13 Adventure games like Desktop Dungeons that you should try

It resembles Desktop Dungeons most in how it is built: adventure storytelling, a casual, approachable feel and procedural generation. To that it adds fantasy world and single-player focus. They part company on visuals and setting: this one brings deep simulation and historical setting.

What carries over from Desktop Dungeons is puzzle design, a casual, approachable feel and single-player focus. Where the two diverge is visuals and genre: card game strategy and a first-person view.

What brings it close to Desktop Dungeons is puzzle design, a casual, approachable feel and fantasy world, and the two track each other on genre, game mode and progression. To that it adds resource management and an isometric view. They part company on setting: this one brings a mythological setting.

What brings it close to Desktop Dungeons is puzzle design, single-player focus and resource management, and the two track each other on genre, game mode and progression. Both also lean on an isometric view. The distance is in tone and setting — its own ground is dark, oppressive atmosphere and horror setting.

Same family as Desktop Dungeons: adventure storytelling, single-player focus and resource management. Where the two diverge is tone and setting: dark, oppressive atmosphere and horror setting.

The genre is the same as Desktop Dungeons’s, and with it adventure storytelling, a casual, approachable feel and single-player focus. The common ground extends to resource management. Where the two diverge is setting and world: strong narrative focus and open world exploration.

Same family as Desktop Dungeons: adventure storytelling, single-player focus and resource management. Where the two diverge is tone and setting: dark, oppressive atmosphere and linear, story-driven structure.

On paper it is what Desktop Dungeons is — deep RPG systems, single-player focus and resource management — though the resemblance is mostly at that level. The distance is in tone and setting — its own ground is strong narrative focus and open world exploration.

It meets Desktop Dungeons on adventure storytelling, a casual, approachable feel and fantasy world. To that it adds single-player focus and an isometric view. They part company on genre: this one brings card game strategy.

What carries over from Desktop Dungeons is deep RPG systems, a casual, approachable feel and fantasy world. To that it adds single-player focus. They part company on genre: this one brings tower defense planning.

Held in common with Desktop Dungeons: turn-based strategy, fantasy world and single-player focus. They part company on visuals and genre: this one brings card game strategy and a first-person view.

Held in common with Desktop Dungeons: adventure storytelling, punishing difficulty and fantasy world. The common ground extends to single-player focus and an isometric view. Where the two diverge is setting and genre: tower defense planning and a cartoon aesthetic.

The thread back to Desktop Dungeons runs through adventure storytelling, a casual, approachable feel and single-player focus. Both also lean on resource management. The distance is in progression and genre — its own ground is deep simulation and base building.