Roguelikes are everywhere on Steam in 2025. The genre dominated the full spectrum of video game development, from massive AAA games like Elden Ring Nightrein to one-dev viral hits like Megabonk. It truly feels like roguelikes swarmed Steam this year, and now we have data to back up this feeling.
The "Roguelike" tag on Steam will soon have its highest game release count in 2025, according to SteamDB. This year, 1,562 newly released games were tagged Roguelike, just 39 games shy of the 1,601 published in 2024. But 52 titles with that tag will come out before Nov. 11, so the release records will be broken in just a few days to make 2025 the year with the most new roguelikes on Steam.
Another big roguelike record was broken this year. October 2025 was the month with the most releases in the genre, with 191 Steam games, 18 more than the previous record from Nov. 2024, with big titles like Ball x Pit and Slots & Daggers leading the pack.
But other data about roguelikes isn't as exciting. There are already more games in the genre with no reviews this year (108) than in 2025 (87), which could mean more titles with not enough players to get reviews.
This could mean we're getting close to genre fatigue, where there are just so many roguelikes that players get tired and ignore them. That's not what's happening, though. Over 50 roguelikes had a peak of more than 1,000 concurrent players in the last 24 hours, which is higher than the equally popular Souls-like tag (33 games).
The endless replayability of roguelikes, coupled with their unpredictable and short gameplay loop, seems to be a formula that gamers are not yet tired of, and that developers are willing to invest more in. As a big roguelike fan, I bet this trend will continue in 2026, and hopefully, we'll see bigger franchises and IPs taking the leap that Elden Ring took and give the genre a shot.
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