Games like Tales of Maj'Eyal
If Tales of Maj'Eyal is your kind of game, the closest matches are Sword of the Stars: The Pit, Terra Randoma and Dungeons of Dredmor — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its builds feel uniquely powerful, atmospheric and brutal. 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 →Tales of Maj'Eyal is a turn-based roguelike RPG released in 2013 by Netcore Games, available for $6.99. Set in the world of Eyal, it features procedural generation and deep character customization across numerous races and classes. Players engage in tactical combat while developing characters through extensive build-crafting systems. The game includes difficulty tiers, loot variance, and one-shot protection for its massive content. Reviewers highlight that builds feel uniquely powerful as players progress through long-form runs. Players describe the experience as atmospheric and contemplative despite its brutal difficulty. Steam reviews report that classes and races offer extreme variety, with players appreciating its retro charm combined with modern depth. The game is marked as playable on Steam Deck and holds a 94% positive rating from over 4,000 reviews.
About Tales of Maj'Eyal: 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.
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Sword of the Stars: The Pit
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Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Tales of Maj'Eyal.
Top pick for Tales of Maj'Eyal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Tales of Maj'Eyal.
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!
Terra Randoma
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a contemplative mood with Tales of Maj'Eyal.
Second-strongest match for Tales of Maj'Eyal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Tales of Maj'Eyal.
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.
Dungeons of Dredmor
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation with Tales of Maj'Eyal.
Third-strongest match for Tales of Maj'Eyal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Tales of Maj'Eyal.
Test your luck and cunning in this exciting RPG as you craft, cast, and pillage your way through Lord Dredmor's Dungeons.
ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery)
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Tales of Maj'Eyal.
Ranked #4 for Tales of Maj'Eyal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tales of Maj'Eyal.
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.
Quest of Dungeons
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Shares procedural generation and a contemplative mood with Tales of Maj'Eyal.
Ranked #5 for Tales of Maj'Eyal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tales of Maj'Eyal.
Quest of Dungeons is a turn based dungeon crawler game featuring a good old 16-bit retro artistic look. By playing as either a Warrior, Wizard, Assassin or Shaman you have to traverse dungeons, defeat enemies and loot everything you can in order to survive.
Shattered Pixel Dungeon
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Tales of Maj'Eyal.
Ranked #6 for Tales of Maj'Eyal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tales of Maj'Eyal.
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.
The Curse Of Yendor
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Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Tales of Maj'Eyal.
Ranked #7 for Tales of Maj'Eyal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tales of Maj'Eyal.
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!"
Hack, Slash, Loot
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Shares a contemplative mood with Tales of Maj'Eyal.
Ranked #8 for Tales of Maj'Eyal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Tales of Maj'Eyal.
A single-player turn-based dungeon crawler. Take control of a lone hero and explore sprawling dungeons, fight dangerous monsters.
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Dungeonmans
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Shares build crafting and a challenging mood with Tales of Maj'Eyal.
Reviewers of Tales of Maj'Eyal cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tales of Maj'Eyal.
Crush monsters and get loots in the classic turn-based style of deep dungeons and high adventure! Grow the Dungeonmans Academy, a bastion of learning that expands as you play. Serious gameplay with a light-hearted atmosphere, combining the feel of history's great RPGs and dice-slinging adventures around the tabletop.
The Doors of Trithius
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Tales of Maj'Eyal.
Reviewers of Tales of Maj'Eyal cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with Tales of Maj'Eyal.
The Doors of Trithius is an open-world RPG roguelike. Engage in tactical turn-based combat in a living world of warring factions, wandering behemoths, and ancient magic. Level your skills, cook, craft, and explore dungeons. Will you follow the story, or let adventure be your guide?
Path of Achra
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Shares a contemplative mood with Tales of Maj'Eyal.
Reviewers of Tales of Maj'Eyal cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Tales of Maj'Eyal.
Path of Achra is a dark fantasy roguelike of the ancient earth, with a focus on streamlined controls and rapid hero customization. A "broken build sandbox." Fight through the deadly lands of Achra to reach the horrors of the Obelisk, and discover what lies beyond...
Dungeons of Dredmor
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation with Tales of Maj'Eyal.
Reviewers of Tales of Maj'Eyal cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with Tales of Maj'Eyal.
Test your luck and cunning in this exciting RPG as you craft, cast, and pillage your way through Lord Dredmor's Dungeons.
Caves of Qud
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Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Tales of Maj'Eyal.
Reviewers of Tales of Maj'Eyal cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tales of Maj'Eyal.
Inhabit a deeply-simulated science fantasy world and chisel through layers of thousand-year-old civilizations. Build a character from over a hundred mutations and cybernetics. The award-winning sandbox roguelike & RPG full of robots, deep lore, and sentient plants.
Rogue Fable IV
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Shares procedural generation and a contemplative mood with Tales of Maj'Eyal.
Reviewers of Tales of Maj'Eyal cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tales of Maj'Eyal.
Storm the lair of the immortal wizard Yendor in this fast paced, turn based, traditional rogue-like. The massive scope, deep mechanics and challenging gameplay that define the genre distilled into dense and highly varied one hour runs.
Stoneshard
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Shares a challenging mood with Tales of Maj'Eyal.
Reviewers of Tales of Maj'Eyal cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tales of Maj'Eyal.
Stoneshard is a hardcore turn-based RPG about the harsh life of a medieval mercenary: travel with your own caravan, descend into procedurally generated dungeons, learn new skills, survive hunger and injuries - and remember, every mistake can mean death and loss of progress.
Tangledeep
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Shares a contemplative mood with Tales of Maj'Eyal.
Reviewers of Tales of Maj'Eyal cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with Tales of Maj'Eyal.
Enter the magical world of Tangledeep, a beautifully polished dungeon crawler inspired by classic 16-bit RPGs! Colorful characters, a unique job system, tons of skills, items, and diverse environments with deep, turn-based roguelike gameplay. A different adventure every time you play!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Tales of Maj'Eyal at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~86% under Tales of Maj'Eyal on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tales of Maj'Eyal.
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
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Priced ~57% under Tales of Maj'Eyal on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Tales of Maj'Eyal.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
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Priced ~46% under Tales of Maj'Eyal on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tales of Maj'Eyal.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
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Priced ~72% under Tales of Maj'Eyal on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tales of Maj'Eyal.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~79% under Tales of Maj'Eyal on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tales of Maj'Eyal.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~86% under Tales of Maj'Eyal on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Tales of Maj'Eyal.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
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Priced ~57% under Tales of Maj'Eyal on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Tales of Maj'Eyal.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
A Short Hike
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Priced ~43% under Tales of Maj'Eyal on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tales of Maj'Eyal.
Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tales of Maj'Eyal.
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The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tales of Maj'Eyal.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tales of Maj'Eyal.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tales of Maj'Eyal.
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Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tales of Maj'Eyal.
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.
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Frequently asked about Tales of Maj'Eyal
- Does Tales of Maj'Eyal run on Steam Deck?
- Tales of Maj'Eyal 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 Tales of Maj'Eyal cost?
- Tales of Maj'Eyal is listed on Steam at 6.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Tales of Maj'Eyal?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Tales of Maj'Eyal are Sword of the Stars: The Pit, Terra Randoma, Dungeons of Dredmor.
- Who developed Tales of Maj'Eyal?
- Tales of Maj'Eyal was developed by Netcore Games.
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