Games like Delven
If Delven is your kind of game, the closest matches are Zodiac Legion, Skirmish Squad and Winter Falling: Battle Tactics — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. 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 Delven: Delven blends factory building with turn-based RPG action. Explore a 2D world, evolve companions, optimize gear and skill trees, and research tech. With an auto-battle option, unlimited inventory, and offline progress, play at your pace and craft your path in this strategic adventure!
Players who liked Delven also play
Steam players who put hours into Delven 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.
Zodiac Legion
WHY THIS
Top pick for Delven fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Delven.
Zodiac Legion is a turn-based tactical RPG where you take command of an arcane chivalric order. Expand your potential in a world of reawakening magic. Develop your stronghold, research astral powers, and lead your champions in combat against forces and beasts from beyond myth and memory.
Skirmish Squad
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Delven fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Delven.
Choose your characters and establish your strategy! Strengthen your party with endless upgrades as you ascend the tower.
Winter Falling: Battle Tactics
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Delven.
Third-strongest match for Delven fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Delven.
Lead troops in tense tactical battles, just you and your brain against the dying world. Can you save it? Manage a mercenary company, scavenge supplies, build an army. Go on a quest! Burn down a village or two... Explore the rich medieval fantasy world in a mix of LOTR, Warhammer, FTL and Total War.
Time Break Chronicles
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Delven.
Ranked #4 for Delven fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Delven.
Time Break Chronicles is a fusion of classic JRPGs and modern Roguelites, with a cast of 100 playable classes to find and unlock. Build your team, customize their abilities, and venture into a procedurally generated adventure through space-time and beyond!
Rogue Fable IV
WHY THIS
Shares turn based combat, procedural generation, dungeon crawler and a contemplative mood with Delven.
Ranked #5 for Delven fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Delven.
Storm the lair of the immortal wizard Yendor in this fast paced, turn based, traditional rogue-like. The massive scope, deep mechanics and challenging gameplay that define the genre distilled into dense and highly varied one hour runs.
Heroes of Science and Fiction
WHY THIS
Shares base building, turn based combat and a contemplative mood with Delven.
Ranked #6 for Delven fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Delven.
A turn-based sci-fi strategy that combines exploration and exciting clashes on the battlefield. Take control over several different species, raise powerful armies for your heroes and destroy your opponents! This HoMM-like is set in a scifi universe, with new mechanics on top of the classic formula.
Legendary Creatures 2
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Delven.
Ranked #7 for Delven fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Delven.
Sequel to the acclaimed Legendary Creatures, created by HideChara, and a fun treat combining both roguelike and auto-battler gameplay. Recruit and evolve a large array of troops, creatures, and an arsenal of weapons, to defeat the demon lord spreading corruption across the land.
洪荒：我挂机成圣
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Delven fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Delven.
洪荒是一款非常非常非常肝的文字素材类游戏，游戏中没有华丽的美术，闪亮亮的特效，完全以放置挂机的数值玩法为驱动，养成依靠打书、炼妖、修炼、构筑装备品质词条等搭配数百名不同的角色，在其中玩家更能够通过放置挂机获得宝物与资源，拥有各种神话传说中的角色，然后将获得的物品角色与其他玩家进行交易来养成自己最强的阵容。
Reviewers mention these as similar to Delven
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Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Delven.
Reviewers of Delven cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Delven.
Play with friends or AI as you travel across fantastic planes to take on new encounters & opponents. Magic 2013 features ten customizable decks, individual records, new items & more!
Dwarf Fortress
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with Delven.
Reviewers of Delven cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Delven.
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
Magic: The Gathering Arena
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Delven.
Reviewers of Delven cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Delven.
Magic: The Gathering Arena empowers you to discover your strategy, meet the planeswalkers, explore the multiverse, and battle friends around the world. Start playing for free, challenge your friends, unlock cards, and feel the magic of the original fantasy CCG!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Delven at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Delven on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Delven.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Delven on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Delven.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Delven on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Delven.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Delven on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Delven.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Delven on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Delven.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Delven on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Delven.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~70% under Delven on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Delven.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Delven on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Delven.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
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 RPG with Delven.
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.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Delven.
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!
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Delven.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Delven.
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 Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Delven.
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.
The Last Sovereign
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Delven.
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.
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 Delven.
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!
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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.
Time Break Chronicles
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Delven.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Delven.
Time Break Chronicles is a fusion of classic JRPGs and modern Roguelites, with a cast of 100 playable classes to find and unlock. Build your team, customize their abilities, and venture into a procedurally generated adventure through space-time and beyond!
Heroes of Science and Fiction
WHY THIS
Shares base building, turn based combat and a contemplative mood with Delven.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Delven.
A turn-based sci-fi strategy that combines exploration and exciting clashes on the battlefield. Take control over several different species, raise powerful armies for your heroes and destroy your opponents! This HoMM-like is set in a scifi universe, with new mechanics on top of the classic formula.
Legendary Creatures 2
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Delven.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Delven.
Sequel to the acclaimed Legendary Creatures, created by HideChara, and a fun treat combining both roguelike and auto-battler gameplay. Recruit and evolve a large array of troops, creatures, and an arsenal of weapons, to defeat the demon lord spreading corruption across the land.
Frequently asked about Delven
- Does Delven run on Steam Deck?
- Delven 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 Delven cost?
- Delven is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Delven?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Delven are Zodiac Legion, Skirmish Squad, Winter Falling: Battle Tactics.
- Who developed Delven?
- Delven was developed by NikZ.
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