Popup Dungeon similar games & best alternatives

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Popup Dungeon

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2020

Should you play it?

A tactical roguelike RPG inspired by our favorite tabletop games that lets you create any ability, item, villain, hero, and game imaginable.

What works

  • Extensive customization and creation tools
  • Challenging and tactical combat
  • Humorous and immersive storytelling
  • Strong replayability and community content
  • Responsive and passionate developers

Things to keep in mind

  • Limited multiplayer options currently
  • Some ui and tutorial roughness
  • Lack of localization beyond english
  • Workshop system not fully integrated with steam
  • Combat interface can be clunky at times

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Elin

  • Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura

  • Divinity: Original Sin (Classic)

  • Thea 2: The Shattering

  • Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition

  • Cyber Knights: Flashpoint

Less social

Games that feels like Popup Dungeon but with less teamwork and cooperation

  • Tavern of Gods

  • Chained Echoes

  • Dice Gambit

  • Trials of Fire

  • SteamWorld Heist II

  • Astral Throne

More competitive

Games that feels like Popup Dungeon but with more competition against others

  • Madballs in Babo:Invasion

  • Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes - Definitive Edition

  • I am not a Monster: First Contact

  • Fight The Dragon

  • Immortal Empire

  • Spiral Knights

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).

Popup Dungeon: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Cooperation, Fellowship, Intimacy, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Expression, Creativity, Experimenting.

Last update: 04/08/2026