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GENRE · Roguelite

What is a roguelite?

A roguelite keeps the runs and permanent death of a roguelike, but each run leaves something behind. New weapons, characters or upgrades make the next attempt stronger. Hades, Dead Cells and Risk of Rain 2 are roguelites.

Roguelite is the most common pattern for action indies on Steam: a run, then something kept. Hades keeps its conversations going after each death. Vampire Survivors fills the screen on its own. Cult of the Lamb adds a cult to tend between runs.

Best roguelite games

Steam artwork — Hades

Hades

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

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Steam artwork — The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth

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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Steam artwork — FTL: Faster Than Light

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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Steam artwork — Risk of Rain 2

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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Steam artwork — Brotato

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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Steam artwork — Dead Cells

Dead Cells

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

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Steam artwork — Balatro

Balatro

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

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Steam artwork — Cult of the Lamb

Cult of the Lamb

Cult of the Lamb splits a run-based crusade and a base where followers need feeding. Cute art, dark jokes, two loops that have to schedule against each other.

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Players

I like runs but I want to keep something.

Upcoming / Early Access

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