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by Aberrant Labs
You are a disease. Infect the human body as a lone pathogen in this cellular roguelike shooter. Collect organelles to evolve your parasite in a microscopic arms race against your host's immune system. Conquer a beautiful, procedurally generated world of tiny proportions.
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-20%$10.39Two Sides of Hell
3 days ago · Red Sky Games
Both: Roguelike · Bullet Hell · Shooter
Think fast, kill faster. Blast through shifting alien hellscapes in this roguelite platform-twin stick shooter, switching between Soldier precision and demonic destruction. Survive relentless hordes, brutal bosses, and endless roguelite chaos.
ActionRoguelikeRogueliteBullet HellTwin Stick ShooterShooterLocal Co-OpPlatformerPvEFuturistic
-20%$3.99Died in the Tower Again
2 days ago · BANANAK
Both: Bullet Heaven · Action Roguelike · Roguelike
Climb a tower that never lets you leave. Move — your spells fire themselves. Combine 8 elements into automatic synergies, awaken them twice, and gamble on relics that break the rules. Die, bank your gold, climb again. 100 floors, 35 relics, 14 artifacts, and a leaderboard that remembers.
Bullet HeavenAction RoguelikeRoguelikeRogueliteBullet HellPixel GraphicsSingleplayer2DTop-DownAction
-50%$4.99Asgard's Fall — Viking Survivors
11 days ago · Soulpotion
Both: Action Roguelike · Bullet Hell · Roguelike
Embark on an epic saga in Asgard's Fall, a norse Survivors-like Roguelite. Fight your way through hordes of creatures and let the gods feel your relentless wrath. How will your saga unfold?
Action RoguelikeBullet HellRogueliteCasualPixel GraphicsIndie2DRoguelikeHack and SlashStrategy👍 1,305
$11.99Sublight
5 days ago · CODEBREW SOFTWARE LTD
Both: Action Roguelike · Bullet Hell
Sublight is a space bullet heaven roguelike, where you captain a powerful warship and carve through escalating waves of enemies. Upgrade your arsenal, unlock new ships, and experiment with countless builds to dominate the battlefield.
Action RoguelikeBullet HellRogueliteArcade3DTop-DownActionCasualLootSci-fi
-15%$12.74Biovoid
2 days ago · Dzedou
Both: Action Roguelike · Difficult
Biovoid is a creature-building roguelike game where you slay hordes of hostile aliens. Combine a variety of cells and mutations to create game-breaking builds and evolve from a fragile hatchling to a deadly predator.
Action RoguelikeSimulationSandboxNatureSurvivalProcedural GenerationBuildingPerma DeathDifficultAliens
$7.99Crystalyn
Aug 26 · Soulstone Forge
Both: Action Roguelike · Bullet Hell · Top-Down Shooter
Start with one bullet. End with hundreds. Crystalyn is a fast-paced top-down bullet-hell looter shooter about pushing your build to its absolute limits. Fight monsters, defeat bosses, and turn their loot into unstoppable firepower.
Early AccessAction RoguelikeRogueliteBullet HellLooter ShooterSingleplayerPixel GraphicsHack and SlashShoot 'Em UpTop-Down Shooter
-20%$15.99Chibi Legends: Mini Mayhem
2 days ago · Could Care Less
Both: Action Roguelike · Bullet Hell · Roguelike
A cute and chaotic action roguelike bullet hell packed with RNG loot, powerful builds, animated 3D enemies, and epic boss fights! Collect, upgrade, and combine hundreds of items and abilities to become ridiculously OP.
Action RoguelikeRPGBullet HellRoguelitePvEActionAction RPGCasualRoguelike3D
-10%$17.99RIG Riot
6 days ago · Sage Boatman
Both: Action Roguelike · Character Customization · Roguelike
RIG Riot is a roguelike third-person mech-action shooter. Fight increasingly difficult enemies while completing objectives, level up, and choose the Weapons and Volatile Mods that will let you return from your raids victorious. Discover thousands of permanent parts, and build a RIG unlike any other.
ActionMechsAction RoguelikeCharacter CustomizationLooter ShooterRobotsSingleplayerThird-Person ShooterRoguelikeRoguelite👍 270
$3.99TOWERPULSE
12 days ago · HAT Media
Both: Action Roguelike · Bullet Heaven
Climb a living tower in this tactical survival roguelite. Build your arsenal on the move, survive shifting objectives, and break the signal before the tower consumes you.
Action RoguelikeBullet HeavenIncrementalRogueliteActionRhythmPerma DeathCyberpunkBullet TimeChoices Matter
-20%$0.79Super Moncat
2 days ago · Urulginka Studio
Both: Roguelike · Difficult
Fly, dodge, and score points — this is a real test of reaction and concentration, where every new record feels like a big victory over the ruthless cosmos.
