Dredgers
This is tough, because I love this game and it’s concept. It’s so fun! I have a lot of praise for it.
Unfortunately, I feel like I can’t recommend it at this time for two reasons:
-
Missing basics like any type of saving, which pretty much everything I’ve played since the days of shareware has had, seems quite sloppy. The display of the amount of hours I’ve played isn’t really correct: most of that has been on pause because I didn’t want to exit and lose all my progress on the run.
-
Do you know how my last run ended? No? Neither do I. Based on all the information I had, it didn’t make sense. Many key things are just not explained, so new players are going to go through several baptisms by fire, creating a lot of frustration.
– Real player with 152.5 hrs in game
Read More: Best Action Roguelike Traditional Roguelike Games.
Pretty solid roguelike with emphasis on speedy playthroughs and choosing your next step, though that can be its weakness too. Its big selling points are the 30+ races and crazy class combinations which are very very satisfying to play with, as well as actual honest-to-god necromancy where you can have a zombie horde if you want. Or you could skip zombies altogether, dominate the minds of your enemies, send them at your foes, blow up their (animate or inanimate) corpses into a huge mess when they die and then revive them and your former foes as skeletons. Full crafter build is viable, and thats before we get onto races. Pretty much anything that spawns in the dungeon is something you can unlock and play pretty quickly. Only exception afaik is the slime MAN (you can be a regular slime) but I suspect that’ll be implemented in time.
– Real player with 61.1 hrs in game
Gatedelvers
A co-op roguelike dungeon crawler that lets you play your way.
NOTE: The Demo version does not feature co-op.
-
High playstyle variety - whether you prefer stealth, swords, magic or crafting, there’s something for you.
-
Upgrade items by fusing other items into them to add bonus effects. A homing pistol? A telescope sword? Maybe don’t make the telescope sword.
-
Grab everything. Grab items. Grab enemies. Grab friends.
-
Throw everything. Like the friend you just picked up! I’m sure they’ll appreciate it.
-
There’s traps. You can fall in them, if you want.
-
A weird sprinting mechanic that makes you run into walls by accident.
-
A cursed sword that makes boulders fall on you sometimes.
-
Other things, probably. We didn’t finish making the game yet.
Read More: Best Action Roguelike Online Co-Op Games.
WinterBringers
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1569360
About
WinterBringers is an epic ‘Hack&Slash ‘em up’ following your own custom created hero as they appear in a mysterious temporal village with only one way in and out - the Azure Portal. Create your hero from a multitude of race and class combinations such as - Sun Elf Rogue, Fomorian Voidwalker or Goblin Cultist! Then, embark on an adventure of hacking, slashing and looting as you upgrade your hero with powerful weapons and armor on your quest to stop the Pale Knight!
Key Features
-
Create!
Build a hero from a variety of race and class choices and unlock more options as your progress through the game.
-
Upgrade!
Slay your enemies and complete quests to level up your character and unlock powerful weapons and armor to equip.
-
Explore!
Choose your own path as you embark on the ultimate quest to stop the WinterBringers! Plot your course in the campaign and save the Broken World!
-
Unlock!
Unlock a multitude of armors, weapons, races and classes use in your war against the Pale Knight.
Read More: Best Action Roguelike Beat 'em up Games.
