Games Like Pixel Dungeon Similar Roguelike Games like Pixel Dungeon

Pixel Dungeon is described as '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' and is a Roguelike game in the games category. There are more than 25 games similar to Pixel Dungeon for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Android, Linux and iPhone apps. The best Pixel Dungeon alternative is Shattered Pixel Dungeon, which is both free and Open Source. Other Pixel Dungeon like games are Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, NetHack, Brogue and Desktop Dungeons.

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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...

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Pixel Dungeon alternatives page was last updated Jul 5, 2021
  1. Shattered Pixel Dungeon icon
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    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.

    35 Shattered Pixel Dungeon alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

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

    Properties

    1.  Ad-free

    Features

    1.  Dungeon Crawlers
    2.  RPG-like
    3.  Pixel Art
    4.  Single player
    Shattered Pixel Dungeon iconPixel Dungeon Icon

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    great graphics & game-play for medieval game lovers.

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    • Almost everyone thinks Shattered Pixel Dungeon is a great Pixel Dungeon alternative.

    • Shattered Pixel Dungeon is the most popular Windows, Android, Mac & iPhone alternative to Pixel Dungeon.

    • Shattered Pixel Dungeon is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Pixel Dungeon.

    • Shattered Pixel Dungeon is Free and Open SourcePixel Dungeon is Freemium and Open Source
  2. Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead icon
     22 likes

    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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    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Properties

    1.  Ad-free
    2.  Works Offline
    3.  Moddable

    Features

    1.  Player vs Enviroment
    2.  Endless gameplay
    3.  Single player
    4.  Base building
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  3. NetHack icon
     24 likes

    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...

    33 NetHack alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • PortableApps.com

    NetHack Features

    1.  Single player
    2.  Portable
    3.  Exploration
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    • Some users think NetHack is a great Pixel Dungeon alternative, some don't.

    • NetHack is the most popular Web-based alternative to Pixel Dungeon.

    • NetHack is Free and Open SourcePixel Dungeon is Freemium and Open Source
  4. Brogue icon
     13 likes

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

    30 Brogue alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Brogue Features

    1.  Dungeon Crawlers
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  5. Desktop Dungeons icon
     7 likes

    Desktop Dungeons is a 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...

    25 Desktop Dungeons alternatives
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    License model

    • FreemiumProprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online

    Desktop Dungeons Features

    1.  Dungeon Crawlers
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  6. Xeonjia icon
     2 likes

    Solve ice puzzles and defeat enemies in an RPG world.

    32 Xeonjia alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • F-Droid

    Properties

    1.  Ad-free
    2.  Works Offline

    Features

    1.  Single player
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  7. POWDER icon
     4 likes

    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...

    34 POWDER alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone

    POWDER Features

    1.  Single player
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  8. Dungeons of Dredmor icon
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    Test your luck and cunning in this exciting RPG as you craft, cast, and pillage your way through Lord Dredmor's Dungeons.

    30 Dungeons of Dredmor alternatives
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    License model

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Steam

    Dungeons of Dredmor Features

    1.  Single player
    2.  Dungeon Crawlers
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    • Dungeons of Dredmor is the most popular commercial alternative to Pixel Dungeon.

    • Dungeons of Dredmor is Paid and ProprietaryPixel Dungeon is Freemium and Open Source
  9. Hack, Slash, Loot icon
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    A single-player turn-based dungeon crawler. Take control of a lone hero and explore sprawling dungeons, fight dangerous monsters.

    28 Hack, Slash, Loot alternatives
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    License model

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Steam

    Hack, Slash, Loot Features

    1.  Single player
    2.  Dungeon Crawlers
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  10. 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.

    27 Egoboo alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Egoboo Features

    1.  Dungeon Crawlers
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  11. Quest of Dungeons icon
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    Quest of Dungeons is a turn based dungeon crawler game featuring a good old 16-bit retro artistic look.

    29 Quest of Dungeons alternatives
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    Platforms

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

    Quest of Dungeons Features

    1.  Single player
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  12. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup icon
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    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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    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup Features

    1.  Dungeon Crawlers
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