Enter the Gungeon has been around for more than a decade, yet it’s still one of the first games that comes to mind when you think of bullet-hell roguelikes. The idea is simple enough. Pick a Gungeoneer, head into a procedurally generated dungeon, and try to dodge your way through increasingly ridiculous amounts of gunfire while searching for a weapon powerful enough to keep your run alive.
Of course, anyone who’s spent enough time in the Gungeon knows there’s a lot more to it than that.
There are hundreds of weapons and items to find, synergies capable of completely changing a run, secrets hidden throughout its floors, and bosses that make getting anywhere near the Gun That Can Kill the Past easier said than done.
If you’ve already killed the past more times than you can count and you’re looking for something new to play, we’ve got you covered.
Here are 10 games worth adding to your list if Enter the Gungeon has left you wanting more.
1. Pathogenic
Pathogenic swaps the Gungeon for the inside of a human body, putting you in control of a parasite trying to infect its host before the immune system can wipe it out. It’s become one of the most popular releases of 2026 so far. Fighting back means moving through procedurally generated areas, taking down immune cells, and stealing their organelles to graft onto your parasite and change how it fights.
The twin-stick shooting and constant need to stay on the move should feel familiar to Enter the Gungeon players, but it’s the way each run develops that really brings the two together. Instead of finding a new gun and immediately changing your approach, you’re piecing together a parasite with different attacks and abilities as you go.
It’s a much newer take on the formula, and one that replaces Gungeon’s enormous weapon collection with a build system that lets you create something of your own.
2. Samurai Shampoo Classic
Someone has stolen your shampoo in Samurai Shampoo Classic, and getting it back means fighting through three randomized dungeon floors packed with enemies, weapons, items, shops, and bosses. You play as a fallen samurai, picking up new gear as you go and unlocking perks that can make the next trip through the dungeon a little easier.
Clearing one room before moving onto the next gives runs a similar flow to Enter the Gungeon, especially when you’re never quite sure what weapon or item you’ll find along the way. The biggest difference is how you fight. Samurai Shampoo Classic leans much harder into melee combat, putting swords and close-range attacks ahead of Gungeon’s endless supply of firearms. It’s a smaller game with a much simpler progression system, but the randomized dungeon crawling should still feel familiar.
3. Rogue Star Rescue
Rogue Star Rescue combines bullet-hell shooting with tower defense, sending you across more than ten planets as you try to stop a Rogue Star from wiping out everything in its path. Along the way you’ll find new weapons, rescue teammates, and collect traps that can freeze, burn, push, or simply unload more bullets into anything trying to reach you.
Most of the time you’re still running around dodging enemy fire and looking for a better weapon, which is where Enter the Gungeon players should feel at home. Things change once the tower-defense side kicks in and surviving becomes just as much about where you place your traps as how well you can shoot.
There’s persistent progression between runs too, alongside branching paths, multiple endings, and online co-op for up to four players.
4. Overture
Overture drops you into randomly generated dungeons filled with enemies, bosses, weapons, loot, and companions, then gives you 24 different character classes to try and survive them with. Each class comes with its own way of fighting, giving you plenty to experiment with before you even start worrying about what the dungeon is going to hand you.
Runs are quicker and less complicated than Enter the Gungeon, but there’s a similar focus on fighting through increasingly dangerous areas while grabbing anything that might keep you alive for a little longer. The biggest difference is how much your starting character matters. Gungeon lets its huge arsenal shape much of your build as you go, while Overture’s classes give each run more of an identity from the start.
It’s an older and simpler roguelike, but it offers plenty of replayability.
5. Dead Estate
A monster-filled mansion probably isn’t much safer than the Gungeon, especially when the rooms are packed with creatures determined to stop you reaching the top. Dead Estate is an isometric roguelike shooter where you fight your way through floor after floor, collecting weapons and items while searching for a way out.
There’s a lot to find along the way, with 10 playable characters, 150 weapons, 300 items, alternate floors, floor variants, challenges, and plenty of secrets hidden across repeated runs. That huge pool of things to discover is where the Enter the Gungeon comparison really starts to show, since finding the right weapon or combination of items can completely change your chances of making it any further.
The horror setting and isometric perspective give it a very different look, but underneath that is a similarly replayable roguelike shooter.
