If you liked Pathogenic, Hell Maiden delivers familiar action, bullet hell and indie for a seamless next pick. We scored it 8.3/10.
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Pathogenic casts you as the disease - a twin-stick cellular roguelike where you graft organelles, fight the immune system, and carve soft-body paths through lungs, heart, and brain. The hook is modular builds inside a microscopic arms race, not open-world crafting. These follow-ups keep action-roguelike depth, buildcrafting, and hostile biomes without wandering into unrelated survival sandboxes.
Prioritized action/roguelike/buildcraft overlap from our scored reviews; removed tag-noise misfits (e.g. open-world companions, unrelated wuxia sims).
If you liked Pathogenic, Hell Maiden delivers familiar action, bullet hell and indie for a seamless next pick. We scored it 8.3/10.
Read the review →Wireworks leans into crafting, indie and roguelike, hitting the same notes that make Pathogenic click. We scored it 8.4/10.
Read the review →Shared strengths in crafting, indie and roguelike make Rift Wizard 3 an easy follow-up to Pathogenic. We scored it 8.4/10.
Read the review →Nuclear Epoch builds on crafting, indie and procedural, giving Pathogenic fans a comparable feel. We scored it 8.4/10.
Read the review →If you liked Pathogenic, Dwarves: Glory, Death and Loot delivers familiar crafting, indie and roguelike for a seamless next pick. We scored it 7.8/10.
Read the review →Shelldiver leans into action and indie, hitting the same notes that make Pathogenic click. We scored it 8.3/10.
Read the review →Shared strengths in action, indie and rpg make Ascend to ZERO an easy follow-up to Pathogenic. We scored it 8.3/10.
Read the review →Rock Bottom builds on action, indie and simulation, giving Pathogenic fans a comparable feel. We scored it 8.1/10.
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