Games like Heretical
If Heretical is your kind of game, the closest matches are Rogue Girl, Evil's Den: Forsaken Dungeon and VOIN — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its deep class synergy builds, enemy patterns demand mastery 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 →About Heretical: Die. Adapt. Strike back. Climb Sanctora in this brutal Rogue-lite where every death unlocks powers, heroes, and paths to vengeance.
Players who liked Heretical also play
Steam players who put hours into Heretical 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 Girl
WHY THIS
Top pick for Heretical fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heretical.
Rogue Girl is a roguelike game that will immerse you in an exciting adventure, where you will play as a beautiful devil girl called upon to fight an army of sinister zombies. Your path of progress depends on your decisions. Various types of enemies, random rooms, and skills.
Evil's Den: Forsaken Dungeon
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Heretical fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heretical.
Evil's Den: Forsaken Dungeon is a rogue-lite dungeon crawler featuring procedurally generated levels where you will battle through hordes of monsters to close portal to Hell, opened in the villages church.
VOIN
WHY THIS
Shares combo based combat, real time combat and atmospheric with Heretical.
Third-strongest match for Heretical fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heretical.
Crafted by a solo developer, VOIN is a first-person hack-and-slash. Cleave through hordes of enemies in fast-paced combat. Explore dark fantasy realms filled with secrets and dangers. Discover powerful gear and weapons, and face menacing bosses in your quest to cleanse a broken world.
Death Must Die
WHY THIS
Shares loadout customization, skill tree progression and atmospheric with Heretical.
Ranked #4 for Heretical fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heretical.
Descend the nether in search of Death himself! Choose from God-given powers to slay his hordes of minions. Unlock new heroes, collect powerful items and create game-breaking synergies in this roguelite hack and slash survivors game.
No Rest for the Wicked
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Heretical fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Heretical.
From Moon Studios, the award-winning creators of Ori and the Blind Forest and Ori and the Will of the Wisps, comes No Rest for the Wicked, a unique, visceral Action RPG set in a hand-crafted world with Souls-like combat. Featuring co-op for up to four players.
Hell Clock
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Heretical.
Ranked #6 for Heretical fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heretical.
Forge powerful builds with endless loot in this relentless combination of Roguelike and ARPG. Blast through dungeons and unleash inhuman powers in a dark fantasy twist on Brazil’s War of Canudos.
Alaloth: Champions of The Four Kingdoms
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Heretical fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heretical.
A hardcore high fantasy isometric action RPG set in a huge sandbox world ruled by magic and monsters. Master deep skill-based combat, forge powerful builds, explore unforgiving lands and dungeons, face brutal boss fights, uncover ancient secrets, and save Plamen from its inevitable doom!
Trinity Fusion
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Heretical.
Ranked #8 for Heretical fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Heretical.
Three fractured realities. One collapsing multiverse. Fast, fluid combat in a dark sci-fi Roguevania where each run begins in a separate universe — then lets you fuse your parallel selves, powers, and worlds to create brutal, ever-evolving builds.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Heretical
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Magicka
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Heretical cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and RPG with Heretical.
Magicka is a satirical action-adventure game set in a rich fantasy world based on Norse mythology. The player assumes the role of a wizard from a sacred order tasked with stopping an evil sorcerer who has thrown the world into turmoil, his foul creations besieging the forces of good.
Path of Exile
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Heretical.
Reviewers of Heretical cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Heretical.
You are an Exile, struggling to survive on the dark continent of Wraeclast, as you fight to earn power that will allow you to exact your revenge against those who wronged you. Path of Exile is an online Action RPG set in a dark fantasy world. The game is completely free and will never be pay-to-win.
True Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 1
WHY THIS
Shares environmental puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Heretical.
Reviewers of Heretical cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Heretical.
True Fear: Forsaken Souls takes the best of the psychological thriller, blending in fun and intuitive gameplay mechanics. Episode 1, the first in a trilogy, will long be remembered.
暖雪 Warm Snow
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Heretical.
Reviewers of Heretical cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Heretical.
'Warm Snow' is a Rogue-like action game with a background set in a dark fantasy world, where the eerie 'Warm Snow' holds sway. You will play as the Warrior 'Bi-an' on a crusade against the Five Great Clans, in order to save a world teetering on the brink of destruction.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an immersive mood with Heretical.
Reviewers of Heretical cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Heretical.
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!
Rogue Soulstone
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Heretical cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Heretical.
Harness the Rogue Soulstones to escape the grasp of a Void God. In this fast-paced Action RPG, whether playing solo or with friends, every run is unique. Explore different realms, master the playstyles of each Void Hunter and keep your sanity against the corruption of the void.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Heretical at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Heretical on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Heretical.
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 an immersive mood with Heretical.
Priced ~67% under Heretical on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Heretical.
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 Heretical on Steam right now. Shares Action and Early Access with Heretical.
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 Heretical on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Heretical.
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 Heretical on Steam right now. Shares Action with Heretical.
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 Heretical on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Heretical.
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 Heretical on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heretical.
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 Heretical on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Heretical.
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.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heretical.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heretical.
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.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Heretical.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Heretical.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Tails Noir: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heretical.
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
Saihate Station
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Heretical.
An exploration/horror/adventure game about the codependent, love-hate relationship between two men.
If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Heretical.
If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers is a narrative-driven point-and-click adventure with horror elements that explores the stories of four characters in a masked ball taking place aboard a train in the late 1920s.
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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.
No Rest for the Wicked
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Heretical.
From Moon Studios, the award-winning creators of Ori and the Blind Forest and Ori and the Will of the Wisps, comes No Rest for the Wicked, a unique, visceral Action RPG set in a hand-crafted world with Souls-like combat. Featuring co-op for up to four players.
Alaloth: Champions of The Four Kingdoms
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Heretical.
A hardcore high fantasy isometric action RPG set in a huge sandbox world ruled by magic and monsters. Master deep skill-based combat, forge powerful builds, explore unforgiving lands and dungeons, face brutal boss fights, uncover ancient secrets, and save Plamen from its inevitable doom!
Trinity Fusion
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Heretical.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Heretical.
Three fractured realities. One collapsing multiverse. Fast, fluid combat in a dark sci-fi Roguevania where each run begins in a separate universe — then lets you fuse your parallel selves, powers, and worlds to create brutal, ever-evolving builds.
Frequently asked about Heretical
- Does Heretical run on Steam Deck?
- Heretical 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 Heretical cost?
- Heretical is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Heretical?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Heretical are Rogue Girl, Evil's Den: Forsaken Dungeon, VOIN.
- Who developed Heretical?
- Heretical was developed by Three Swords Studio and published by Ultimate Games S.A., Ultimate Publishing.
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