Games like Pickaxe Friends
If Pickaxe Friends is your kind of game, the closest matches are Imaginytes, Brawl To The West and Free of the Land — 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 Pickaxe Friends: 《Pickaxe Friends》 is a deck-building roguelike defense game set against the backdrop of cute miners and their intense mining adventures. Design your own synergy decks, master counters and timing, and hold the line against waves of incoming enemies. Thrilling action and deep strategy await you!
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Steam players who put hours into Pickaxe Friends 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.
Imaginytes
WHY THIS
Top pick for Pickaxe Friends fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pickaxe Friends.
Tower defense meets roguelite deckbuilder! Collect, summon and evolve your Imaginyte creatures, and use them to create intricate mazes to defeat the nightmares.
Brawl To The West
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Pickaxe Friends fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pickaxe Friends.
"Join this hilarious auto-battler! Equip gear, grow fruit trees, and tame monsters to build your team. Choose unique characters or battle others in ranked mode—every run is fresh! Weaklings perish; victors take all. Will you go the farthest? Dive in now!"
Free of the Land
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Pickaxe Friends fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pickaxe Friends.
A tactical roguelike deckbuilder of misfits and monsters. Build your deck, summon your minions, cast your spells and survive long enough to claim the land.
Pick Squad
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Pickaxe Friends fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pickaxe Friends.
A strategy game blending deckbuilding, auto-battler, and roguelike elements. Recruit and upgrade units to build your squad. Draw random numbers to activate matching units’ skills on the board, earn points, and defeat the boss. Test your strategy and arrangement — with a little luck.
Sovereign Hand : The Last Enclave
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Pickaxe Friends fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Pickaxe Friends.
Build and defend your fantasy city in a strategic roguelike deckbuilding experience. Manage resources, upgrade your enclave, and choose your cards wisely to survive the encroaching darkness. Every decision shapes the fate of your sovereignty in Sovereign Hand: The Last Enclave.
Realm of Advent
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Pickaxe Friends fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pickaxe Friends.
If you enjoy building unique decks, engaging in one-tap auto-battles and experiencing frantic number-crunching, then you’re sure to love *Realm of Advent*. In this despair-stricken world following the arrival of the Apostles, over 300 cards and artefacts trigger wild chain reactions.
Food Fight
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Pickaxe Friends fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pickaxe Friends.
Snack brawling autobattler roguelike: draft 200+ battling bites, pick from 14 classes, and fight down eight floors of a possessed kitchen. Shops, themed crates, relics, boss hazards, a debuff rank ladder · Linux + Windows Early Access.
Pirate Pillage and Plunder
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Pickaxe Friends fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pickaxe Friends.
PIRATE PILLAGE & PLUNDER is the unique blend of card game and auto battler, wrapped together in a neat roguelike package. Choose your faction, amass an army from thousands of "willing" participants, and lead them to greatness! (or agonizing defeat)
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Pickaxe Friends at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Pickaxe Friends on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Pickaxe Friends.
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 ~67% under Pickaxe Friends on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Pickaxe Friends.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Pickaxe Friends on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Pickaxe Friends.
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?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Pickaxe Friends on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Pickaxe Friends.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Pickaxe Friends on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pickaxe Friends.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Pickaxe Friends on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pickaxe Friends.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Pickaxe Friends on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pickaxe Friends.
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 ~67% under Pickaxe Friends on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Pickaxe Friends.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Pickaxe Friends.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Pickaxe Friends.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Pickaxe Friends.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Pickaxe Friends.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Pickaxe Friends.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Pickaxe Friends.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Pickaxe Friends.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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Frequently asked about Pickaxe Friends
- How much does Pickaxe Friends cost?
- Pickaxe Friends is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Pickaxe Friends?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Pickaxe Friends are Imaginytes, Brawl To The West, Free of the Land.
- Who developed Pickaxe Friends?
- Pickaxe Friends was developed by KIMJUIM.
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 Pickaxe Friends.
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