Games Like Desktop Dungeons Similar Roguelike Games like Desktop Dungeons

Desktop Dungeons is described as 'Quick-play roguelike puzzle game that gives you roughly 10 minutes of dungeon-crawling action per serving. It straddles the casual and hardcore boundary in that, while you might die frequently because the game is tricky and unforgiving, it’s so approachable' and is a Roguelike game in the games category. There are more than 10 games similar to Desktop Dungeons for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Steam and Android apps. The best Desktop Dungeons alternative is Shattered Pixel Dungeon, which is both free and Open Source. Other Desktop Dungeons like games are Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, NetHack, Pixel Dungeon and Ancient Domains of Mystery.

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  1. Shattered Pixel Dungeon is a Roguelike RPG, with pixel art graphics and lots of variety and replayability. Every game is unique, with four different playable characters, randomized levels and enemies, and over 150 items to collect and use.

    34 Shattered Pixel Dungeon alternatives

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    • Android Tablet
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    • Linux Mobile
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    • OpenAPK
    • GOG.com
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  2. Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead is a roguelike set in a post-apocalyptic world. Surviving is difficult: you have been thrown, ill-equipped, into a landscape now riddled with monstrosities of which flesh eating zombies are neither the strangest nor the deadliest.

    29 Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • GOG.com
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  3. NetHack icon
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    NetHack is a single player dungeon exploration game that runs on a wide variety of computer systems, with a variety of graphical and text interfaces all using the same game engine. Unlike many other Dungeons & Dragons-inspired games, the emphasis in NetHack is on discovering...

    34 NetHack alternatives

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    • Open Source

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    • PortableApps.com
    • AmigaOS
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  4. Pixel Dungeon icon
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    Pixel Dungeon is a traditional roguelike game with pixel-art graphics and simple interface. Explore the depths of Pixel Dungeon, collect useful items, fight fierce monsters to find Amulet of Yendor (surprise!) - the ultimate artifact of this game world.

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    • Freemium
    • Open Source

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    • Android
    • iPhone
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  5. Ancient Domains of Mystery (ADOM for short) is a roguelike game which means that it is a single-user game featuring the exploration of a dungeon complex (and in the case of ADOM a few other games of this genre: the exploration of a large wilderness area with villages and many...

    24 Ancient Domains of Mystery alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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    • BSD
    • OpenBSD
    • NetBSD
    • GOG.com
    • Steam
    • SteamOS
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  6. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup is an open-source, single-player, role-playing roguelike game of exploration and treasure-hunting in dungeons filled with dangerous and unfriendly monsters in a quest to rescue the mystifyingly fabulous Orb of Zot.

    35 Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup alternatives

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    • F-Droid
    • Flathub
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  7. Brogue icon
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    Brogue is a Roguelike game for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux by Brian Walker.

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  8. Xeonjia icon
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    Solve ice puzzles and defeat enemies in an RPG world.

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    • Android Tablet
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  9. POWDER icon
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    Descend into the depths of the dungeon until you reach the foul daemon known as "He who the author cannot spell consistently", or, Baezl'bub. When you have slain Baezl'bub in heroic combat, or, if Baezl'bub dies in any way, retrieve his black heart and...

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    • Free
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  10. Ananias is a roguelike dungeon crawler where you explore ancient ruins, fight its monstrous inhabitants and try to survive to the bottom level.

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • Online
    • Android
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  11. A single-player turn-based dungeon crawler. Take control of a lone hero and explore sprawling dungeons, fight dangerous monsters.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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