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A dense, esoteric science fantasy roguelike about exploring ancient ruins with mutation- and cybernetics-driven characters, known for a hostile learning curve and very long playtimes.

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
A deep, turn-based post-apocalyptic roguelike with crafting, vehicles, and NPC stories, offering hundreds of hours of play.
2023-03-31
- Action
- Adventure

Horror

Survival

Bird view / Isometric

Indie

Simulator

Text

4X (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate)

Role-playing (RPG)

Open world

Sandbox

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Caves of Lore

A quirky old-school pixel-art RPG focused on deep combat, lore, and humor, with a median 7-hour reviewer playthrough.

2023-01-21

Strategy
Fantasy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Role-playing (RPG)

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Cataclysm: The Last Generation

A deep, demanding single-player post-apocalyptic roguelike survival sim in New England, where scavenging and crafting are key to surviving shifting hordes of zombies, mutants, aliens, and robots.

2025-07-11

Adventure
Bird view / Isometric
Simulator
Role-playing (RPG)

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Caravaneer 2

A post-apocalyptic trade sim with turn-based combat, deep economic simulation, and a branching story, with reviewers logging 100+ hours.

2020-12-30

Strategy
Tactical
Indie
Simulator
Turn-based strategy (TBS)

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Stone Story RPG

A single-player ASCII-art auto-RPG in a perpetually dark realm, pairing strategic combat, deep crafting, and programming/automation for a relaxed yet absorbing long-haul experience (median reviewer playtime 670+ hours).

2023-07-26

Adventure
Indie
Role-playing (RPG)

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Erannorth Reborn

A hardcore sandbox card game with complex deck-building, character customization, and moddability, demanding combo theory-crafting and offering a long-form experience.

2019-10-17

Adventure
Strategy
Indie
Role-playing (RPG)

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AI Roguelite

A long-form AI-directed adventure RPG where AI generates entities and steers mechanics, offering world-building freedom but sometimes overruling player choices.

2023-10-25

Adventure
Indie
Text

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Terra Randoma

A turn-based roguelike RPG in a procedurally generated open world with free character development and a moderately challenging, ~20-hour adventure.

2024-05-23

Indie
Role-playing (RPG)

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Cube Chaos

A single-player strategy roguelike about placing units to build combos and self-replicating chaos, with deep mechanical experimentation and roughly 18-hour runs for reviewers.

2025-06-17

Strategy

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Rift Wizard 2

A brutally hard single-player roguelike where you build a wizard's spell and artifact loadout across cosmic runs.

2025-01-31

Strategy
Indie
Role-playing (RPG)

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Uncle Chop's Rocket Shop

A hand-drawn story-rich roguelite about repairing spaceships in a surreal garage, offering deep but punishing manual-based gameplay that reviewers spent around 10-14 hours with.

2024-12-05

Science fiction
Puzzle
Indie
Simulator

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Exiled Kingdoms

A single-player, old-school action-RPG in a large open world, offering challenging combat, tough choices, and a long, exploratory adventure with a retro CRPG feel.

2018-02-23

Action
Adventure
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Role-playing (RPG)
Open world