Games like Vanilla Bagel: The Roguelike
Below are 27 hand-picked alternatives to Vanilla Bagel: The Roguelike for fans of indie, adventure, rpg, 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 Vanilla Bagel: The Roguelike 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, more from Sergey Bobrov. No login required — these picks work anchor-only.
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Tales of Maj'Eyal
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Vanilla Bagel: The Roguelike.
Reviewers of Vanilla Bagel: The Roguelike cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vanilla Bagel: The Roguelike.
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.
Dungeonmans
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Vanilla Bagel: The Roguelike.
Reviewers of Vanilla Bagel: The Roguelike cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vanilla Bagel: The Roguelike.
Crush monsters and get loots in the classic turn-based style of deep dungeons and high adventure! Grow the Dungeonmans Academy, a bastion of learning that expands as you play. Serious gameplay with a light-hearted atmosphere, combining the feel of history's great RPGs and dice-slinging adventures around the tabletop.
Caves of Qud
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Vanilla Bagel: The Roguelike.
Reviewers of Vanilla Bagel: The Roguelike cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vanilla Bagel: The Roguelike.
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.
Cardinal Quest 2
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Vanilla Bagel: The Roguelike.
Reviewers of Vanilla Bagel: The Roguelike cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with Vanilla Bagel: The Roguelike.
Hack, slash and rush the forces of darkness. Assault castles and mountain lairs to liberate all in this super-sleek modernization of the classic roguelike formula! Will you play a crafting Alchemist, a sneaky backstabbing Thief... or something else?
Tome & Tile
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Vanilla Bagel: The Roguelike cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Vanilla Bagel: The Roguelike.
Tome & Tile is a roguelite deckbuilder where you spell to survive. Build tile racks, place words on a power-square-strewn board, then chain tomes, enchantments, and lexicon levels into score-explosion combos. 12 characters, 181 tomes, eight chapters of escalating chaos.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Vanilla Bagel: The Roguelike at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Vanilla Bagel: The Roguelike on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Vanilla Bagel: The Roguelike.
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 ~62% under Vanilla Bagel: The Roguelike on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Vanilla Bagel: The Roguelike.
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!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~52% under Vanilla Bagel: The Roguelike on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Vanilla Bagel: The Roguelike.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Vanilla Bagel: The Roguelike on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Vanilla Bagel: The Roguelike.
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 ~62% under Vanilla Bagel: The Roguelike on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Vanilla Bagel: The Roguelike.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under Vanilla Bagel: The Roguelike on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vanilla Bagel: The Roguelike.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~77% under Vanilla Bagel: The Roguelike on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Vanilla Bagel: The Roguelike.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
OneShot
WHY THIS
Priced ~54% under Vanilla Bagel: The Roguelike on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vanilla Bagel: The Roguelike.
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vanilla Bagel: The Roguelike.
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.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vanilla Bagel: The Roguelike.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vanilla Bagel: The Roguelike.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Vanilla Bagel: The Roguelike.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Vanilla Bagel: The Roguelike.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vanilla Bagel: The Roguelike.
A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vanilla Bagel: The Roguelike.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vanilla Bagel: The Roguelike.
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
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More from Sergey Bobrov
Other recommendable Steam games by Sergey Bobrov, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Way of Gold and Steel
WHY THIS
Shares a punishing mood with Vanilla Bagel: The Roguelike.
Another title from Sergey Bobrov, the studio behind Vanilla Bagel: The Roguelike. Shares Indie with Vanilla Bagel: The Roguelike.
What is in the "Way of Gold and Steel" which makes it interesting? Main reason is the unusual gameplay style — combination of a real-time strategy (RTS) and a roguelike.
Planet in the Shadows
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Vanilla Bagel: The Roguelike.
Another title from Sergey Bobrov, the studio behind Vanilla Bagel: The Roguelike. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vanilla Bagel: The Roguelike.
Inspired by the dungeon crawler genre, this short game blends traditional spelunking with base building mechanics. The player is stranded on a hostile planet, urged to build a base and defend it against the awfully aggressive forces of the hostile environment.
Autumn Night 3D Shooter
WHY THIS
Another title from Sergey Bobrov, the studio behind Vanilla Bagel: The Roguelike. Shares Indie with Vanilla Bagel: The Roguelike.
A 3D shooter made in the spirit of the the 90s' FPSes. Atmospheric pixel graphics, fast-paced action, focus on pure gameplay, made using a software renderer written from scratch.
Daemonic Runner
WHY THIS
Another title from Sergey Bobrov, the studio behind Vanilla Bagel: The Roguelike. Shares Indie with Vanilla Bagel: The Roguelike.
Grab a rusty sword, gain some momentum, and send everyone flying in this aggressive joust. Sweep your foes away like a hurricane and cross bottomless chasms with giant leaps.
Cubes and Knights
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Vanilla Bagel: The Roguelike.
Another title from Sergey Bobrov, the studio behind Vanilla Bagel: The Roguelike. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vanilla Bagel: The Roguelike.
You are strong and huge, you have a heavy sword in your hands, and somewhere deep an ancient evil is hidden. The King himself sent you on a difficult campaign: to find the immortal enemy of all people. Find ancient artifacts and work your way through the labyrinths with steel and magic.
THE DEEPEST CASTLE
WHY THIS
Another title from Sergey Bobrov, the studio behind Vanilla Bagel: The Roguelike. Shares Indie and Adventure with Vanilla Bagel: The Roguelike.
You are a mighty knight - how powerful your blows are! And in the very center of a vast forest lies a fortress filled with evil and black magic. There, they raise the dead and hide great artifacts. You decide to explore the fortress and see what the black magicians are hiding.
Frequently asked about Vanilla Bagel: The Roguelike
- How much does Vanilla Bagel: The Roguelike cost?
- Vanilla Bagel: The Roguelike is listed on Steam at 12.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Who developed Vanilla Bagel: The Roguelike?
- Vanilla Bagel: The Roguelike was developed by Sergey Bobrov.
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