Games like Demonlore
If Demonlore is your kind of game, the closest matches are Guild of Dungeoneering Ultimate Edition, Balatro and Slay the Spire — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. 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 Demonlore: A rogue-lite action strategy game with deck building. Fight the undead legion, forge your path, and gain powerful permanent progression. Godlike difficulty modes, mutators, heroic units, elite enemies, and unlockable rewards - endless replayability awaits!
Players who liked Demonlore also play
Steam players who put hours into Demonlore 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.
Guild of Dungeoneering Ultimate Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Demonlore.
Top pick for Demonlore fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Demonlore.
Now fully rebuilt and remastered, Guild of Dungeoneering Ultimate Edition is a turn-based dungeon crawler with a twist: instead of controlling the hero you build the dungeon around them.
Balatro
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Demonlore.
Second-strongest match for Demonlore fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Demonlore.
The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Demonlore.
Third-strongest match for Demonlore fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Demonlore.
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!
Mineral Defense
WHY THIS
Shares roguelite progression, resource management and a contemplative mood with Demonlore.
Ranked #4 for Demonlore fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Demonlore.
Mineral Defense combines tower defense with roguelite elements and procedural generation. Build paths, unlock upgrades, and unleash powerful synergies to conquer evolving challenges in an ever-expanding world.
StarVaders
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Demonlore.
Ranked #5 for Demonlore fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Demonlore.
Pilot a powerful mech to fight off the alien invasion in this ULTIMATE fusion of deckbuilding and grid-based tactics. Discover game-breaking combos, rewind time to alter your fate, and protect the future of humanity in this endlessly replayable roguelike.
Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Demonlore.
Ranked #6 for Demonlore fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Demonlore.
Astrea is a DICE-deck-building roguelike that flips the script on deckbuilders by using dice instead of cards and a unique dual “damage” system: Purification vs Corruption. Build a dice pool strong enough to purify Astrea's out-of-control corruption and save the Star System.
Monster Train
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Demonlore.
Ranked #7 for Demonlore fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Demonlore.
Monster Train is a strategic roguelike deck building game with a twist. Set on a train to hell, you’ll use tactical decision making to defend multiple vertical battlegrounds. With real time competitive multiplayer and endless replayability, Monster Train is always on time.
9 Kings
WHY THIS
Shares roguelite progression, resource management and a challenging mood with Demonlore.
Ranked #8 for Demonlore fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Demonlore.
A fast-paced roguelike kingdom builder. Grow your empire and fight massive battles against powerful rival kings. Break the game with thousands of insane builds to become the King of Kings.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Demonlore at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Demonlore on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Demonlore.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Demonlore on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Demonlore.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Demonlore on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Demonlore.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Demonlore on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Demonlore.
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 ~60% under Demonlore on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Demonlore.
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 ~63% under Demonlore on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Demonlore.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Demonlore.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Demonlore.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Demonlore.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Demonlore.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Demonlore.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Demonlore.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Demonlore.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Balatro
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Demonlore.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Demonlore.
The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Demonlore.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Demonlore.
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!
StarVaders
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Demonlore.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Demonlore.
Pilot a powerful mech to fight off the alien invasion in this ULTIMATE fusion of deckbuilding and grid-based tactics. Discover game-breaking combos, rewind time to alter your fate, and protect the future of humanity in this endlessly replayable roguelike.
9 Kings
WHY THIS
Shares roguelite progression, resource management and a challenging mood with Demonlore.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Demonlore.
A fast-paced roguelike kingdom builder. Grow your empire and fight massive battles against powerful rival kings. Break the game with thousands of insane builds to become the King of Kings.
Frequently asked about Demonlore
- How much does Demonlore cost?
- Demonlore is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Demonlore?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Demonlore are Guild of Dungeoneering Ultimate Edition, Balatro, Slay the Spire.
- Who developed Demonlore?
- Demonlore was developed by Barrel Smash 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 Demonlore.
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