Blast, dash, grapple, fight, and charm your way through ever-changing labyrinths & outwit powerful guardians!
Metal Unit
WHY THIS
Shares permanent upgrades and a contemplative mood with Rogue Legacy.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Rogue Legacy.
Metal Unit is a sprawling side-scrolling platformer with roguelite features. Play as Joanna, a soldier on a mission to capture her treasonous sister. Wear the M-Unit 11 suit and battle against monsters and aliens while uncovering the truth about humanity.
Frequently asked about Rogue Legacy
- Is Rogue Legacy verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Rogue Legacy 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 Rogue Legacy cost?
- Rogue Legacy is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Rogue Legacy?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Rogue Legacy are Rogue Legacy 2, Plague Breaker, Dead Cells.
- Who developed Rogue Legacy?
- Rogue Legacy was developed by Cellar Door Games.
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