The 10 Best Roguelike Games to Play in 2026
Roguelikes turn failure into progress — every death teaches you something, every run offers a fresh deck of possibilities. Here's our curated shortlist of the ones absolutely worth your time, from genre-defining classics to recent stand-outs. Live EU prices update every five minutes.
Roguelike vs roguelite: purists reserve "roguelike" for turn-based, grid-based descendants of Rogue (1980), while "roguelite" covers everything modern with procedural runs and permadeath. This guide uses the umbrella term — if you're looking for great run-based games, they all belong here.
How we picked: critical reception (Metacritic 84+), long-term replay value, mechanical depth, and whether the "one more run" loop actually delivers. Every pick is available on PC; most are also on PlayStation, Xbox, and Switch.
Hades
A roguelike dash through the Greek underworld, one perfect run at a time.
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Supergiant's sequel doubles down on witchcraft, weapons, and irresistible run-based storytelling.
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A poker roguelike that turns joker cards into a maddeningly addictive deckbuilder.
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A frantic Metroidvania-roguelike hybrid where every death teaches you to fight smarter.
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The deckbuilder that defined a genre — three characters, endless synergies, one very tall tower.
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A grim, hilarious dungeon crawler with hundreds of items and thousands of chaotic combinations.
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A bullet-hell dungeon crawler that rewards dodge-rolling, greed, and gun puns in equal measure.
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A third-person shooter roguelike where item stacking spirals gloriously out of control.
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Inherit your ancestors' quirks — and their weapons — in a razor-tight generational platformer.
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Housemarque's psychological bullet-hell roguelike on an alien planet that keeps resetting the day.
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