Games like REM Cycles
If REM Cycles is your kind of game, the closest matches are Inkbound, Astral Throne and Forgotten Mines — picked from the ranked list below. 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 →About REM Cycles: One night, ten people fall asleep...and find themselves in someone else’s dream. Guide these unlikely heroes as they traverse strange lands filled with enemies and memories. Confront a mysterious antagonist and witness chats between battles while you search for reason in sleep.
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Steam players who put hours into REM Cycles also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Inkbound
WHY THIS
Top pick for REM Cycles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with REM Cycles.
A turn-based tactical roguelike from the creators of Monster Train. Play solo or co-op, create powerful builds, and save the Atheneum.
Astral Throne
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for REM Cycles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with REM Cycles.
Uncover the mystery of a land beset by a Falling Star's curse in this Roguelike Strategy RPG inspired by the classics. Build your party, recruit new allies, and synergize your team's skills for decisive victory.
Forgotten Mines
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for REM Cycles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with REM Cycles.
Wreak vengeance and retake lost mines from goblins, orcs, skeletons, and demons in this small-scale tactical roguelite RPG. Build the perfect expedition team and turn the underworld red with each challenging, fast-paced run.
Pathway
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for REM Cycles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with REM Cycles.
Explore the strange unknown with Pathway, a strategy adventure set in the 1930s great wilderness. Unravel long-forgotten mysteries of the occult, raid ancient tombs and outwit your foes in turn-based squad combat!
Lost Eidolons: Veil of the Witch
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for REM Cycles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with REM Cycles.
Veil of the Witch is a roguelite strategy RPG with turn-based combat and branching progression. Set in the world of “Lost Eidolons,” build a nimble squad of five, pick your skills as you level, and adapt to each unique run. May the gods favor the bold and the wise.
Mortal Glory
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for REM Cycles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with REM Cycles.
Mortal Glory is a fantasy-themed tactical roguelike game about recruiting a team of gladiators and pitting them against brutal competition in a blood-soaked tournament. Train your gladiators, find a legendary sword, learn ancient spells, recruit a celebrity, cheat - do whatever it takes to bring glory to your name!
Swords and Sandals Immortals
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for REM Cycles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with REM Cycles.
Gladiator! Grab your sword, equip your sandals and take on the world in multiplayer Swords and Sandals! Brutal turn-based combat where gladiators can lose limbs, wield guitars and yell so loudly enemy heads will fall off. This is the most fun you'll ever have in the arena!
Legends of Kingdom Rush
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for REM Cycles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with REM Cycles.
RPG turn-based combat game with deep tactics and bad jokes! Do you have what it takes to save the kingdom?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below REM Cycles at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under REM Cycles on Steam right now. Shares Indie with REM Cycles.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under REM Cycles on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with REM Cycles.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under REM Cycles on Steam right now. Shares Indie with REM Cycles.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under REM Cycles on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with REM Cycles.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under REM Cycles on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with REM Cycles.
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!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under REM Cycles on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with REM Cycles.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
How to Fish
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under REM Cycles on Steam right now. Shares Indie with REM Cycles.
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under REM Cycles on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with REM Cycles.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with REM Cycles.
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.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with REM Cycles.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with REM Cycles.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with REM Cycles.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with REM Cycles.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with REM Cycles.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
Tails Noir: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with REM Cycles.
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
Silly Linguine Cat Simulator Deluxe Online
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with REM Cycles.
Silly Linguine Cat Simulator Deluxe Online is a clicker game where progression is replaced with gambling, where the goal is simply to collect the rarest silly linguine cats.
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Frequently asked about REM Cycles
- How much does REM Cycles cost?
- REM Cycles is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to REM Cycles?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside REM Cycles are Inkbound, Astral Throne, Forgotten Mines.
- Who developed REM Cycles?
- REM Cycles was developed by Indispensable Studios.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on REM Cycles.
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