6. Toroom
The hero of Toroom has somehow ended up trapped in a fantasy world, and all he really wants to do is get back to his bedroom. Doing that means fighting through procedurally generated areas filled with enemies, clearing rooms, visiting shops, taking down bosses, and collecting whatever weapons and items happen to appear along the way.
Of all the games here, Toroom sticks closest to the basic Enter the Gungeon loop. You enter a room, deal with everything inside it, collect your reward, and move on while slowly putting together a stronger build. There are more than 35 weapons and over 70 items to find, including cursed and ultra-rare options that can change how a run develops. It’s considerably smaller than Gungeon, but anyone looking for the same kind of straightforward room-to-room roguelike shooting should settle in quickly.
7. Wally and the FANTASTIC PREDATORS
Wally has noticed you’re feeling down, so he’s made you a dungeon. Unfortunately, being a good friend apparently doesn’t extend to making that dungeon easy. Wally and the FANTASTIC PREDATORS sends you through a constantly changing roguelite filled with enemies, weapons, passive items, curses, quests, and upgrades, with death wiping your progress and sending you back for another attempt.
It’s faster and more stripped back than Enter the Gungeon, but the two share that same focus on making the most of whatever a run gives you. Finding the right weapons and passive effects can completely change how far you get, while daily runs regularly change the rules to keep things unpredictable. There’s also a similar sense of humor running through everything, even when the dungeon itself is doing its best to bring the run to an early end.
8. Cavity Busters
You play as a piece of gum with a single tooth in Cavity Busters, which should give you a pretty good idea of how strange things are about to get. That tooth doubles as your main weapon as you fight through procedurally generated levels filled with enemies, bosses, diseases, and more than 300 upgrades that can change the way each run plays.
There’s a heavy focus on movement here, with wall running, jumping, slowing time, and firing your tooth all becoming part of staying alive when the screen starts filling with attacks. That makes combat feel different from Enter the Gungeon’s dodge-roll-heavy approach, even though both games demand the same kind of quick reactions. Diseases add another wrinkle by giving you advantages and disadvantages at the same time, turning some of the best upgrades into decisions you might actually have to think about first.
9. AK-xolotl: Together
AK-xolotl: Together is a top-down roguelite shooter about an axolotl with an AK, and somehow the game gets even busier from there. Runs take you through randomly generated rooms filled with enemies and bosses while you collect weapons, power-ups, and ingredients before heading back home to raise the baby Axolittles you rescue along the way.
The shooting and room-by-room progression put it close to Enter the Gungeon, with new weapons and upgrades constantly changing what you can do as a run develops. There’s considerably more permanent progression waiting outside those runs though. Axolittles eventually grow into playable characters, recipes provide permanent stat improvements, and weapon mods give you another way to improve your arsenal. Local and online co-op also let two players tackle the chaos together rather than going it alone.
10. Voidigo
Voidigo sends you into a colorful world being corrupted by the Void, with a huge collection of ranged and melee weapons standing between you and the bosses responsible for spreading it. Power-ups can be combined to create new synergies as a run develops, while several playable characters give you different ways to approach the fight from the beginning.
The fast shooting, constant dodging, and huge amount of build experimentation make it an easy recommendation for Enter the Gungeon players, but its bosses behave very differently. Damage them enough and they can retreat, giving you the choice between hunting them down or exploring elsewhere while they recover. Wait too long and they can eventually come looking for you instead. It makes each floor feel less like a straight path toward a boss room and more like an ongoing hunt, while keeping the bullet-hell combat that made Gungeon so much fun.
Where Will You Venture to After the Gungeon?
There’s still nothing quite like Enter the Gungeon, especially when it comes to the sheer number of weapons, secrets, characters, and strange little surprises packed into every run. That doesn’t mean you have to keep starting another trip through the Gungeon every time you’re in the mood for fast combat and a screen full of bullets though.
Toroom and AK-xolotl: Together come closest to that familiar room-by-room shooting, while Voidigo and Cavity Busters push the bullet-hell side much harder. Dead Estate gives the whole formula a darker setting, and games like Rogue Star Rescue and Pathogenic take those same run-based ideas somewhere very different.
Whichever part of Enter the Gungeon kept you coming back, there should be something here worth adding to your library.