Action Roguelike games on Steam, measured
Real-time combat in runs that reset on death, with unlocks that carry over between runs.
1,384 games tagged Action Roguelike came out on Steam in 2025 (1,209 in 2024), and 1,505 have come out so far in 2026, +57% on the same weeks of 2025.
Of the 1,849 released between Jan 1, 2024 and Jun 30, 2025, 3.5% reached 1,000 reviews, against 4.2% across all of Steam (0.8× the Steam rate).
Most of the niche prices itself under $5 (0.8% reached 1,000 reviews there); $15 to $19.99 did best at 24.1%.
4,856 more Action Roguelike pages are on Steam but not released yet, 255 of them dated within 90 days.
Counted game by game from Steam's store on Sep 27, 2026. How we counted, and what the numbers can't tell you.
How fast the niche is filling
Games tagged Action Roguelike released each year. 2026 is counted to Sep 27, 2026; the same weeks of 2025 saw 957.
How its games did
Games released Jan 1, 2024 to Jun 30, 2025, so every one has been on sale at least 14 months, against every Steam game released in the same window. Reaching 1,000 reviews is the usual rule of thumb for roughly $150,000 in gross revenue; 100 reviews is real traction.
| Action Roguelike | All of Steam | |
|---|---|---|
| Games released | 1,849 | 24,918 |
| Reached 10 reviews | 55% | 53.2% |
| Reached 100 reviews | 16.8% | 17.3% |
| Reached 1,000 reviews | 3.5%95% range 2.7% to 4.4% | 4.2% |
| Median reviews | 11 | 11 |
| Median list price (paid games) | $4.99 | $4.99 |
| Free to play | 12.8% | 17.7% |
Price and outcome
The same cohort by undiscounted US list price on the day we counted. Higher prices go with bigger teams and more content, and a game that cut its price after a weak launch now sits in a cheaper band, so read this as what games priced like yours did, not as proof that raising a price lifts sales.
| Price | Games | 100+ reviews | 1,000+ reviews | Median reviews |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under $5 | 869 | 7.2% | 0.8%0.4% to 1.7% | under 10 |
| $5 to $9.99 | 413 | 23.2% | 4.8%3.2% to 7.4% | 16 |
| $10 to $14.99 | 146 | 36.3% | 4.8%2.3% to 9.6% | 53 |
| $15 to $19.99 | 79 | 57% | 24.1%16% to 34.5% | 200 |
| $20 and up | 105 | 19% | 8.6%4.6% to 15.5% | 11 |
— fewer than 20 games, too few to compare.
Sub-niches: where the odds and the crowding differ
Other tags that appear in the top seven tags of Action Roguelike games. Tags that describe a look or a platform (Pixel Graphics, Singleplayer) are left out. Players add tags to games that are already popular, so narrow tags flatter their hit rates: compare sub-niches with each other, not with Steam.
Best odds
- Online Co-Op: 20% reached 1,000 reviews (50 games)
- Bullet Heaven: 10.4% reached 1,000 reviews (77 games)
- FPS: 9.8% reached 1,000 reviews (61 games)
Filling fastest in 2026
- Bullet Heaven: 200 so far vs 42 (+376%)*
- 2D Platformer: 67 so far vs 26 (+158%)
- Platformer: 49 so far vs 23 (+113%)
| Tag | Games (2024–2025 cohort) | 1,000+ reviews | 100+ reviews | 2026 so far vs 2025 | Unreleased |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roguelite | 669 | 4.5%3.2% to 6.3% | 23% | 631 vs 354+78% | 1,988 |
| Roguelike | 597 | 3.4%2.2% to 5.1% | 17.6% | 508 vs 294+73% | 1,597 |
| Bullet Hell | 559 | 3.9%2.6% to 5.9% | 19.5% | 459 vs 278+65% | 1,165 |
| Arcade | 260 | 1.9%0.8% to 4.4% | 9.6% | 207 vs 139+49% | 588 |
| Shooter | 248 | 2.4%1.1% to 5.2% | 12.5% | 157 vs 149+5% | 567 |
| Top-Down Shooter | 225 | 1.8%0.7% to 4.5% | 15.1% | 163 vs 111+47% | 523 |
| Hack and Slash | 217 | 5.5%3.2% to 9.4% | 25.3% | 167 vs 124+35% | 585 |
| Action RPG | 212 | 4.7%2.6% to 8.5% | 20.3% | 151 vs 121+25% | 554 |
| Action-Adventure | 202 | 1.5%0.5% to 4.3% | 8.9% | 113 vs 110+3% | 495 |
