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Games like Anvil Life

If Anvil Life is your kind of game, the closest matches are Between Adventures IDLE, Pillazon: MMO Drug Lord Tycoon and Deal & Wheeler — 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 Anvil Life: In this game that offers unlimited fun in Singleplayer, Sandbox game type; You will be able to upgrade your items, expand your military, win loot with quests, and try many combinations to bring the characters to the state you want.

2022StrategyIndieCasual1.99 USDWindowsby Emre Bulut
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Steam players who put hours into Anvil Life 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. Between Adventures IDLE

    WHY THIS

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

    Idle RPG Strategy game where you gather resources, battle creatures, and upgrade your gear. Master 10+ skills to create items you can equip or sell. Your journey never stops, even offline. No Microtransactions, No P2W, just pure idle fun.

    2026StrategyIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  2. Pillazon: MMO Drug Lord Tycoon

    WHY THIS

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

    Pillazon is an MMO virtual business simulation game where you work as the CEO of a new company. Your mission is to create your own website and build the world's extensive drug empire!

    2023StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Deal & Wheeler

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Anvil Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Anvil Life.

    The world's most comprehensive car selling simulation game. Build your own huge empire on the vast and high-quality open world map. Buy a car and sell a car. Improve your circle and become a great businessman. Don't give up and follow your dreams.

    2023StrategySimulationRPG9.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Ravenian Conquerors

    WHY THIS

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

    A real-time sandbox strategy game across the vast archipelago of Ravenia, with a new island every play. Lead a faction, raise armies, and seize cities as you evolve through four ages. Prepare for a cosmic crisis that could end everything. Stand against it, or become the crisis itself.

    2026StrategyIndieCasualSteam ↗
  5. Pocket Cultivation

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Anvil Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Anvil Life.

    Pocket Cultivation is a strategy cultivation game centered around “Storage Bag Building.” Journey through a vast world of cultivation, collect items that suit your path, and carefully arrange them within the limited slots of your storage bag.

    StrategyAdventureSimulationSteam ↗
  6. Arena Monarchy

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Anvil Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Anvil Life.

    Arena Monarchy is a gladiator management game with a heavy focus on turn-based combat. Collect loot, theorycraft builds, upgrade your ludus and become champion!

    2025StrategyIndieRPG4.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Doodlemon

    WHY THIS

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

    Doodlemon is a creature management simulation game where you run a ranch of creatures and manage its finances. Put your creatures to the test in league matches and work your way to championships. Breed potential champions who will provide riches and fame for years. Create your own Doodlemons too!

    StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  8. Megaloot

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Anvil Life fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Anvil Life.

    Megaloot is an addictive Inventory Management Roguelike RPG, where meticulous loot management lets you create diverse and powerful builds for each run. With every new attempt, start from scratch and loot strategically to craft dominating setups and become the ultimate power hunter.

    2024StrategyIndieRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Anvil Life at current Steam store prices.

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Anvil Life on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Anvil Life.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Blood and Bacon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Anvil Life on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Anvil Life.

    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.

    2016ActionAdventureCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Peggle Deluxe

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Anvil Life on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Anvil Life.

    Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.

    2007Casual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. shapez

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Anvil Life on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Anvil Life.

    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!

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Anvil Life on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Anvil Life.

    "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!

    2015ActionIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Insaniquarium Deluxe

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Anvil Life on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Anvil Life.

    The craziest aquarium game ever! Tend to your fish, keep them happy and they'll reward you with coins and jewels. Buy tank upgrades or egg parts which hatch different in-tank pets. These pets can help you feed your fish, collect coins, or even protect against the aliens that will invade your tank.

    2006Casual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Montaro

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Anvil Life on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Anvil Life.

    Montaro is a DOGE.

    2016IndieCasual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Bejeweled® 3

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Anvil Life on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Casual with Anvil Life.

    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.

    2010StrategyCasual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Landfall Archives

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Anvil Life.

    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!

    2023ActionStrategyIndieFreeSteam ↗
  2. SuchArt: Creative Space

    WHY THIS

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

    Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. The Riftbreaker: Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Anvil Life.

    The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.

    2020ActionStrategyIndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante — Chapter 1&2

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Anvil Life.

    A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world where the gods are real. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice you make has a price to pay and consequence to it. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!

    2020StrategyIndieAdventureFreeSteam ↗
  5. Path of Exile

    WHY THIS

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

    You are an Exile, struggling to survive on the dark continent of Wraeclast, as you fight to earn power that will allow you to exact your revenge against those who wronged you. Path of Exile is an online Action RPG set in a dark fantasy world. The game is completely free and will never be pay-to-win.

    2013ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Crusader Kings II

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Anvil Life.

    Explore one of the defining periods in world history in an experience crafted by the masters of Grand Strategy.

    2012StrategySimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Supermarket Together

    WHY THIS

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

    The multiplayer supermarket has arrived to your neighbourhood for free! Stock your shop space, unlock perks and franchises, hire employees or chase those pesky shoplifters. The more players, the more action!

    2024IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Bloons TD Battles 2

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Anvil Life.

    From the creators of Bloons TD6... Bloons TD Battles 2 is a brand new installment of the top-rated head-to-head tower defense game. Gather your Hero, choose your team of powerful Monkey Towers, and prepare to battle one on one against other players and relentless waves of Bloons!

    2021ActionStrategyIndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Anvil Life

How much does Anvil Life cost?
Anvil Life is listed on Steam at 1.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Anvil Life?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Anvil Life are Between Adventures IDLE, Pillazon: MMO Drug Lord Tycoon, Deal & Wheeler.
Who developed Anvil Life?
Anvil Life was developed by Emre Bulut.

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 Anvil Life.

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