Best Action Roguelike games on PC
Action games built around repeatable runs, combining real-time combat with roguelike structures such as randomized levels, enemies, or upgrades. Defeat typically ends the current run, encouraging another attempt under new conditions.
- Fast-paced real-time combat
- Repeated runs after defeat
- Randomized levels, enemies, or upgrades
Related: Roguelike, Roguelite, Bullet Hell, Difficult
455 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
Maniac
Top-down action roguelike with stolen vehicles and escalating police chases
91% positive
1,875 reviews
Multi Turret Academy
Top-down tank roguelike built around swapping turrets mid-run
95% positive
1,854 reviews
ROBOBEAT
First-person roguelike shooter that rewards firing on the beat
94% positive
1,847 reviews
NIMRODS
Alien survival roguelite with custom guns for companion drones
85% positive
1,841 reviews
Meta Ghost: Breaking Show
Cyberpunk action roguelite with televised battles against machine opponents
72% positive
1,801 reviews
Space Beast Terror Fright
Permadeath first-person shooter aboard changing ships full of lethal aliens
92% positive
1,795 reviews
UBERMOSH Vol.5
Fast-paced top-down arcade shooter built around short survival runs
94% positive
1,751 reviews
Double Dragon Gaiden: Rise Of The Dragons
Side-scrolling beat 'em up with tag-team combat and changing stages
86% positive
1,745 reviews
Alien Hominid Invasion
Arcade shoot-'em-up with co-op and shifting city neighborhoods
89% positive
1,731 reviews
Super House of Dead Ninjas
Fast-paced 2D action platformer with timed, randomized tower runs
96% positive
1,727 reviews
Slime 3K: Rise Against Despot
Top-down action roguelite with card decks and escalating enemy swarms
80% positive
1,719 reviews
Taboo Trial
Third-person action roguelike with mechanical giants and Valkyrie forms
83% positive
1,707 reviews
UBERMOSH Vol.3
Fast-paced pixel bullet hell on a borderless battlefield
92% positive
1,700 reviews
Achilles: Survivor
Top-down Greek myth action roguelite with buildable defenses against hordes
82% positive
1,689 reviews
Trip to Vinelands
Retro arcade maze minigame about surviving consecutive screens
85% positive
1,672 reviews
Rogue Glitch Ultra
2D action roguelite with auto-targeting and tough platforming runs
92% positive
1,594 reviews
Spirit Hunters: Infinite Horde
Roguelite horde survival with passive attacks and permanent upgrades
79% positive
1,591 reviews
Withering Rooms
Horror action RPG in a mansion that changes nightly
96% positive
1,589 reviews
Heavy Bullets
First-person roguelike shooter where spent bullets must be recovered
82% positive
1,568 reviews
PUSS!
2D bullet-hell action through randomized levels as a trapped cat
88% positive
1,561 reviews
Cat Bait
Pixel-art action roguelite where helper cats fight rodent swarms
96% positive
1,547 reviews
AK-xolotl: Together
Top-down roguelite shooter with armed axolotls and randomized rooms
75% positive
1,528 reviews
Over 9000 Zombies!
Top-down zombie shooter with endless waves and buildable defenses
87% positive
1,523 reviews
Ziggurat 2
Fast-paced roguelite FPS with spells and randomly generated dungeons
90% positive
1,517 reviews