Games like Break the Empire
If Break the Empire is your kind of game, the closest matches are To Kill a God, Smith & Dungeon: Crafting the Legendary Weapons and Steven — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its destructive spells feel satisfying, excellent value at 5 and challenging. 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 Break the Empire: Fight your way to the capital and slay the emperor! Choose from a variety of characters with unique spells and skills! Featuring permadeath, interactable terrain, distinct builds, wild combos, and endless replayability.
Players who liked Break the Empire also play
Steam players who put hours into Break the Empire 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.
To Kill a God
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Top pick for Break the Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Break the Empire.
Craft your skill tree in this action roguelike where you must utilize skill and creativity to unleash devastating builds, all for one purpose. Break the Cycle. Kill a god.
Smith & Dungeon: Crafting the Legendary Weapons
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Break the Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Break the Empire.
"Smith and Dungeon" is a hack-and-slash roguelite game, where you play as a blacksmith exploring dungeons, battling monsters, collecting materials, and crafting powerful weapons!
Steven
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Break the Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Break the Empire.
Steven is a vampire-survivor-style game where you play as Steven, the swan. Use his attacks to devour enemies, earning points to upgrade Steven and make him stronger for the upcoming waves.
Moonloot
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Ranked #4 for Break the Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Break the Empire.
Moonloot is a roguelite combining fast-paced combat with village management. Survive deadly nights, complete moon-driven objectives, rescue survivors, and grow your settlement to unlock stronger upgrades, abilities, and heroes with every run.
Lands of Fury
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Ranked #5 for Break the Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Break the Empire.
Fight your way up a brutal mountain. Combine weapons, cartridges, runes, and companions to create devastating combat builds and carve through relentless enemies in this combat-driven roguelite ARPG.
Medieval Chaos
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Ranked #6 for Break the Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Break the Empire.
Slay, merge, and survive in this pixel roguelike battleground! Craft deadly weapons, fight endless hordes, and embrace medieval madness.
ZpellCatz
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Ranked #8 for Break the Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Break the Empire.
Stranded on a cursed island, near death, you fight your way through dungeons full of loot to develop your cat hero's magical abilities. ZpellCatz is an action RPG with a dark campaign, exciting boss fights, hundreds of epic items and - of course - cats.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Break the Empire at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Break the Empire on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Break the Empire.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Break the Empire on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Break the Empire.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~70% under Break the Empire on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Break the Empire.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~80% under Break the Empire on Steam right now. Shares Action with Break the Empire.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Break the Empire on Steam right now. Shares Action with Break the Empire.
You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.
shapez
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Priced ~80% under Break the Empire on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Break the Empire.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy™
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Break the Empire on Steam right now. Shares Action with Break the Empire.
Forge your weapon and follow the path of the Jedi Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is the latest installment of the highly acclaimed Jedi Knight series. Take on the role of a new student eager to learn the ways of the Force from Jedi Master Luke Skywalker.
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
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Priced ~60% under Break the Empire on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Break the Empire.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
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 Break the Empire.
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.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Break the Empire.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Break the Empire.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Break the Empire.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Break the Empire.
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.
Coloring Pixels
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Break the Empire.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
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More from Edym Pixels
Other recommendable Steam games by Edym Pixels, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Grim Nights
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Break the Empire.
Another title from Edym Pixels, the studio behind Break the Empire. Shares Indie with Break the Empire.
Your village must survive for 13 days! Gather resources, expand, explore the underground for riches, and train soldiers to defend against hordes of the undead.
Grim Realms
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Shares a dark mood with Break the Empire.
Another title from Edym Pixels, the studio behind Break the Empire. Shares Indie with Break the Empire.
A dark fantasy colony sim - will your colony end the Dread Storm and redeem mankind, or will they harness the dark powers for themselves? Guide your villagers as they struggle to stay alive in a world overrun by the undead.
Hollow Island
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Another title from Edym Pixels, the studio behind Break the Empire. Shares Indie with Break the Empire.
Shape your own destiny: Explore, dig for riches, fish, grow crops, cook food, brew and sell potions, expand your property, fight monsters, build camps and hoard your treasures!
Mirklurk: Every Step Matters
WHY THIS
Another title from Edym Pixels, the studio behind Break the Empire.
You've been exiled to The Mirk - an unforgiving swampland where every step could be your last. You must constantly make choices: what paths to take, which tree to shelter under, what beasts to engage or avoid, what items to bring into the darkness of dungeons, and what treasures to leave behind.
Frequently asked about Break the Empire
- Does Break the Empire run on Steam Deck?
- Break the Empire 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 Break the Empire cost?
- Break the Empire is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Break the Empire?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Break the Empire are To Kill a God, Smith & Dungeon: Crafting the Legendary Weapons, Steven.
- Who developed Break the Empire?
- Break the Empire was developed by Edym Pixels.
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