Games like Wielders of the Essence
If Wielders of the Essence is your kind of game, the closest matches are Loot Frog, Slime Mine Survivor and Saikiri — 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.
Get personalized picks →About Wielders of the Essence: Single-player horde survival with a touch of incremental base building. Eight-minute runs. Eight hours to complete.
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Loot Frog
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Top pick for Wielders of the Essence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Wielders of the Essence.
Loot Frog is an incremental action bullet hell about breaking pots, collecting gems, and fighting an evil cult. Upgrade your gear, unlock new abilities, explore diverse biomes, and push deeper into increasingly chaotic battles.
Slime Mine Survivor
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Second-strongest match for Wielders of the Essence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Wielders of the Essence.
A roguelite action game blending 2D block mining with survivor-like combat. Dig deeper while dodging enemies and creeping poison gas, gather ores and treasure, then upgrade and evolve your pickaxe and weapons to build synergies and dominate enemies and the battlefield alike.
Saikiri
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Third-strongest match for Wielders of the Essence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Wielders of the Essence.
Defeat hordes of enemies in Saikiri, a Japanese style roguelite action game where you complete unique objectives, loot, level up, unlock characters, and upgrade your arsenal to create crazy builds every run!
Relicfall
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Ranked #4 for Wielders of the Essence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Wielders of the Essence.
Forge your own class in this Bullet Heaven Action Roguelite. Combine 3 professions to shape a unique skill tree, hunt for powerful loot, and socket relics to create game-breaking synergies. Slay endless hordes and push your build to its limits.
Bait Soul
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Ranked #5 for Wielders of the Essence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Wielders of the Essence.
Bait Soul is a top-down Dungeon Crawler Roguelike. It blends dungeon exploration with Survivors-style auto-attacks. Accessible yet deep, it retains the thrill of looting, with unique, game-changing mechanics hidden everywhere.
Void Reaver
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Ranked #6 for Wielders of the Essence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Wielders of the Essence.
Organize. Optimize. Obliterate. Void Reaver is a sci-fi bullet heaven where your backpack is your firepower. Grid-manage 300+ weapons and artifacts into explosive synergies, unlock specialized skill trees, and blast through alien hordes to a high-octane electronic soundtrack.
Realm of Taiwu
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Ranked #7 for Wielders of the Essence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Wielders of the Essence.
Realm of Taiwu is a The Scroll of Taiwu spin-off. The story unfolds across an alternate branching timeline of the original universe: the Taiwu Hero never arrives, the Fuyu Sword falls to Xiangshu, and the world sinks into endless darkness.
Survivors: Beyond the Shore
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Ranked #8 for Wielders of the Essence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Casual with Wielders of the Essence.
A game that combines high-octane Survivors-like combat with extraction gameplay. Venture into randomly generated maps, hunt for rare gear to forge powerful builds, and fight off relentless monster hordes. Will you safely extract with your fortune, or risk it all for greater spoils?
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The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Wielders of the Essence.
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 Action and Indie with Wielders of the Essence.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Wielders of the Essence.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Wielders of the Essence.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Wielders of the Essence.
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!
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Wielders of the Essence.
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).
Electoral Carnage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Wielders of the Essence.
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?
Outpath: First Journey
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Wielders of the Essence.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
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Frequently asked about Wielders of the Essence
- What games are most similar to Wielders of the Essence?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Wielders of the Essence are Loot Frog, Slime Mine Survivor, Saikiri.
- Who developed Wielders of the Essence?
- Wielders of the Essence was developed by Lavapotion and published by Lavapotion, Coffee Stain Publishing.
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