Games like ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery)
If ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery) is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dragonwake, Fractalis and Golden Krone Hotel — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its ascii aesthetic evokes nostalgia, deep systems reward patience and mastery feels deeply rewarding. 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 →ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery) is a traditional turn-based roguelike developed by Thomas Biskup, Jochen Terstiege, and Zeno Rogue, released in 2015 at $14.99 USD. Players engage with mechanics including a corruption system, inventory management, procedural generation, and diverse race-and-class combinations in a game renowned for its brutal difficulty and massive length. Reviewers highlight the atmospheric quality and nostalgic appeal of its ASCII aesthetic, while players describe the deep systems that reward patience and the meaningful weight of permadeath. The game offers unlimited replayability through procedurally generated worlds, with strategic planning at its core. It runs as playable on Steam Deck and holds an 86% positive rating from over 1000 Steam reviews.
About ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery): 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.
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Dragonwake
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Top pick for ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery) fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery).
Dragonwake is an ASCII roguelike set in Valoria, the land once ruled by the old empire of Istaris before the Starfall. Your heirloom, a blackglass star amulet, draws you to the land just as the primordial dragon begins to stir.
Fractalis
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Second-strongest match for ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery) fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery).
Fractalis is a procedurally generated roguelike that has turnbased/gridbased combat with a realtime feel.
Golden Krone Hotel
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery).
Third-strongest match for ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery) fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery).
Golden Krone Hotel is a gothic horror roguelike. Fight vampires with sunlight or become a vampire yourself and sneak in the shadows. Combines classic turn-based combat with dynamic lighting, an innovative potion system, and fast paced gameplay.
Blood & Chaos
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Ranked #4 for ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery) fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery).
Ancient sacrifices saved the world, but their legacy is unraveling. A party based roguelike inspired by classic '80s RPGs, where every descent into cursed dungeons carries permanent consequences.
Dawn of the Mexica
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Shares an atmospheric mood with ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery).
Ranked #5 for ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery) fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery).
Dawn of the Mexica is a turn-based roguelike that blends accurate history and mythical fantasy. It features complex combat mechanics, tactics and skills, yet also brings you an easy to use interface. Fight your way through the procedurally generated scenarios and stop the fall of the Fifth Sun!
Tales of Maj'Eyal
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Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery).
Ranked #6 for ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery) fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery).
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.
Shattered Pixel Dungeon
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Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery).
Ranked #7 for ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery) fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery).
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.
Vulture for NetHack
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Shares a challenging mood with ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery).
Ranked #8 for ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery) fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery).
Vulture for NetHack is an isometric graphical interface for the roguelike engine: NetHack.
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Rogue
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Shares permadeath, inventory management and an atmospheric mood with ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery).
Reviewers of ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery) cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Adventure with ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery).
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.
Tales of Maj'Eyal
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Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery).
Reviewers of ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery) cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery).
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.
Caves of Qud
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Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery).
Reviewers of ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery) cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery).
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.
NetHack: Legacy
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Shares permadeath, procedural generation and a nostalgic mood with ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery).
Reviewers of ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery) cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery).
NETHACK: LEGACY is a remastered version of the original NetHack, the deeply rich and complex fantasy D&D roguelike. Hack and slash your way through orcs, dragons, and cockatrices as you explore the perilous procedurally-generated dungeons seeking the Amulet of Yendor.
HackHub - Ultimate Hacker Simulator
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Shares an atmospheric mood with ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery).
Reviewers of ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery) cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery).
Unravel cyber secrets and foil mass surveillance as a skilled hacker in Hackhub. Challenge authority, rewrite the rules, and emerge as the ultimate digital rebel.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery) at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~67% under ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery) on Steam right now. Shares Indie with ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery).
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
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Priced ~67% under ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery) on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery).
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!
PEAK
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Priced ~47% under ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery) on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery).
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?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
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Priced ~50% under ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery) on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery).
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~58% under ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery) on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery).
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
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Priced ~47% under ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery) on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery).
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
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Priced ~67% under ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery) on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery).
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.
WEBFISHING
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Priced ~67% under ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery) on Steam right now. Shares Indie with ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery).
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery).
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery).
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery).
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery).
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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 ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery).
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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 ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery).
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 ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery)
- Does ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery) run on Steam Deck?
- ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery) 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 ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery) cost?
- ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery) is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery)?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery) are Dragonwake, Fractalis, Golden Krone Hotel.
- Who developed ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery)?
- ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery) was developed by Thomas Biskup, Jochen Terstiege, Zeno Rogue.
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