Games like Necrosmith
If Necrosmith is your kind of game, the closest matches are Necrosmith 2, Astro Looter: Survivor and 元卡牌2 - MetaCard2 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its tactical positioning matters, unique art style and writing quality is exceptional. 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 →Necrosmith is a challenging strategy and roguelite game released in 2022 by Alawar. Players take on the role of a necromancer, assembling undead units from various body parts and managing tower defense elements to overcome enemy hordes. The game combines unit assembly mechanics with roguelite progression, tasking players with strategic positioning of their assembled forces. Reviewers highlight the unique pixel art style, while players describe the experience as dark and challenging. The game runs at a medium length with a sit-down session shape and is playable on Steam Deck. It currently holds an 84% positive rating from over 1,900 Steam reviews and is available for $2.99.
About Necrosmith: A necromancer simulator. Assemble the dead using different body parts while upgrading your tower, combine the abilities of the different fantastic races to fight your way through the hordes of enemies and overrun the ’chosen ones’. To tell the truth, the dead are pretty, uhm, dumb.
Players who liked Necrosmith also play
Steam players who put hours into Necrosmith 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.
Necrosmith 2
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Necrosmith.
Top pick for Necrosmith fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Necrosmith.
Like a dead man reanimated by dark sorcery, the necromancer simulator is back! Give the undead the ability to fly over mountains and swim across rivers, explore a fully generated world at night and fend off enemy hordes during the day. Start a new, uhm, life.
Astro Looter: Survivor
WHY THIS
Shares roguelite progression and a challenging mood with Necrosmith.
Second-strongest match for Necrosmith fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Necrosmith.
Explore alien planets to mine resources, kill alien insects, build defense turrets, and survive waves of insect attacks across the galactic frontier. Astro Looter combines elements of survival, roguelike, and tower defense in a top-down shooter.
元卡牌2 - MetaCard2
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Necrosmith fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Necrosmith.
Hello everyone, this is my second game "Meta Card 2". Based on the rich card entries of the first generation, it innovatively incorporates the concept of projectiles. Through the strategic combination of cards and projectile targeting, the control of movement is replaced.
Escape from Demon Island
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Necrosmith fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Necrosmith.
In the lost island of Alcatraz, try hard to survive. You can use a variety of weapons and skills to avoid and eliminate wild beasts and monsters, and finally eliminate the abyssal demons and escape. Be careful, monsters are different during the day and at night! Enjoy yourself!
Apocalypse Party
WHY THIS
Shares roguelite progression and a challenging mood with Necrosmith.
Ranked #5 for Necrosmith fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Necrosmith.
Apocalypse Party is a 3D top-down action Roguelike game. In this game, you will embark on a new mission to traverse through the Middle Ages and gradually master abilities, and arm yourself to become the strongest survivor through numerous choices.
Be My Horde
WHY THIS
Shares roguelite progression and a dark mood with Necrosmith.
Ranked #6 for Necrosmith fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Necrosmith.
Be My Horde is a roguelite survivor where your minions fight for you. Become a formidable necromancer and turn your enemies into a resource! Raise fallen foes, build massive undead hordes, enhance your skills with devoured souls, and conquer the world – you’re the villain in this story.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Necrosmith.
Ranked #7 for Necrosmith fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Necrosmith.
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!
Halls of Torment
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Necrosmith.
Ranked #8 for Necrosmith fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Necrosmith.
Slay hordes of terrifying monsters in this horde survival roguelite. Descend into the Halls of Torment where the Lords of the underworld await you. Treasures, magical trinkets, and a growing cast of heroes will grant you the power to vanquish these horrors from beyond. How long can you survive?
Reviewers mention these as similar to Necrosmith
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Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Necrosmith.
Reviewers of Necrosmith cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Necrosmith.
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!
LEAVES - The Return
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Necrosmith cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Necrosmith.
Mononino and the Treefruities fared well without you - until another disaster scattered the leaves of their home tree. Once more, take on the journey and challenging puzzles along the way.
Necrosmith 2
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Necrosmith.
Reviewers of Necrosmith cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Necrosmith.
Like a dead man reanimated by dark sorcery, the necromancer simulator is back! Give the undead the ability to fly over mountains and swim across rivers, explore a fully generated world at night and fend off enemy hordes during the day. Start a new, uhm, life.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Necrosmith at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Necrosmith on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Necrosmith.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Necrosmith on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Necrosmith.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Necrosmith on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Necrosmith.
