Games like Vulture for NetHack
If Vulture for NetHack is your kind of game, the closest matches are ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery), MidBoss and Dawn of the Mexica — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative and retro. 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.
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ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery)
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Vulture for NetHack.
Top pick for Vulture for NetHack fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Vulture for NetHack.
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.
MidBoss
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Vulture for NetHack.
Second-strongest match for Vulture for NetHack fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Vulture for NetHack.
Kill your enemies, possess their bodies, and take their abilities as your own in this turn-based procedurally generated death labyrinth.
Dawn of the Mexica
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Vulture for NetHack.
Third-strongest match for Vulture for NetHack fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Vulture for NetHack.
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
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Vulture for NetHack.
Ranked #4 for Vulture for NetHack fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Vulture for NetHack.
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.
Golden Krone Hotel
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Vulture for NetHack fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Vulture for NetHack.
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.
Shattered Pixel Dungeon
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Vulture for NetHack.
Ranked #6 for Vulture for NetHack fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Vulture for NetHack.
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.
Sword of the Stars: The Pit
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Vulture for NetHack.
Ranked #7 for Vulture for NetHack fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Vulture for NetHack.
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!
Dungeons of Dredmor
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Vulture for NetHack fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Vulture for NetHack.
Test your luck and cunning in this exciting RPG as you craft, cast, and pillage your way through Lord Dredmor's Dungeons.
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Tales of Maj'Eyal
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Vulture for NetHack.
Reviewers of Vulture for NetHack cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with Vulture for NetHack.
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
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Vulture for NetHack.
Reviewers of Vulture for NetHack cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Vulture for NetHack.
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
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Vulture for NetHack.
Reviewers of Vulture for NetHack cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with Vulture for NetHack.
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.
Rogue
WHY THIS
Shares item identification and a retro mood with Vulture for NetHack.
Reviewers of Vulture for NetHack cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and RPG with Vulture for NetHack.
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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Vulture for NetHack at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Vulture for NetHack on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Vulture for NetHack.
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
Priced ~50% under Vulture for NetHack on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Vulture for NetHack.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Vulture for NetHack on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Vulture for NetHack.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Vulture for NetHack on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Vulture for NetHack.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Vulture for NetHack on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Vulture for NetHack.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Vulture for NetHack on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Vulture for NetHack.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Vulture for NetHack on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Vulture for NetHack.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Vulture for NetHack on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Vulture for NetHack.
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.
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Vulture for NetHack.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Vulture for NetHack.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
Dota 2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Vulture for NetHack.
Every day, millions of players worldwide enter battle as one of over a hundred Dota heroes. And no matter if it's their 10th hour of play or 1,000th, there's always something new to discover. With regular updates that ensure a constant evolution of gameplay, features, and heroes, Dota 2 has taken on a life of its own.
Path of Exile
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Vulture for NetHack.
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.
SCP: Secret Laboratory
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Vulture for NetHack.
Deep within a secure underground facility, a sudden containment breach allows many of the secured anomalies to escape from their chambers. Assist the Foundation in re-securing the facility, help the Insurgency in their goal to capture it, or wreak havoc as an SCP in a frantic bid to escape.
Realm of the Mad God Exalt
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Vulture for NetHack.
Embark on an exhilarating journey into the pixelated Realm of the Mad God! Join, an action-packed, free-to-play MMO bullet hell game. Discover a world with danger, challenges, and hidden treasures as you battle through waves of enemies. Team up with players and conquer dungeons to become a legend!
Clicker Heroes
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Vulture for NetHack.
Click your way through hordes of monsters, earn gold, and recruit quirky heroes with powerful skills. Progress even while you're idle, and watch the numbers climb into the absurd. It’s a never-ending journey of clicks, crits, and colossal damage.
Toribash
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Vulture for NetHack.
Toribash is an innovative free-to-play online turn-based fighting game where you’re able to design your own moves. Complete control over character's body, hundreds of game mods and bloody mess with full body dismemberment - you've never been able to annihilate your enemies like that before!
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Frequently asked about Vulture for NetHack
- How much does Vulture for NetHack cost?
- Vulture for NetHack is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Vulture for NetHack?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Vulture for NetHack are ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery), MidBoss, Dawn of the Mexica.
- Who developed Vulture for NetHack?
- Vulture for NetHack was developed by DarkArts Studios.
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