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Heretical

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2024

Should you play it?

Die. Adapt. Strike back. Climb Sanctora in this brutal Rogue-lite where every death unlocks powers, heroes, and paths to vengeance.

What works

  • Addictive and deep roguelite gameplay loop
  • Well-designed meta-progression and unlock systems
  • Engaging combat with challenging bosses
  • Handcrafted map with exploration and shortcuts
  • Active and responsive developer community

Things to keep in mind

  • Early access with some bugs and polish needed
  • Fixed camera and control issues reported
  • Some builds and items unbalanced
  • Lack of multiplayer or cooperative features
  • Narrative and audio could be further developed

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Cinderia

  • Death Must Die

  • Enter the Chronosphere

  • Arboria

  • Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault

  • Achilles: Survivor

More leadership-focused

Games that feels like Heretical but with more leadership over others

  • Blightstone

  • Tower of Time

  • Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition

  • Zoria: Age of Shattering

  • Zoria: Prologue (2020)

  • Seven: Enhanced Edition

Less expressive

Games that feels like Heretical but with less self-expression and customization

  • Rogue Loops

  • R.I.P. - Reincarnation Insurance Program

  • Tales of Spark

  • Ys: The Oath in Felghana

  • Arms of God

  • Into the Necrovale

Choose your own criteria ->

Similarity map

How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Heretical: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Survival, Fellowship, Intimacy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Violence, Continuation. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Leadership.

Last update: 03/08/2026