Games like King's Descent
If King's Descent is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dungeon Chess, Undermoon and Moraff's Dungeons — 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 King's Descent: 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.
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Dungeon Chess
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Top pick for King's Descent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with King's Descent.
Dungeon Chess is a turn-based strategy game with roguelike elements where the setting simulates a chessboard.
Undermoon
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Second-strongest match for King's Descent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with King's Descent.
UnderMoon is a dark fantasy turn-based tactical roguelike RPG. Awaken in a strange moonlit town, build your hero, and climb a shifting tower. Read enemy intent, combine weapons, magic, summons, and elemental reactions, defeat deadly bosses, and uncover why everyone was brought to this world.
Moraff's Dungeons
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Third-strongest match for King's Descent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with King's Descent.
A faithful remaster of all of the classic, grid-based, first-person, dungeon crawling, RPG gameplay from Moraff's Dungeons of the Unforgiven with options to add in some of the best from Moraff's World and other balance adjustments, all in a modern, accessible interface.
Last Ascender
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Ranked #4 for King's Descent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with King's Descent.
Last Ascender is a 1st-person turn-based strategy RPG combining classic RPG progression with roguelike tension and deckbuilding depth. In a world shrouded in darkness, you must end this desperate journey using only your unique builds and strategic choices.
Ad Iterum
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Ranked #5 for King's Descent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with King's Descent.
Ad Iterum is a turn-based top-down 2D roguelike set in a decaying, ever-shifting world. Flesh is fragile, but you can hack it. Enhance your body, embrace mutations, or form ancient blood pacts. Descend into the depths, scavenge what’s left of humanity, and crawl back...if you can. Kill. Die. Repeat.
Fantasy Classic: Dungeon Crawler
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Ranked #6 for King's Descent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG and Early Access with King's Descent.
Travel to Midenshire, form your party, and venture forth into adventure! Fantasy Classic: Dungeon Crawler is an old-school party-based CRPG of dungeon exploration, tactical combat, traps, treasure, light vs dark, clashing steel, high magic, and white knuckle survival.
Nibelung
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Ranked #7 for King's Descent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with King's Descent.
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.
Roguefort
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Ranked #8 for King's Descent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with King's Descent.
An open-world roguelike RPG set in a living sandbox where magic is cultivated from the land. Explore a deeply simulated world, join guilds, crawl dungeons, build a colony, create a homestead, sail the seas, craft and wield powerful spells, and shape the fate of the coming war with every turn.
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UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with King's Descent.
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Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with King's Descent.
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.
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!
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and RPG with King's Descent.
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.
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and RPG with King's Descent.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
Tails Noir: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and RPG with King's Descent.
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with King's Descent.
Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).
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- What games are most similar to King's Descent?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside King's Descent are Dungeon Chess, Undermoon, Moraff's Dungeons.
- Who developed King's Descent?
- King's Descent was developed by Stoneshift Games.
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