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Games like Summoner Apprentice

If Summoner Apprentice is your kind of game, the closest matches are Bulwark, 希望之城 The City Of Hope and Gladiator Guild Manager — 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.

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About Summoner Apprentice: Delve into the mystical art of summoning alongside Feylin, the last of the Ancients. Begin your journey as her new apprentice and learn how to summon minions, outwit your enemies, collect relics to enhance your powers and overcome the dreadful obstacles set in your path.

2020StrategyIndieAdventure1.99 USDWindows · macOSby Unknown Magic
Summoner Apprentice — Steam game cover

Players who liked Summoner Apprentice also play

Steam players who put hours into Summoner Apprentice 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.

  1. Bulwark

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Summoner Apprentice fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Summoner Apprentice.

    Bulwark is a medieval-themed 2D pixel tower defense game with a dynamic block-based building system. Construct and fortify your castle, manage resources, and recruit troops to defend against waves of enemies. Build, strategize, and adapt in this unique blend of fortress construction and combat.

    2024ActionStrategyIndie6.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. 希望之城 The City Of Hope

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Summoner Apprentice fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Summoner Apprentice.

    A light city-building game that combines elements of card games and tower defense, where players must survive daily enemy attacks and gradually grow their strength to ultimately defeat powerful invaders.

    2024StrategyIndieCasual6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Gladiator Guild Manager

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Summoner Apprentice fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Summoner Apprentice.

    A strategic autobattler sim where you build a team of gladiators, compete in arenas, plan fight tactics, and form alliances. Combine fighters, beasts, and mages, develop and equip them to optimize your well-oiled fighting machine, dominate the championships, and leave your mark on the world.

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Elements and build

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Summoner Apprentice fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Summoner Apprentice.

    Form your own genre with skills in different elements, use building rewards to build your own unique maze in randomly generated levels, and fight to survive waves of monsters to win

    2024StrategyIndieCasual6.74 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Vambrace: Dungeon Monarch

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Summoner Apprentice fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Summoner Apprentice.

    Deck-building, dungeon defense, and tactical gameplay combine in Dungeon Monarch! Recruit warriors and wizards, buff your heroes, and thrash your foes — summon your dungeon monarch to punish interlopers and defeat enemies to increase your dark powers!

    2025StrategyAdventureRPG7.49 USDSteam ↗
  6. ShapeHero Factory

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Summoner Apprentice fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Summoner Apprentice.

    In ShapeHero Factory, you’re the engineer of an ever-evolving paint-fuelled factory that spits out magical, shape-based warriors. Send them into battle - to death or glory - then build an even better factory on your next run.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation23.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Necroking

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Summoner Apprentice fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Summoner Apprentice.

    Necroking is a turn-based tactics roguelite with vast deckbuilding. You play as a Master of Necromancy. Build your skulls deck, raise skeletons and other scum to defeat settlements desecrated by life.

    2024StrategyIndieAdventure1.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Deck of Haunts

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Summoner Apprentice fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Summoner Apprentice.

    Deck of Haunts invites you to become a malevolent Haunted House. Lure humans into your cursed halls, manipulate their fears, and drain their essence to grow your power. Use strategy to build your mansion and expand your dark influence, turning your home into a terrifying, inescapable nightmare.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation10.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Summoner Apprentice at current Steam store prices.

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Summoner Apprentice on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Summoner Apprentice.

    Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Blood and Bacon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Summoner Apprentice on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Summoner Apprentice.

    This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.

    2016ActionAdventureCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. shapez

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Summoner Apprentice on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Summoner Apprentice.

    shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Summoner Apprentice on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Summoner Apprentice.

    "Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!

    2015ActionIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Montaro

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Summoner Apprentice on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Summoner Apprentice.

    Montaro is a DOGE.

    2016IndieCasual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Bejeweled® 3

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Summoner Apprentice on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Summoner Apprentice.

    The biggest, brightest Bejeweled ever! Discover all-new ways to play the world’s #1 puzzle game. Find your perfect match with 8 breathtaking game modes that meet all your moods.

    2010StrategyCasual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Bit Blaster XL

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Summoner Apprentice on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Summoner Apprentice.

    Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!

    2016ActionIndieCasual0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Dictators:No Peace Countryballs

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Summoner Apprentice on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Summoner Apprentice.

    Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Summoner Apprentice.

    The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Summoner Apprentice.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Summoner Apprentice.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Summoner Apprentice.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Summoner Apprentice.

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Summoner Apprentice.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Summoner Apprentice.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Our Life: Beginnings & Always

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Summoner Apprentice.

    A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.

    2020IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Gladiator Guild Manager

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Summoner Apprentice.

    A strategic autobattler sim where you build a team of gladiators, compete in arenas, plan fight tactics, and form alliances. Combine fighters, beasts, and mages, develop and equip them to optimize your well-oiled fighting machine, dominate the championships, and leave your mark on the world.

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Necroking

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Summoner Apprentice.

    Necroking is a turn-based tactics roguelite with vast deckbuilding. You play as a Master of Necromancy. Build your skulls deck, raise skeletons and other scum to defeat settlements desecrated by life.

    2024StrategyIndieAdventure1.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Deck of Haunts

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Summoner Apprentice.

    Deck of Haunts invites you to become a malevolent Haunted House. Lure humans into your cursed halls, manipulate their fears, and drain their essence to grow your power. Use strategy to build your mansion and expand your dark influence, turning your home into a terrifying, inescapable nightmare.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation10.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Summoner Apprentice

How much does Summoner Apprentice cost?
Summoner Apprentice is listed on Steam at 1.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Summoner Apprentice?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Summoner Apprentice are Bulwark, 希望之城 The City Of Hope, Gladiator Guild Manager.
Who developed Summoner Apprentice?
Summoner Apprentice was developed by Unknown Magic and published by Wa Tran.

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 Summoner Apprentice.

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