Dungeon Crawler is a term of Fantasy Role-playing games, where the player explores the labyrinthine landscapes, battling brutal monsters, and looting treasure chests he may find during navigation. Due to its simplicity, the dungeon crawler video games can be more accessible for the players to run more complex adventure and experience the hack and slash play style focus on combat and action. The first computer-based dungeon crawling video game was Pedit5, developed by Rusty Rutherford in 1975. It was the part of wargame, in which the invading force get into the castle of the enemies through a former escape tunnel drug from the dungeon of the fortress. Miniature figures, maps, and models are often used to offer the environment of the dungeon crawler games. First-person Party-based dungeon Crawlers focus on Role-playing games, where the player has to guide a team of adventurers from a first-person view in a grid-based environment.

23 Best Dungeon Crawler Games on Steam

#1 The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth

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The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth combines the elements of Rough-like, Dungeon Crawling, Shooter, Action-Adventure and Horror developed and published by Nicalis. The game supports both single and multiplayer modes and offers an exciting story of the Binding of Isaac inspired by the childhood of McMillen growing up in a religious family. You take on the role of the young boy known as Isaac whose mother locks the protagonist in his room and convinced she is doing the job of god. His mother wants to sacrifice Isaac to prove here faith, Isaac becomes scared and escapes to the basement and lock himself. The game takes place in the fictional underground world full of monsters, and strange creatures. Explore the game world, fight against monsters, and other creatures to complete several missions and earn points that you can use to unlock upgrades. You have to gather items and power-ups to enhance your abilities and take down foes. With addictive gameplay, superb mechanics, and brilliant visuals, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is the wonderful game to play and enjoy.

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#2 Tales of Maj’Eyal

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Tales of Maj’Eyal is a super cool Action-Adventure, Rogue-like RPG and Turn-besed RTS video game. The game provides with a super addictive amalgamation of Action-Adventure, RPG, Turn-Based RTS, and Dungeon Crawling, Rogue-like elements. You can select a character for yourself from a huge range of classes of species and races and start exploring the game world. Your main objective is to explore a number of dungeons, collect valuables, engage yourself in battles and enhance your skills. Tales of Maj’Eyal provides you with a good amount of randomly generated game levels and different types of enemies and four different game worlds, every game world puts you in front of a boss enemy in the last level. If you are able to kill the boss, you can move to the next game world and whole new game levels with a different set of difficulties, but if you are killed by the enemy boss, the game ends. Tales of Maj’Eyal is one of the best Action, Adventure and Rogue-like RPG and RTS video game to play and enjoy. Do try it out, it will definitely entertain you good.

#3 The Binding of Isaac

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The Binding of Isaac is an exciting Action-Adventure, Rogue-like Puzzle-Platform and Dungeon Crawl video game by Edmund McMillen. The game offers an amazing Puzzle and challenge based game-play that is about Adult Subjects such as Child Abuse, Gender Identity, Abortion and Suicide etc. The game offers a story deeply inspired by a Biblical writing about a boy named Isaac whose mother gets tested for her Faith in god and to prove herself she gets demanded to sacrifice her Son (Issac). After this the Boy, Isaac descends into the basement of his house all filled up with a number of different types of Monsters, and his ultimate goal is to survive. Your task is to control the character of Isaac along with six other unlock-able characters, traverse through a procedurally generated world made up of countless Dungeons with Rogue-like aesthetics. With a brilliantly designed, The Legend of Zelda inspired environment and visuals, Epic real-time Combats, loads of challenging puzzles, thrilling encounters with enemy bosses, and all the mind-bending scenes, The Binding of Isaac is one amazing Action-Adventure, Rogue-like puzzle-Platform, Shooting and Dungeon Crawling video game to play and enjoy.

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#4 Darkest Dungeon

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Darkest Dungeon is a Turn-Based RTS, Action-RPG, Adventure, Dungeon Crawler and environmentally Gothic video game with great Rogue-like elements. The game lets you be a Great War Lord and allows you to recruit, train and lead a team of great warriors to explore a dark world of darkest dungeons. Your main objective is to explore the dungeons and collect the valuables, and encounter the most brutal and incredibly stressing horrors and enemies. You must lead your team of heroes and explore the game world with courage, determination and bravery. You must kill your enemies and return to your settlement as true heroes. Darkest Dungeon provides with the creepiest enemy bosses and a number of game levels to play and enjoy the game. Every valuable collected and every enemy killed allows you to win game points that you can use to buy upgrades and fight your enemies with more courage and power. Darkest Dungeon is one of the best game of this specific genre and it will definitely leave you spell bounded for a great amount of time. Do try it out.

