Games like NOVEMS
If NOVEMS is your kind of game, the closest matches are Cybersoul 2, Norectus: Theatre of War and Curtain Call: Chronicles of Heroes — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and competitive. 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 NOVEMS: Cut open your destiny with 9 cards! Master strategy in a turn-based roguelike auto-battler. Collect cards and survive battles by utilizing 'placement' and 'linking' mechanics.
Players who liked NOVEMS also play
Steam players who put hours into NOVEMS 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.
Cybersoul 2
WHY THIS
Top pick for NOVEMS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with NOVEMS.
Multiplayer Cyberpunk Card Battler & Incremental Hub. 33+ factions, 1,200+ cards. New Roguelite game modes: Raid Boss, Chaos Brawl, Auto Battle & Draft Arena. Includes Dark Web, Souls & Star Power Idle Games. Sell your soul in the Glitch Arcade. Fight online or go dark. Play Solo offline.
Norectus: Theatre of War
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for NOVEMS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with NOVEMS.
A free-to-play strategy card game where five nations wage war. Build a deck around your Leader, then battle through ranked duels, a 100-floor roguelike, co-op bosses, and clan wars, plus Leader Clash, a full auto-battler mode built into the game.
Curtain Call: Chronicles of Heroes
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for NOVEMS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with NOVEMS.
"Curtain Call: Chronicles of Heroes" is a roguelite deck-building game featuring auto-chess mechanics. Collect legendary historical heroes, forge unique strategic combos, and command your forces in timeless battles where every decision reshapes history!
Realms Cup
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for NOVEMS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with NOVEMS.
Fantasy football meets deck-building. Build your fantasy football squad from 120+ unique cards across Human, Orc, Elf, and Dwarf races. Open packs, level up your roster, and win the coveted Realms Cup to become the ultimate champion of the Realms!
Once Upon a Galaxy
WHY THIS
Shares synergy building, card based combat, indie and a competitive mood with NOVEMS.
Ranked #5 for NOVEMS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with NOVEMS.
ONCE UPON A GALAXY is an easy to learn Card Battler with incredible strategic depth and near infinite fun! Which of your favorite characters from myth and fairy tale will you choose?
SnatchDeck
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for NOVEMS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with NOVEMS.
Steal, Adapt, Survive! SnatchDeck is a fast-paced and addicting card game that can be played both casually and strategically. Build a powerful deck on the fly by stealing cards from your opponents mid-round. You'll have to adapt your strategy round by round to avoid death.
Brawl To The West
WHY THIS
Shares auto battler, combo based combat and a competitive mood with NOVEMS.
Ranked #7 for NOVEMS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with NOVEMS.
"Join this hilarious auto-battler! Equip gear, grow fruit trees, and tame monsters to build your team. Choose unique characters or battle others in ranked mode—every run is fresh! Weaklings perish; victors take all. Will you go the farthest? Dive in now!"
Dataclysm
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for NOVEMS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with NOVEMS.
Embark on a journey into the heart of a digital kingdom unlike any other. Dataclysm invites you to explore a world where ancient data comes alive, and every line of code tells a story waiting to be unraveled.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below NOVEMS at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under NOVEMS on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with NOVEMS.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under NOVEMS on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with NOVEMS.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under NOVEMS on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with NOVEMS.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under NOVEMS on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with NOVEMS.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under NOVEMS on Steam right now. Shares Indie with NOVEMS.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under NOVEMS on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with NOVEMS.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under NOVEMS on Steam right now. Shares Indie with NOVEMS.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under NOVEMS on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with NOVEMS.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with NOVEMS.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with NOVEMS.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with NOVEMS.
The Fairytale Curse was only the beginning...
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with NOVEMS.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with NOVEMS.
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!
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with NOVEMS.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
Sprout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with NOVEMS.
Embark on a casual, botanical-puzzle-adventure. Make friends, learn new skills, solve puzzles, and become the mighty oak that you were always meant to be.
Wheelchair Wizards
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with NOVEMS.
Wheelchair Wizards is a 4 player party game where you battle your friends while upgrading your wizard.
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Frequently asked about NOVEMS
- How much does NOVEMS cost?
- NOVEMS is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to NOVEMS?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside NOVEMS are Cybersoul 2, Norectus: Theatre of War, Curtain Call: Chronicles of Heroes.
- Who developed NOVEMS?
- NOVEMS was developed by MediaLabGames.
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 NOVEMS.
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