Games like The Ember Guardian
If The Ember Guardian is your kind of game, the closest matches are Diseased, KingFish and Undead Defense TD — 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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Diseased
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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.
Build your camp in the freezing cold and make tough choices. Capture walls to widen 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.
KingFish
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Ember Guardian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with The Ember Guardian.
A 2-player asymmetric co-op game where a King and a giant Fish, a living island, build a city, travel between islands, and defend their kingdom together. One plans from above. The other fights on the ground. Together they stand.
Undead Defense TD
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match 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
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 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.
Keep Her Safe
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Ranked #5 for The Ember Guardian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Ember Guardian.
Scavenge, build, and defend in a top-down survival game. Gather resources, fortify your base, and withstand zombie hordes to keep the rocket launch project alive and bring an end to the acid rain apocalypse.
Stone Rebellion
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Ranked #6 for The Ember Guardian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with The Ember Guardian.
Lead the Stone Elementals in a fight for survival. Build and grow a thriving city, gather resources, craft powerful equipment, and prepare your warriors for challenging nightly battles as you defend your civilization in a hostile world.
Monsters are Coming!
WHY THIS
Shares new game plus, tower defense, action adventure and an intense mood with The Ember Guardian.
Ranked #7 for The Ember Guardian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with The Ember Guardian.
Beware, Monsters are Coming! In this Tower-Survivor rogue-lite, you protect an ever-moving city from unrelenting hordes. Gather resources, fortify defences, and survive for as long as you can. Will you reach the Ark?
DarkSwitch
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Shares tower defense, survival management and atmospheric with The Ember Guardian.
Ranked #8 for The Ember Guardian fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with The Ember Guardian.
DarkSwitch is a vertical survival city builder. Build a city on a great tree and defend it against the Fog. Face the challenges of limited real estate, scarce resources, and tough moral choices as you seek to uncover the mystery of the Shroud. The Tree Provides! The Tree Protects! The Tree Prevails!
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Remnant: From the Ashes
WHY THIS
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.
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.
KINGDOMS
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging 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.
KINGDOMS is a procedural medieval RPG in a randomly generated open world. The main feature of KINGDOMS is a smart AI system that completely controls NPC behavior. As the player, you can fully interact with this massive world and become any person you want to be.
Dome Keeper
WHY THIS
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
WHY THIS
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 Two Crowns
WHY THIS
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
WHY THIS
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.
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
WHY THIS
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
WHY THIS
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
WHY THIS
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
WHY THIS
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
WHY THIS
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
WHY THIS
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
WHY THIS
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
- Does The Ember Guardian run on Steam Deck?
- The Ember Guardian is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- 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 Diseased, KingFish, Undead Defense TD.
- Who developed The Ember Guardian?
- The Ember Guardian was developed by Ratbit Games and published by Slug Disco.
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