Shattered Pixel Dungeon AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Role-playing Games

The best Role-playing Game alternative to Shattered Pixel Dungeon is Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Shattered Pixel Dungeon and many of them are Role-playing Games so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Role-playing Game alternatives to Shattered Pixel Dungeon are NetHack, Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, MUME and Brogue.

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  1. 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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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Steam
    • GOG.com
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  2. 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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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • PortableApps.com
    • AmigaOS
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  3. 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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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • F-Droid
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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  4. MUME icon
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    MUME, Multi-Users in Middle-earth, is a multiplayer text-based online game based upon J. R. R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth during the epic war between the forces of the Dark Lord and the armies of the Free peoples.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
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  5. Brogue icon
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    Brogue is a Roguelike game for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux by Brian Walker.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • GB flagUnited Kingdom
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  6. Key To Heaven icon
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    By yourself or with friends, your goal is to fight and explore on the mysterious islands. Become stronger, equip better items, craft a raft and sail parts of the oceans to find more hidden treasure, secrets, and bosses.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  7. Xeonjia icon
     2 likes

    Solve ice puzzles and defeat enemies in an RPG world.

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    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • F-Droid
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  8. 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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Steam
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  10. Caves of Qud icon
     1 like

    Caves of Qud is a science fantasy roguelike epic steeped in retrofuturism, deep simulation, and swathes of sentient plants. Come inhabit an exotic world and chisel through layers of thousand-year-old civilizations.

    33 Caves of Qud alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Steam
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  11. Egoboo icon
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    Egoboo is an open source, cross-platform computer game. It's a three-dimensional dungeon crawling adventure that borrows a lot of elements from the roguelike genre. Egoboo is still under development, but it is fully playable.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  12. Quest of Dungeons is a turn based dungeon crawler game featuring a good old 16-bit retro artistic look.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Steam
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