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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.

Halls of Torment
Dark fantasy horde survival with run-based character builds
95% positive 32K reviews
Crab Champions
Fast-paced third-person roguelike shooter with crabs and build crafting
98% positive 31K reviews
Risk of Rain (2013)
Side-scrolling action roguelike where time makes every run harder
93% positive 30K reviews
20 Minutes Till Dawn
Top-down action roguelite with active aiming and evolving builds
90% positive 29K reviews
Sifu
Third-person martial arts brawler where every death ages your fighter
92% positive 29K reviews
Risk of Rain Returns
2D action roguelike with escalating hordes and randomized loot
90% positive 29K reviews
PlateUp!
Co-op restaurant roguelite built around planning, cooking, and automation
95% positive 27K reviews
Soulstone Survivors
Fast-paced bullet heaven roguelite built around escalating skill combinations
91% positive 27K reviews
Moonlighter
Action roguelite combining dungeon runs with shop management
81% positive 25K reviews
Roboquest
Fast-paced roguelite FPS with random runs and two-player co-op
95% positive 24K reviews
Lost Castle / 失落城堡
Side-scrolling dungeon brawler with randomized runs and four-player co-op
86% positive 24K reviews
Neon Abyss
Roguelike platform shooter with random dungeons and stacking upgrades
86% positive 24K reviews
Children of Morta
Family-focused action roguelite with co-op dungeon runs and shared progression
88% positive 23K reviews
Streets of Rogue
Top-down city roguelite built around flexible missions and chaotic co-op
96% positive 23K reviews
Ravenswatch
Top-down action roguelike with dark fairy-tale heroes and co-op
80% positive 23K reviews
Spelunky 2
Punishing roguelike platforming through randomized, trap-filled lunar worlds
93% positive 22K reviews
Death Must Die
Pixel-art action roguelite about building god-blessed heroes to kill Death
90% positive 22K reviews
Wizard of Legend
Fast-paced action roguelike centered on customizable magical combat
91% positive 21K reviews
Nuclear Throne
Post-apocalyptic top-down roguelike with mutations and punishing gunfights
96% positive 20K reviews
Rogue Legacy
Side-scrolling roguelite platformer where each death brings a new heir
92% positive 19K reviews
Barony
First-person cooperative roguelike dungeon crawling with permadeath and deadly traps
91% positive 18K reviews
Witchfire
Dark-fantasy first-person roguelite shooter built around risky extraction runs
91% positive 18K reviews
Magicraft
Top-down action roguelite built around crafting custom spell combinations
93% positive 17K reviews
The Spell Brigade
Co-op bullet heaven where wizards combine spells amid friendly fire
81% positive 17K reviews