Games like The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
If The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is your kind of game, the closest matches are Enter the Gungeon, The Binding of Isaac and Scarlett's Dungeon — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its addictive progression loop, challenging and dark. 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 →The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is a procedurally generated action roguelike with hard difficulty and solo-only gameplay. Released in 2014 at $14.99, it features character unlocks, an item-synergy system, trinket combinations, and achievement grinding across a massive campaign designed for short-burst sessions. Players describe it as dark, hypnotic, and unsettling, with an addictive progression loop and darkly humorous grotesque art style. Reviewers highlight the deep character builds with hidden depth, where endless item synergies make every run unique and storytelling relies on player interpretation. The game holds a 97% positive rating from over 143,000 Steam reviews and is verified for Steam Deck.
About The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth: The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is a randomly generated action RPG shooter with heavy Rogue-like elements. Following Isaac on his journey players will find bizarre treasures that change Isaac’s form giving him super human abilities and enabling him to fight off droves of mysterious creatures, discover secrets and fight his way to safety.
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Steam players who put hours into The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth 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.
Enter the Gungeon
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a dark mood with The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.
Top pick for The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.
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.
The Binding of Isaac
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a dark mood with The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.
Second-strongest match for The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.
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Scarlett's Dungeon
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.
Scarlett's Dungeon is a retro-inspired action RPG dungeon crawler with roguelite elements. Explore randomly generated dungeons, fight monsters, and collect loot in beautifully crafted pixel art reminiscent of the Game Boy Advance era. Test your skills as you dive deep into ever-changing challenges!
Legend of Dungeon
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.
Legend of Dungeon is a randomly generated action RPG Beat'em'up with heavy Rogue-like elements, striking visuals, and dynamic music.
Diehard Dungeon
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.
Ranked #5 for The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.
Combining its own unique take on the real-time roguelike genre, with a nostalgic 16-bit look and feel, Diehard Dungeon is a game that feels both familiar and quite different at the same time. Followed by a trusty, treasure collecting companion chest, you must make your way through the dungeons many randomly-generated rooms and levels.
Ants Took My Eyeball
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.
Ranked #6 for The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.
Ants Took My Eyeball is a 2D action platformer roguelite. Descend into an ever-changing ant hill, fight your way through hordes of insects with a variety of weapons, face formidable bosses and ultimately find your stolen eyeball.
Dunjungle
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.
Ranked #7 for The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.
A 2d action-packed roguelite about a monkey hero protecting the jungle from the rise of a corruptive power. Explore ever-changing dungeons, fight weird enemies and gear up with lots of weapons and relics you can combine for a new experience every run. Explore, fight, die, and repeat!
Never Split the Party
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.
Never Split the Party is an ultra social rogue-like! You're one of four adventurers joining together to explore a procedurally generated dungeon, amass powerful upgrades, and cooperate with your fellow adventures to conquer and crush the evil dungeon champions!
Reviewers mention these as similar to The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
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Dead Cells
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.
Reviewers of The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.
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.
Spelunky
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.
Reviewers of The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth cross-mention this title as a similar play.
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.
Risk of Rain 2
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.
Reviewers of The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.
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.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.
Reviewers of The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth cross-mention this title as a similar play.
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!
Rogue Legacy
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.
Reviewers of The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.
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.
Hotline Miami
WHY THIS
Shares a hypnotic mood with The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.
Reviewers of The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.
Hotline Miami is a high-octane action game overflowing with raw brutality, hard-boiled gunplay and skull crushing close combat.
Hades
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.
Reviewers of The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.
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.
Wizard of Legend
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.
Reviewers of The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.
Wizard of Legend is a no-nonsense, action-packed take on wizardry that emphasizes precise movements and smart comboing of spells in a rogue-like dungeon crawler that features over a hundred unique spells and relics!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.
Priced ~67% under The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.
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 The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.
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 The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.
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 The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.
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.
Noita
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.
Priced ~47% under The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.
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.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~93% under The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.
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.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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 with The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.
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 with The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.
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.