RoguelikeRogueliteDifficultFast-PacedPrecision PlatformerSurvival HorrorCatsSpaceMusicScore Attack
-25%$2.99WomboCombo
2 days ago · wannabe
Both: Action Roguelike · Roguelike
Become the hero in this fast-paced incremental roguelike game! Show off your reaction skills to your Overlord, earn massive gold, stack game-breaking upgrades, and forge powerful combos to survive relentless enemy waves.
Action RoguelikeRoguelikeBeat 'em upPvETop-DownArcade2DActionCasualFantasy
$19.99Fracture Point
Sep 4 · Kyrylo Burlaka
Both: Action Roguelike · Shooter
After years in prison, you return to a dark megacity ruled by a ruthless corporation. The only way forward is up - through countless floors of a heavily guarded skyscraper - to reach the corporation's leader and take your revenge.
Action RoguelikeLooter ShooterRogueliteExplorationFPSPerma DeathPvEShooterWarInventory Management👍 161
New-40%$2.99Thuggin It Further
Yesterday · Firetoad Games, Nebula Radiance
Both: Action Roguelike · Roguelike
High intensity co-op roguelite space adventure party game for 2–4 players (or bots). Take on crew jobs, keep a failing ship alive, and survive procedural missions with endless exploration, light RPG progression, and real-time crisis gameplay.
Early AccessAction RoguelikeExplorationStrategyRoguelitePvEArcadeParty GameAction-AdventureRoguelike
-40%$29.99STRATA
2 days ago · Gamesforgames
Both: Roguelike · Dungeon Crawler
STRATA is an arcade descent through rock that is destroyed cell by cell. You pilot a drilling capsule from a dome on the surface, and everything below the first metre is procedurally generated geology: dirt, clay, stone, shale, granite, basalt, obsidian, ironstone.
CasualRoguelikeExplorationDungeon CrawlerPixel Graphics2DAtmosphericFamily FriendlyOld SchoolSingleplayer
-15%$5.09Lopem
5 days ago · Aria Gharachorlou
Both: Action Roguelike · Bullet Hell
Find yourself at arms with the strongest forces the Order of Elysium can muster. Lopem is a fast-paced 2D card‑merging roguelite where imagination and technical know‑how are your keys to survival in a magical realm shaped by corruption and enigma.
ActionStrategyAction RoguelikeCard GameBullet HellCard BattlerRogueliteTurn-Based Tactics2DCute
$14.99Eslabong
Aug 24 · shirowita
Both: Character Customization
Arena combat meets mercenary club management. Recruit from a dynamic market, build your squad, and compete season after season in leagues and cups.
Early AccessAuto BattlerStrategyManagementRPGTacticalCombatCharacter CustomizationFantasyMedieval👍 1,118
-15%$6.79Bullet Train
3 days ago · mis.hinged
Both: Action Roguelike
Welcome on the Bullet Train: destroy enemy towers, collect powerful orbs and improve your train! Fight through escalating enemy territory to defeat the creatures that destroyed your town!
Vehicular Combat3DActionAction RoguelikeIndieMemesFantasyCartoonySingleplayerDragons
$3.99HOSHIKUI
Aug 28 · rspepe
Both: Action Roguelike
An action roguelite with no attack button. You are a dying star: ramming other stars is how you attack, heal, move, and grow. Steal their heat, gain mass, and outrun the heat death of the universe — across an infinite, procedurally generated galaxy.
Action RoguelikeRoguelitePerma DeathArcade2DTop-DownControllerProcedural GenerationActionMinimalist
-10%$17.99Kernel Hearts
3 days ago · Ephemera Games
Both: Action Roguelike · Roguelike
Gather your allies. Eliminate Angels. Transform into a Magical Girl. Slay god. Kernel Hearts is a Multiplayer Co-Op Roguelike Action RPG about four magical girls and their attempt to save a world that's drowning in ashes
Hack and SlashAction RPGOnline Co-OpMultiplayerAction RoguelikeActionAnimeRogueliteRPGRoguelike👍 102
-25%$11.24Ragnar
7 days ago · Fimbulwinter Games
Both: Roguelike · Action Roguelike · Dungeon Crawler
In this epic Norse myth-inspired roguelike dungeon crawler, wield divine power to challenge Loki and uncover the secrets of the Nine Realms through the branches of Yggdrasil. Grow stronger and reshape Ragnarok’s fate with legendary weapons of the gods.
ActionIndieRoguelikeRogueliteRPGHack and SlashAction RoguelikeDungeon CrawlerMythologyPost-apocalyptic
-25%$11.24There Is mORE
3 days ago · ByteBeyond
Both: Action Roguelike
Mine by day, defend by night. Master 25+ spells, sell rare ores for gear upgrades, and grow stronger each run in this procedurally generated roguelite tower defense. Enjoy full controller and Steam Deck support.
RogueliteTower DefenseAction RoguelikeMiningSurvivalProcedural GenerationExplorationMagicBase Building2D
$5.00GLITCHED MATRIX Prototype Lab
Aug 23 · GLITCHED MATRIX
Both: Action Roguelike · Dungeon Crawler
Play a major role in an evolving simulation of simulations. Explore endless 2D and 3D dimensions spanning nearly every game genre, with 50+ experimental prototypes and stories whose worlds, systems, discoveries, and ideas can become part of the greater experience.
