Games like Monster Run: Downfall of the Empire
If Monster Run: Downfall of the Empire is your kind of game, the closest matches are Wanted Shadows, Goat Survivor and Cat Girl Survivor 2 : Beyond The Veil — 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.
Get personalized picks →About Monster Run: Downfall of the Empire: Monster Run is a dark fantasy beat’em up with roguelite elements. Fight as a giant monster cat protecting your home forest. Destroy massive armies of human soldiers and their allies. Evolve your attacks, master non-human tactics, and discover the joy of breathing fire.
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Wanted Shadows
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Top pick for Monster Run: Downfall of the Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Monster Run: Downfall of the Empire.
Decimate thousands of demons on All Hallows' Eve to protect your infernal home. Wanted Shadows is a bullet heaven roguelite where the difference between overpowering and being overpowered lies in your skill and wit.
Goat Survivor
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Second-strongest match for Monster Run: Downfall of the Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Monster Run: Downfall of the Empire.
Choose your character, grow stronger, and defeat endless waves of enemies! But simple combat isn’t enough—stand on the magic circle and survive for a set time to win. Strategically move and combine skills to create the best survival strategy!
Cat Girl Survivor 2 : Beyond The Veil
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Monster Run: Downfall of the Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Monster Run: Downfall of the Empire.
Demon invasion has shattered the dimensions, filling the world with corrupted souls. Cat girls with unique stories unite through friendship to restore balance by purifying souls and facing fierce bosses. An exciting and adorable side-scrolling action adventure!
Monster Crawl
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Ranked #4 for Monster Run: Downfall of the Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Monster Run: Downfall of the Empire.
GAUNTLET inspired action roguelike. Fight your way through monster hordes with fast paced, active combat. Explore diverse builds using multiple heroes, abilities & relics. Fight through dungeons full of treasures & traps, and challenge mighty Bosses!
Maximus 2: Street Gladiators
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Ranked #5 for Monster Run: Downfall of the Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Monster Run: Downfall of the Empire.
A fantasy beat-em-up that focuses on crunchy and satisfying combat. We captured the spirit of some of the best classic beat-em-ups, melding them into one memorable experience. Fight solo or with up to 4 players cooperative multiplayer!
Nix: Ashes of the Phoenix
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Ranked #6 for Monster Run: Downfall of the Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Monster Run: Downfall of the Empire.
Ashes of the Phoenix is a survivor style, Roguelite ARPG experience set in a dark high fantasy world. The story follows Nix, a mysterious heroine, as she battles her way through hordes of enemies to uncover the mystery that is the world around her.
Star Fire: Eternal Cycle
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Ranked #7 for Monster Run: Downfall of the Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Monster Run: Downfall of the Empire.
Star Fire is a love letter to classic arcade side-scrollers, reimagined with roguelite progression, modern action polish, and that “just one more run” itch. It’s fast, punchy, and all about no-pressure fun with tight combat, slick movement, and endless ways to cause chaos.
Wildkeepers Rising
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Ranked #8 for Monster Run: Downfall of the Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Monster Run: Downfall of the Empire.
Tame monsters! Slay waves of enemy hordes! Explore fantasy lands! Wildkeepers Rising is a whimsical action-RPG roguelite set in a beautiful hand-drawn world that combines the power curve of bullet heaven games with the compulsive fun of a creature collector.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Monster Run: Downfall of the Empire at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~69% under Monster Run: Downfall of the Empire on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Monster Run: Downfall of the Empire.
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.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~69% under Monster Run: Downfall of the Empire on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Monster Run: Downfall of the Empire.
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!
R.E.P.O.
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Priced ~56% under Monster Run: Downfall of the Empire on Steam right now. Shares Action with Monster Run: Downfall of the Empire.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
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Priced ~50% under Monster Run: Downfall of the Empire on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Monster Run: Downfall of the Empire.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
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Priced ~72% under Monster Run: Downfall of the Empire on Steam right now. Shares Action with Monster Run: Downfall of the Empire.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~61% under Monster Run: Downfall of the Empire on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Monster Run: Downfall of the Empire.
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!
Inscryption
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Priced ~50% under Monster Run: Downfall of the Empire on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Monster Run: Downfall of the Empire.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~69% under Monster Run: Downfall of the Empire on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Monster Run: Downfall of the Empire.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Travellin Cats in Paris
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Monster Run: Downfall of the Empire.
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!
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Monster Run: Downfall of the Empire.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Monster Run: Downfall of the Empire.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Monster Run: Downfall of the Empire.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
An Arcade Full of Cats
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Monster Run: Downfall of the Empire.
Journey through gaming history's time and space, while searching for adorable feline companions in 'An Arcade Full of Cats,' the ultimate pet'em up hidden object game.
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.
100 Asian Cats
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Monster Run: Downfall of the Empire.
🏮🐈 100 Asian Cats - Join the cutest adventure in the Asia! 😻 🌸 Explore the charming hand-drawn artwork of Asian temples 🏯 as you embark on a quest to find 100 adorable cats hidden throughout the game. 🕵️♂️❌ Can you find them all? 🕵️♂️🐈✅
Tails Noir: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Monster Run: Downfall of the Empire.
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Wanted Shadows
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Monster Run: Downfall of the Empire.
Decimate thousands of demons on All Hallows' Eve to protect your infernal home. Wanted Shadows is a bullet heaven roguelite where the difference between overpowering and being overpowered lies in your skill and wit.
Star Fire: Eternal Cycle
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Monster Run: Downfall of the Empire.
Star Fire is a love letter to classic arcade side-scrollers, reimagined with roguelite progression, modern action polish, and that “just one more run” itch. It’s fast, punchy, and all about no-pressure fun with tight combat, slick movement, and endless ways to cause chaos.
Wildkeepers Rising
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Monster Run: Downfall of the Empire.
Tame monsters! Slay waves of enemy hordes! Explore fantasy lands! Wildkeepers Rising is a whimsical action-RPG roguelite set in a beautiful hand-drawn world that combines the power curve of bullet heaven games with the compulsive fun of a creature collector.
Frequently asked about Monster Run: Downfall of the Empire
- Is Monster Run: Downfall of the Empire verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Monster Run: Downfall of the Empire is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Monster Run: Downfall of the Empire cost?
- Monster Run: Downfall of the Empire is listed on Steam at 15.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Monster Run: Downfall of the Empire?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Monster Run: Downfall of the Empire are Wanted Shadows, Goat Survivor, Cat Girl Survivor 2 : Beyond The Veil.
- Who developed Monster Run: Downfall of the Empire?
- Monster Run: Downfall of the Empire was developed by Interactive Fate and published by Iceberg Interactive.
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