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Games like Rogue Realms

If Rogue Realms is your kind of game, the closest matches are Orium, Metropolis Gear: Tactical City-Building Action and Wandering Monolith: Rogue TD — 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.

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About Rogue Realms: Rogue Realms is an empire building game in which you place tiles to expand the world and build on those tiles to gather the resources you need. Rogue Realms features full 3D pixel world to explore from any angle. Explore new biomes and buildings to grow an empire to stand the test of time.

StrategyIndieAdventureSimulationRPGCasualWindowsby James Oliver
Rogue Realms — Steam game cover

Players who liked Rogue Realms also play

Steam players who put hours into Rogue Realms 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. Orium

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Rogue Realms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rogue Realms.

    Aboard your ship, exterminate your enemies, exploit planets and weave your enterprise across the stars of a dying procedural galaxy. Orium is a Lovecraftian space roguelite, infused with streamlined 4X elements.

    2026ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  2. Metropolis Gear: Tactical City-Building Action

    WHY THIS

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

    Build your fully destructible, tile-based city and defend it using giant robots in this turn-based, tactical roguelike. Modify your weapons with endlessly stacking upgrades, but be careful! Your weapons could be a bigger threat to the city than your enemies!

    StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  3. Wandering Monolith: Rogue TD

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Rogue Realms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rogue Realms.

    You are the Wandering Monolith, falling from the sky. Summon towers, expand the board, defend your core, and build your deck of upgrades to conquer countless worlds.

    StrategyIndieCasualSteam ↗
  4. KingFish

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Rogue Realms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rogue Realms.

    A 2-player asymmetric co-op game where a King and a giant Fish, a living island, build a city, travel between islands, and defend their kingdom together. One plans from above. The other fights on the ground. Together they stand.

    ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  5. The Merchant's Eden

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Rogue Realms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rogue Realms.

    Build a medieval town around a thriving market. Defend your citizens and traveling merchants against raiding bandits. A minimalist game blending cozy city-building and intense tower-defense as you grow and protect your town.

    2026StrategyIndieCasual8.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Wardwell

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Rogue Realms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Rogue Realms.

    Wardwell is a Chinese folklore-inspired idle management game. As the ancient well calls, waters surge beneath the earth and omens warn of the Drought Demon’s return. Restore the shrine, manage incense, welcome worshippers, and uncover the mystery buried below.

    2026StrategySimulationCasualSteam ↗
  7. Into The Depths

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Rogue Realms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rogue Realms.

    A roguelite city builder, where you colonize the mysterious underworld. Build your settlement, explore the caves and colonize the deepest caverns. Overcome the dangers hidden in the dark and make the riches of the Depths yours!

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation13.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Exponent: The Scaling Tower Defense

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Rogue Realms fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Rogue Realms.

    A roguelite incremental tower defense where expansion is survival. Execute Command Cards from your expanding deck, build towers, and create land tile by tile to defend the last Node in your dimensional bubble. Grow strong enough to find your kin in the void… and merge into higher dimensions.

    StrategySteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

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

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Rogue Realms.

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

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Travellin Cats in Paris

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Rogue Realms.

    Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!

    2023IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Rogue Realms.

    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 ↗
  5. Eternal Senia

    WHY THIS

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

    Thoughts and expectations ARPG

    2015ActionIndieRPGFreeSteam ↗
  6. Disfigure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Rogue Realms.

    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!

    2023ActionIndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. 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 Rogue Realms.

    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.

    2024IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. The Lab

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗

More from James Oliver

Other recommendable Steam games by James Oliver, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Marble's Marbles

    WHY THIS

    Another title from James Oliver, the studio behind Rogue Realms. Shares Adventure with Rogue Realms.

    A love letter to the classic marble games. Help Marble find his lost marbles and roll through physics-powered worlds packed with wild challenges and quirky contraptions.

    2026ActionAdventureRacing7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. SaberSaw VR

    WHY THIS

    Another title from James Oliver, the studio behind Rogue Realms. Shares Indie and Casual with Rogue Realms.

    Take the role of warrior controlling giant SaberSaws to defend yourself from waves of ever more challenging bots.

    2018ActionIndieCasual6.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Mighty Marbles

    WHY THIS

    Another title from James Oliver, the studio behind Rogue Realms. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Rogue Realms.

    Welcome to Mighty Marbles, a cute physics based game where you control the level to guide the marble to victory. Inspired by the desire to see real life physics toys as a video game! Roll, solve and triumph in the fast paced bite sized levels.

    2024ActionStrategySimulation11.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Dungeon Holdem

    WHY THIS

    Another title from James Oliver, the studio behind Rogue Realms. Shares Strategy and RPG with Rogue Realms.

    Dungeon Holdem is the poker dungeon crawler deckbuilder. Forge your path as a warrior or wizard, unlocking powerful abilities to boost your hands. Master combos, stack hands, upgrade your deck, and slay monsters in this epic poker RPG.

    StrategyRPGSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Rogue Realms

What games are most similar to Rogue Realms?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Rogue Realms are Orium, Metropolis Gear: Tactical City-Building Action, Wandering Monolith: Rogue TD.
Who developed Rogue Realms?
Rogue Realms was developed by James Oliver and published by Destined.

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 Rogue Realms.

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