Action RoguelikeExplorationFPSCreature CollectorDungeon CrawlerColony SimSandboxUtilitiesEducationArcade
$9.99Fell & Sell
Aug 26 · Art Games Studio S.A.
Both: Dungeon Crawler · Action Roguelike
Slay. Loot. Sell. Survive! Dive into a first-person blend of hack'n'slash roguelike and shop management. Plunder deadly dungeons for loot, escape with your life, craft, and stock your shelves. Then risk it all once more for profit!
SimulationShop KeeperManagementEconomyFantasySingleplayerRPGDungeon CrawlerAction RoguelikeAction RPG👍 1,453
-10%$8.09No Emergency: Pestilence
2 days ago · 20 July
Both: Roguelike
No Emergency: Pestilence plunges players into the epicenter of a mysterious epidemic, where every arriving patient could be carrying a mutating pathogen, and a single mistake in a prescription turns the cure into poison.
SimulationRoguelikeMedical SimOutbreak SimTime Management3DFirst-PersonAtmosphericManagementCrafting
-10%$14.39Fright Train
5 days ago · WildArts Games
Both: Roguelike · Shooter
Fight through a train overtaken by monsters and survive Antarctica’s cold as paranormal special agent Doug Barker in this chilling single-player third-person survival horror roguelike.
Survival HorrorThird-Person ShooterRoguelikeExplorationHorrorShooter3DStylizedThird PersonAtmospheric👍 203
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-25%$5.99Bones and Coins
13 days ago · Troyd Games
Both: Dungeon Crawler
An incremental auto battler dungeon crawler where you build a synergized hero party to slay enemies and loot items. Unlock weapons with unique attack styles. Gear up your hero team and explore new dungeon rooms filled with enemies and legendary drops.
IncrementalAuto BattlerDungeon CrawlerParty-Based RPGLootIdlerStrategyRPGDeckbuildingStrategy RPG👍 668
-40%$2.39Farther West
4 days ago · 福州玄一智能科技有限公司
Both: Action Roguelike · Roguelike · Top-Down Shooter
Farther West is a Roguelite hack-and-slash set in Journey to the West. Slay hordes of demons, unlock maps and heroes like Sun Wukong, and defeat bosses by finding their weaknesses. Attacks cause dismemberment and elemental explosions. Some dialogue may offend.
AdventureAction RoguelikeRoguelike3D PlatformerTraditional RoguelikeActionStrategyRPGTop-Down Shooter3D
$4.99Operation: Outbreak Idle
Sep 4 · DeadLogics
Both: Shooter
Command automated military defenses, upgrade your fortress, and survive massive zombie waves in this action-packed idle defense game. Build powerful defenses, unlock upgrades, and hold the line against endless undead hordes.
Tower DefenseZombiesStrategySingleplayerCasualSurvivalShoot 'Em UpIncrementalShooter3D
New$9.99Farmabot
Today · Mineabot, AngelicEmpyress
Both: Action Roguelike
A seasonal farming roguelike. Grow and crossbreed crops with real genetics, ride the four seasons and their weather, and defend your farm from waves of enemies and seasonal bosses. Upgrade your bot, raid the wastes, and uncover the truth before O.N.Y.X. finds you.
Action RoguelikeSimulationAgricultureArtificial IntelligenceBase BuildingRPG2DCuteColorfulAction
-15%$5.09Dead Margin
2 days ago · Bug Production
Both: Action Roguelike
Survival is optional, rent is mandatory. Team up in Dead Margin, a brutal 1-4 player co-op horror. Whisper to survive, avoid anomalies, and scavenge scraps. Sell it to pay the greedy customer. Out here, everything has a price. Especially you.
Action RoguelikeActionExplorationPvE3DFirst-PersonFunnyProcedural GenerationSci-fiSurvival Horror
-10%$8.99Driving Rogue
3 days ago · Gravity Works
Both: Difficult
Drift, slipstream, and chain risky near-misses at insane speeds to build huge combos. Adapt to procedurally generated streets and challenges, upgrade your ride, unlock abilities, and stack powerful cards to break records. Climb the Redline rankings and fight your way to the top of the leaderboards.
Fast-PacedArcadeIndieRacingDifficultControllerOnline Co-OpDriving3DCasual
-40%$14.99CONVRGENCE
3 days ago · Monkey-With-a-Bomb
Both: Shooter
CONVRGENCE is an atmospheric VR extraction shooter set in the procedurally generated, ever-changing Chernokamensk Anomaly Zone. Scavenge loot, fight bandits and hunt for mystical artifacts — all with your loyal dog companion by your side. But extract before nightfall, or face what lurks in the dark.
VRAtmosphericPost-apocalypticShooterExtraction ShooterLooter ShooterLootSurvival HorrorSurvivalHorror👍 1,588



