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Games like Kindred Ills

If Kindred Ills is your kind of game, the closest matches are Guildrun, Stonespire and Slotbound — 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 Kindred Ills: Kindred Ills is a dark, loot-focused tile-based dungeon crawler. Build a party of mercenaries, discover powerful spells and items, and fight your way through dangerous biomes where death is permanent. Find rare loot, and push your party further with increasingly brutal difficulties and modifiers.

StrategyWindowsby Angel Flayer
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  1. Guildrun

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Kindred Ills fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Kindred Ills.

    Turn a simple team into an unstoppable force and crush waves of monsters in this PvE autobattler roguelike. No two runs feel the same as you bend heroes beyond their class roles and discover countless combinations and synergies. Seal the rifts at your own pace and uncover what tore them open.

    ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  2. Stonespire

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Kindred Ills fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Kindred Ills.

    Stonespire is a roguelike autobattler about defeating a great evil to protect your city. Recruit an army and collect powerful relics while managing the limited lives of your units through a unique injury system. Unique enemies across various biomes create strategic challenges.

    StrategySteam ↗
  3. Slotbound

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Kindred Ills fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Kindred Ills.

    A roguelike auto-battler defense where luck meets strategy. Spin a 3x3 slot machine to summon units and grow your army by absorbing others. Use Items and Cores to manipulate the odds and survive challenging judgement waves and boss waves. Every spin and every choice counts.

    2026StrategyIndieSteam ↗
  4. PUSH MID

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Kindred Ills fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Kindred Ills.

    PUSH MID is a roguelite auto-battler where MOBA heroes fight on their own. Pick your team, send each hero to a lane, equip them with items, choose powerful perks, and watch your strategy play out as they push toward the enemy base.

    2026StrategyIndieSteam ↗
  5. Vampire Invasion

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Kindred Ills fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Kindred Ills.

    Lead a vampire horde in this reverse tower defense. Upgrade your units, assign your formation and breach the human's defenses to take back your lands. No more hiding behind towers. Be the mighty attacking force!

    2027StrategySteam ↗
  6. Spirit Links

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Kindred Ills fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Kindred Ills.

    Awaken elemental spirits, sculpt the land into living defenses, and stand against the cursed tide. A deep, adjacency‑driven roguelike tower defense where every placement shapes your fate.

    StrategySteam ↗
  7. Auto Shrooms

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Kindred Ills fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Kindred Ills.

    Grow, harvest, and command your troop of tiny mushrooms in this auto battler where you have to grow your units. Master the lifecycle of your Sporelings to create specialised units. Adapt to hostile alien worlds by changing your formation, equipment, and traits. All biomass will be assimilated.

    StrategySteam ↗
  8. For Our King

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Kindred Ills fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Kindred Ills.

    A medieval Tower Defense x Autobattler Roguelite. Defend your Keep across escalating waves, recruit different unit types, and cast spells from different Schools of Magic. Spend what you earn on a skill tree with over 300 upgrades, and place them on a Decree Bar with many unique modifiers and mults.

    2026ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗

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  1. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

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

    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.

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  2. Iron Snout

    WHY THIS

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

    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. Star Fetchers

    WHY THIS

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

    The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories

    2020ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

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

    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.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Eternal Senia

    WHY THIS

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

    Thoughts and expectations ARPG

    2015ActionIndieRPGFreeSteam ↗
  6. We Become What We Behold [Fan-Made Port]

    WHY THIS

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

    a game about news cycles, vicious cycles, infinite cycles

    2019IndieCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Moonring

    WHY THIS

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

    A dark-fantasy, turn-based, retro-fusion of classic turn-based RPGs and roguelikes, all presented with a unique neon aesthetic.

    2023RPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Electoral Carnage

    WHY THIS

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

    Electoral Carnage is an absurd 2D fighting game featuring America's most famous (and infamous) politicians. If you don't download it you hate America. Also JFK can assassinate himself. What more do you need to know?

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Frequently asked about Kindred Ills

What games are most similar to Kindred Ills?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Kindred Ills are Guildrun, Stonespire, Slotbound.
Who developed Kindred Ills?
Kindred Ills was developed by Angel Flayer.

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 Kindred Ills.

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