#5 Rogue Legacy

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Rogue Legacy, developed by Cellar Door games is an Action-Adventure, Rogue-like RTS and Puzzle-Platform video game. The game provides with tons of engaging and quite addictive game-play that includes randomly generated dungeons, a lot of different types of enemies, Bosses with unique combat abilities and techniques, four epic game settlements to explore, collect items and kill your enemies. Rogue Legacy also includes secondary abilities for the players like Magic, and different elemental attacks that cause serious damage to the enemy. If you die in the game, all of your HP shrinks to zero and all your abilities are then transferred to a secondary player who continues your adventure until the last player, when the last player dies, the game ends. Rogue Legacy provides with great level details, clean graphics and an amazingly engaging game-play.

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#6 Caves of Qud

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Caves of Qud is brilliant new Sci-Fi Fantasy, Action-RPG, and Strategy video game. It offers marvelous Roguelike elements and portrays them in the form of Retro-styled environment. The game lets you be a mutant warrior of a thousand year old civilization, explore the procedurally generated jungles and dungeons of Qud, go against the epic enemies, use super cool weapons like rifles, swords, or poisonous stingers, kill monsters, interact with NPCs, develop new skills and abilities, make alliances with other factions and enjoy being in control of almost everything. With a brilliantly immersive game-play, cool visuals, a huge world to explore and a lot to enjoy, Caves of Qud is a super cool Action-RPG, Strategy and Fantasy video game to play and enjoy.

#7 Sproggiwood

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Sproggiwood by Freehold Games is a marvelous addition to the Turn-based Strategy and RPG genre. The game offers beautiful rogue-like aesthetics and is set in a world of beautiful Finnish mythological world. Sproggiwood lets you to select your character and skills from six different classes and skill trees, explore procedurally generated game world and dungeons, fight against the notoriously dangerous monsters etc. As a farmer from the village of Clog, you must save your fields and people from the unseen hazards and the Sproggis, the mysterious spirits of the forest of Clog. You must build a whole civilization against the mischievous Sprogi and defeat them with your might, wealth and experience. With a bit of twisted but easy to follow story-line, great visuals and an addictive game-play, Sproggiwood is a fun game like Braveland to play and enjoy.

#8 Tallowmere

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Tallowmere is an Action-Adventure, Dungeon Crawling and Side-scroll Single-player video game with Rogue-like elements developed and published by Chris McFarland. You can take on the role of the protagonist with a task to run, jump and fight your way through the randomly generated level to score the highest points and survive. There are different floors in the dungeon, and each is full of traps, obstacles, enemies and treasure chests. Your character equips with traditional weapons that can be used to kill enemies while exploring the environment. Raise your shield using power-ups to block the enemy attack and jump to avoid the traps and obstacles. Unlock new weapons, outfits, headgear, shields, and a variety of items to aid your character in his journey. It offers challenging gameplay, as you proceed through the game. Tallowmere offers prominent features such as Survive as long as possible, Raise your Shield, Jump to overcome an obstacle, new Weapons and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.

#9 RPG MO

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RPG MO is a Sandbox Styled MMO-RPG video game created by Marxnet. The game provides with a highly inspired and similar game-play to Swords Art Online and RuneScape and provides with options such as building and decorating your own houses in a huge game world and raising, petting and breeding animals etc. This simple yet addictive and engaging video game lets you fight against some epic monsters, enemy bosses and level yourself up to a more advances tier. Multiplayer gaming mode allows you to invite your friends to the game world, engage yourself into the most epic activities, combats, PvP and PvE events and enjoy the ultimate fun. With a whole amazing variety of Unique Skills, Epic Quests, Dungeons to Explore, a lot of fun Mini games, different kinds of enemies, Great Crafting system that helps you craft Weapons, Spells, Pets, Food, etc. and an addictive game-play, this game is quite fun to play and enjoy.