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?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Head-to-head comparisons
More from Nicalis, Inc.
Other recommendable Steam games by Nicalis, Inc., ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Cave Story+
WHY THIS
Another title from Nicalis, Inc., the studio behind The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth. Shares Action with The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.
Run, jump, shoot, fly and explore your way through a massive action-adventure reminiscent of classic 8- and 16-bit games.
Castle In The Darkness
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.
Another title from Nicalis, Inc., the studio behind The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth. Shares Action with The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.
Castle In The Darkness is a fun and challenging shout out to the early days of video games! It's an action exploration platformer with some RPG elements, much like games from the Castlevania or Metroid series. It's super fast-paced, challenging, and full of secrets!
1001 Spikes
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.
Another title from Nicalis, Inc., the studio behind The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth. Shares Action with The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.
Discover the lost treasures of Ukampa in South America as Aban Hawkins searches for his estranged father, world-famous archeaologist, Jim Hawkins. Aban Hawkins races into the frozen tundra of the antarctic, undiscovered temple ruins and the vast caverns of South America in search of his father and the legendary treasure rumored to lie...
NightSky
WHY THIS
Another title from Nicalis, Inc., the studio behind The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.
Nominated as a IGF Seamus McNally Finalist, NightSky is an ambient action-puzzle game that offers a gameplay experience unlike any other—cerebral challenges fill uniquely designed picturesque worlds. The player must maneuver a sphere by using realistic physics to advance; each of these worlds is broken into different areas.
Crystal Crisis
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.
Another title from Nicalis, Inc., the studio behind The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth. Shares Action with The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.
An all-star cast of heroes has gathered to test their mettle in this cute and chaotic new color-matching ONLINE combat game! Crystal Crisis is presented like a fighting game, but players attack by arranging falling crystals and clearing them from the screen. It’s the ultimate Online puzzle battle throwdown!
Save me Mr Tako: Tasukete Tako-San
WHY THIS
Another title from Nicalis, Inc., the studio behind The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth. Shares Action with The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.
A Blast From the Portable-Gaming Past! Mr Tako will solve puzzles, explore mysterious dungeons and fight tenacious bosses on his mission to end the war between the octopus kingdom and the human world. Will you help this brave octopus to spread his message of tolerance and unity?
Cave Story's Secret Santa
WHY THIS
Another title from Nicalis, Inc., the studio behind The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.
After Balrog recovers the Christmas presents that were stolen by Chaba, the cowardly Mimiga named Santa must sneak into every house and return the missing packages. Be the Mimiga Who Saves Christmas!
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Enter the Gungeon
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a dark mood with The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.
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.
Diehard Dungeon
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.
Combining its own unique take on the real-time roguelike genre, with a nostalgic 16-bit look and feel, Diehard Dungeon is a game that feels both familiar and quite different at the same time. Followed by a trusty, treasure collecting companion chest, you must make your way through the dungeons many randomly-generated rooms and levels.
Ants Took My Eyeball
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.
Ants Took My Eyeball is a 2D action platformer roguelite. Descend into an ever-changing ant hill, fight your way through hordes of insects with a variety of weapons, face formidable bosses and ultimately find your stolen eyeball.
Dunjungle
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.
A 2d action-packed roguelite about a monkey hero protecting the jungle from the rise of a corruptive power. Explore ever-changing dungeons, fight weird enemies and gear up with lots of weapons and relics you can combine for a new experience every run. Explore, fight, die, and repeat!
Never Split the Party
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.
Never Split the Party is an ultra social rogue-like! You're one of four adventurers joining together to explore a procedurally generated dungeon, amass powerful upgrades, and cooperate with your fellow adventures to conquer and crush the evil dungeon champions!
Frequently asked about The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
- Is The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth 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 The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth cost?
- The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player).
- What games are most similar to The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth are Enter the Gungeon, The Binding of Isaac, Scarlett's Dungeon.
- Who developed The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth?
- The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth was developed by Nicalis, Inc., Edmund McMillen and published by Nicalis, Inc..
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