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Games like The Last Flame

If The Last Flame is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Last Flame: Prologue, Seedborne Soldiers and Tales & Tactics — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its learning curve rewards experimentation, 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.

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The Last Flame is a challenging strategy roguelite released in 2025 by Hotloop that centers on assembling parties of unique heroes to battle through encounters, acquire gear, and build powerful synergies. The core loop revolves around strategic hero upgrades and team composition, where experimentation unlocks deep synergy systems. Sessions break into three distinct phases, allowing flexible short-burst play. Players describe it as a contemplative yet cozy-yet-challenging experience that rewards experimentation, with a reborn mechanic multiplying replayability. Currently priced at $19.99 and verified for Steam Deck, it holds a 91% positive rating from over 1,200 reviews.

About The Last Flame: Recruit a party of unique heroes, fight deadly encounters, loot and craft powerful gear, discover and create thousands of synergetic builds! The Last Flame is an endless roguelike auto-battler in which you guide a righteous party of heroes through many challenges.

2025StrategyIndieAdventureRPG19.99 USDDeck PlayableWindowsby Hotloop
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Players who liked The Last Flame also play

Steam players who put hours into The Last Flame 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. The Last Flame: Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with The Last Flame.

    Top pick for The Last Flame fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Last Flame.

    Recruit a party of unique heroes, fight deadly encounters, loot and craft powerful gear, discover and create thousands of synergetic builds! The Last Flame is an endless roguelike auto-battler in which you guide a righteous party of heroes through many challenges.

    2024StrategyIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Seedborne Soldiers

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with The Last Flame.

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

    An auto battler roguelike made by obsessive fans of both genres. Draft fighters with matching Traits to power up your team. A massive content pool enables a large variety of builds. Weigh risk vs. reward every round as you carve a path toward each boss.

    2026StrategyIndie8.39 USDSteam ↗
  3. Tales & Tactics

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with The Last Flame.

    Third-strongest match for The Last Flame fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with The Last Flame.

    Roguelike Squad-based Autobattler in a Tabletop RPG setting. Draft your army, carefully equip and position your units, make important choices, and meet a colorful cast of characters as you make ready for the Grand Tournament.

    2024StrategyAdventureRPG17.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Crowntakers

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with The Last Flame.

    Ranked #4 for The Last Flame fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Last Flame.

    Crowntakers combines turn-based strategy with RPG elements and takes you at the behest of the crown into a medieval fantasy world full of challenging encounters and epic adventures. With its randomly generated world, Crowntakers offers a varied gaming experience every time you set out to fight evil.

    2014StrategyIndieRPG9.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Hero's Hour

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for The Last Flame fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with The Last Flame.

    A fast turn-based strategy RPG with real-time combat. Develop your cities and armies, level up your heroes to gain new, powerful spells and skills, and explore the wonders and dangers of the procedurally generated maps as you aim to conquer your enemies before they do the same to you.

    2022StrategyRPG17.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Dark Deity

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with The Last Flame.

    Ranked #6 for The Last Flame fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Last Flame.

    Step into the world of Terrazael and lead soon-to-be legendary heroes in a quest to restore a land fractured by broken oaths, reckless wars, and untamed magic. Fight back in turn-based battles, manage character relationships, collect dangerous artifacts, and hopefully restore the world...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Underboard

    WHY THIS

    Shares roguelite progression and a challenging mood with The Last Flame.

    Ranked #7 for The Last Flame fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with The Last Flame.

    Tactical team-building roguelike auto-battler with active and passive playstyles. Draft a team as you explore maps full of monsters, build synergies, equip items and cast spells to support your team during battles and help them escape the Underboard.

    2026StrategyRPG14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Gobs and Gods

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with The Last Flame.

    Ranked #8 for The Last Flame fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Last Flame.

    Hire a band of almost-heroic goblins to fight and die for you in tactical turn-based battles, accomplish silly quests for the weird inhabitants of this fantastic world, and truly become a god - at least by goblin standards.

    2024StrategyIndieAdventure11.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to The Last Flame

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with The Last Flame.

    Reviewers of The Last Flame cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Last Flame.

    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!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Megabonk

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with The Last Flame.

    Reviewers of The Last Flame cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with The Last Flame.

    Smash your way through endless waves of enemies and grow absurdly powerful! Grab loot, level up, unlock characters and upgrade to create unique and crazy builds as you fend off hordes of creatures!

    2025ActionIndieCasual9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Teddy's Haven - A Fantasy Inspired Shop Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Shares a cozy mood with The Last Flame.

    Reviewers of The Last Flame cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with The Last Flame.

    Teddy’s Haven is a cozy shop sim filled with magic and charm. Sell over 400 items, decorate with 250+ decorations, and create the shop of your dreams. Meet mythical creatures, level up your skills, harvest the land, and uncover the peaceful wonders of life on Ursa.

    2025IndieSimulationRPG14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Last Flame at current Steam store prices.

  1. Terraria

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under The Last Flame on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Last Flame.

    Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

    2011ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under The Last Flame on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Last Flame.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Lethal Company

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under The Last Flame on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Last Flame.

    A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. People Playground

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under The Last Flame on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Last Flame.

    Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.

    2019ActionIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Portal 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under The Last Flame on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Last Flame.

    The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!

    2011ActionAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Fallout: New Vegas

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under The Last Flame on Steam right now. Shares RPG with The Last Flame.

    Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!

    2010ActionRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Undertale

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under The Last Flame on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with The Last Flame.

    UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.

    2015IndieRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under The Last Flame on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with The Last Flame.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Last Flame.

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. 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 The Last Flame.

    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 ↗
  3. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Last Flame.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. NGU IDLE

    WHY THIS

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

    NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!

    2019IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

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

    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.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with The Last Flame.

    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.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Eternal Senia

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with The Last Flame.

    Thoughts and expectations ARPG

    2015ActionIndieRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Last Flame.

    The Fairytale Curse was only the beginning...

    2017IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about The Last Flame

Does The Last Flame run on Steam Deck?
The Last Flame 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 The Last Flame cost?
The Last Flame is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to The Last Flame?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Last Flame are The Last Flame: Prologue, Seedborne Soldiers, Tales & Tactics.
Who developed The Last Flame?
The Last Flame was developed by Hotloop and published by Hotloop, Surefire.Games.

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 The Last Flame.

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