Games like DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale
If DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale is your kind of game, the closest matches are DROD RPG 2: A Courageous Rescue, DROD: Gunthro and the Epic Blunder and Desktop Dungeons — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative and intense. 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 DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale: A puzzle dungeon-crawler based on DROD, inspired by Tower of the Sorcerer and similar in flavor to Desktop Dungeons. Help Tendry the Stalwart navigate interlocking room puzzles while optimizing player stats, balancing weapons and armor, acquiring loads of loot, and dueling monsters with wit and flair.
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DROD RPG 2: A Courageous Rescue
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Top pick for DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale.
A puzzle dungeon-crawler based on DROD that plays like a Magic Tower game. Help Tendry the Stalwart navigate mazelike dungeon levels while optimizing player stats, balancing weapons and armor, acquiring loads of loot, and dueling monsters with wit and flair.
DROD: Gunthro and the Epic Blunder
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale.
Second-strongest match for DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale.
DROD is a unique puzzle-logic game with clever mechanics and an engaging story. It is a turn-based top-down 2-D dungeon puzzler. The game play has amazing depth through emergent behaviors as puzzle elements are combined. There is a simple interface and only a handful of commands to master.
Desktop Dungeons
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a contemplative mood with DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale.
Third-strongest match for DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale.
Each step into the unknown heals you and reveals new obstacles as you guide fresh heros to glorious retirement or ignominious death. Master tactical spells, appease ancient gods and get rich through taxidermy in this award-winning quick-play puzzle-roguelike.
Legend of Keepers: Career of a Dungeon Manager
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale.
Ranked #4 for DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale.
Legend of Keepers is the perfect mix between Dungeon Defender and Roguelite. You have been hired as a dungeon manager by the Dungeons Company. Your job is simple: protect their dungeons!
Desktop Dungeons: Rewind
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a contemplative mood with DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale.
Ranked #5 for DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale.
Desktop Dungeons: Rewind bestows bites of tactical roguelike action, which will quickly fester into a deep, lingering, and strategic obsession. Bargain with gods, equip your spoon and pick your battles, before retreating into the healing darkness. But beware… there are still many monsters to face!
WazHack
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Shares a challenging mood with DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale.
Ranked #6 for DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale.
Time moves forward only when you do in the dungeons of WazHack. Think your way out of problems instead of just spamming 'attack' and 'drink healing potion'.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale.
Ranked #7 for DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale.
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!
ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery)
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale.
Ranked #8 for DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale.
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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Puzzle Quest 2
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Shares a contemplative mood with DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale.
Reviewers of DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale.
Escape to a puzzle game fantasy world with amazing creatures and weapons! Addicting gameplay blends with immersive roleplaying in this sequel to the award-winning Puzzle Quest!
Legend of Grimrock
WHY THIS
Shares a mysterious mood with DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale.
Reviewers of DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale.
Use the Dungeon Editor to build entirely new adventures and challenges for other players to solve.
Desktop Dungeons
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a contemplative mood with DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale.
Reviewers of DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale.
Each step into the unknown heals you and reveals new obstacles as you guide fresh heros to glorious retirement or ignominious death. Master tactical spells, appease ancient gods and get rich through taxidermy in this award-winning quick-play puzzle-roguelike.
DungeonUp
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a contemplative mood with DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale.
Reviewers of DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale.
A challenging rogue-like puzzler inspired by the classic Tower of the Sorcerer. Play as a human knight who fights his way out of a deep dungeon by slaying monsters and solving intricate puzzles.
Seasons of the Sorcerer
WHY THIS
Reviewers of DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale.
Seasons of the Sorcerer is a top-down action game set to Antonio Vivaldi's "Four Seasons.” Use a diverse set of spells to incinerate, bash, transform, and control your foes on a year long journey across early Renaissance Italy.
The Tower Of Babel
WHY THIS
Reviewers of DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and RPG with DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale.
Play the most popular story from the bible. The tower of babel is a unique tower - builder and RPG. Pick a leader, hire workers, manage the economy of the building site and the lives of your workers. Remember you have 7 days to complete the tower before language barrier becomes a major problem.
Paint Puzzle Quest
WHY THIS
Reviewers of DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale.
Embark on a vibrant and colorful journey with Paint Puzzle Quest, a strategic puzzle-solving game that will test your creativity and problem-solving skills. Explore 100 exciting levels, each presenting a new challenge to keep you engaged and entertained.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~50% under DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale on Steam right now. Shares Indie with DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale.
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 ~50% under DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale.
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
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Priced ~50% under DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale.
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 ~50% under DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale on Steam right now. Shares Indie with DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~90% under DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale.
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
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Priced ~50% under DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale.
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
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Priced ~70% under DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale on Steam right now. Shares Indie with DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
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Priced ~50% under DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale.
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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale.
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!
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More from Caravel Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Caravel Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
DROD: Gunthro and the Epic Blunder
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale.
Another title from Caravel Games, the studio behind DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale. Shares Strategy and Indie with DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale.
DROD is a unique puzzle-logic game with clever mechanics and an engaging story. It is a turn-based top-down 2-D dungeon puzzler. The game play has amazing depth through emergent behaviors as puzzle elements are combined. There is a simple interface and only a handful of commands to master.
DROD: The Second Sky
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale.
Another title from Caravel Games, the studio behind DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale. Shares Strategy and Indie with DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale.
The climactic conclusion to Beethro Budkin's epic DROD adventures! Join Beethro as he races against time and mysterious forces in the Rooted Empire as the dire Grand Event looms near. With a huge amount of novel, quality puzzle content and story, this is the puzzle game to end all puzzle games.
DROD RPG 2: A Courageous Rescue
WHY THIS
Another title from Caravel Games, the studio behind DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale. Shares Strategy and Indie with DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale.
A puzzle dungeon-crawler based on DROD that plays like a Magic Tower game. Help Tendry the Stalwart navigate mazelike dungeon levels while optimizing player stats, balancing weapons and armor, acquiring loads of loot, and dueling monsters with wit and flair.
Frequently asked about DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale
- How much does DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale cost?
- DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale are DROD RPG 2: A Courageous Rescue, DROD: Gunthro and the Epic Blunder, Desktop Dungeons.
- Who developed DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale?
- DROD RPG: Tendry's Tale was developed by Caravel Games.
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