Games like Praise Dead
Below are 19 hand-picked alternatives to Praise Dead for fans of strategy, simulation, casual, ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender. Each pick is scored on three signals: collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries (which players who logged hours in Praise Dead also play), content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, and review-mined "vibe" embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when the genre label differs. Sections below cover closest matches, reviewer cross-mentions, cheaper alternatives, more from Intrepid Marmot. No login required — these picks work anchor-only.
About Praise Dead: Praise Dead is a roguelike auto-battler where you create zombies from the parts of dead villagers and monsters. Use your zombies to defeat waves of demons, and to harvest resources to improve and upgrade your village.
Players who liked Praise Dead also play
Ranked by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries plus content overlap on genres, tags, and developers.
- 1
Idle Hero
Top pick for Praise Dead fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Praise Dead.
Idle Hero is a reference game in its genre. No endless walkthrough and unreachable goals. Everything is completable with guaranteed fun, pleasure and challenging but fair tasks.
- 2
Entropy Architects
Second-strongest match for Praise Dead fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Praise Dead.
"With each layer's laws collapsing, every decision reforges the world!" Will you become a desperate gambler, or emerge as a calculating tactician? Every choice remolds your fate – and sometimes, you'll need a dash of luck to tip the scales. Forge your ultimate build and conquer the impossible!
- 3
Iratus: Lord of the Dead
Third-strongest match for Praise Dead fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Praise Dead.
Iratus: Lord of the Dead is a turn-based tactical roguelike RPG set in a dark fantasy universe. Lead an army of undead to help an angry necromancer in his quest to reach the surface world and bring death to the mortal realms!
- 4
Fhtagn Simulator
Ranked #4 for Praise Dead fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Praise Dead.
Fhtagn Simulator is a Cthulhu Roulette Deckbuilder. Set up card slots on roulette to maximize card's value. Collect evil creatures, spells, items and environment to build your deck. Your ultimate mission is to sacrifice spirit collected by cards to unseal the ancient gods that have come to earth!
- 5
Necrosmith
Ranked #5 for Praise Dead fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Praise Dead.
A necromancer simulator. Assemble the dead using different body parts while upgrading your tower, combine the abilities of the different fantastic races to fight your way through the hordes of enemies and overrun the ’chosen ones’. To tell the truth, the dead are pretty, uhm, dumb.
- 6
The Dungeon Beneath
Ranked #6 for Praise Dead fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Praise Dead.
The Dungeon Beneath is a tactical rogue-like autobattler. Gather your party and descend into the dungeon, battling your way through room after room of nefarious enemies. Collect powerful artifacts and equipment to create an endless variety of strategies.
- 7
KeeperRL
Ranked #7 for Praise Dead fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Praise Dead.
KeeperRL is a retro dungeon simulator with roguelike and RPG elements. Take the role of an evil keeper and build a formidable dungeon. Recruit sinister minions, equip and train them to explore the world and fight the forces of good.
- 8
Legend of Keepers: Career of a Dungeon Manager
Ranked #8 for Praise Dead fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Praise Dead.
Legend of Keepers is the perfect mix between Dungeon Defender and Roguelite. You have been hired as a dungeon manager by the Dungeons Company. Your job is simple: protect their dungeons!
Reviewers mention these as similar to Praise Dead
Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.
- 1
- 2
Buggos
Reviewers of Praise Dead cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Praise Dead.
Lead your hive to victory in 'Buggos', an RTS Auto Battler! Customize your swarm with 120+ evolutions and conquer humanity. Strategy meets bug chaos!
- 3
Boneraiser Minions
Reviewers of Praise Dead cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Casual with Praise Dead.
Amass an army of undead to fight endless waves of heroes intent to end your boneraising ways! In this gothic auto-battler rogue-lite Survivor-like, use the bones of slain heroes to raise your minions, collect relics and spells, and unlock meta upgrades, all to survive King Gigald's crusade!
- 4
Buggos 2
Reviewers of Praise Dead cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Praise Dead.
Conquer and destroy the dirty Humans by sending swarms of bugs to crush their home worlds. Evolve your Buggos into stronger, faster, more murderous creatures that can rip the Human defenses to shreds! No one can stop your evolutionary powers. You are the evil Buggo Hivemind!!!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Praise Dead at current Steam store prices.
- 1
Idle Hero
Priced ~90% under Praise Dead on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Praise Dead.
Idle Hero is a reference game in its genre. No endless walkthrough and unreachable goals. Everything is completable with guaranteed fun, pleasure and challenging but fair tasks.
- 2
Fhtagn Simulator
Priced ~60% under Praise Dead on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Praise Dead.
Fhtagn Simulator is a Cthulhu Roulette Deckbuilder. Set up card slots on roulette to maximize card's value. Collect evil creatures, spells, items and environment to build your deck. Your ultimate mission is to sacrifice spirit collected by cards to unseal the ancient gods that have come to earth!
- 3
Necrosmith
Priced ~70% under Praise Dead on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Praise Dead.
A necromancer simulator. Assemble the dead using different body parts while upgrading your tower, combine the abilities of the different fantastic races to fight your way through the hordes of enemies and overrun the ’chosen ones’. To tell the truth, the dead are pretty, uhm, dumb.
Narrow it down
Head-to-head comparisons
More from Intrepid Marmot
Other recommendable Steam games by Intrepid Marmot, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
- 1
Buggos
Another title from Intrepid Marmot, the studio behind Praise Dead. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Praise Dead.
Lead your hive to victory in 'Buggos', an RTS Auto Battler! Customize your swarm with 120+ evolutions and conquer humanity. Strategy meets bug chaos!
- 2
Buggos 2
Another title from Intrepid Marmot, the studio behind Praise Dead. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Praise Dead.
Conquer and destroy the dirty Humans by sending swarms of bugs to crush their home worlds. Evolve your Buggos into stronger, faster, more murderous creatures that can rip the Human defenses to shreds! No one can stop your evolutionary powers. You are the evil Buggo Hivemind!!!
- 3
Gravity Shot
Another title from Intrepid Marmot, the studio behind Praise Dead. Shares Simulation and Casual with Praise Dead.
Sling shot explosive nuclear warheads into collision course with your planetary assassination targets. Using the gravitation of a planet against itself, while navigating your payload around asteroids, moons and even Black Holes for devastating effect!
- 4
Goblin Summer Camp
Another title from Intrepid Marmot, the studio behind Praise Dead. Shares Casual with Praise Dead.
The one true multiplayer goblin simulator. Play Goblin Tag and acquire power ups that let you leap across the entire map. Play Hide and Seek and annoy your friends with ‘REEEES’ when they cant find you. Stay alive in Death Run without being trapped. Be a goblin and do goblin things!
Frequently asked about Praise Dead
- Does Praise Dead run on Steam Deck?
- Praise Dead 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 Praise Dead cost?
- Praise Dead is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Praise Dead?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Praise Dead are Idle Hero, Entropy Architects, Iratus: Lord of the Dead.
- Who developed Praise Dead?
- Praise Dead was developed by Intrepid Marmot.
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 Praise Dead.
For library-aware picks tuned to your specific taste, sign in with Steam on the home page.