| PvE | 163 | 1.8%0.6% to 5.3% | 9.2% | 141 vs 103+37% | 509 |
| Bullet Heaven* | 77 | 10.4%5.4% to 19.2% | 35.1% | 200 vs 42+376% | 503 |
| Dungeon Crawler | 136 | 5.1%2.5% to 10.2% | 21.3% | 121 vs 69+75% | 538 |
| Shoot 'Em Up | 152 | 2.6%1% to 6.6% | 21.1% | 101 vs 66+53% | 271 |
| Arena Shooter | 122 | 1.6%0.5% to 5.8% | 18.9% | 99 vs 57+74% | 268 |
| Survival | 118 | 0.8%0.1% to 4.6% | 22.9% | 82 vs 58+41% | 262 |
| Twin Stick Shooter | 99 | 2%0.6% to 7.1% | 20.2% | 71 vs 48+48% | 216 |
| 2D Platformer | 79 | 5.1%2% to 12.3% | 13.9% | 67 vs 26+158% | 170 |
| Combat | 87 | 3.4%1.2% to 9.7% | 14.9% | 53 vs 40+33% | 164 |
| FPS | 61 | 9.8%4.6% to 19.8% | 34.4% | 70 vs 45+56% | 242 |
| Online Co-Op | 50 | 20%11.2% to 33% | 46% | 75 vs 36+108% | 239 |
| Perma Death | 67 | 1.5%0.3% to 8% | 9% | 57 vs 44+30% | 200 |
| Procedural Generation | 70 | 4.3%1.5% to 11.9% | 20% | 53 vs 30+77% | 206 |
| Tower Defense | 61 | 3.3%0.9% to 11.2% | 19.7% | 60 vs 35+71% | 185 |
| Platformer | 60 | 6.7%2.6% to 15.9% | 18.3% | 49 vs 23+113% | 141 |
— fewer than 20 games in the cohort. Ranges are 95% intervals. * Steam added this tag in its May 2026 tag overhaul, so part of its growth is developers adopting the new label, not only new games.
What broke through in the last 12 months
The most-reviewed Action Roguelike games released since Sep 27, 2025. Still young, so these counts are still climbing.
- BALL x PIT15,516 reviews, 95% positive · $14.99 · Oct 15, 2025
- Gamble With Your Friends11,902 reviews, 88% positive · $7.99 · May 1, 2026
- Escape From Duckov10,661 reviews, 93% positive · $17.99 · Oct 16, 2025
- Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors8,485 reviews, 94% positive · $9.99 · Apr 21, 2026
- MISERY8,001 reviews, 83% positive · $12.99 · Oct 23, 2025
- Deep Rock Galactic: Rogue Core7,536 reviews, 69% positive · $29.99 · May 20, 2026
- Yet Another Zombie Survivors5,598 reviews, 94% positive · $14.99 · Aug 20, 2026
- The Spell Brigade5,030 reviews, 86% positive · $12.99 · Apr 29, 2026
What's coming
4,856 Action Roguelike pages are live on Steam but not released: 255 with a date in the next 90 days, 1,083 with a later date, month or quarter, and 3,518 saying "Coming soon" or "To be announced". For comparison, 1,384 came out in all of 2025.
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How we counted, and what the numbers can't tell you
- Every game carrying Steam's Action Roguelike tag (tag id 42804), read page by page from Steam's public store search on Sep 27, 2026: 11,210 games, 6,354 of them released (Steam's own released count: 6,356). Games only: no DLC, soundtracks or software.
- Success rates use one fixed cohort, games released Jan 1, 2024 to Jun 30, 2025, because review counts grow with age: a game from last month has not had time to reach 1,000 reviews, and comparing it with a 2024 game would measure age, not success.
- Review counts are the totals Steam's search shows a US visitor, which may count English-language reviews only. Steam prints no count under 10 reviews, so "under 10" is as precise as the data gets. Prices are the undiscounted US list price on the day we counted, not the launch price: a game that cut its price after launch counts at the new price.
- Tags are community tags. Players add them to games that are already popular, which flatters the hit rates of narrow tags. Delisted games and age-restricted games are not in Steam's default search, so they are not here either.
- "Reached 1,000 reviews" is a proxy for commercial success (roughly $150,000 gross by the common rule of thumb), not a revenue figure. We publish no revenue estimates.
- The full aggregate is public: /api/niches/data. Cite it as "Steam Niche Index, Steam Page Analyzer, September 2026".