Games like Mage and Monsters
If Mage and Monsters is your kind of game, the closest matches are Mage and Monsters II, The Undead War and Vault of Power — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its chill, contemplative and lighthearted. 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 Mage and Monsters: Create an army and use spells while it fights for you. Mage & Monsters is an active auto battler, where you must choose wisely between upgrading the might of your army, or increasing the power of your spells.

Players who liked Mage and Monsters also play
Steam players who put hours into Mage and Monsters 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.
Mage and Monsters II
WHY THIS
Shares a lighthearted mood with Mage and Monsters.
Top pick for Mage and Monsters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Mage and Monsters.
Recruit a hero to lead your army, and use spells while they fight for you. Mage & Monsters 2 is an active auto battler, where you choose to either enhance the strength of your hero, reinforce the might of your army, or increase the power of your spells.
The Undead War
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Mage and Monsters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Mage and Monsters.
Take the role of an army commander for the habitant of nardia. select the desired type of units and install it on the battlefield, in this roguelike auto battle simulator, use tactics, magic, recruit new fighters, use tech tree to unlock powers and upgrades to defeat the undead.
Vault of Power
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Mage and Monsters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Mage and Monsters.
Vault of Power is an autobattler strategy roguelike. Equip powerful skills, strategically position your units, and conquer challenging dungeons.
Tafl PTK
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Mage and Monsters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Mage and Monsters.
Based on the Viking game Tafl, build your squad and grab up to 3 more friends to survive an onslaught of raiding monsters as you try to get your king to an escaping ship in one piece. Between levels: pick new abilities, squad members with traits synergy and setup your formation to protect your king.
Slotbound
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Mage and Monsters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Mage and Monsters.
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.
Random Legion
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a whimsical mood with Mage and Monsters.
Ranked #6 for Mage and Monsters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Mage and Monsters.
This is a auto battler game with both casual and strategic attributes.Players will take on the role of the leader, expanding the team, learning talents and skills, strengthening equipment, transforming soldiers and other ways to combat power, breaking through random levels, ultimately to win game.
美少女不想让你死
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Mage and Monsters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Mage and Monsters.
"Pretty Girls Don't Want You to Die" is a game that combines strategy tower defense, survivor-like elements, and auto-battler mechanics. you, an lone hero who, in a desperate situation, unexpectedly receives a blessing from pretty girls, narrowly escaping death.
Books of Grandura
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Mage and Monsters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Mage and Monsters.
Play an auto battler, a traditional roguelike or a tower defense and experience the world of Grandura. Reuse what you've learned about the creatures, abilities and items that are found in this world and apply them in different game modes.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Mage and Monsters at current Steam store prices.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Mage and Monsters on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Mage and Monsters.
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!
Bejeweled® 3
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Mage and Monsters on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Mage and Monsters.
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.
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Mage and Monsters on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Mage and Monsters.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
Majesty Gold HD
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Mage and Monsters on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Mage and Monsters.
The High Definition edition of Majesty Gold contains main game, the Northern Expansion Pack as well as 2 new quests and several other graphics and gameplay updates.Majesty is a Real-time strategy game with indirect control – your heroes have a will of their own!
Bomber Crew
WHY THIS
Priced ~52% under Mage and Monsters on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Mage and Monsters.
Chocks away! Bomber Crew is a strategic simulation game, where picking the right crew and keeping your bomber in tip top shape is the difference between completing your mission or losing it all! USAAF DLC NOW AVAILABLE! FLY THE ICONIC AMERICAN BOMBER!
Turmoil
WHY THIS
Priced ~48% under Mage and Monsters on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Mage and Monsters.
Drill for oil like it's 1899! Turmoil offers players a visually charming, tongue-in-cheek take on the simulation genre inspired by the 19th century oil rush in North America.
Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Mage and Monsters on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Mage and Monsters.
Sid Meier's Civilization III: Complete, the latest offering in the Sid Meier's Civilization III franchise, provides gaming fans with Sid Meier's Civilization III, the highly-addictive journey of discovery.
Party Hard
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Mage and Monsters on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Mage and Monsters.
It's 3:00 a.m. Your neighbours are having a loud party. Stop them. Party Hard is tinyBuild's award-winning stealth strategy game about ruining parties by any means.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Mage and Monsters.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
Lily's Well
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
It is a rainy night in the Spring of 2005. Lily is left home alone after her Papa put her to bed. She is awoken by a cry for help outside her window. It is coming from the well. Help Lily gather rope to go down the well and save the poor soul trapped down there.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
The Last Sovereign
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Mage and Monsters.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
Wheelchair Wizards
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Wheelchair Wizards is a 4 player party game where you battle your friends while upgrading your wizard.
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More from Lasse Zacho Malver
Other recommendable Steam games by Lasse Zacho Malver, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Mage and Monsters II
WHY THIS
Shares a lighthearted mood with Mage and Monsters.
Another title from Lasse Zacho Malver, the studio behind Mage and Monsters. Shares Strategy with Mage and Monsters.
Recruit a hero to lead your army, and use spells while they fight for you. Mage & Monsters 2 is an active auto battler, where you choose to either enhance the strength of your hero, reinforce the might of your army, or increase the power of your spells.
Calturin
WHY THIS
Another title from Lasse Zacho Malver, the studio behind Mage and Monsters.
Calturin is a Bullet Hell Boss Rush game where you are resurrected by a necromancer who now holds you in his power. Promised your freedom if you do his bidding, you must traverse the Gauntlet of Portals to unknown lands and face deadly beings.
Behold Battle
WHY THIS
Shares difficulty scaling and a chill mood with Mage and Monsters.
Another title from Lasse Zacho Malver, the studio behind Mage and Monsters.
Guess which army will win, and watch them fight for your amusement. Behold Battle is a simple auto battler, where you see heroes and monsters fight to the death in randomly generated battles.
Frequently asked about Mage and Monsters
- Does Mage and Monsters run on Steam Deck?
- Mage and Monsters 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 Mage and Monsters cost?
- Mage and Monsters is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Mage and Monsters?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Mage and Monsters are Mage and Monsters II, The Undead War, Vault of Power.
- Who developed Mage and Monsters?
- Mage and Monsters was developed by Lasse Zacho Malver.
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