Games like Delver
If Delver is your kind of game, the closest matches are Heavy Bullets, Ziggurat and Legend of Dungeon — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its graphics are charmingly retro, writing quality is exceptional and atmospheric. 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 →Delver is a first-person action roguelike dungeon crawler released in 2018 by developers Chad Cuddigan and Joshua Skelton, published by Priority Interrupt, priced at $14.99. The game features inventory management, perma-death, and procedural generation across shifting dungeon layouts, offering medium-length sessions designed for short bursts of gameplay with a high difficulty curve. Players describe the experience as atmospheric and nostalgic, with reviewers highlighting that the pixel graphics are charmingly retro and the music and sound effects enhance immersion. The title is playable on Steam Deck and holds an 87% positive rating from 1,778 Steam reviews.
About Delver: Delve into the shifting dungeons on your hunt for the Yithidian orb, but getting it might just be the easy part. Delver is a single player first-person action roguelike dungeon crawler, just like you wished they used to make.
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Heavy Bullets
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Delver.
Top pick for Delver fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Delver.
Heavy Bullets is a randomized FPS dungeon crawler where players make their way through a colorful maze, while protecting themselves from aggressive creatures and malfunctioning security devices. The goal lies at the end of the 8th level, where they must reset the security mainframe to restore order and reap the rewards.
Ziggurat
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Delver.
Second-strongest match for Delver fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Delver.
Dungeon-Crawling First Person Shooting at its finest! Fast-paced combat! Dozens of perks, spells and enemies! Level ups! Random Dungeons! Traps! Badass bosses! Carrots!
Legend of Dungeon
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Delver.
Third-strongest match for Delver fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Delver.
Legend of Dungeon is a randomly generated action RPG Beat'em'up with heavy Rogue-like elements, striking visuals, and dynamic music.
Eldritch
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Delver.
Ranked #4 for Delver fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Delver.
Eldritch is the original imsim roguelike: a first-person action game inspired by roguelikes, immersive sims, and H. P. Lovecraft.
Dungeon Souls
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a nostalgic mood with Delver.
Ranked #5 for Delver fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Delver.
Dungeon Souls is an action-adventure roguelike dungeon crawler which draws heavy inspiration from Nuclear Throne, Risk of Rain, and Overture. Explore vast procedurally generated dungeons, collect loot, and slay hordes of challenging enemies!
One More Dungeon
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Delver.
Ranked #6 for Delver fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Delver.
One More Dungeon is a first person shooter roguelike with procedurally generated levels and pixel-art graphics.
A Wizard's Lizard
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Delver fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Delver.
Conquer the forces of Death in A Wizard’s Lizard, an action RPG for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Explore ever-changing dungeons, filled with powerful weapons and items. Battle back the hordes of evil. Rescue villagers to improve your town and increase your power for your next trek into the dungeon.
Immortal Redneck
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Delver.
Ranked #8 for Delver fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Delver.
Immortal Redneck is a FPS set in Egypt with rogue-lite elements. Frantic gameplay, twitch controls and an arcade-style feel meet randomly generated dungeons, a complete skill tree, permanent death and 9 classes with different traits.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Delver
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System Shock
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Delver.
Reviewers of Delver cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Delver.
A first-person fight to the death in the depths of space!
Underworld
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Delver cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and RPG with Delver.
Underworld is a classic old-school ARPG in a demonic environment. You must fight demonic skeletons, upgrade your inventory runes, and learn new abilities.
Legendary Tales
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Delver cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Delver.
Legendary tales is a VR Action roleplaying game with up to 4 player co-op. Collect items, enhance your abilities and fight your way through an ever changing dungeon to make your own Legendary Tales.
Tea For God
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Delver.
Reviewers of Delver cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Delver.
God Emperor is held in a place beyond our world. Explore a huge strange complex while fighting hordes of robots. All while you keep walking around your room, bringing the immersion to another level. Customise your experience into an intense shooter, a roguelite explorer, a relaxing trek.
Dreadhalls
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Delver.
Reviewers of Delver cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Delver.
You are trapped deep inside a massive dungeon. Explore it, survive it and find a way to escape. Your only weapons will be stealth, your own courage, and a faint light. Dreadhalls is an intense and scary experience, not for the faint of heart. You have been warned!
Rogue
WHY THIS
Shares inventory management, procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Delver.
Reviewers of Delver cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure and RPG with Delver.
Experience the commercial port of the game that spawned a thousand 'Rogue-likes'. Venture into the Dungeons of Doom in search of the legendary Amulet of Yendor, and hopefully escape with your life! Randomly generated dungeons await you, full of nasty monsters, insidious traps, and glittering loot.
Shattered Pixel Dungeon
WHY THIS
Shares perma death and procedural generation with Delver.
Reviewers of Delver cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Delver.
Shattered Pixel Dungeon is a traditional roguelike dungeon crawler that's simple to start but hard to master! Every game is a unique challenge, with six different heroes, randomized levels and enemies, and hundreds of items to collect and use.
Dungeons of Dragons
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Delver cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Delver.
"In an age of guns, swords, and magic, the Philosopher's Stone, which maintains the balance of Dungeons and Dragons, has been stolen. The world hangs in the balance. It's all up to you..."Honestly, we can't make it all up all the time. Let's have an adventure together!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Delver at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Delver on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Delver.
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 Delver on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Delver.
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 Delver on Steam right now. Shares Action with Delver.
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 Delver on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Delver.
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 Delver on Steam right now. Shares Action with Delver.
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 Delver on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Delver.
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 Delver on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Delver.
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 Delver on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Delver.
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.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Delver.
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. Shares Action and Adventure with Delver.
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 Action and Indie with Delver.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Delver.
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 Delver.
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 Delver.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Delver.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
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Frequently asked about Delver
- Does Delver run on Steam Deck?
- Delver 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 Delver cost?
- Delver is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Delver?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Delver are Heavy Bullets, Ziggurat, Legend of Dungeon.
- Who developed Delver?
- Delver was developed by Chad Cuddigan, Joshua Skelton and published by Priority Interrupt.
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