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Games like Subterrain

Closest overall match: Tower of Guns (★ 2.3). Highest rated: Enter the Gungeon at ★ 4.1. Quickest to finish: DeadCore at about 1 hours.

These 12 games score highest on our similarity model for Subterrain — weighted by shared tags, genre overlap, rating proximity and release era. What ties them together most: Roguelite, Perma Death and Procedural Generation.

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  1. Tower of Guns

    1. Tower of Guns

    Shares Perma Death, Procedural Generation, Roguelite, Replay Value and Roguelike and 4 more tags; rated 0.8 lower; released within 2 years.

    Year
    2014
    Rating
    ★ 2.3
    Metacritic
    76
    Playtime
    3h
    Finish rate
    21%
    Shared genres
    2, 4, Indie

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  2. Zombie Driver HD

    2. Zombie Driver HD

    Shares Top-Down, Zombies, Survival, Steam Leaderboards and Horror and 6 more tags.

    Year
    2012
    Rating
    ★ 3.1
    Playtime
    2h
    Finish rate
    40%
    Shared genres
    2, 4, Indie

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  3. Teleglitch: Die More Edition

    3. Teleglitch: Die More Edition

    Shares Perma Death, Procedural Generation, Roguelite, Top-Down and Survival Horror and 10 more tags; rated 0.4 lower.

    Year
    2013
    Rating
    ★ 2.7
    Metacritic
    78
    Playtime
    2h
    Finish rate
    18%
    Shared genres
    4, Indie

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  4. Enter the Gungeon

    4. Enter the Gungeon

    Shares Roguelite, controller support, Roguelike, Action-Adventure and Pixel Graphics and 4 more tags; rated 1.0 higher; same release year.

    Year
    2016
    Rating
    ★ 4.1
    Metacritic
    84
    Playtime
    6h
    Finish rate
    33%
    Shared genres
    2, 4, Indie

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  5. NeuroVoider

    5. NeuroVoider

    Shares Perma Death, Roguelite, Top-Down, Roguelike and Pixel Graphics and 7 more tags; same release year.

    Year
    2016
    Rating
    ★ 3.2
    Playtime
    3h
    Finish rate
    30%
    Shared genres
    2, 4, Indie

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  6. The Mean Greens - Plastic Warfare

    6. The Mean Greens - Plastic Warfare

    Shares Full controller support, steam-trading-cards, Steam Achievements and Singleplayer; released within 1 year.

    Year
    2015
    Rating
    ★ 3.2
    Playtime
    3h
    Finish rate
    21%
    Shared genres
    2, 4, Indie

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  7. Ziggurat

    7. Ziggurat

    Shares Perma Death, Procedural Generation, Roguelite, Replay Value and Roguelike and 7 more tags; released within 2 years.

    Year
    2014
    Rating
    ★ 3.0
    Metacritic
    75
    Playtime
    4h
    Finish rate
    27%
    Shared genres
    2, 4, Indie

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  8. GoNNER

    8. GoNNER

    Shares Perma Death, overlay, Procedural Generation, Roguelite and controller support and 7 more tags; same release year.

    Year
    2016
    Rating
    ★ 2.9
    Metacritic
    81
    Playtime
    3h
    Finish rate
    18%
    Shared genres
    2, 4, Indie

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  9. Screencheat

    9. Screencheat

    Shares Full controller support, steam-trading-cards, Steam Cloud, Steam Achievements and Singleplayer; rated 0.5 higher; released within 2 years.

    Year
    2014
    Rating
    ★ 3.6
    Metacritic
    71
    Playtime
    3h
    Finish rate
    31%
    Shared genres
    2, 4, Indie

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  10. DeadCore

    10. DeadCore

    Shares Steam Leaderboards, Steam Cloud, Steam Achievements and Singleplayer; released within 2 years.

    Year
    2014
    Rating
    ★ 3.4
    Metacritic
    78
    Playtime
    1h
    Finish rate
    38%
    Shared genres
    2, 4, Indie

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  11. Velocity Ultra

    11. Velocity Ultra

    Shares Steam Leaderboards, 2D, Full controller support, steam-trading-cards and Steam Cloud and 2 more tags.

    Year
    2013
    Rating
    ★ 3.3
    Playtime
    4h
    Finish rate
    54%
    Shared genres
    2, 4, Indie

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  12. We Happy Few

    12. We Happy Few

    Shares Procedural Generation, Survival Horror, Roguelike, Dark and Survival and 6 more tags; released within 2 years.

    Year
    2018
    Rating
    ★ 3.2
    Metacritic
    64
    Playtime
    4h
    Finish rate
    30%
    Shared genres
    4, Indie

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What is the best game like Subterrain?

On our similarity model, Tower of Guns is the closest match to Subterrain — shares Perma Death, Procedural Generation, Roguelite, Replay Value and Roguelike and 4 more tags; rated 0.8 lower; released within 2 years.

Which game like Subterrain is rated highest?

Enter the Gungeon holds the highest player rating in this list at 4.1/5 from 1,075 players.

How this list is built

Every game in our catalog is scored against Subterrain on five signals: weighted tag overlap (rare tags count more), genre overlap, platform family overlap, rating and playtime proximity, and release era. The list is recomputed nightly as ratings and new releases change.

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