Games like The Ember Guardian
If The Ember Guardian is your kind of game, the closest matches are Red Rocket Defencism, Dwarven Deeps and Kingdom III: Rising Realms — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. 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 The Ember Guardian: Defend the embers of hope in this roguelike strategy game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Recruit and command workers to gather resources, build your camp and set up your defenses during the day. When night falls, fend off waves of deadly creatures with powerful, upgradable weapons.
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Red Rocket Defencism
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Top pick for The Ember Guardian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with The Ember Guardian.
You, a military officer from our great autocratic motherland, must protect our precious rockets from the evil capitalist enemy in this revolutionary base building strategy game. Bribe! Surveil! Purge! Imbibe! The end justifies the means when you have to protect our invaluable rockets!
Dwarven Deeps
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Second-strongest match for The Ember Guardian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with The Ember Guardian.
Gather gold, build defenses and reclaim the old dwarven kingdom of your ancestors. Rebuild the old halls, unlock ancient technologies and fend off enemies as the noise of your new kingdom attracts enemies. Dwarven Deeps is a solo or coop micro-strategy tower defense game in a low-poly dwarven realm.
Kingdom III: Rising Realms
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Ember Guardian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with The Ember Guardian.
Protect your crown! Kingdom returns in an all-new micro-strategy and tower defense game set in a shattered realm. Embark on an atmospheric adventure across lands of legend to build a lasting legacy and challenge the empowered Greed threat.
Diseased
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Ranked #4 for The Ember Guardian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with The Ember Guardian.
Build your camp in the freezing cold and make tough choices. Capture walls to expand your borders and send your men to explore. Risk it all for vital resources, as surviving the relentless waves of the Diseased emerging from the dark will be harder than you think.
Dwarven Rampart
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Ranked #5 for The Ember Guardian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with The Ember Guardian.
Raise massive armies and fight thousands of enemies. Dwarven Rampart is a fantasy roguelite strategy game where you build dwarven cities and fight massive fights. How long can you survive?
Undead Defense TD
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Ranked #6 for The Ember Guardian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with The Ember Guardian.
Zombies are coming! Build your defenses and expand your settlement to create a safe space for humanity. Use turrets, walls and light towers to keep the darkness safe. Expand your settlement to find abandoned settlements and additional resources.
StrategySteam ↗Resilient
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Ranked #7 for The Ember Guardian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with The Ember Guardian.
Begin with a handful of survivors after a 17th-century zombie apocalypse and build a growing colony. Shape its organic layout, establish production chains, define ideologies, and pass laws. Thrive by day, defend by night, and test your colony’s resilience against the undead.
Painted Kingdoms: Tower Defense & Firefighting
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Ranked #8 for The Ember Guardian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with The Ember Guardian.
Painted Kingdoms is a minimalist strategy game where you paint, build, and defend your Kingdom of paper. Harness the power of paint to protect it from relentless flames and enemy hordes. Will your Painted Kingdom survive the next wave?
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Stalker
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Reviewers of The Ember Guardian cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Ember Guardian.
The background story of "Stalker" is that a teenager encounters various events on the road following a young girl. The teenager(player) can selectively interact and give repairs / help due to these events. How you will lead to different ending. The game was developed during the Global Game Jam 2020.
Remnant: From the Ashes
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Shares procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with The Ember Guardian.
Reviewers of The Ember Guardian cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with The Ember Guardian.
The world has been thrown into chaos by an ancient evil from another dimension. As one of the last remnants of humanity, you must set out alone or alongside up to two other survivors to face down hordes of deadly enemies to try to carve a foothold, rebuild, and retake what was lost.
Kingdom Two Crowns
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Shares tower defense, procedural generation and an atmospheric mood with The Ember Guardian.
Reviewers of The Ember Guardian cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Adventure with The Ember Guardian.
Gather coins, build defenses and reclaim your fallen Kingdom. Explore and uncover secrets, unlock new technologies and protect your crown versus waves of Greed monsters that come at night. Kingdom is a solo or co-op micro-strategy and tower defense game set in an atmospheric pixel world.
DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Ember Guardian.
Reviewers of The Ember Guardian cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with The Ember Guardian.
Then, there was fire. Re-experience the critically acclaimed, genre-defining game that started it all. Beautifully remastered, return to Lordran in stunning high-definition detail running at 60fps.
Dome Keeper
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Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with The Ember Guardian.
Reviewers of The Ember Guardian cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with The Ember Guardian.
Defend against waves of alien monsters in this unique roguelike action miner. Dig for resources, collect useful gadgets, and upgrade equipment to increase odds of survival – just hurry back before your dome is destroyed!
The Last of Us™ Part I
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Ember Guardian.
Reviewers of The Ember Guardian cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with The Ember Guardian.
Discover the award-winning game that inspired the critically acclaimed television show. Guide Joel and Ellie through a post-apocalyptic America, and encounter unforgettable allies and enemies in The Last of Us™.
Kingdom
WHY THIS
Reviewers of The Ember Guardian cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with The Ember Guardian.
Kingdom is a single- and multiplayer RPG survival game set in a medieval world, where you can become a king and set taxes to upgrade your kingdom to the next era!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Ember Guardian at current Steam store prices.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~50% under The Ember Guardian on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with The Ember Guardian.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
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Priced ~50% under The Ember Guardian on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Ember Guardian.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
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Priced ~50% under The Ember Guardian on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Ember Guardian.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
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Priced ~50% under The Ember Guardian on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Ember Guardian.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~75% under The Ember Guardian on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Ember Guardian.
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!
R.E.P.O.
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Priced ~65% under The Ember Guardian on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Ember Guardian.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with The Ember Guardian.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Ember Guardian.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Ember Guardian.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with The Ember Guardian.
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.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Ember Guardian.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Ember Guardian.
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.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with The Ember Guardian.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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Frequently asked about The Ember Guardian
- Is The Ember Guardian verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — The Ember Guardian is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does The Ember Guardian cost?
- The Ember Guardian is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Ember Guardian?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Ember Guardian are Red Rocket Defencism, Dwarven Deeps, Kingdom III: Rising Realms.
- Who developed The Ember Guardian?
- The Ember Guardian was developed by Ratbit Games and published by Slug Disco.
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