Games like Roguelyte
Below are 24 hand-picked alternatives to Roguelyte for fans of action, indie, 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 Roguelyte 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.
About Roguelyte: A fast 2D roguelite where you move, dodge, and auto-attack through endless waves, stacking upgrades and scary bosses!
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Ranked by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries plus content overlap on genres, tags, and developers.
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Humanity's Last Hope
Top pick for Roguelyte fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Roguelyte.
A roguelike game with upgrades paths inspired by "Vampire Survivors" and "Seraph's Last Stand". Build your own upgrade build, buy new hats and weapons, combine them and break the game!
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Slime Guy
Second-strongest match for Roguelyte fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Roguelyte.
Slime Guy is a 2D rogue-lite dungeon-crawler where you enter as Puddles. A seemingly weak slime whose family has been kidnapped and taken into the I-Valley. Do you have what it takes to save your family?
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Veilwalkers
Third-strongest match for Roguelyte fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Roguelyte.
Veilwalkers is a dark fantasy roguelike deckbuilder where every card you play builds momentum. Strategically manage your deck, master turn-based combat, and battle through cursed forests filled with twisted enemies and eldritch secrets.
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Friend of a Slime
Ranked #4 for Roguelyte fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Roguelyte.
Friend of a Slime is a horde survivor game in which your best weapon is your slime companion. Fight against hordes of enemies in short 10-minute dungeons, collect coins and fruits to unlock new weapons and purchase powerful artifacts for yourself and your slime companion.
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Shard Squad
Ranked #5 for Roguelyte fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Roguelyte.
Form a squad of elemental creatures and face hordes of challenging enemies! Choose your Shards according to their synergies to gain new abilities, and equip relics that will make the winds blow in your favor! Survive through different environments and save your lands!
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Abandoned Archive
Ranked #6 for Roguelyte fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Roguelyte.
Abandoned Archive is a fantasy, spell-casting, rogue-like, featuring a wide variety of relics, a unique spell-upgrading system, with compelling and engaging bosses. Each floor is filled with items and mysteries for the player to uncover; what will you discover in the Abandoned Archive?
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Rogue Factory
Ranked #7 for Roguelyte fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Roguelyte.
The AUTOMATION bullet heaven! Build your custom spellcasting factory and tear through endless waves of monsters. Unlock 20+ characters and 100+ golden totems to craft broken roguelite synergies and survive the swarm! Build, automate, autocast, OBLITERATE!
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Identifile: Desktop Dungeon
Ranked #8 for Roguelyte fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Roguelyte.
Become the ultimate desktop cursor in a deeply infected operating system! Navigate folders like dungeon rooms, delete viruses, and level up with EXEs in this action-packed roguelike.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Roguelyte at current Steam store prices.
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The Vagrant
Priced ~47% under Roguelyte on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Roguelyte.
Guide Vivian the Vagrant, through vibrant and dynamic landscapes while hacking and slashing a path from a quiet coastal village through mysterious forests, haunted castles, and wrecked battlegrounds. When the endless barrage of enemies have been vanquished, what solace will be left for our hero?
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Mining Mechs
Priced ~60% under Roguelyte on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Roguelyte.
Unleash your inner miner as you commandeer a high-tech Mining Mech! Mine for valuable resources and upgrade your mech for even bigger hauls as you explore the underground. Fun to play alone or with up to 7 friends in online co-op multiplayer!
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Seraph's Last Stand
Priced ~54% under Roguelyte on Steam right now. Shares Action with Roguelyte.
Create insane builds and break the game in all possible ways to get your name into the leaderboards! Every round you get stronger, but so does the enemies...
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ULTIMATE HARDBASS DEFENCE
Priced ~60% under Roguelyte on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Roguelyte.
SHOOT. SURVIVE. DANCE HARDBASS.
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Your Mother
Priced ~50% under Roguelyte on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Roguelyte.
《Your Mother》is a computer desktop companion. Experience the love and kindness from mothers.
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LIZARDS MUST DIE
Priced ~47% under Roguelyte on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Roguelyte.
The great exploits of the Ancient Rus in the war with the lizards. Immerse yourself in the world of Hyperborea and defeat hordes of Lizards and other unholy who encroached on holy places Ancestors. Choose a blessed hero and go save the world from the green plague.
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Miss Neko
Priced ~67% under Roguelyte on Steam right now. Shares Action with Roguelyte.
Together the full picture of all the lovely beast ladies with your own hands, play Yakyuken with them, collect their portraits. Hope you have a relaxing and enjoyable game time:)
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Roguelyte.
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.
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Roguelyte.
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.
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Ultimate Custom Night
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Roguelyte.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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Bongo Cat
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Roguelyte.
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?
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ENA: Dream BBQ
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Roguelyte.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Roguelyte.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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Frequently asked about Roguelyte
- How much does Roguelyte cost?
- Roguelyte is listed on Steam at 1.49 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Roguelyte?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Roguelyte are Humanity's Last Hope, Slime Guy, Veilwalkers.
- Who developed Roguelyte?
- Roguelyte was developed by Tyranicall and published by Amsomnia.
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