Games like Primarch
If Primarch is your kind of game, the closest matches are For The Fame, Pandora's Sack and The Fight for Beardlandia — 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 Primarch: Primarch is a roguelike auto-battler centered on a single hero. After being exiled to a foreign planet, you must prove yourself to a fallen God in order to return home.
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Steam players who put hours into Primarch 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.
For The Fame
WHY THIS
Top pick for Primarch fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Primarch.
For The Fame is a PVP auto battler where your grid of items fights other players. Explore an ever-changing dungeon, trade gold for new items and improve your build to find game breaking synergies.
StrategySteam ↗Pandora's Sack
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Primarch fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Primarch.
Pandora's Sack is a deck builder roguelike auto battler where the players use a slot machine system to create a ridiculously silly, destructive army to fight Pandora's minions.
The Fight for Beardlandia
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Primarch fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Primarch.
An auto-battler roguelike. Recruit fighters, equip them with weapons and crystals, then watch your party brawl through endless waves. Forge legendary gear, build class synergies, push deeper each run, and bank gems to permanently strengthen your next attempt.
Oaken Tower
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Primarch fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Early Access with Primarch.
Oaken Tower is a synergy-heavy PvP auto battler where your tower of items fights other players. Build deadly combos and scale exponentially. Every decision matters.
Fortress Merge
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Primarch fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Primarch.
Merge buildings, upgrade your defenses, and protect your fortress from endless waves of zombies. Plan each move carefully, adapt your strategy, and survive as long as you can.
Slotbound
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Primarch fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Primarch.
A roguelike auto-battler defense where luck meets strategy. Spin a 3x3 slot machine to summon units and grow your army by absorbing others. Use Items and Cores to manipulate the odds and survive challenging judgement waves and boss waves. Every spin and every choice counts.
Dig n Fight
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Primarch fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Primarch.
Dig for treasures, build powerful backpack synergies, and defeat all enemies.
Pretty girls don't want you to die
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Primarch fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Primarch.
"Pretty Girls Don't Want You to Die" is a strategic tower defense game with a strategy board game style. In the game, you continuously recruit pretty girl warriors, establish defensive positions by leveraging advantageous terrain, and defeat waves of enemies.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Primarch at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Primarch on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Primarch.
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 ~58% under Primarch on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Primarch.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~42% under Primarch on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Primarch.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~48% under Primarch on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Primarch.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Primarch on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Primarch.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Primarch on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Primarch.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under Primarch on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Primarch.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Primarch on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Primarch.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Primarch.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Primarch.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Primarch.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Primarch.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Primarch.
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.
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Primarch.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Primarch.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Primarch.
A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!
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Frequently asked about Primarch
- Does Primarch run on Steam Deck?
- Primarch is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Primarch cost?
- Primarch is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Primarch?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Primarch are For The Fame, Pandora's Sack, The Fight for Beardlandia.
- Who developed Primarch?
- Primarch was developed by Dale Turner.
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 Primarch.
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