Games like The Living Dungeon
Below are 21 hand-picked alternatives to The Living Dungeon for fans of strategy, indie, adventure, ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender. Each pick is scored on three signals: collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries (which players who logged hours in The Living Dungeon also play), content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, and review-mined "vibe" embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when the genre label differs. Sections below cover closest matches, reviewer cross-mentions, cheaper alternatives, free-to-play picks. No login required — these picks work anchor-only.
Get personalized picks →About The Living Dungeon: 5 actions. 2 minutes. Impossible odds, and many, many ways to die. There really is nothing quite like The Living Dungeon. Up to 9 players can take part in a battle of wits, luck and skulduggery, Or delve into a 30 hour story campaign and try to guide our hero's to freedom.
Reviewers mention these as similar to The Living Dungeon
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Space Hulk: Ascension (Classic)
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Living Dungeon.
Reviewers of The Living Dungeon cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with The Living Dungeon.
Space Hulk: Ascension is a 3D, digital, turn based, strategy game, which re-interprets the classic board game experience, and adds new RPG style mechanics, new weapons and missions, new enemy types, 3 playable chapters and loads of other new features to the single player experience.
Warhammer Quest (Classic)
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Living Dungeon.
Reviewers of The Living Dungeon cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with The Living Dungeon.
Based on the classic tabletop game, Warhammer Quest is an addictive mix of role-playing and strategy.
SKYHILL
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Living Dungeon.
Reviewers of The Living Dungeon cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Living Dungeon.
World War III is over, the world's infested with mutants and your supplies are running out. Fight your way down this damned hotel, from your penthouse on top to the first floor. Craft weapons, search for food and reach the exit. Otherwise you'll be torn apart, starve to death or maybe both...
Space Hulk (Classic)
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Living Dungeon.
Reviewers of The Living Dungeon cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Living Dungeon.
The legendary Space Hulk returns in this epic turn based strategy game. Set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, an intriguing story of legendary battles and heroic actions unfolds.
Space Hulk: Tactics (Classic)
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Living Dungeon.
Reviewers of The Living Dungeon cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with The Living Dungeon.
Space Hulk: Tactics is a faithful adaptation of the board game Space Hulk, set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, bringing a unique twist to the cult classic formula. Engage in bloody battles as either a squad of Terminator Space Marines or the deadly alien Genestealers.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Living Dungeon at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Living Dungeon on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Living Dungeon.
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 The Living Dungeon on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Living Dungeon.
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 The Living Dungeon on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Living Dungeon.
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 The Living Dungeon on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Living Dungeon.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under The Living Dungeon on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Living Dungeon.
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 The Living Dungeon on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with The Living Dungeon.
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 The Living Dungeon on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Living Dungeon.
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 The Living Dungeon on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Living Dungeon.
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.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Living Dungeon.
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 Last Sovereign
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Living Dungeon.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
Clicker Heroes
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Living Dungeon.
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.
Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Living Dungeon.
Start your own Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria with Freddy Fazbear Pizzeria Simulator!
Kingdom: Classic
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Living Dungeon.
Kingdom is a 2D sidescrolling strategy/resource management hybrid with a minimalist feel wrapped in a beautiful, modern pixel art aesthetic.
Mr.Mine
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Living Dungeon.
Explore the depths of the earth and uncover hidden treasures in this addictive idle mining game. Unlock the power of your drill with hundreds of upgrades, discover mysterious relics, and unearth priceless gems. Can you master the mines and reveal their deepest secrets? Dive in and dig deep!
Endless Sky
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Living Dungeon.
Endless Sky is a 2D space trading and combat game inspired by the classic Escape Velocity series. Work your way up from a relatively wimpy shuttle, cargo ship, or fighter, to a highly upgraded and customized flagship or to a massive fleet of warships or freighters.
Realm Grinder
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with The Living Dungeon.
Grow your realm, build alliances, and explore one of the deepest idle RPGs ever!
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Frequently asked about The Living Dungeon
- How much does The Living Dungeon cost?
- The Living Dungeon is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does The Living Dungeon have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — The Living Dungeon supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen PvP, PvP).
- Who developed The Living Dungeon?
- The Living Dungeon was developed by RadiationBurn.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on The Living Dungeon.
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