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Games like Glowlings

If Glowlings is your kind of game, the closest matches are Forecast Death, WitchTrial and Horde Sweepers — 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 Glowlings: Deepdive in a top-down rougelite and defend yourself as a Glowling against the machines that have come to life. Collect the Scrap from you dead enemys to build new items and weapons. Find new ways to combine your character, items and weapons to develope powerful synergys.

ActionStrategyRPGCasualWindows · macOS · Linuxby DisplayYourVision
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Steam players who put hours into Glowlings 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. Forecast Death

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Glowlings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Glowlings.

    Survive the chaos of a bullet-heaven action game. Tear through enemy hordes, stack wild ability combos, and endure cataclysms that rewrite the rules mid-fight. The pace ramps up every minute - either you grow stronger, or you get wiped out.

    ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  2. WitchTrial

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Glowlings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Casual with Glowlings.

    WitchTrial is a fast single-player twin-stick arena roguelite. Dodge murderous sawblade formations, fight escalating enemy waves, and turn the arena’s traps against your executioners. Survive each day, endure nightly interrogations, and build a deadly combination of upgrades.

    ActionIndieCasualSteam ↗
  3. Horde Sweepers

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Glowlings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Glowlings.

    Fast-paced Rogue-lite action. A high-octane mashup of Vampire Survivors and Hades. Unlock and combine upgrades, create your unique builds, use active abilities, enhance your weapons, find enemy weaknesses, and cleanse this city of mutants.

    ActionIndieSteam ↗
  4. Towerful Guardians

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Glowlings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Glowlings.

    Pilot your flying machine, be it a helicopter, a mech, or a straight magical suit, to fight alien monsters and defend the towers that are very important to mankind in a post-apocalyptic setting. Upgrade your gears, build strong synergy with the tower's abilities to out-scale enemy power and survive!

    ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  5. Destropolis 2

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Glowlings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Glowlings.

    Hordes of red cube enemies. Bullets, lasers and nukes. Cities to raze to the ground.

    ActionSteam ↗
  6. Pickle Pete

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Glowlings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Glowlings.

    A roguelite bullet heaven where you dodge and auto-shoot through waves of enemies. Build devastating weapon, gear and mutation combinations with deep synergies. Face over 30 unique bosses across diverse biomes in this challenging arena shooter.

    2026ActionRPGCasualSteam ↗
  7. UberLoop

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Glowlings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Glowlings.

    Smash your way through endless waves of enemies and grow absurdly powerful! Explore the map, grab loot from shrines, level up with unique upgrades, unlock new characters, and stack wild abilities to create crazy builds as you fend off hordes of creatures!

    ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  8. Mechaconda

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Glowlings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Glowlings.

    Survive hordes of monsters and bosses while collecting cards that add unique ability upgrades to the body of a small snake Mechaconda.

    2026ActionIndie7.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

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

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Iron Snout

    WHY THIS

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

    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.

    2016ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Eternal Senia

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and RPG with Glowlings.

    Thoughts and expectations ARPG

    2015ActionIndieRPGFreeSteam ↗
  4. Disfigure

    WHY THIS

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

    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!

    2023ActionIndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Lab

    WHY THIS

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

    Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  6. Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt

    WHY THIS

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

    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).

    2016ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Die in the Dungeon: Origins

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and RPG with Glowlings.

    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 ↗
  8. I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT!!!1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Casual with Glowlings.

    A top down twin stick zombie slaying shooter that you are sure to play again and again!

    2021ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Glowlings

What games are most similar to Glowlings?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Glowlings are Forecast Death, WitchTrial, Horde Sweepers.
Who developed Glowlings?
Glowlings was developed by DisplayYourVision.

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 Glowlings.

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