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Games like Source of the Nile Digital Edition

If Source of the Nile Digital Edition is your kind of game, the closest matches are Curious Expedition, Curious Expedition 2 and Oaken — 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.

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About Source of the Nile Digital Edition: The single-player version of the legendary board game "Source of the Nile", finally brought to the digital realm. A challenging game of discovery played on a hexagon-grid map showing known Africa ca. 1820, in which the player competes with nature in order to survive.

2024StrategyAdventure19.99 USDWindowsby Friday Night Software
Source of the Nile Digital Edition — Steam game cover

Players who liked Source of the Nile Digital Edition also play

Steam players who put hours into Source of the Nile Digital Edition 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.

  1. Curious Expedition

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Source of the Nile Digital Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Source of the Nile Digital Edition.

    Curious Expedition is a roguelike expedition simulation set in the late 19th century. Together with famous personalities you will venture on unprecedented expeditions to regions never explored before for fame, science and treasures.

    2016StrategyIndieRPG14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Curious Expedition 2

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Source of the Nile Digital Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Source of the Nile Digital Edition.

    Curious Expedition 2 is a turn-based narrative roguelike set in a reimagined version of the late 19th century that uses procedural gameplay and story elements to create completely unique and epic adventures every time you play.

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Oaken

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Source of the Nile Digital Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Source of the Nile Digital Edition.

    Oaken, a turn-based tactical roguelike set in the spirit inhabited world. Explore the Great Oak, gather allies and trinkets, learn to use the positioning for your advantage, choose how to upgrade your cards. Wake the spirits and save the Oak!

    2023StrategyIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Crowntakers

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Source of the Nile Digital Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Source of the Nile Digital Edition.

    Crowntakers combines turn-based strategy with RPG elements and takes you at the behest of the crown into a medieval fantasy world full of challenging encounters and epic adventures. With its randomly generated world, Crowntakers offers a varied gaming experience every time you set out to fight evil.

    2014StrategyIndieRPG9.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Conquest Tactics : Realm of Sin

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Source of the Nile Digital Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Source of the Nile Digital Edition.

    Conquest Tactics: Realm of Sin is a dark-fantasy roguelite tactics game. Command your army and engage in turn-based battles on a hex-based board as you advance step by step to conquer a land shrouded in sin. Your choices carry weight: will you restore order… or allow eternal darkness to reign?

    2026StrategyIndie14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Warhammer Quest (Classic)

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Source of the Nile Digital Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Source of the Nile Digital Edition.

    Based on the classic tabletop game, Warhammer Quest is an addictive mix of role-playing and strategy.

    2015StrategyRPG29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Drop Duchy

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Source of the Nile Digital Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Source of the Nile Digital Edition.

    Build your duchy piece by piece in this refreshing hybrid rogue-lite game. Use block-dropping mechanics to collect resources, recruit troops to fight against belligerent armies, and let every block shape your realm, leading your path to victory!

    2025StrategyIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Demeo

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Source of the Nile Digital Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Source of the Nile Digital Edition.

    Adventurers, it’s time to unite! Gather your friends and battle the dark forces that have overtaken the world of Resolution Games' award-winning RPG dungeon crawler, Demeo. The next generation of tabletop adventure has arrived!

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure17.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Source of the Nile Digital Edition at current Steam store prices.

  1. Terraria

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Source of the Nile Digital Edition on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Source of the Nile Digital Edition.

    Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

    2011ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Lethal Company

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Source of the Nile Digital Edition on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Source of the Nile Digital Edition.

    A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Portal 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Source of the Nile Digital Edition on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Source of the Nile Digital Edition.

    The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!

    2011ActionAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Source of the Nile Digital Edition on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Source of the Nile Digital Edition.

    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?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Sid Meier's Civilization® V

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~63% under Source of the Nile Digital Edition on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Source of the Nile Digital Edition.

    Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!

    2010Strategy7.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~69% under Source of the Nile Digital Edition on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Source of the Nile Digital Edition.

    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!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Source of the Nile Digital Edition on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Source of the Nile Digital Edition.

    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...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Source of the Nile Digital Edition on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Source of the Nile Digital Edition.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Lily's Well

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Source of the Nile Digital Edition.

    It is a rainy night in the Spring of 2005. Lily is left home alone after her Papa put her to bed. She is awoken by a cry for help outside her window. It is coming from the well. Help Lily gather rope to go down the well and save the poor soul trapped down there.

    2022IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Die in the Dungeon: Origins

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Source of the Nile Digital Edition.

    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!

    2023StrategyIndieRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. The Riftbreaker: Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Source of the Nile Digital Edition.

    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.

    2020ActionStrategyIndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Shape of Dreams: Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Source of the Nile Digital Edition.

    《Shape of Dreams: Prologue》is a unique game that blends action roguelite with MOBA-style gameplay. Edit your character's Memories to create your own champion. Face all challenges alone or play with friends in up to 4-player co-op.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Limbus Company

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    As the Executive Manager of Limbus Company, lead your group of twelve Sinners, venture into the buried facilities of Lobotomy Corporation, and lay claim on the Golden Boughs.

    2023FreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Dota Underlords

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Source of the Nile Digital Edition.

    Hire a crew and destroy your rivals in this new strategy battler set in the world of Dota. Introducing Season One: Explore White Spire and earn rewards on the Battle Pass. Pick from several different game modes, play on your own or with friends, and take advantage of crossplay on PC and mobile.

    2019StrategyFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Fallout Shelter

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Fallout Shelter puts you in control of a state-of-the-art underground Vault from Vault-Tec. Build the perfect Vault, keep your Dwellers happy, and protect them from the dangers of the Wasteland.

    2017SimulationRPGFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Guild Wars 2®

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Source of the Nile Digital Edition.

    Guild Wars 2 is an award-winning online roleplaying game with fast-paced action combat, deep character customization, and no subscription fee required. Choose from an arsenal of professions and weapons, explore a vast open world, compete in PVP modes and more. Join over 16 million players now!

    2022AdventureMassively MultiplayerRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Curious Expedition 2

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Source of the Nile Digital Edition.

    Curious Expedition 2 is a turn-based narrative roguelike set in a reimagined version of the late 19th century that uses procedural gameplay and story elements to create completely unique and epic adventures every time you play.

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Oaken

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Source of the Nile Digital Edition.

    Oaken, a turn-based tactical roguelike set in the spirit inhabited world. Explore the Great Oak, gather allies and trinkets, learn to use the positioning for your advantage, choose how to upgrade your cards. Wake the spirits and save the Oak!

    2023StrategyIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Demeo

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Source of the Nile Digital Edition.

    Adventurers, it’s time to unite! Gather your friends and battle the dark forces that have overtaken the world of Resolution Games' award-winning RPG dungeon crawler, Demeo. The next generation of tabletop adventure has arrived!

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure17.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Source of the Nile Digital Edition

Does Source of the Nile Digital Edition work on Steam Deck?
Source of the Nile Digital Edition is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
How much does Source of the Nile Digital Edition cost?
Source of the Nile Digital Edition is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Source of the Nile Digital Edition?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Source of the Nile Digital Edition are Curious Expedition, Curious Expedition 2, Oaken.
Who developed Source of the Nile Digital Edition?
Source of the Nile Digital Edition was developed by Friday Night Software.

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 Source of the Nile Digital Edition.

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