Games like Pixel Dungeon
If Pixel Dungeon is your kind of game, the closest matches are Shattered Pixel Dungeon, Dungeons of Dredmor and Hack, Slash, Loot — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its item discovery feels rewarding, challenging 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.
Get personalized picks →About Pixel Dungeon: Pixel Dungeon is an exciting and extremely popular roguelike (more than 2 million mobile installs!). Explore the depths of Pixel Dungeon, collect useful items and fight fierce monsters to find the Amulet of Yendor - the ultimate artefact of this game world!
Players who liked Pixel Dungeon also play
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Shattered Pixel Dungeon
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Pixel Dungeon.
Top pick for Pixel Dungeon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pixel Dungeon.
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.
Dungeons of Dredmor
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation with Pixel Dungeon.
Second-strongest match for Pixel Dungeon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Pixel Dungeon.
Test your luck and cunning in this exciting RPG as you craft, cast, and pillage your way through Lord Dredmor's Dungeons.
Hack, Slash, Loot
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Pixel Dungeon.
Third-strongest match for Pixel Dungeon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Pixel Dungeon.
A single-player turn-based dungeon crawler. Take control of a lone hero and explore sprawling dungeons, fight dangerous monsters.
Quest of Dungeons
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a retro mood with Pixel Dungeon.
Ranked #4 for Pixel Dungeon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pixel Dungeon.
Quest of Dungeons is a turn based dungeon crawler game featuring a good old 16-bit retro artistic look. By playing as either a Warrior, Wizard, Assassin or Shaman you have to traverse dungeons, defeat enemies and loot everything you can in order to survive.
XLarn
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a retro mood with Pixel Dungeon.
Ranked #5 for Pixel Dungeon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Pixel Dungeon.
This is a heavily extended version of one of the most famous roguelike games of the 80’s named LARN. Your choice is to find a magic elixier for your daughters recovery. Therefore you have to explore a lot of unknown caves, filled with monsters, demons and traps. Good luck! You may need it!
I Am Overburdened
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation with Pixel Dungeon.
Ranked #6 for Pixel Dungeon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Pixel Dungeon.
I Am Overburdened is a silly turn-based roguelike full of crazy artifacts and a "hero" who has 20 inventory slots.
Darkest Dungeon®
WHY THIS
Shares turn based combat, procedural generation and a stressful mood with Pixel Dungeon.
Ranked #7 for Pixel Dungeon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Pixel Dungeon.
Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against unimaginable horrors, stress, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Can you keep your heroes together when all hope is lost?
Rezrog
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Pixel Dungeon.
Ranked #8 for Pixel Dungeon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pixel Dungeon.
Test your fighting spirit as you take your party of brave adventurers on an epic quest to restore peace to the lands of Rezrog in this table-top inspired, turn-based, dungeon crawler. Upgrade your skills & tactically exploit enemy weaknesses as you try to handle everything the dungeons will throw at you.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Pixel Dungeon at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Pixel Dungeon on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pixel 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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Pixel Dungeon on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pixel Dungeon.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Pixel Dungeon on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pixel Dungeon.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Pixel Dungeon on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and Casual with Pixel Dungeon.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Pixel Dungeon on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Pixel Dungeon.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Pixel Dungeon on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Pixel Dungeon.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Pixel Dungeon on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Pixel Dungeon.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Pixel Dungeon on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pixel Dungeon.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Pixel Dungeon.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Pixel Dungeon.
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.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Pixel Dungeon.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
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 Pixel Dungeon.
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.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pixel Dungeon.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pixel Dungeon.
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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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Shattered Pixel Dungeon
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Pixel Dungeon.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pixel Dungeon.
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.
Quest of Dungeons
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a retro mood with Pixel Dungeon.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pixel Dungeon.
Quest of Dungeons is a turn based dungeon crawler game featuring a good old 16-bit retro artistic look. By playing as either a Warrior, Wizard, Assassin or Shaman you have to traverse dungeons, defeat enemies and loot everything you can in order to survive.
Darkest Dungeon®
WHY THIS
Shares turn based combat, procedural generation and a stressful mood with Pixel Dungeon.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and RPG with Pixel Dungeon.
Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against unimaginable horrors, stress, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Can you keep your heroes together when all hope is lost?
Frequently asked about Pixel Dungeon
- How much does Pixel Dungeon cost?
- Pixel Dungeon is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Pixel Dungeon?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Pixel Dungeon are Shattered Pixel Dungeon, Dungeons of Dredmor, Hack, Slash, Loot.
- Who developed Pixel Dungeon?
- Pixel Dungeon was developed by Retronic Games.
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