God of the Arena Dungeon
ᵗʰⁱˢ ᵍᵃᵐᵉ ʳᵉᵖʳᵉˢᵉⁿᵗˢ ᵃⁿ ᵉⁿᵒʳᵐᵒᵘˢ ᵖᵉʳˢᵒⁿᵃˡ ᵉⁿᵈᵉᵃᵛᵒʳ ˡⁱᵏᵉ ᵐᵃⁿʸ ᵒⁿ ˢᵗᵉᵃᵐ. ⁱᵗ ⁱˢ ᵃ ᶠʳᵉᵉ ᵖʳᵒᵈᵘᶜᵗ ᵗʰᵃᵗ ʸᵒᵘ ᶜᵃⁿ ᵖˡᵃʸ ʰᵒʷ ᶜᵃⁿ ʸᵒᵘ ᶜᵒᵐᵖˡᵃⁱⁿ. ᵗʰᵉ ᵃᵈᵈⁱᵗⁱᵒⁿᵃˡ ᶜˡᵃˢˢᵉˢ ᵃʳᵉ ᶜᵒᵒˡ, ᵇᵘᵗ ᵗʰᵉʸ ᵃʳᵉⁿ’ᵗ ᵐᵃⁿᵈᵃᵗᵒʳʸ ᵗᵒ ʰᵃᵛᵉ ᶠᵘⁿ ᵃⁿᵈ ʸᵒᵘ ʷᵒⁿᵗ ᶠᵉᵉˡ ᵗʰᵉⁱʳ ˡᵒˢˢ ⁱᶠ ʸᵒᵘ ᵈᵒⁿ’ᵗ ᵇᵘʸ ᵗʰᵉ ᶠᵃᵗ ʳᵃᵗ ᵉᵈⁱᵗⁱᵒⁿ. ᵖˡᵃʸ ᵗʰⁱˢ ᵍᵃᵐᵉ, ʲᵒⁱⁿ ᵗʰᵉ ᵈⁱˢᶜᵒʳᵈ, ⁱᵗ ʰᵃˢ ᵃⁿ ᵃᶜᵗⁱᵛᵉ ᶜᵒᵐᵐᵘⁿⁱᵗʸ ᵃⁿᵈ ᵗʳᵘˡʸ ᵉᵖⁱᶜ ᵐᵒᵐᵉⁿᵗˢ.
Also, the mechanics are tight, the numbers are fun and most stat boosts are kept small. Some really fun items, like the worm necklace and the one that inverts the colors, and the one that zooms you out, make the game brand new to play with when you pick them up.
– Real player with 35.4 hrs in game
Great game to play with friends. Race to beat the bosses mode and team statues mode are the best in my opinion. In the bosses mode you try to level up to 30 as fast as possible, get the coloured door key and fight the boss. Kill all the bosses and you become the arena god. In statues mode your team has to kill a statue to convert it to your team (the statues fight back against the opposing team). Capture all of the statues to win the game.
For a free game it has a great amount of content. I bought the full game and it’s worth it just for the BEEshop character. There is a lot of good character variety and it’s very satisfying driving away in your clown car or jamming on your guitar shooting music notes at somebody. Make sure you try all of the characters.
– Real player with 9.9 hrs in game
Dome Romantik
Dome Romantik is a roguelike mining game, where you go on a run to strip multiple planets of their minerals, while the native creatures furiously try to stop you. They come in waves, so you have to carefully consider your mining activities to return just in time to defend you dome. Greed can be deadly, information a viable tool for survival. Powerful upgrades will help you stay alive and be productive until you can move on to the next world.
Your Dome
Choose a unique dome that will shape your run. Each dome has different weapons, abilities and upgrade paths, each bringing their own challenges along.
Your Task
Extract minerals and use them to improve your dome and yourself. Install shields, new weapons, or facilities to generate powerful fuel for your jetpack or even ammunition. Improve your mining abilities with stronger drills or innovative ways to retrieve minerals.
The Worlds
You’ll meet many strange lifeforms as you progress through the worlds. They are as different as the worlds they live in, so you need to learn their tricks and focus to stay alive.
Chenso Club
The alien invaders are everywhere, attacking everything and everyone! And when they die, the life-force they leave behind is an ultra-incredible energy source! Is there any hope?
Meet the Chenso Club: a growing group of fighters here to save the world. They’re using the aliens’ life-force to power up and beat them at their own game. Don’t let their adorable nature fool you - they will happily and brutally obliterate any threat that gets in their way.
Meet Blue, a powerful android developed in a lab where an alien discovery was used to ultra-boost her power. Her weapon of choice is a mean chainsaw and a charmingly destructive attitude.
Carmine is a highly-trained member of the royal guard, tasked with protecting the King. After a surprise alien attack, her King is now being held hostage and her honor demands that she save the day. Her weapon of choice is a giant hammer, infused with the power of alien essence. Her activity of choice is destroying aliens every chance she gets.
Plum’s favorite hobby is trying out different kinds of witchcraft. This bubbly character spends most of her day at the abandoned clock tower. What she doesn’t know is that the clock tower is now haunted by creepy monsters from another universe!
Remember! The Chenso Club is growing - so more characters are on their way!
Our heroines want any excuse to use their newfound powers. It’s up to you to master their moves, increase their power and show the world the might of the Chenso Club.
-
Two game modes (with more to come) - Story mode, where you fight your way through colourful worlds and bosses, as well as Co-op.
-
Fight with attitude: The Chenso Club girls are fast witted, strong and adorably violent..
