Games like ASCII Dungeon Crawl
If ASCII Dungeon Crawl is your kind of game, the closest matches are King's Descent, Dungeon Chess and FROGGLE — picked from the ranked list below. 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 ASCII Dungeon Crawl: A party-based roguelite dungeon crawler drawn in ASCII. Turn-based combat, permadeath, and over a hundred passives to unlock across runs. Push through two full dungeons with your own party of heroes. Every run ends. Every unlock stays.
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King's Descent
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Top pick for ASCII Dungeon Crawl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with ASCII Dungeon Crawl.
Ten floors down, a hundred kinds of monster, magic, crossbows, and a king who never came back. A turn-based, party-based dungeon crawler in the 8-bit style: name up to four adventurers, then fight, bribe, loot and level your way down. Every descent is new. A party that dies stays dead.
Dungeon Chess
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Second-strongest match for ASCII Dungeon Crawl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with ASCII Dungeon Crawl.
Dungeon Chess is a turn-based strategy game with roguelike elements where the setting simulates a chessboard.
FROGGLE
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Third-strongest match for ASCII Dungeon Crawl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with ASCII Dungeon Crawl.
Rescue Tapo the baby tadpole in this unique turn-based Froggy roguelite (FROGuelite!) dungeon crawler! Assemble a team of Froggy heroes to conquer 20 shifting floors, discover game-breaking synergies, and unlock rare Platinum encounters. Death's shop is open - and cousin, business is boomin'!
Nibelung
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Ranked #4 for ASCII Dungeon Crawl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
The old gods are dead. Their debts are not. Nibelung is a turn-based roguelike RPG set in the ashes of Ragnarök. Delve the ever-shifting realms of Yggdrasil, fight with steel and seidr against goblins, cultists, the risen dead and outthink a world that only moves when you do.
Text Dungeon: The Ring of Life
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Ranked #5 for ASCII Dungeon Crawl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with ASCII Dungeon Crawl.
No graphics, No tiles. Just text-RPG adventure! Explore a shifting labyrinth, regain the Ring of Life from the wizard Shingor. Classic roguelike-style messages guide your journey, with narrative scenes evoking the spirit of MUDs and gamebooks. Death is permanent. Every run brings new discoveries.
Shirohebi and The Tower of Mercy
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Ranked #6 for ASCII Dungeon Crawl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with ASCII Dungeon Crawl.
In this roguelite RPG, Nemesis climbs the Tower of Mercy and discovers its secrets. He can meet and team up with other characters, and learn their reasons for climbing the tower. However, he needs to be cautious as he continues, since an entity is taking his strength away.
The Long Way Up
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Ranked #7 for ASCII Dungeon Crawl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
A text-forward cultivation roguelite. Climb a tower of one thousand floors that never repeats the same climb for every new soul. Falling is not death, it is tuition: keep your realm, lose your altitude, and climb again with Moye, a sword spirit who remembers every fall you take.
Valor of Man
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Ranked #8 for ASCII Dungeon Crawl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with ASCII Dungeon Crawl.
Forge your party. Master your fate. In this turn-based roguelite RPG, lead four heroes through a fractured realm of danger and destiny. Build synergies, unlock powerful abilities, and face ever-shifting challenges in an epic battle for survival. No journey is ever the same.
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Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with ASCII Dungeon Crawl.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
Shape of Dreams: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
《Shape of Dreams: Prologue》is a unique game that blends action roguelite with MOBA-style gameplay. Edit your character's Memories to create your own champion. Face all challenges alone or play with friends in up to 4-player co-op.
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante — Chapter 1&2
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world where the gods are real. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice you make has a price to pay and consequence to it. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
THE FINALS
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
THE FINALS is the world’s first Dynamism Shooter, a free-to-play, fast-paced, physics-driven, first-person shooter set on the stage of the biggest Gameshow of the future! Fight for Fans and fortune in fully-destructible, virtual Arenas that guarantee no two rounds will ever play the same!
Path of Exile
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You are an Exile, struggling to survive on the dark continent of Wraeclast, as you fight to earn power that will allow you to exact your revenge against those who wronged you. Path of Exile is an online Action RPG set in a dark fantasy world. The game is completely free and will never be pay-to-win.
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Frequently asked about ASCII Dungeon Crawl
- What games are most similar to ASCII Dungeon Crawl?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside ASCII Dungeon Crawl are King's Descent, Dungeon Chess, FROGGLE.
- Who developed ASCII Dungeon Crawl?
- ASCII Dungeon Crawl was developed by Andrew Bellinger.
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