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24 alternatives to Crypt of the NecroDancer
Dance your way through rouge-like dungeons
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Crypt of the NecroDancer launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Rhythm-based RPG you can play with a dance pad! (Or not.)
2015 · its alternatives →
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I just released my latest Godot project, a rhythm-based dungeon crawler a la Crypt of the Necrodancer. The entire game plays out in 16 x 9 pixels because of a dare from my game dev group. I've open-sourced (MIT) the code and project files. Of course, the music files I don't own aren't included in the Github project, but I'm releasing the game's hand-crafted pixel sprites under CC0. The Github page also talks about some of the tricks you need to make the rhythm part of the game play nice with the dungeon crawling part.
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN ! This is an open source project I've been working on for a while. It's actually the third breakout-like game I've built. I really like the simplicity of the concept, having just one input (the puck horizontal position) and a simple gameplay that gives a low skill floor. My girlfriend and I played a lot of the excellent LBreakoutHD, an open source breakout game that follows the traditional formula of having multiple lives, scoring points by breaking bricks and catching the good upgrades that spawn randomly and fall down, while avoiding bad upgrades. She liked this game because it is…
2025 · breakout.lecaro.me · its alternatives →
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Castlevania creator Kickstarting his next game (pre-launch)
2015 · its alternatives →
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Craft, cast, and pillage your way through the dungeons
2015 · its alternatives →
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The original dungeon crawler! Just don't shoot the food…
2015 · its alternatives →
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