Games like Knightica
If Knightica is your kind of game, the closest matches are Backpack Dungeon, Backpack Battles and Valefor 2 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and chill. 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 Knightica: Recruit powerful units, place them strategically and find the best synergies in this Roguelike Autobattler! Knightica lets you guide a warband through many challenges to free the Kingdoms. Discover optimal combinations, weave powerful enchants, face dangerous monsters and lead your army to victory!
Players who liked Knightica also play
Steam players who put hours into Knightica 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.
Backpack Dungeon
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Top pick for Knightica fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Knightica.
A unique pixel-art backpack management roguelike. Your backpack isn't just storage—it's your combat core. Item placement, adjacency, and trigger mechanics determine your survival in the dungeon. A mental challenge of spatial planning and strategy.
Backpack Battles
WHY THIS
Shares auto battler, build variety, casual and a stressful mood with Knightica.
Second-strongest match for Knightica fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Knightica.
A PvP inventory management auto battler! Buy and craft powerful items, then carefully arrange them in your backpack.
Valefor 2
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Knightica fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Knightica.
A PvP roguelike autobattler you play at your own pace. Recruit mercenaries, stack distinct race/class synergies, forge relics, claim perks. Slow, deep, and hard.
Knight's Errand
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Ranked #4 for Knightica fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Knightica.
HoMM-like Rogue-Lite for those who don't have the energy for classic turn-based strategies, but crave deep tactics after work. Raise an army of units with unique abilities. Empower them with hero artifacts. Turn the tide of battle with spells. Defeat the armies of other players.
Gear Up Einstein!
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Ranked #5 for Knightica fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Knightica.
A strategic roguelite auto-battler for 1-3 players. Travel through time, recruit historical figures, and gear them up with badass equipment for ridiculous combos. Master tactical missions solo or with friends. Ready to save the world?
Lootbound
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Ranked #6 for Knightica fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Knightica.
Lootbound is a tactical roguelite with turn-based combat, loot management and D&D elements set in a dark fantasy world. Fight dangerous enemies, collect epic loot, recruit allies and lead them on a path of adventure.
Gladiator Guild Manager
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Knightica.
Ranked #7 for Knightica fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Knightica.
A strategic autobattler sim where you build a team of gladiators, compete in arenas, plan fight tactics, and form alliances. Combine fighters, beasts, and mages, develop and equip them to optimize your well-oiled fighting machine, dominate the championships, and leave your mark on the world.
Mechabellum
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Knightica.
Ranked #8 for Knightica fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Knightica.
Command massive armies in this epic mech auto-battler. Draft your troops, customize your units, master your formations, and crush enemies in spectacular 3D battles. All strategy, no clickfest. Outsmart opponents in 1v1, 2v2, free-for-all, or Survival Mode.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Knightica
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Slay the Spire
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Shares a challenging mood with Knightica.
Reviewers of Knightica cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Knightica.
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!
Monster Train
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Knightica.
Reviewers of Knightica cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Knightica.
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.
Tight Tactics
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Reviewers of Knightica cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Knightica.
Be ready for turn-based combat in this roguelite to kick off with the enemy opening fire on you first, trying to keep you from regrouping, and one bad decision leading to the death of your entire upgraded squad
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Knightica at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Knightica on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Knightica.
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
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Priced ~67% under Knightica on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Knightica.
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
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Priced ~47% under Knightica on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Knightica.
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
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Priced ~50% under Knightica on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Knightica.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Knightica.
Priced ~58% under Knightica on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Knightica.
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 Knightica on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Knightica.
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...
How to Fish
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Priced ~67% under Knightica on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Knightica.
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~67% under Knightica on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Knightica.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Knightica.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Knightica.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Knightica.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Knightica.
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 Knightica.
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. Shares Indie with Knightica.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Knightica.
A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!
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Frequently asked about Knightica
- Does Knightica run on Steam Deck?
- Knightica 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 Knightica cost?
- Knightica is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Knightica?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Knightica are Backpack Dungeon, Backpack Battles, Valefor 2.
- Who developed Knightica?
- Knightica was developed by Mad Mango Games and published by Goblinz Publishing, WR game.
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