Games like Ember Knights
If Ember Knights is your kind of game, the closest matches are Children of Morta, Heroes of Hammerwatch II and Rotwood — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its tactical positioning matters, writing quality is exceptional and challenging. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Ember Knights is a 2023 action roguelite where players take on the role of legendary knights battling against the mad sorcerer Praxis and his corrupted forces. The game features elemental combination mechanics that allow players to build powerful synergies through weapons, skills, and relics. Up to four players can team up in local co-op mode, working together across dungeons to progress through runs. Players describe the experience as both challenging and immersive, with tactical positioning mattering significantly in combat encounters. The roguelite structure means each run offers fresh combinations and strategies. Doom Turtle developed the game while Twin Sails Interactive served as publisher. The game is verified to run well on Steam Deck and holds a 95% positive rating from over 3,700 Steam reviews.
About Ember Knights: Ember Knights is an action rogue-lite for 1-4 players where you play as legendary knights, the last spark of hope against the mad sorcerer Praxis and his hordes of unwavering fiends. Wield weapons & skills, build synergies with game-changing relics and free the universe of Praxis’ corruption.
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Children of Morta
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Shares a challenging mood with Ember Knights.
Top pick for Ember Knights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Ember Knights.
Children of Morta is a story-driven action RPG game about an extraordinary family of heroes. Lead the Bergsons, with all their flaws and virtues, against the forthcoming Corruption. Will you be able to sacrifice everything to save the ones you care for?
Heroes of Hammerwatch II
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Second-strongest match for Ember Knights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Ember Knights.
A rogue-lite action-rpg that offers extensive persistent progression. Build your town, upgrade and equip your heroes, before taking on the ever-changing Dark Citadel - either solo or with a team of friends.
Rotwood
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Shares a challenging mood with Ember Knights.
Third-strongest match for Ember Knights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Ember Knights.
The world has been thrown into chaos, and it's up to you and your friends to battle the corrupted beasts of the Rotwood. Upgrade your gear, choose your preferred weapon, and hone your skills to defend your safe haven.
Dungeon Souls
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Shares a challenging mood with Ember Knights.
Ranked #4 for Ember Knights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Ember Knights.
Dungeon Souls is an action-adventure roguelike dungeon crawler which draws heavy inspiration from Nuclear Throne, Risk of Rain, and Overture. Explore vast procedurally generated dungeons, collect loot, and slay hordes of challenging enemies!
Rampage Knights
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Shares a challenging mood with Ember Knights.
Ranked #5 for Ember Knights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Ember Knights.
Rampage Knights is a cooperative beat 'em up game mixed up with randomized dungeon crawling and exploration, which you can play alone or with a friend online.
Streets of Rogue
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Shares multiplayer co op and an immersive mood with Ember Knights.
Ranked #6 for Ember Knights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Ember Knights.
Fight, sneak, and hack your way through randomly generated cities. It's like Nuclear Throne meets Deus Ex, mixed with the anarchy of GTA. Rogue-lite meets immersive sim, and goes completely insane.
Wizard of Legend
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Shares a challenging mood with Ember Knights.
Ranked #7 for Ember Knights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Ember Knights.
Wizard of Legend is a no-nonsense, action-packed take on wizardry that emphasizes precise movements and smart comboing of spells in a rogue-like dungeon crawler that features over a hundred unique spells and relics!
Hero Siege
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Ranked #8 for Ember Knights fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Ember Knights.
Hero Siege is a fast paced Pixel Art ARPG featuring an expansive roster of unique classes, deep build experimentation, and a player driven economy.
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Hades
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Shares an immersive mood with Ember Knights.
Reviewers of Ember Knights cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and RPG with Ember Knights.
Defy the god of the dead as you hack and slash out of the Underworld in this rogue-like dungeon crawler from the creators of Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre.
Windblown
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Reviewers of Ember Knights cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Ember Knights.
Dash, dive and defy the Vortex. A lightning-fast, 1-3 player co-op roguelite from the crafters of Dead Cells, where every run is a leap into chaos. Absorb the powers of fallen warriors, rebuild their weapons, and WIPE THE FLOOR with anything that gets in the way of a perfect run.
Nine Parchments
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Shares a challenging mood with Ember Knights.
Reviewers of Ember Knights cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and RPG with Ember Knights.
Nine Parchments is a co-operative blast'em up game of magic mayhem from Frozenbyte, creators of the Trine series!
Dead Cells
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Shares a challenging mood with Ember Knights.
Reviewers of Ember Knights cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Ember Knights.
Dead Cells is a roguelite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer. You'll explore a sprawling, ever-changing castle... assuming you’re able to fight your way past its keepers in 2D souls-lite combat. No checkpoints. Kill, die, learn, repeat.
Slay the Spire
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Shares tactical positioning and an immersive mood with Ember Knights.
Reviewers of Ember Knights cross-mention this title as a similar play.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
UnderMine
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Shares a challenging mood with Ember Knights.
Reviewers of Ember Knights cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Ember Knights.
An action-adventure roguelike with a bit of RPG tossed in. Adventure deep into the UnderMine and discover powerful relics, deadly enemies, hidden secrets, and a few friends to help along the way.
Conan Chop Chop
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Shares a challenging mood with Ember Knights.
Reviewers of Ember Knights cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Ember Knights.
Conan Chop Chop is a party roguelite for 1-4 players full of mayhem, loot, and adventure. In this outrageous take on Conan the Barbarian, you are the muscle-bound hero foolish enough to try and stop the evil wizard Thoth-Amon!
Voidigo
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Shares tactical positioning and an immersive mood with Ember Knights.
Reviewers of Ember Knights cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Ember Knights.
A vividly animated action roguelite focused on boss hunting. Unleash an array of diverse weapons and powerups to combat the corruption of the Void.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Ember Knights at current Steam store prices.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~50% under Ember Knights on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Ember Knights.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
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Priced ~50% under Ember Knights on Steam right now. Shares Action with Ember Knights.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
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Priced ~50% under Ember Knights on Steam right now. Shares Action with Ember Knights.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
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Priced ~50% under Ember Knights on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with Ember Knights.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~75% under Ember Knights on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with Ember Knights.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Ember Knights.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Ember Knights.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Ember Knights.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and RPG with Ember Knights.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Ember Knights.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Ember Knights.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
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Frequently asked about Ember Knights
- Is Ember Knights verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Ember Knights is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Ember Knights cost?
- Ember Knights is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Ember Knights have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Ember Knights supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Shared/Split Screen Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Ember Knights?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Ember Knights are Children of Morta, Heroes of Hammerwatch II, Rotwood.
- Who developed Ember Knights?
- Ember Knights was developed by Doom Turtle and published by Twin Sails Interactive.
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