Games like KeeperRL
If KeeperRL is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dwarf Fortress, War for the Overworld and Dwelvers — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and immersive. 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 →KeeperRL is a dungeon-management roguelike with deep strategy and simulation elements. Developed by Electric Succubi and released in 2024, the game tasks players with building and expanding an underground lair while managing minions, faction politics, and resource needs. The procedural generation system ensures each world is unique, keeping every run feeling distinct. Players can directly control their minions in tactical combat encounters, and the game's needs-and-moods system means units have individual wants that drive emergent stories. The game supports modding and runs on Steam Deck, offering substantial gameplay at $19.99. Reviewers describe the simulation as atmospheric, immersive, and challenging, with players praising the reactive nature of the world and the creative freedom in dungeon design. The game holds an 83% positive rating from over 1,300 Steam reviews.
About KeeperRL: KeeperRL is a retro dungeon simulator with roguelike and RPG elements. Take the role of an evil keeper and build a formidable dungeon. Recruit sinister minions, equip and train them to explore the world and fight the forces of good.
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Dwarf Fortress
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with KeeperRL.
Top pick for KeeperRL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with KeeperRL.
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
War for the Overworld
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for KeeperRL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with KeeperRL.
War for the Overworld is an unholy union of Dungeon Management and Strategy that rewards all those villainous thoughts you’ve been having. Craft your own perilous dungeon and defend it against pesky heroes who keep exploring it and taking your stuff.
Dwelvers
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with KeeperRL.
Third-strongest match for KeeperRL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with KeeperRL.
Dwelvers is a unique real-time strategy Dungeon Keeper-like with resource management, logistics, battles, magic spells, trading, crimes against humanity, labyrinths, and so much more. Are you able to eradicate the pesky humans once and for all? Of course you are. The Dark Mother wills it.
Underworld Overseer
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an atmospheric mood with KeeperRL.
Ranked #4 for KeeperRL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with KeeperRL.
Build your dungeon, command demons, set traps, and slay invading adventurers with powerful spells.
Ruinarch
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with KeeperRL.
Ranked #5 for KeeperRL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with KeeperRL.
Ruinarch is an evil god simulator and sandbox game where you mess with people’s lives for hilarious results! Make them vampires, werewolves or bard haters and cackle as the drama unfolds. Once you’re done, unleash a malicious buffet of spells and custom plagues to wipe them out and start anew!
Lord of Dwarves
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with KeeperRL.
Ranked #6 for KeeperRL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with KeeperRL.
Gather resources, craft weapons, and build a castle. Then defend your castle against monsters who will try to siege, sap, and smash their way in. All in a procedurally generated 3D block world that allows for extensive crafting and total construction and destruction of the terrain.
MachiaVillain
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an atmospheric mood with KeeperRL.
Ranked #7 for KeeperRL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with KeeperRL.
Machiavillain is an evil mansion management and strategy game, inspired by Dungeon Keeper, Prison Architect and all the horror movie clichés! Build your own manor, raise your monsters, set up your traps, and exterminate your victims. But to gain reputation you'll have to slay by the horror movie rules!
Necrosmith
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with KeeperRL.
Ranked #8 for KeeperRL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with KeeperRL.
A necromancer simulator. Assemble the dead using different body parts while upgrading your tower, combine the abilities of the different fantastic races to fight your way through the hordes of enemies and overrun the ’chosen ones’. To tell the truth, the dead are pretty, uhm, dumb.
Reviewers mention these as similar to KeeperRL
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RimWorld
WHY THIS
Shares mod support, procedural generation and an immersive mood with KeeperRL.
Reviewers of KeeperRL cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with KeeperRL.
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Soulash
WHY THIS
Shares faction politics, procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with KeeperRL.
Reviewers of KeeperRL cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with KeeperRL.
Eat the villagers, murder bunnies, milk cows, or exterminate gods! Soulash is a traditional, turn-based roguelike where your goal is to consume the souls of the living, conquer the vast fantasy world and decide its fate.
Rogue's Tale
WHY THIS
Shares a punishing mood with KeeperRL.
Reviewers of KeeperRL cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with KeeperRL.
Rogue's Tale is a single player turn-based dungeon crawling game.
Dwarf Fortress
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with KeeperRL.
Reviewers of KeeperRL cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with KeeperRL.
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
Necesse
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with KeeperRL.
Reviewers of KeeperRL cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with KeeperRL.
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Evil Genius
WHY THIS
Shares minion management and base building with KeeperRL.
Reviewers of KeeperRL cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with KeeperRL.
Everybody wants to rule the world! Achieve global power with EVIL GENIUS, the one and only complete world domination simulator. All the everyday tasks of the deliciously wicked mastermind are available to experience and master from building your ultra-secret base to developing spectacular super-weapons to carry out your nefarious master...
Dungeon Keeper™ 2
WHY THIS
Shares base building and a punishing mood with KeeperRL.
Reviewers of KeeperRL cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with KeeperRL.
Bad guys have all the fun. Discover your dark side as you build an evil underground kingdom and defend it against the forces of good.
Heroes of Might & Magic V
WHY THIS
Shares faction politics and a challenging mood with KeeperRL.
Reviewers of KeeperRL cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with KeeperRL.
Witness the amazing evolution of the genre-defining strategy game as it becomes a next-generation phenomenon, melding classic deep fantasy with next-generation visuals and gameplay. In the renowned Might & Magic universe, demon swarms spread chaos over the land in a relentless assault.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below KeeperRL at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under KeeperRL on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with KeeperRL.
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.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under KeeperRL on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with KeeperRL.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under KeeperRL on Steam right now. Shares RPG with KeeperRL.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under KeeperRL on Steam right now. Shares RPG with KeeperRL.
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!
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under KeeperRL on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with KeeperRL.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Kerbal Space Program
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under KeeperRL on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with KeeperRL.
In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with KeeperRL.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante — Chapter 1&2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Simulation with KeeperRL.
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world where the gods are real. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice you make has a price to pay and consequence to it. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
SCP – Containment Breach
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A procedural first-person horror adventure. You are on your own after something goes terribly wrong in this top-secret containment facility. Collect items to aid in your escape and try to uncover the truth, as horror lurks behind every door. Can you make it out alive?
Totally Accurate Battlegrounds
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Grab your balloon crossbow and trusty inflatable hammer, because things are about to get wobbly! Be the last weirdo standing in the world-leading physics-based Battle Royale game.
Crusader Kings II
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Simulation with KeeperRL.
Explore one of the defining periods in world history in an experience crafted by the masters of Grand Strategy.
Supermarket Together
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with KeeperRL.
The multiplayer supermarket has arrived to your neighbourhood for free! Stock your shop space, unlock perks and franchises, hire employees or chase those pesky shoplifters. The more players, the more action!
Fallout Shelter
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and RPG with KeeperRL.
Fallout Shelter puts you in control of a state-of-the-art underground Vault from Vault-Tec. Build the perfect Vault, keep your Dwellers happy, and protect them from the dangers of the Wasteland.
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Frequently asked about KeeperRL
- Is KeeperRL verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — KeeperRL 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 KeeperRL cost?
- KeeperRL is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to KeeperRL?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside KeeperRL are Dwarf Fortress, War for the Overworld, Dwelvers.
- Who developed KeeperRL?
- KeeperRL was developed by Electric Succubi.
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