Gatekeeper similar games & best alternatives

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Gatekeeper

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2025

Should you play it?

Gatekeeper is a fast-paced rogue-like. Go on a quest to chase down Chaos and reclaim the stolen Heart of Time, fighting your way through relentless enemy forces. Play solo or in 4-player co-op and become the next Gatekeeper!

What works

  • Strong cooperative multiplayer
  • Engaging and varied character builds
  • Polished gameplay and controls
  • Dynamic audiovisual presentation
  • Responsive developers and ongoing updates

Things to keep in mind

  • Runs can be long and demanding
  • Limited content and map variety currently
  • Some balance issues with characters and difficulty
  • No save/resume during runs
  • Repetitive enemy types and objectives

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Ember Knights

  • Vellum

  • Apocalypse Party

  • Full Mojo Rampage

  • Gatekeeper: Infinity

  • CounterAttack: Uprising

Less competitive

Games that feels like Gatekeeper but with less competition against others

  • Shape of Dreams: Prologue

  • Shape of Dreams

  • Warden's Will

  • Atomic Picnic

  • Soundfall

  • Mycopunk

Less intimate

Games that feels like Gatekeeper but with less focus on close relationships

  • Bosorka

  • Assault Android Cactus+

  • Greedland

  • Last Epoch

  • Sky Force Reloaded

  • Inkbound

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Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with Gatekeeper. Swipe sideways to move between games. Titles already listed in What to play next are left out.

  • Cover and title: open that game’s page.
  • What works / keep in mind: the same highlights as the desktop comparison panel.
  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
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Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Gatekeeper. These titles are not in What to play next.

Gatekeeper: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Cooperation, Fellowship, Intimacy, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Status, Competition. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Leadership.

Last update: 21/08/2026