Restarting a game every time you die or fail to meet your goal seems like a brutal way to course through your gameplay. However, that specific feature is what makes roguelike games extremely popular. The action-adventure games are filled with chaos, comedy, death, and rebirth, primarily relying on luck. Reignbreaker is a famous name in this gaming genre that puts you into a medieval punk world with brutal combat. In this article, we will list ten rogue games like Reignbreaker.
10. Doomsday Hunters
Doomsday Hunters - Official Trailer
After an explosive event, Earth ceases to exist, and its place is a world full of mutants, monsters, demons, aliens, and robots. The title is a roguelike shooter game that immerses players in a doomed world where they fight for survival. You travel across different islands in this post-apocalyptic world, fighting monsters while searching for weapons, modifiers, and items. When you get to an island, you must battle your enemies to move on to the next one. The islands operate as a room, and this feature amplifies the beautiful nature of the damned world.
9. Samurai Bringer
Samurai Bringer - Pre-Launch Reveal Trailer | PS4
Fighting off a dragon from Japanese mythology is a good way to spend a dull afternoon. The game's protagonist is Susanoo, a powerful deity who lost his powers to the 8-headed dragon Yamata-no-Orochi. You battle Samurais and Demons as you go through the game, aiming to save Kushinada before she is sacrificed to the dragon. The roguelike action title takes you on an adventure where you collect combat techniques and improve your fighting style, regaining the power that you lost.
8. Blocky Dungeon
Blocky Dungeon brings to the table a mix of roguelike features and puzzles. In the game, you enter and explore the dungeons you created. You must lead a knight through these dungeons by placing blocks to make a path. But the dungeons aren’t as safe as they look. There's danger lurking everywhere as enemies wait to attack the knight. When the dungeon map fills, it's game over for you. To avoid this, create a full line with blocks. When the knight marks that line, it disappears. That creates more space for you to keep your adventure going.
7. Neighbors Back From Hell
Neighbours back From Hell // Official Gameplay Trailer
The title features a character named Woody who plays outrageous pranks on his grumpy neighbor for the entertainment of the audience and to increase views. You’ll follow your neighbor across multiple countries and make his life a living hell. Your targets are unlimited, meaning you can pull pranks on travelers or your neighbor's mother. Whatever decision you make, a TV crew is constantly trawling behind you, capturing your every move. But if you get caught in the act, you’ll get a severe beating and lose your TV show.
6. Ocelot Sunrise
OCELOT SUNRISE | Early Access Trailer
The promise of immortality is enough to motivate any gamer to venture through the most dangerous terrains. Ocelot Sunrise runs in a sci-fi universe with a Comic-Noir art style lost in an alien raid. The world has dangerous creatures ready to gobble you up at a moment's notice. However, death is only temporary. You go through a cycle of death and rebirth where your genes mutate, and you get stronger and deadlier to your enemies. You can also use the genetic material of the enemies you kill to upgrade yourself.
5. Deadlink
Deadlink - Launch Trailer | PS5 Games
In Deadlink, you play as an operative tasked with protecting the Corporate Security Agency’s dirty deals. As their deadliest weapon, a product of the experimental Deadlink project, you are immersed in the fray with an HQ team backing you up. You fight your way through multiple areas, including slums, distorted labs, warehouses, and offices, eradicating the schemes of very powerful corporations in the world. In battle, you are always outnumbered, requiring you to employ your wit to win. Players get to start each run with powerful weapons and improved skills, which gives them a better chance of success.
4. Brutal Orchestra
Brutal Orchestra - Demon Core footage
Nowak was murdered, and all that’s left of him is a beatdown skeleton living in a nasty place. A shady character approaches Nowak and offers him revenge on the person who killed him in exchange for his services. You walk different paths, each leading to a different destination. Red means dangerous enemies, blue is a friendly NPC, yellow is treasure or the shop, and purple is one of the bosses in the area. The game makes you walk through long deserts, canyons, blood lakes, and other equally foul places.
3. Wizard with a Gun
Wizard with a Gun - Reveal Trailer
Players take on the role of a Gunmancer whose job is to stop the end of time as chaos consumes everything in the realm of The Shatter. Time is of the essence, as the gameplay is limited to five minutes. To prevent an inevitable doom, you must install gears in the Chronomancer’s Wheel, which makes the wheel roll back time, preventing the end. The land is filled with dangerous entities and landscapes you must battle through. However, you can seek refuge in a base of operations called The Tower, which is immune to the effects of collapsing time.
2. Ruins of Albion
Ruins of Albion - Official Release Trailer
Ruins of Albion is a small roguelike combat game that will push you to your limits and make you think fast to survive. The basic combat skills in the title center around melee and ranged attacks. Hence, you are in a constant battle as you avoid threats and battle your enemies. You unlock two abilities during your gameplay, elemental Arrows and Traps, that increase your chance of surviving in the game. Additionally, you can collect a number of different Rune Effects that give you passive bonuses that boost your fighting skills.
1. Boyfriend Dungeon
Boyfriend Dungeon - Launch Trailer - Nintendo Switch
Boyfriend Dungeon is a dating simulator mixed with a dungeon crawler in which you are plagued with multiple suitors attempting to win you over. You get to date up to seven characters simultaneously. The characters can turn into weapons that can help you survive in two of the dungeons in the game. Each dungeon has 12 floors, with a final boss in each one and an additional mega boss at the end of the game. However, the goddess mode accessibility feature allows players to reduce incoming damage by half.