-
Punch, jump, slash, and smash: Master the girls’ moves, kick your reflexes into high gear, and battle your way through “old-school challenge” levels to obliterate aliens.
-
Test your rogue-lite skill: Procedurally generated levels are different each time you play. No do-overs!
-
Collect life force from aliens you kill: Trade for power-ups to make your fighter faster and stronger—but don’t spend it all! That life force also keeps YOU alive.
[*Play solo or with friends: Play solo or indulge the Chenso girls’ competitive nature with couch co-op.[/list]
Machina Blade
In Machina Blade what matters the most is your skill. Inspired by games such as Dead Cells, Risk of Rain and Devil May Cry, Choose a character and explore a mysterious, ever-changing floating island while fighting your way through hordes of Machinas with up to four players on local co-op.
A secret lies in the heart of this island. You seek answers, but in your way lies hordes of deadly Machinas that won’t hesitate to fight you. Find chests containing powerful treasures that will help you along the way. Keep going until you fall and die… and eventually rise to try again.
MAIN FEATURES
-
Responsive and fun combat system that will test your skills and reflexes
-
Various characters with different playstyles
-
Over 50 items that will change how you approach new challenges
-
Dozens of enemies, with powerful bosses to face off against
-
3 challenging boss fights, with more to come
Troubled Passage
Troubled Passage is a Roguelike ARPG with a very peculiar combat system based on mouse swipes. This system allows for some interesting combat encounters that feel more engaging and rewarding. The mouse is an extension of your sword.
You are set to travel across five regions and reach an old port. There you will take a ship that will take you far away. That’s all you know for now. But beware, these lands are filled with undead creatures, traps and other nasty travelers. You should always be careful, even if you decide to share the road with a companion.
Character Creation
Choose your character appearance and select a trade. Trades are like character classes that defines with which types of weapons and types of damage your character is proficient with, gaining a buff when using that type of weapon.
Combat
Attacks are performed by swiping your mouse in a certain direction (up, down left or right). These swipes will trigger the combat skill that you have assigned to that direction.
There are multiple skills to learn throughout the game for each type of combat:
Unarmed
Onehanded
Twohanded (skills are missing at this point of development)
Bow (skills are missing at this point of development)
Loot
Troubled Passage loot system is built on the idea that “if they have it, you can have it”. No longer will you get disappointed if a heavy-armored-cool-looking enemy only dropped a knife and an apple. You want that armor! Well, good news! In Troubled Passage, enemies will drop exactly what they are wearing (stats included). You can strip your enemies of everything and claim it for yourself. This means strong enemies equals strong loot.
Companions
From time to time, you will encounter recruitable companions that can help you in your quest. They may be expensive, but they are a great help in dealing with enemies. All companions are randomly generated, and so are their motives.
Rivalries
Companions react to your attitude towards them. If they get mad at you, they can become your rivals and appear later on to seek revenge as a mini-boss battle.
Traders
Visit traders to buy and sell items. Blacksmiths will even allow you to forge your own weapon from a list of components and manage the weapon stats.
Random Levels
To ensure that each playthrough feels different, levels are randomly generated. So there are new areas to explore each time you play, and loot is distributed at random. There are still some “static” levels in terms of layout due to workload, but later they will all be fully random.
Anti Frank’s Wrath
Anti Frank is unleashing his wrath on the universe! Play by yourself or with a few friends locally to take down hoards of zombies and stop Anti Frank! Play as one of four unique characters and buy new upgrades and weapons as you rid the universe of zombies.
Anti Frank’s Wrath is a top-down arcade shoot-em up based in the futuristic 1980’s. It supports 4 player local co-op (or steam remote play).
Plague Breaker
Was addicted after 5 minutes. Beat the game on hard with all characters and I don’t normally play these types of games but this was fun attempting to unlock as much as possible. Don’t pass this up if you enjoy rougelike games.
– Real player with 24.1 hrs in game
Plague Breaker is a really cool roguelike game based on games like castlevania. It’s got a cool class system that I enjoyed, item pickups similar to Issac, and level and item randomizations. It’s a pretty fun game and even has co-op. A few of the class choices can be traps that don’t work well if you aren’t paying attention to the items you have or don’t have likely access too based on your difficulty, but as long as you avoid that, most play styles you choose can adapt fairly well.
I requested this game on keymailer because it looked awesome and it was.
– Real player with 22.5 hrs in game