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.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Necrosmith on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Necrosmith.
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!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Necrosmith on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Necrosmith.
"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!
Bejeweled® 3
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Necrosmith on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Necrosmith.
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.
Bit Blaster XL
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Necrosmith on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Necrosmith.
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!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Necrosmith.
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.
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Necrosmith.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Necrosmith.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Necrosmith.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
The Children of Clay
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Necrosmith.
The Children of Clay is a short stop motion archeology horror game, where you have to study an ancient artefact and discover its dark secret.
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Necrosmith.
Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).
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More from Alawar
Other recommendable Steam games by Alawar, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Wall World
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Necrosmith.
Another title from Alawar, the studio behind Necrosmith. Shares Strategy and Indie with Necrosmith.
Explore the mysterious Wall World on your giant robospider: mine for valuable resources, upgrade your equipment to fight off hordes of monsters, and discover exotic biomes in-between attacks. Will you be able to survive and learn the secrets of the Wall World?
Beholder: Conductor
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Necrosmith.
Another title from Alawar, the studio behind Necrosmith. Shares Strategy and Indie with Necrosmith.
A Beholder series spin-off. Become a conductor of the Determination Bringer train: monitor passengers, report incidents, and carry out important Ministry assignments — whose level of secrecy depends only on your loyalty. And remember: mission success is very important to you!
Karate Survivor
WHY THIS
Another title from Alawar, the studio behind Necrosmith. Shares Indie with Necrosmith.
Become a martial arts master in this survivor-like roguelite inspired by action movies of the ‘80s. Use your fists, feet, and the environment to fight off relentless thugs. Master powerful combos, enhance your skills, and remember: everything around you is a weapon!
Wall World 2
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Necrosmith.
Another title from Alawar, the studio behind Necrosmith. Shares Strategy and Indie with Necrosmith.
The adventure in the mysterious world of the Wall continues! Pilot your robospider into its depths, uncover lost artifacts and technologies, upgrade your exosuit and spider, and battle the horrors lurking in the dark. Unravel the mysteries buried in the depths of the Wall!
Necrosmith 2
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Necrosmith.
Another title from Alawar, the studio behind Necrosmith. Shares Strategy and Indie with Necrosmith.
Like a dead man reanimated by dark sorcery, the necromancer simulator is back! Give the undead the ability to fly over mountains and swim across rivers, explore a fully generated world at night and fend off enemy hordes during the day. Start a new, uhm, life.
They Always Run
WHY THIS
Another title from Alawar, the studio behind Necrosmith. Shares Adventure with Necrosmith.
Become Aiden, a three-armed mutant who hunts the most dangerous bounties in the galaxy. Catch, slice, dice and destroy enemies in this exciting 2D platformer with a space-western setting.
The Happy Hereafter
WHY THIS
Another title from Alawar, the studio behind Necrosmith. Shares Strategy with Necrosmith.
Welcome to The Happy Hereafter, a casual sim in which you guide the newly dead as they build an afterlife for themselves and their fellow lost souls. There will be no rest for the wickedly funny as you put them to work building a village to rival Paradise!
The Last Gas Station
WHY THIS
Another title from Alawar, the studio behind Necrosmith. Shares Indie and Adventure with Necrosmith.
In a world where electric cars reign supreme, you are now the owner of an old gas station out in the wilderness. Establish trade, develop your business and uncover the secret of this strange place in the compact gas station simulator.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Be My Horde
WHY THIS
Shares roguelite progression and a dark mood with Necrosmith.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Simulation with Necrosmith.
Be My Horde is a roguelite survivor where your minions fight for you. Become a formidable necromancer and turn your enemies into a resource! Raise fallen foes, build massive undead hordes, enhance your skills with devoured souls, and conquer the world – you’re the villain in this story.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Necrosmith.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Necrosmith.
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!
Halls of Torment
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Necrosmith.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Necrosmith.
Slay hordes of terrifying monsters in this horde survival roguelite. Descend into the Halls of Torment where the Lords of the underworld await you. Treasures, magical trinkets, and a growing cast of heroes will grant you the power to vanquish these horrors from beyond. How long can you survive?
Frequently asked about Necrosmith
- Does Necrosmith run on Steam Deck?
- Necrosmith 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 Necrosmith cost?
- Necrosmith is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Necrosmith?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Necrosmith are Necrosmith 2, Astro Looter: Survivor, 元卡牌2 - MetaCard2.
- Who developed Necrosmith?
- Necrosmith was developed by Alawar.
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