Games Like Repel The Rifts (2026)

Shared: Build Synergy, Wave Survival, Endless Mode

Forty-five-plus potato characters, six weapon slots, and a shop that fires every 20 waves: Brotato distills the horde-survivor loop down to its most potent form and dares you to put it down.

Shared: Build Synergy, Endless Mode

Poker logic meets roguelike obsession in a package so deceptively compact it has erased entire weekends. If multiplier math sounds fun, budget your sleep accordingly.

Shared: tier:indie

Closer to Dwarf Fortress in a wuxia robe than anything you'd find on a typical RPG shelf - deep, opaque, and rewarding only if you commit to learning its dense systems.

Shared: Endless Mode

One solo developer built the most aggressively joyful FPS on PC, and 100,000 Steam reviewers gave it a 98% approval rating. If that doesn't make you curious, nothing will.

Shared: Solo Developer

If you've ever wished Banished had the supply-chain depth of a Paradox title and the battlefield weight of early Total War, this is the closest anyone has come to building that game.