Games like Wielders of the Essence
If Wielders of the Essence is your kind of game, the closest matches are Loot Frog, Order of Beast and Dustdrifter — 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: Incremental base-building horde survival. Short runs earn you resources to construct buildings, which unlock new powers, troops, and spells. Every run pushes you forward, even if you die. Delightfully chaotic and surprisingly chill.
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Steam players who put hours into Wielders of the Essence 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.
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.
Order of Beast
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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 horde-survivor roguelite set across cursed realms. Choose an outcast hero, forge evolving skills, collect strange relics, and survive wave after wave until you face the old lords who still rule the ruins.
Dustdrifter
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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.
Dustdrifter is an incremental bullet heaven arena shooter. Venture into dangerous ruins, blast through overwhelming hords of enemis and collect valuable relics. Return home to upgrade your drifter and grow your village.
Rogue's Odyssey
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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.
Explore, Grind, Loot, Die, and repeat! Face hordes of monsters and challenging bosses in a 2.5D co-op roguelike ARPG. Combine skills across classes, creating thousands of unique builds, such as a potion-brewing Warrior or a wizardry Cat, the choice is yours!
Limitless Survivor
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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.
Incremental roguelite with infinite progression. Collect powerful artifacts, gather crystals, and scale your stats to absurd levels. Let auto-play handle the grind anytime—even while you're away.
Where Giants Fall
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Ranked #6 for Wielders of the Essence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Wielders of the Essence.
Survive procedural fantasy biomes in a 3D top-down bullet-heaven action roguelite with survivors-like build growth. Upgrade auto-fire weapons, earn and upgrade active abilities, unlock level-10 ultimates, defeat bosses, and push into Endless Mode.
SLAMPUNKS
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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.
SLAMPUNKS is a 1-3 player co-op survivors-like. Switch your camera between top-down and third-person on the fly. Pick an unhinged hero, tether your friend and use them to steamroll the swarm. Stack game-breaking augments until they beg for mercy. Bullet heaven where your buddy is the weapon.
Mine or Burn
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Ranked #8 for Wielders of the Essence fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Wielders of the Essence.
Mine asteroids, battle hostile miners, and grow a tiny mining rig into an industrial powerhouse in this bullet hell incremental roguelite. Unlock permanent upgrades and push your operation further with each new star system.
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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).
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!
DOGWALK
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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.
Explore a hand-crafted winter forest as a big adorable dog and a little kid in tow. A short, free, open source project brought to you by Blender Studio.
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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, Order of Beast, Dustdrifter.
- 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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