8 Games Like Queen's Domain, in the King's Field Tradition

Lunacid says it plainly on its store page: it's a dark fantasy dungeon crawler inspired by Shadow Tower and King's Field. You're thrown into the Great Well, a moonlit pit for people the world above doesn't want, and you work your way down toward the Old One sleeping at the bottom.

Combat comes from a time before dodge rolls: you swing, step back and block, with body targeting and elemental weaknesses to learn. There are over 75 weapons and 37 spells, whole areas hidden behind cryptic hints, and several endings. It's from the creator of Lost in Vivo, and the store page's one piece of advice is: don't forget to save.

Verho - Curse of Faces calls itself a dark RPG in the tradition of the King's Field series. In its world, showing your face means instant death, so after 264 years of an Era of Solitude, people survive behind masks. You travel to the land of Yariv to find where the curse comes from.

The store text is short, but it promises a choice at the end of the road: lift the curse, or take its power for yourself. Steam players tag it as a first-person dungeon crawler and a souls-like with a 1990s look, which is close to how Queen's Domain plays.

Monomyth is a first-person dungeon RPG set in the ruined fortress city of Lysandria, where your brother's expedition vanished while searching for a divine relic. The world is one big interconnected space, from the highest towers to the lowest caverns, full of secret rooms and hidden passages.

It goes further into simulation than Queen's Domain: you talk to people through a keyword-based dialogue system, combine items, pick locks, break doors and even bake bread. Fights use swords, spells, dodges and parries, and builds come from six attributes and thirteen skills. It's in Early Access.

Dread Delusion is a first-person open-world RPG set in a broken world, where people live on flying continents above a surface crawling with an undead curse. You follow quests or just pick a direction, through mushroom forests, undead mausoleums and odd little towns.

Next to Queen's Domain, it's more about choices and factions than bosses: you can charm people, pick locks or use forbidden knowledge instead of fighting. What they share is the retro 3D look and the pull of the next strange place. Smithing and alchemy can turn a rusty blade into a clockwork sword.

Devil Spire Falls is a procedurally generated open-world action RPG that, in its own words, plays as if it came out 30 years ago. A fallen tower has spread a cursed fog over the land, and you can clear dungeons, hunt monsters, build a home, gather a party or burn a village to the ground.

Its predecessor, Devil Spire, was named in a GameSpot feature on the new wave of King's Field-inspired games. Falls is much more of a sandbox than Queen's Domain: you build spells from over 100 effects, climb almost anything and kick enemies off cliffs. It's in Early Access.

Arx Fatalis is a first-person RPG from Arkane Studios set in a world where the sun has gone out and people have moved underground. You build your own character, explore caves and buried cities, solve puzzles, and your choices lead to one of several endings.

Its standout is magic: you draw runes in the air with the mouse to cast more than 50 spells. It's the oldest game on this list, so expect older controls and graphics, but the dark, underground setting is very close to what Queen's Domain players come for.

Delver is a first-person roguelike dungeon crawler with chunky pixels and shifting, procedurally generated dungeons. You head down after the Yithidian orb, looting potions and wands along the way, and when you die you start again from the top.

It's faster and more arcade-like than Queen's Domain, mixing 90s shooter combat with RPG items. It suits players who liked the dark corridors and the loot but want something they can play in short sessions.

Legend of Grimrock sends four prisoners into Mount Grimrock to die, and you guide them through its tunnels. Unlike the others here, you move on a grid, one square at a time, but combat is in real time and the dungeon is packed with hidden switches, pressure plates, sliding walls and traps.

It's on this list for those secrets, which are a big part of why people love this kind of game. You build a party of four, cast spells by combining runes and brew potions from herbs. It also has a dungeon editor with Steam Workshop support. Valve rates it Unsupported on Steam Deck.