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The 16 best roguelikes on Steam in 2026

Among roguelikes on Steam, Balatro leads right now, then Slay the Spire and The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.

Ordered by fit with the genre, Steam review score, number of reviews and how each game plays. Steam figures checked 26 Sept 2026. How the order works

The 16 best roguelikes, ranked

  1. 01
    Steam artwork — Balatro
    97.8% positive · 198,424 reviews · USD 14.99

    Balatro

    Balatro is a solo poker roguelike: you play poker hands, then buy jokers that rewrite how a hand scores.

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  2. 02
    Steam artwork — Slay the Spire
    97.5% positive · 218,833 reviews · EUR 22.99

    Slay the Spire

    Slay the Spire is a roguelike deckbuilder: you climb a three-act spire, fight turn-based battles with a small deck, and pick one new card after each fight.

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  3. 03
    Steam artwork — The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
    96.8% positive · 458,244 reviews · EUR 14.99

    The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth

    The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is a top-down action roguelike: you shoot tears through randomly built basement rooms and stack items that change how you shoot, move and survive.

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  4. 04
    Steam artwork — Dead Cells
    97% positive · 183,370 reviews · USD 12.49

    Dead Cells

    Dead Cells is a roguevania: a procedural castle, permadeath runs, and a meta that slowly opens the map.

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  5. 05
    Steam artwork — Enter the Gungeon
    95.1% positive · 89,844 reviews · USD 14.99

    Enter the Gungeon

    Enter the Gungeon is a top-down bullet-hell dungeon shooter with a joke gun around every corner. Dodge rolls are the skill floor; unlocks are the meta.

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  6. 06
    Steam artwork — Noita
    95.1% positive · 88,774 reviews · USD 19.99

    Noita

    Noita is a falling-sand action roguelike: every pixel simulates, and your wand will kill you with physics you technically caused. The meta is the wands you learn to build.

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  7. 07
    Steam artwork — FTL: Faster Than Light
    95.1% positive · 78,837 reviews · EUR 9.99

    FTL: Faster Than Light

    FTL: Faster Than Light is a space roguelike: you command one ship across eight sectors, jump from beacon to beacon, and manage crew, power and weapons in fights you can pause at any moment.

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  8. 08
    Steam artwork — Risk of Rain 2
    93.8% positive · 353,135 reviews · EUR 24.99

    Risk of Rain 2

    Risk of Rain 2 is a third-person action roguelike for one to four players: you land on an alien planet, stack items that multiply your damage, and race a difficulty that rises every minute.

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  9. 09
    Steam artwork — Into the Breach
    94.2% positive · 22,196 reviews · EUR 14.99

    Into the Breach

    Into the Breach is a tiny tactics puzzle: three mechs, a city, and perfect information for one more turn you can still undo. The island is a chess problem you refuse to rush.

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  10. 10
    Steam artwork — Darkest Dungeon®
    91.7% positive · 162,727 reviews · EUR 22.99

    Darkest Dungeon®

    Darkest Dungeon is a gothic turn-based RPG: you send a party of four heroes into dungeons, watch their stress as closely as their health, and lose them for good when they die.

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  11. 11
    Steam artwork — Spelunky 2
    92.8% positive · 21,988 reviews · EUR 16.79

    Spelunky 2

    Spelunky 2 is a roguelike platformer: you dive through randomly built caves on the Moon, grab treasure and try to survive traps, animals and your own mistakes, alone or with up to four players.

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    Steam artwork — Wildfrost
    82.9% positive · 8,819 reviews · EUR 19.99

    Wildfrost

    Wildfrost is a snowy auto-battler deckbuilder: you place companions on a grid, watch the round resolve, and hope the storm has not rewritten the clock.

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  13. 13
    Steam artwork — Hades
    98% positive · 308,453 reviews · USD 24.99

    Hades

    Hades is Supergiant's isometric action roguelike: escape the Underworld, talk to everyone, keep the meta.

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  14. 14
    Steam artwork — Brotato
    95.9% positive · 119,188 reviews · EUR 4.99

    Brotato

    Brotato is an arena roguelite where you play a potato holding up to six weapons at once: survive twenty short waves of aliens, then spend what they drop in a shop between waves.

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  15. 15
    Steam artwork — Monster Train
    95.9% positive · 22,942 reviews · USD 4.99

    Monster Train

    Monster Train is a vertical deckbuilder: defend three train cars, stack units, climb a hell run.

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    Steam artwork — Vampire Survivors
    98.3% positive · 265,655 reviews · USD 4.99

    Vampire Survivors

    Vampire Survivors is a top-down horde survivor: pick a character, open weapon chests, and let the build snowball until the timer closes.

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How this ranking works

Keeps games built on runs, where a death sends you back to the start with what you learned. Colony, extraction and open-world survival games stay out, even when Steam tags them roguelike.

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