Games like Pyrene
If Pyrene is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dice & Fold, Monster Train and SpellRogue — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative and relaxing. 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 Pyrene: Defeat hellish monsters and rebuild your home in Pyrene, a fast paced roguelike dungeon-crawler. Play with different heroes & spells, collect powerful relics to upgrade your deck while uncovering the mysteries behind your village’s destruction.
Players who liked Pyrene also play
Steam players who put hours into Pyrene 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.
Dice & Fold
WHY THIS
Shares deck building, roguelite progression, roguelite and a relaxing mood with Pyrene.
Top pick for Pyrene fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pyrene.
A turn-based dungeon crawler where your only way of attacking the enemy is by rolling dice. Roll dice to damage enemy cards to FOLD. Inspired by classic Solitaire, in a top-down table and enemies made out of cards, try to beat the dungeon with 35 unique classes. Build your deck, kill monsters.
Monster Train
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a challenging mood with Pyrene.
Second-strongest match for Pyrene fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Pyrene.
Monster Train is a strategic roguelike deck building game with a twist. Set on a train to hell, you’ll use tactical decision making to defend multiple vertical battlegrounds. With real time competitive multiplayer and endless replayability, Monster Train is always on time.
SpellRogue
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a whimsical mood with Pyrene.
Third-strongest match for Pyrene fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pyrene.
SpellRogue is the ultimate tactical turn-based roguelike! Draft from over 350 powerful spells to assemble the perfect combination and crush your enemies in 70+ unique encounters. Face brutal choices, adapt to impossible odds, and strike back at the horrors that destroyed the world.
Right and Down
WHY THIS
Shares grid based movement and a relaxing mood with Pyrene.
Ranked #4 for Pyrene fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pyrene.
A deep roguelike and card game that is played using only two buttons: Right and Down! Choose your hero and explore randomly generated card dungeons, gather powerful artifacts to get new abilities, and fight against mighty enemies! Will you make it to level 50?
LONESTAR
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Pyrene.
Ranked #5 for Pyrene fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pyrene.
LONESTAR is a strategic Roguelike spaceship deckbuilder. As a bounty hunter, you will capture criminals scattered across the universe. Win the shockwave battle to gain rewards and vacations. Find treasures, customize spaceships, unlock talents, defeat the felons and be a legend!
Circadian Dice
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Pyrene.
Ranked #6 for Pyrene fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Pyrene.
Circadian Dice is a game inspired by single-player deck-building games, but instead of upgrading a deck, you build up a set of dice! Use 10 different heroes and 60 game-warping relics to take on 13 hand-crafted scenarios, in runs that take 10-30 minutes. Lots of secrets and unlocks to discover!
Wildfrost
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a challenging mood with Pyrene.
Ranked #7 for Pyrene fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pyrene.
Take on the elements in Wildfrost, a tactical roguelike deckbuilder! Journey across a frozen tundra, collecting cards strong enough to banish the eternal winter…
Die in the Dungeon
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Pyrene.
Ranked #8 for Pyrene fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pyrene.
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 powerful dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and risk it all hoping for a good roll on unexpected encounters.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Pyrene
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Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a challenging mood with Pyrene.
Reviewers of Pyrene cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pyrene.
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!
The Binding of Isaac
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Pyrene.
Reviewers of Pyrene cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Pyrene.
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Monster Train
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a challenging mood with Pyrene.
Reviewers of Pyrene cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Pyrene.
Monster Train is a strategic roguelike deck building game with a twist. Set on a train to hell, you’ll use tactical decision making to defend multiple vertical battlegrounds. With real time competitive multiplayer and endless replayability, Monster Train is always on time.
FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Pyrene.
Reviewers of Pyrene cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pyrene.
FORWARD: Escape the Fold - Ultimate Edition was created to be the perfect bitesized roguelike dungeon crawler. Choose your champion and face a relentless crawl through the card-based dungeons, collect items to power your abilities and defeat the gruesome monsters facing you. But keep going FORWARD!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Pyrene at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Pyrene on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Pyrene.
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 ~44% under Pyrene on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Pyrene.
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 ~44% under Pyrene on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pyrene.
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 ~44% under Pyrene on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Pyrene.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~89% under Pyrene on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Pyrene.
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 ~44% under Pyrene on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Pyrene.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Pyrene on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Pyrene.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Pyrene on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Pyrene.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Pyrene.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Pyrene.
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.
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Pyrene.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
The Children of Clay
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Pyrene.
The Children of Clay is a short stop motion archeology horror game, where you have to study an ancient artefact and discover its dark secret.
one night, hot springs
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Pyrene.
Haru is invited by her old friend Manami to spend a night at the hot springs. All Haru wants to do is enjoy the hot springs like everyone else, but she doesn't want to cause any trouble...
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 Pyrene.
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!
South Scrimshaw, Part One
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Pyrene.
South Scrimshaw is the story of a newborn whale in a vast alien ocean. It is a richly illustrated experimental visual novel, written in the style of a nature documentary.
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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.
Dice & Fold
WHY THIS
Shares deck building, roguelite progression, roguelite and a relaxing mood with Pyrene.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pyrene.
A turn-based dungeon crawler where your only way of attacking the enemy is by rolling dice. Roll dice to damage enemy cards to FOLD. Inspired by classic Solitaire, in a top-down table and enemies made out of cards, try to beat the dungeon with 35 unique classes. Build your deck, kill monsters.
SpellRogue
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a whimsical mood with Pyrene.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pyrene.
SpellRogue is the ultimate tactical turn-based roguelike! Draft from over 350 powerful spells to assemble the perfect combination and crush your enemies in 70+ unique encounters. Face brutal choices, adapt to impossible odds, and strike back at the horrors that destroyed the world.
LONESTAR
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Pyrene.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pyrene.
LONESTAR is a strategic Roguelike spaceship deckbuilder. As a bounty hunter, you will capture criminals scattered across the universe. Win the shockwave battle to gain rewards and vacations. Find treasures, customize spaceships, unlock talents, defeat the felons and be a legend!
Wildfrost
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a challenging mood with Pyrene.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pyrene.
Take on the elements in Wildfrost, a tactical roguelike deckbuilder! Journey across a frozen tundra, collecting cards strong enough to banish the eternal winter…
Die in the Dungeon
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Pyrene.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pyrene.
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 powerful dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and risk it all hoping for a good roll on unexpected encounters.
Frequently asked about Pyrene
- Does Pyrene run on Steam Deck?
- Pyrene 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 Pyrene cost?
- Pyrene is listed on Steam at 8.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Pyrene?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Pyrene are Dice & Fold, Monster Train, SpellRogue.
- Who developed Pyrene?
- Pyrene was developed by Two Tiny Dice and published by Indie Asylum.
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 Pyrene.
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