Games like Apprentice of Darkness
If Apprentice of Darkness is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Severed Gods, Iratus: Lord of the Dead and Blightstone — 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 Apprentice of Darkness: Play as a dark magician, gather your party of all sorts of evil, unspeakable creatures and spread darkness! A hand-drawn, turn-based rogue-like experience! Sacrifice your enemies to Evil Gods, unlock new powers and recruits, build your Tower of Darkness to spread corruption throughout the continent.
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The Severed Gods
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Top pick for Apprentice of Darkness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Apprentice of Darkness.
A fantasy roguelite RPG where heroes reincarnate to stop the mystic dragon Umbra. Master turn-based combat, sever giant bosses, and shape your Karma through a journey filled with relics and evolving NPC interactions.
Iratus: Lord of the Dead
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Second-strongest match for Apprentice of Darkness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Apprentice of Darkness.
Iratus: Lord of the Dead is a turn-based tactical roguelike RPG set in a dark fantasy universe. Lead an army of undead to help an angry necromancer in his quest to reach the surface world and bring death to the mortal realms!
Blightstone
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Third-strongest match for Apprentice of Darkness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Apprentice of Darkness.
A challenging, turn-based strategy with a roguelike edge. Lead a team of adventurers to destroy the Blightstone and free the world from corruption. Use free movement, dynamic environments and collectable skills to save the crystal, and save the world.
Reverse Crawl
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Ranked #4 for Apprentice of Darkness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Apprentice of Darkness.
A dungeon crawl where YOU are the dungeon! Lead your minions in tactical turn-based combat against the pesky heroes, and unlock a variety of evil Powers. With a dynamic campaign system and a branching storyline, "Reverse Crawl" lets you experience an RPG from a whole new angle!
Attack of the Earthlings
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Ranked #5 for Apprentice of Darkness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Apprentice of Darkness.
Take on Galactoil, a comically dysfunctional intergalactic energy corporation, and its larger-than-life employees in a tactical-stealth game that fuses satisfying strategic gameplay and dark comedy in a quirky single-player story.
Lost In The Open
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Ranked #6 for Apprentice of Darkness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Apprentice of Darkness.
An unexpected assassination attempt leaves you wounded and fleeing across no man's land. To survive in this roguelike, low-fantasy tactical RPG, you must recruit strategically, fight desperately and repent sincerely.
Mewgenics
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Ranked #7 for Apprentice of Darkness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Apprentice of Darkness.
Build the ultimate cat army through tactical breeding and send them into deep, challenging turn-based adventures. Draft abilities, collect items, and manipulate genetics across generations in this roguelike tactics game from the creators of The Binding of Isaac and The End is Nigh.
The Last Spell
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Ranked #8 for Apprentice of Darkness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Apprentice of Darkness.
Defend the last bastion of humanity with your squad of heroes! Exterminate fiendish monsters with magic and brute force by night and re-build your battered city defenses by day in this tactical RPG with rogue-lite mechanics.
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Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Apprentice of Darkness.
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Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Apprentice of Darkness.
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Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Apprentice of Darkness.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Apprentice of Darkness.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Apprentice of Darkness.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Apprentice of Darkness.
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.
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Frequently asked about Apprentice of Darkness
- What games are most similar to Apprentice of Darkness?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Apprentice of Darkness are The Severed Gods, Iratus: Lord of the Dead, Blightstone.
- Who developed Apprentice of Darkness?
- Apprentice of Darkness was developed by Maeldor Games.
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 Apprentice of Darkness.
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