#10 Sword of the Stars: The Pit

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Sword of the Stars: The Pit is an Action-Adventure, Dungeon Crawl, Puzzle-Platform and RTS video game with a Sci-Fi theme. The game is developed by Kerberos Production and allows you to engage yourself in a Rogue-like environment. Sword of the Stars: The Pit is set in a scientific facility with thirty random Floors and 6 difficulty levels. Each floor represents a game level and you must try to pass a level in order to move to the next one. The game also provides with a super thrilling turn base element in the game-play that gives you more time to make correct decisions and further enrich your plans with better strategies to reach down to the deepest levels of the facility. Sword of the Stars: The Pit also lets you collect different items you can use as power-ups and enhance your skills. To sum it up, I’ll say that this game has a huge amount of exciting content that provides with a great rogue-like gaming experience. Do try it out, you’ll definitely like it.

#11 Vulture

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Vulture is a brilliant new Turn-based Strategy and Action-RPG video game that offers Roguelike elements, a lot of adventures, a Dungeon-based game setting, a lot of monsters to fight against and a whole bunch of awesome collectibles. The ultimate goal is to find the Amulet of Yendor that is believed to be a great source of wealth, immense powers and immortality. In order to find the Amulet, you’ll have to traverse through the dungeons, complete epic quests and adventures, fight off the monstrous beings, encounter the most petrifying and enchanted creatures and finally achieve your ultimate goals. The whole game is basically the depiction of your haunted dreams and all the happenings are real, it’s your chance to be what you wanted to be for your whole life. With a brilliant storyline, great visuals and an amazingly engaging game-play, Vulture is an amazing game to play.

#12 Dungeons of Dredmor

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Dungeons of Dredmor is a cool Dungeon Crawler, RPG and Roguelike elements filled video game that sets you up as the only savior of the realm after the re-surfacing of the Dark Lord of Dredmor. The eternal forces and the mighty heroes that kept the Dark Lord beneath the earth for centuries have gone soft and the darkness and destruction is upon the mankind. You must stand up against the evil forces, embark on a journey full of wonders, dangers and unholy powers, defeat the terrifying monsters, go on epic quests and adventures, reach to the Dark Lord of Dredmor and finally defeat him in order to save the humanity. Equipped with special abilities, powers, weapons and heavy expertise, you must overcome the enemies and be an ultimate savior, the one who is awaited for so long. With an amazing setting, characters, enemies etc, a brilliant story and a wonderfully engaging game-play, Dungeons of Dredmor is quite a great game similar to Crowntakers. Do give it a go.

#13 Anna: Extended Edition

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Anna: Extended Edition is a Psychological Horror video game takes place in the abandoned sawmill in the mountains of Italian. It mixes the elements of First-person Perspective, Puzzle, and Exploration. The story revolves around the protagonist who dreams of a mountain near his village. He attempts to go on an adventure to locate its connection to his missing memories and a strange woman known as Anna, who seems in his dreams and calling out for him. The protagonist enters in the house where he has to solve complex puzzles by finding clues in the garden and soon he comes to know that the house is haunted after a horrific event. The player takes on the role of the protagonist, and as the player start exploring the world, he hears strange voices which are belonging to him and the Anna. Anna assigned the task to the player to unearth the horrific clues and solve complex puzzles by using them related to the protagonist’s past. The behavior of the player doesn’t affect only his mental health but can change locations and reveal new mysteries leading to one of eight ending. Anna: Extended Edition offers core features such as Physics-based Environment, Enhanced Graphics, a Haunting Tale Terror, Eight different Ends, and more. Try it out to enjoy.

#14 Dungeon of the Endless

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Dungeon of the Endless is superb Dungeon Crawling, Action-RPG and Strategy-based video game by Amplitude Studios. Your task in the game is to be a skilled hero, Control a team of individuals like yourself and protect the generator of your crashed ship in order to survive and save your crew members. The game allows you to traverse through different dungeons, collect different items, brawl against the hordes of enemy monsters, and finally rebuild the damaged parts of your ship and escape. Dungeon of the Endless lets you be part of the team of epic heroes, use sophisticated weaponry against the enemies, engage into an amazing Co-Op game-play, construct defensive buildings and towers, enjoy multiple levels of difficulty, explore and enjoy a journey so amazing that it literally makes you a part of the game world. With brilliant retro visuals, amazing game-play and a wonderful story-line, Dungeon of the Endless is a fun game to play and enjoy.

