Games like Primarch
If Primarch is your kind of game, the closest matches are 9999, The Fight for Beardlandia and Fairy's Hero — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its endless build variety potential, challenging and intense. 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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9999
WHY THIS
Top pick for Primarch fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Primarch.
A party-builder rogue like, build your party to survive the monsters guarding the crystal. Master the turn-based combat system and break your limits to see how far you can take your party.
The Fight for Beardlandia
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Primarch fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Primarch.
An auto-battler roguelike gacha. Recruit your party, min-max their builds, and stack class synergies, as you drag eight recruits deeper each run. Watch them fall, roll for powerful heroes, upgrade the skill tree, and march a stronger party into the fight for Beardlandia!
Fairy's Hero
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Primarch fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Primarch.
Fairy's Hero is an auto-battler game with rogue-lite elements and incremental meta progression. While your hero is fighting enemies, you manage their inventory, skill tree, assist in boss fights, and collect rewards. Take your Hero on a quest across the kingdom, to fulfill their purpose!
Slotbound
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 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.
For The Fame
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Primarch fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Primarch.
For The Fame is a PVP auto-battler roguelike filled with game-breaking synergies. Explore an ever-changing dungeon, trade gold for new items and improve your build to defeat other players.
StrategySteam ↗Final Night Firefight
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Primarch fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Primarch.
Build and arm your house with fireworks in this 2D roguelike auto battler. Manage rooms, collect and upgrade powerful items, create synergistic builds, and watch chaotic automated battles decide whether your house survives the night.
Pandora's Sack
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Primarch fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Primarch.
Pandora's Sack is a deck builder roguelite auto battler where the players use a slot machine system to create a ridiculously silly army to fight Pandora's minions.
Of Dice and Minions
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Primarch fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Primarch.
Roll, hold, and combine five dice to summon an army in this dice-driven roguelite autobattler. Recruit minions, build counters, chase powerful combos, and descend through an ever-changing dungeon.
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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!
How to Fish
WHY THIS
Priced ~59% under Primarch on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Primarch.
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 ~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?
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 9999, The Fight for Beardlandia, Fairy's Hero.
- 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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