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Games like Death by Scrolling
Terrible Toybox NZ · 2025 · Windows, macOS, Linux
Steam: 77 % positive of 179 reviews, as of Oct 28
Welcome to Purgatory, inc. now under new management! Death by Scrolling is an action game where you kill enemies, collect gold, and avoid the Reaper long enough to pay the Ferrymanʼs exorbitant river-crossing fee to the afterlife.
24 games that play like Death by Scrolling and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Dead Cells, Death's Door and Have a Nice Death.
Player tags
By gameplay
Plays like Death by Scrolling
Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.
Dead Cells
96 % positive of 157,224
Shared: Pixel Graphics · Rogue-lite · Platformer
Death's Door
92 % positive of 20,465
Shared: Controller · Cartoony · Action
Have a Nice Death
85 % positive of 9,760
Shared: Controller · Dark Humor · Rogue-lite
Neon Abyss
86 % positive of 19,729
Shared: Pixel Graphics · Rogue-lite · Platformer
Death Must Die
90 % positive of 21,004
Shared: Pixel Graphics · Controller · Rogue-lite
RESTLESS SOUL
91 % positive of 201
Shared: Pixel Graphics · Dark Comedy · Comedy
Life Goes On: Done to Death
95 % positive of 2,140
Shared: Controller · Dark Humor · Fantasy
Skul: The Hero Slayer
92 % positive of 50,940
Shared: Pixel Graphics · Rogue-lite · Fantasy
Bloody Hell
97 % positive of 7,115
Shared: Pixel Graphics · Top-Down · Controller
Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit
85 % positive of 655
Shared: Controller · Dark Humor · Comedy
Blasphemous
90 % positive of 55,513
Shared: Pixel Graphics · Horror · Platformer
Death's Gambit: Afterlife
81 % positive of 4,280
Shared: Pixel Graphics · Controller · Fantasy
More matches
- Halls of Torment95 % positive of 30,924Shared: Pixel Graphics · Top-Down · Rogue-lite
- ALTF479 % positive of 9,443Shared: Platformer · Cartoony · Action
- NETHER HEROES89 % positive of 785Shared: Pixel Graphics · Fantasy · Platformer
- Voidigo96 % positive of 3,800Shared: Pixel Graphics · Rogue-lite · Comedy
- DR LIVESEY ROM AND DEATH EDITION93 % positive of 12,495Shared: Comedy · Action · 2D
- Angvik 293 % positive of 180Shared: Rogue-lite · Fantasy · Platformer
- Noobs Want to Live88 % positive of 4,598Shared: Pixel Graphics · Top-Down · Rogue-lite
- Reap and Rush76 % positive of 643Shared: Top-Down · Rogue-lite · Horror
- Death Coming/死神来了88 % positive of 3,044Shared: Pixel Graphics · Cute · Singleplayer
- Crypt Custodian96 % positive of 3,028Shared: Platformer · Action · Cute
- Blood Dungeon90 % positive of 555Shared: Pixel Graphics · Choices Matter · Rogue-lite
- Rising Hell88 % positive of 225Shared: Pixel Graphics · Rogue-lite · Fantasy
By look
Looks like Death by Scrolling
Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.
Forager
88 % positive of 35,609
Archvale
88 % positive of 2,062
Sephiria
94 % positive of 12,641
Crypt of the NecroDancer
94 % positive of 23,639
Super Fantasy Kingdom
85 % positive of 5,718
Chronicon
94 % positive of 8,874
DunHero
89 % positive of 537
Idle Slayer
84 % positive of 11,025
Horizon's Gate
94 % positive of 1,221
dotAGE
94 % positive of 2,576
Spell Disk
89 % positive of 968
Hero's Hour
78 % positive of 4,660
More matches
- Monster Sanctuary90 % positive of 10,454
- Dungreed92 % positive of 9,012
- Cauldron92 % positive of 1,727
- Tinkerlands85 % positive of 3,656
- Rogue Heroes: Ruins of Tasos77 % positive of 2,714
- Coromon84 % positive of 6,378
- Tangy TD88 % positive of 1,543
- Tap Ninja - Idle game84 % positive of 9,853
- Suncraft92 % positive of 605
- Evoland 287 % positive of 1,846
- Backpack Hero85 % positive of 7,450
- Spellmasons90 % positive of 1,139
At a glance
What games like Death by Scrolling have in common
- The tags they share most often with Death by Scrolling: Pixel Graphics (15 of 24), Rogue-lite (12) and Platformer (7).
- They came out between 2012 and 2026, 2 of them after Death by Scrolling (2025).
- Best rated by Steam players: Bloody Hell (97 % positive of 7,115).
How these matches work
Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.