#15 Trove

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Trove is a Sandbox MMORPG video game developed by Trion Worlds. With a Minecraft and Cube World inspired game-play and visuals, Trove is one of the best game of this specific genre. The game lets you select player character from a number of classes, select skills and go to the Arena called Hub to access the Portals and reach to other worlds to fight against the opponents, go to amazing quests, interact with NPCs and other online players, defeat the bosses and enjoy being part of a wonderful world. Trove allows you to select any character from any available character classes, use their special abilities to explore the world, to craft buildings, weapons and loads of other cool items and go against a number of different types of enemies to enjoy the game. Trove lets you explore a massive game world, filed with all kinds of wonders, different types of enemies etc. and it lets you have some of the most coolest Power Ups and upgrades to enhance your abilities and keep on playing the game until you get tired. Trove offers a brilliant Sandbox gameplay similar to the biggest names of the genre such as Minecraft, Cube World and others and offers a truly amazing MMORPG experience ever. Do give it a try, you’ll definitely love this game.

#16 WazHack

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WazHack is an Action, Role-playing, Turn-based Strategy, and Dungeon Crawling video game with Rogue-like elements developed and published by Waz Games. The game takes place in the randomly generated environment and introduces Perma Death feature. There are more than 300 unique items to discover, and the game features a variety of playable characters with unique abilities and skills. The player must select his favorite one to get into the world where can take his time to solve multiple issues. The environment of the game is populated with enemies, and the player must explore it from a side-scroll perspective, interact with non-player characters and struggle to solve problems using his wits. He can upgrade his character, once collect all 300 items by completing puzzles and complex problems. During the gameplay, the player can interact with the environment, fight monsters and creatures and kill those using different items. The game rewards the player with HP points for complete and kills enemies, and the player can use to upgrade his weapons and characters. WazHack offers core features such as lots of Quests, Procedurally Generated Levels, Exploration, Interaction and more. Try it out.

#17 Heroes of Steel RPG

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Heroes of Steel RPG is a Rogue-like, Dungeon Crawling, and Single-player Role-playing video game with Turn-based Tactics element developed and published by Trese Brothers. The game takes place in the fantastic environment and lets the player select his playable character from available each character has its unique skills, a set of weapons and abilities. In the game, the player needs to command a team of four members and sets out himself on an epic adventure to rescue the humanity from the worth of monsters, and demons. The player manipulates the world from a top-down perspective and can immerse himself with his four heroes in the post-apocalyptic historic-themed world. It offers a fantastic story, revolving around the gods. During the gameplay, the player can manipulate the environment, interact with non-player characters, battle enemies in turn-based combat and collect loot, resources, and treasure chests to earn experience points. The game will unlock additional content, as the player collects enough material or points. With addictive gameplay, superb mechanics, and wonderful graphics, Heroes of Steel RPG is the best game to play.

#18 Legend of Dungeon: Legend Heroes

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Legend of Dungeon: Legend Heroes is quite an amazing Action-RPG and Strategy video game with brilliant Roguelike elements. The game takes you to an amazing journey of traversing through the dungeons and allows you to explore the procedurally generated game world, find weapons and other great items and magic skills, fight off the the hordes of mysteriously insane creatures, cope with immense darkness and fear and finally achieve your goals. Legend of Dungeon: Legend Heroes offers 26 floors of epic dungeons, a huge cache of items and weapons, amazing boss battles, Co-p game-play, wonderful visuals and an amazing storyline based on RTS aesthetics. Legend of Dungeon: Legend Heroes is one of the best games of this specific genres. Try it out and you’ll definitely enjoy playing it.

