Games like EMITIME
If EMITIME is your kind of game, the closest matches are My Only Heroes, Rapture Recovery Squad and Nowhere Prophet — 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 EMITIME: A Roguelike Grid-based deck builder where music and beat are your strategies. Expand your deck as you defeat the enemies you encounter along the way, and fuel your attack with your rhythm!... And there are DOGs!
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Steam players who put hours into EMITIME 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.
My Only Heroes
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Top pick for EMITIME fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with EMITIME.
Assemble your squad in My Only Heroes, a roguelite deckbuilder where your deck is your Heroes. Start each run with random recruits, then brave shifting dungeons to unlock legendary Main Heroes with superior stats. Stack equipment for awesome combos and survive to reach Mayhem Mountain!
Rapture Recovery Squad
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Second-strongest match for EMITIME fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with EMITIME.
Rapture Recovery Squad is a dungeon crawling, deck building auto-battler. Map out the depths beneath humanity's last refuge and build up your roster of psionically charged fighters to prevent the end of the world.
Nowhere Prophet
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for EMITIME fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with EMITIME.
Prepare your decks and go on a pilgrimage through the wasteland! Nowhere Prophet is a unique single-player card game. Travel across randomly generated maps and lead your followers in deep tactical combat. Discover new cards and build your deck as you explore this strange, broken world.
Dead Grid
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Ranked #4 for EMITIME fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with EMITIME.
Dead Grid is a turn-based strategy game set in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by zombies, infused with an 80s retro vibe. Lead a squad of elite mercenaries, fight relentless hordes, discover survivors, and build up your camp with hundreds of scavenged upgrades.
Slot & Dungeons
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Ranked #5 for EMITIME fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with EMITIME.
A deck-building roguelite where the reels decide your fate! Enemies and items appear based on the spin of the slot. Master luck and strategy to conquer the dungeon!
Shardpunk
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Ranked #6 for EMITIME fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with EMITIME.
The war is lost, the Capitol lies in ruins, and you’re on the run! Shardpunk mixes turn-based tactical strategy with RPG, survival, and resource management as you gather your team, scavenge for resources, fight enemy hordes, and seek shelter to live another day.
Cobalt Core
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Ranked #7 for EMITIME fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with EMITIME.
A sci-fi roguelike deckbuilder with a deep new single-axis spin on tactics games! Dodge missiles, line up your cannons, and blast 'em out of the sky... Then get to the bottom of these time loops, before it's too late!
Black Book
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Ranked #8 for EMITIME fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with EMITIME.
“Black Book” is a dark RPG Adventure, based on Slavic myths, in which you play as a young sorceress. Fight evil forces in card-based battles and explore the world, where humans live alongside mythological creatures.
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with EMITIME.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with EMITIME.
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Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with EMITIME.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with EMITIME.
Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).
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 EMITIME.
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. Shares Indie and RPG with EMITIME.
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!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with EMITIME.
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.
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Nowhere Prophet
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with EMITIME.
Prepare your decks and go on a pilgrimage through the wasteland! Nowhere Prophet is a unique single-player card game. Travel across randomly generated maps and lead your followers in deep tactical combat. Discover new cards and build your deck as you explore this strange, broken world.
Shardpunk
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with EMITIME.
The war is lost, the Capitol lies in ruins, and you’re on the run! Shardpunk mixes turn-based tactical strategy with RPG, survival, and resource management as you gather your team, scavenge for resources, fight enemy hordes, and seek shelter to live another day.
Cobalt Core
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with EMITIME.
A sci-fi roguelike deckbuilder with a deep new single-axis spin on tactics games! Dodge missiles, line up your cannons, and blast 'em out of the sky... Then get to the bottom of these time loops, before it's too late!
Frequently asked about EMITIME
- What games are most similar to EMITIME?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside EMITIME are My Only Heroes, Rapture Recovery Squad, Nowhere Prophet.
- Who developed EMITIME?
- EMITIME was developed by Otterweave Games Studio.
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 EMITIME.
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