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Games like Effulgence RPG

If Effulgence RPG is your kind of game, the closest matches are Depth of Extinction, Tactics Ogre: Reborn and For The King — 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 Effulgence RPG: Effulgence RPG is a party-based RPG where symbols form 3D visuals. Enemies are more than obstacles - they ARE the resource 💀. Destroy them to forge better gear!

2026IndieAdventureRPG14.99 USDDeck PlayableWindowsby Andrei Fomin
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Steam players who put hours into Effulgence RPG 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. Depth of Extinction

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Effulgence RPG fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Effulgence RPG.

    Explore a flooded world and save humanity from a terrible threat in this turn based, tactical RPG with roguelike elements

    2018StrategyIndieRPG14.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Tactics Ogre: Reborn

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Effulgence RPG fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Effulgence RPG.

    Tactics Ogre, crown jewel of the tactical role-playing genre, is reborn! Based on the 2010 release, the game features improved graphics and sound, as well as updated game design, bringing to life a new Tactics Ogre that remains true to its roots.

    2022SimulationRPG14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. For The King

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Effulgence RPG fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Effulgence RPG.

    For The King is a strategic RPG that blends tabletop and roguelike elements in a challenging adventure that spans the realms. Set off on a single player experience or play cooperatively both online and locally.

    2018StrategyIndieAdventure3.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Mewgenics

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Effulgence RPG fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Effulgence RPG.

    Build the ultimate cat army through tactical breeding and send them into deep, challenging turn-based adventures. Draft abilities, collect items, and manipulate genetics across generations in this roguelike tactics game from the creators of The Binding of Isaac and The End is Nigh.

    2026StrategyIndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Wasteland 3

    WHY THIS

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

    Following the critically acclaimed 2014 Game of the Year winner Wasteland 2, the RPG series that pioneered the post-apocalyptic genre in video games returns with Wasteland 3.

    2020StrategyRPG39.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Effulgence RPG fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Effulgence RPG.

    Follow Vi, Kabbu, and Leif as they uncover the secrets of the Land of Bugaria! Explore and combine your team's abilities to solve puzzles, defeat powerful enemies and find ancient treasures!

    2019ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Fort Triumph

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Effulgence RPG fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Effulgence RPG.

    A strategy game combining the turn-based combat of XCOM with the world exploration of HOMM. Build towns, collect artifacts, improve your heroes, and influence your tactical surroundings using physics!

    2020StrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Chroma Squad

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Effulgence RPG fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Effulgence RPG.

    Tactical RPG about 5 stunt actors who decide to quit their jobs and start their own Power Rangers-inspired TV show! Cast actors, upgrade your studio, craft Mechas of cardboard and duct tape. Once the cameras are rolling, control your cast of 5 colored-jumpsuit-clad warriors in turn-based battles.

    2015StrategyIndieRPG14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Effulgence RPG at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Effulgence RPG on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Effulgence RPG.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Effulgence RPG on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Effulgence RPG.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Effulgence RPG on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Effulgence RPG.

    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 ↗
  4. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Effulgence RPG on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Effulgence RPG.

    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 ↗
  5. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Effulgence RPG on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Effulgence RPG.

    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 ↗
  6. How to Fish

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Effulgence RPG on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Effulgence RPG.

    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.

    2026ActionIndieSimulation4.95 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Effulgence RPG on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Effulgence RPG.

    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 ↗
  8. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Effulgence RPG on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Effulgence RPG.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Effulgence RPG.

    Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

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

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

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

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

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

    Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Effulgence RPG.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

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

    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.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. NGU IDLE

    WHY THIS

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

    NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!

    2019IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

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

    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.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck 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. Tactics Ogre: Reborn

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares RPG with Effulgence RPG.

    Tactics Ogre, crown jewel of the tactical role-playing genre, is reborn! Based on the 2010 release, the game features improved graphics and sound, as well as updated game design, bringing to life a new Tactics Ogre that remains true to its roots.

    2022SimulationRPG14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Mewgenics

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Effulgence RPG.

    Build the ultimate cat army through tactical breeding and send them into deep, challenging turn-based adventures. Draft abilities, collect items, and manipulate genetics across generations in this roguelike tactics game from the creators of The Binding of Isaac and The End is Nigh.

    2026StrategyIndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Effulgence RPG.

    Follow Vi, Kabbu, and Leif as they uncover the secrets of the Land of Bugaria! Explore and combine your team's abilities to solve puzzles, defeat powerful enemies and find ancient treasures!

    2019ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Fort Triumph

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Effulgence RPG.

    A strategy game combining the turn-based combat of XCOM with the world exploration of HOMM. Build towns, collect artifacts, improve your heroes, and influence your tactical surroundings using physics!

    2020StrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Effulgence RPG

Does Effulgence RPG run on Steam Deck?
Effulgence RPG 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 Effulgence RPG cost?
Effulgence RPG is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Effulgence RPG?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Effulgence RPG are Depth of Extinction, Tactics Ogre: Reborn, For The King.
Who developed Effulgence RPG?
Effulgence RPG was developed by Andrei Fomin.

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 Effulgence RPG.

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