Games like Dawnmaker
If Dawnmaker is your kind of game, the closest matches are Isles & Tiles, First Age and DeckTerra — 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 Dawnmaker: Dawnmaker is a turn-based city building and deckbuilding game, made by 2 strategy fans. It feels like playing a solo board game. Build luminous cities, optimize your deck and create powerful combinations between buildings and cards to bring life back to a dead world. Play the demo now!
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Steam players who put hours into Dawnmaker 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.
Isles & Tiles
WHY THIS
Top pick for Dawnmaker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Dawnmaker.
Isles & Tiles is a turn-based colony builder with terraforming and deck-builder elements. Balance resource production and demands while raising your island, growing a colony, and providing for the needs of your settlers.
First Age
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Dawnmaker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Dawnmaker.
A turn-based strategy card game set in the Neolithic Age. Sacrifice villagers, tame mammoths, and build powerful card synergies to lead your tribe through the threat of the Dark Ages. Will your people stand the test of time?
DeckTerra
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Dawnmaker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Dawnmaker.
A Medieval 4X Deckbuilder. Lead a kingdom as you build your deck to conquer the map and expand your rule. Develop your technology through the middle ages to improve your army of knights and keep your peasants happy. Develop your trade, religion, science, and military to conquer the continent.
Monarchs at Play
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Dawnmaker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Dawnmaker.
Turn-based 4X strategy in just one hour. Place buildings, chain adjacency bonuses, optimize resources, and outsmart rival monarchs through trade or war to earn the most Glory - solo or multiplayer.
StrategySteam ↗Abalon Arena: Multiplayer Card Tactics
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Dawnmaker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Dawnmaker.
Cards, tactics and mutant squirrels! Enter the arena and compete head to head, play cooperatively or go it alone to defeat increasingly challenging onslaughts of enemies in a cunning game of wits set in the fantastical world of Abalon.
PAR52
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Dawnmaker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
A uniquely cozy minigolf game, played on a hex-grid, where your putters are playing cards. Make combos to earn stardust, buy booster packs of strange cards and explore every hole to uncover its secrets...
Citadels - Shadow City
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Dawnmaker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Dawnmaker.
Citadels: Shadow City is a dark-fantasy turn-based card game of bluffing, diplomacy, and city-building. Pick secret roles, gather gold, and outsmart your opponents to construct the ultimate city. Play solo against AI or compete with friends in online and local multiplayer!
Tavrik
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Dawnmaker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Dawnmaker.
A hex-grid deckbuilding roguelite where every card you play reshapes the land beneath your feet. Lay roads, raise bridges, outrun storms and wolves, and push one more hex before your energy runs out. The journey is the dungeon.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Dawnmaker at current Steam store prices.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dawnmaker on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Dawnmaker.
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.
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dawnmaker on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Dawnmaker.
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.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dawnmaker on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Dawnmaker.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
STAR WARS™ Empire at War - Gold Pack
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dawnmaker on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Dawnmaker.
Command or corrupt an entire galaxy in the definitive Star Wars strategy collection. It is a time of galactic civil war. Will you take up the reins of the Rebellion, assume control of the Empire, or rule the Star Wars Underworld?
Nubby's Number Factory
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dawnmaker on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Dawnmaker.
A plinko-style roguelike where you work at a number factory. Launch your spherical friend, Nubby, down a pegboard to make bigger and bigger numbers! But beware, if you fail to meet your number quota, the sun will explode.
Monster Train
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dawnmaker on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Dawnmaker.
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.
Nodebuster
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Dawnmaker on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Dawnmaker.
Nodebuster is a short, experimental incremental game about busting nodes and destroying reality.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Dawnmaker.
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!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Dawnmaker.
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.
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!
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Frequently asked about Dawnmaker
- Does Dawnmaker run on Steam Deck?
- Dawnmaker 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 Dawnmaker cost?
- Dawnmaker is listed on Steam at 9.89 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Dawnmaker?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dawnmaker are Isles & Tiles, First Age, DeckTerra.
- Who developed Dawnmaker?
- Dawnmaker was developed by Arpentor Studio and published by Acram Digital.
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 Dawnmaker.
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