#19 Heroes of Loot

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Heroes of Loot is an Action-Adventure, Role-playing video game with Rogue-like and loot elements developed and published by Orangepixel for multiple platforms. The game brings the action, twin-stick shooter and dungeon crawling gameplay, in which you find yourself in the middle of waves of zombies, skulls, cyclops, ghosts, and monsters. It takes place in the procedurally generated world and your primary objective is to survive as long as possible to score the higher points while fighting against enemies and unknown entities to prevent death. The game features a variety of challenging quests and you can manipulate the world from top-down perspective. There are four different characters available such as Wizard, Warrior, Elf, and Valkyrie each with unique abilities and skills. Use the combination of attack and kill several enemies to reach the end of the level. Each level is full of traps, objectives and enemies, you must overcome all difficulties and complete a variety of random quests to earn rewards, experience and loot. Heroes of Loot includes prominent features such as Four Playable Character Classes, Special Mysterious, Insane Obstacles, Collection of Loot and Items, and more. Try it out.

#20 Out There

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Out There is an Adventure, Rogue-like and Single-player video game developed by Mi-Clos Studio for multiple platforms. The story of the game takes place in the futurist 22nd century, in which there are limited resources remain on the planet Earth, and the humanity is going to end. An astronaut is sent to space to the Jupiter’s moon in order to locate resources and supply to Earth. You assume the role of the hero, who must navigate the space, gather resources to supply Earth while facing the terrifying space entities like aliens, pirates, and monsters. During the journey, the astronaut sleeps until reaching his destiny. He wakes up and discovers that he stuck on a strange planet populated creatures. There are three different civilizations, and you have to select your favorite one to start the game. It focuses on resource management and exploration. You start the game with a small ship loaded with some equipment, oxygen, fuel, and hull metals. Out There includes prominent features such as Sci-fi Adventure, 59 Achievements, Leaderboard, 10 Spaceship No Combat element, Crafting System and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.

#21 Siralim

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Siralim is a Role-playing, Fantasy-based, Turn-based Strategy and Single-player video game with an emphasis on Rogue-like and Dungeon Crawling elements developed by Thylacine Studios. It offers procedurally generated dungeons where the game setting takes place and offers different character classes with customization options. To enter the dungeon, you choose your character and customize it using tons of options. Each character in the game has its unique playing style, abilities, and skills. The primary goal of you is to find the treasure into the depth of the dungeons and use it to upgrade your character and castle, empower your minions, craft powerful items and artifact, learn new spells, and more. The game mainly focuses on turn-based strategy combat against bosses, and other enemies. There are more than five-hundred crafting materials available to collect and use. Siralim includes key features such as Randomly Generated Dungeons and Quests, 300 Unique Creatures, 100 Powerful Spells, Challenging Battles, Upgrade your Castle, Craft Eggs, Infinity Playability, and more. Siralim is the best Rogue-like game to play.

#22 Quest of Dungeons

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Quest of Dungeons is an Action-Adventure, RPG and Turn-based Strategy video game that offers brilliant Dungeon Crawling and Roguelike aesthetics. With a beautiful 16-bit Retro graphic look, Quest of Dungeons lets you choose your characters from a number of choices (Warrior, Wizard, Assassin, Shaman etc.), explore dungeons in a procedurally generated game world, defeat the equally equipped enemies, loot resources and survive till you can. Quest of Dungeons allows you to first get new skills and abilities and later if they are of no use, sell them and buy new ones. Quest of Dungeons offers procedurally generated dungeons, a whole lot of weapons, items, loot etc, epic quests, boss encounters, variable difficulty levels, beautiful retro style visuals and an immersive game-play to play and enjoy this wonderful game.

#23 Pixel Dungeon

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Pixel Dungeon combines the elements of Dungeon Crawling, Adventure, Rough-like, and Role-playing with Pixel Graphics created and published by Retronic Games. The game takes place in the under the ground and cast you in the role of the protagonist to explore the environment. Your ultimate task is to navigate the world, collect useful items and fight against vicious monsters. The game consists of twenty-five procedurally generated levels with various setting like caves, abandoned prison, and more. Explore the world, use different weapons to fight against monsters and other creatures and defeat them to progress through the game. The game looks easy, but hard to master. To unlock further content in the game, you must fulfill its requirements and improve your character abilities. Interact with NPCs and explore the world from top-down perspective. Pixel Dungeon includes prominent features such as Twenty-five Levels, various Character Classes, Power-ups, different Weapons and more. Try it out and you’ll enjoy it.