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Games like We Are The Dwarves

If We Are The Dwarves is your kind of game, the closest matches are Otherlights, Fallen Worlds and Hades II — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and dark. 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.

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About We Are The Dwarves: We Are The Dwarves is a real-time tactical adventure where you take control of three Dwarven astronauts and lead them through the hordes of enemies in the depths of their Universe. Tactical Adventure Sci-Fi Space Dwarves

2016ActionStrategyIndieAdventureMassively MultiplayerRPG14.99 USDMetacritic 60Windows · macOS · Linuxby Whale Rock Games
We Are The Dwarves — Steam game cover
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Bleak cosmic setting feels immersive and dangerousDistinct voices and personalities for each dwarfPunishing difficulty rewards methodical strategyAtmosphericChallengingDark

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  1. Otherlights

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for We Are The Dwarves fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with We Are The Dwarves.

    Otherlights is an action-RPG game with roguelike tendencies designed for 1 to 4 players. In this sunless world, unlock many heroes and develop their destinies to try to access the solar fragment guarded by the powerful Exharques.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Fallen Worlds

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for We Are The Dwarves fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with We Are The Dwarves.

    Challenge the immortal god alongside a colorful cast of heroes in this co-op action rogue-lite, where you'll battle endlessly across Fallen Worlds in hopes of one day destroying the God that took everything from you.

    2025ActionRPGEarly Access14.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Hades II

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with We Are The Dwarves.

    Third-strongest match for We Are The Dwarves fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with We Are The Dwarves.

    Battle beyond the Underworld using dark sorcery to take on the Titan of Time in this bewitching sequel to the award-winning rogue-like dungeon crawler.

    2025ActionIndieRPG29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Deathtrap

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with We Are The Dwarves.

    Ranked #4 for We Are The Dwarves fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with We Are The Dwarves.

    Deathtrap is a Tower Defense game with strong action-RPG elements, a game of vicious tricks, killing machines, rotating blades and splattering blood.

    2015ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Moon Hunters

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with We Are The Dwarves.

    Ranked #5 for We Are The Dwarves fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with We Are The Dwarves.

    Play alone or with friends! A co-op personality test about exploring an ancient, occult world in 5 days. How will you be remembered?

    2016IndieAdventureRPG14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Tower of Babel: Survivors of Chaos

    WHY THIS

    Shares skill progression and a tense mood with We Are The Dwarves.

    Ranked #6 for We Are The Dwarves fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with We Are The Dwarves.

    Battle hordes of monsters, acquire new skills, and upgrade your abilities. Customize your build with hundreds of item combinations and reach the top to fulfill your deepest desires. Conquer the tower in this thrilling roguelite hack and slash survivors game!

    2026ActionStrategyIndie10.39 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Striving for Light

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with We Are The Dwarves.

    Ranked #7 for We Are The Dwarves fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with We Are The Dwarves.

    Blending deep Action RPG buildcrafting with roguelite action, Striving for Light lets you shape and customize an infinite skilltree. Hunt for powerful loot, craft and upgrade weapons to legendary power, slay hordes of enemies and challenging bosses in ever-changing dark worlds.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure12.59 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Hades

    WHY THIS

    Shares a dark mood with We Are The Dwarves.

    Ranked #8 for We Are The Dwarves fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with We Are The Dwarves.

    Defy the god of the dead as you hack and slash out of the Underworld in this rogue-like dungeon crawler from the creators of Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre.

    2020ActionIndieRPG24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to We Are The Dwarves

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with We Are The Dwarves.

    Reviewers of We Are The Dwarves cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with We Are The Dwarves.

    A survival crafting adventure set in the Fourth Age of Middle-earth. Lead the Dwarves to reclaim Moria - mine, build, and battle through procedurally generated depths alone or with up to 8 players in co-op. It is time to return to Moria!

    2024ActionAdventureRPG29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. 守卫魔兽-Guardian of Warcraft

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of We Are The Dwarves cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with We Are The Dwarves.

    This is a summoning tower defense strategy game, with different abilities of monsters and traps, with different effects. the player will continue to upgrade while defending, Become stronger, and summoning more powerful monsters to resist the brave.

    2021ActionStrategyIndie0.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. SHADOW

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of We Are The Dwarves cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with We Are The Dwarves.

    In SHADOW, expect the unexpected. Every shadow conceals danger, every sound fuels your dread. Dare to survive a night of terror where the darkness is your enemy, and the unknown waits at every turn.

    2024IndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below We Are The Dwarves at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under We Are The Dwarves on Steam right now. Shares Indie with We Are The Dwarves.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under We Are The Dwarves on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with We Are The Dwarves.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~53% under We Are The Dwarves on Steam right now. Shares Action with We Are The Dwarves.

    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.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under We Are The Dwarves on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with We Are The Dwarves.

    PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under We Are The Dwarves on Steam right now. Shares Action with We Are The Dwarves.

    Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Sid Meier's Civilization® V

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under We Are The Dwarves on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with We Are The Dwarves.

    Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!

    2010Strategy7.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under We Are The Dwarves on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with We Are The Dwarves.

    We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under We Are The Dwarves on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with We Are The Dwarves.

    Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. 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 We Are The Dwarves.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with We Are The Dwarves.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Massively Multiplayer with We Are The Dwarves.

    Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with We Are The Dwarves.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with We Are The Dwarves.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. NGU IDLE

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with We Are The Dwarves.

    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!

    2019IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with We Are The Dwarves.

    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.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with We Are The Dwarves.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

More from Whale Rock Games

Other recommendable Steam games by Whale Rock Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. DEPLOYMENT

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with We Are The Dwarves.

    Another title from Whale Rock Games, the studio behind We Are The Dwarves. Shares Action and Strategy with We Are The Dwarves.

    An intense competitive top-down shooter: choose your class, capture turrets, progress, and dominate in the arena. top-down shooter, multiplayer shooter, arena shooter, class-based shooter, sci-fi shooter

    2018ActionSportsStrategy14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Synthwave Burnout

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with We Are The Dwarves.

    Another title from Whale Rock Games, the studio behind We Are The Dwarves. Shares Action and Indie with We Are The Dwarves.

    The lost highway awaits you to take you beyond the horizon. Relax and let the sounds of synthwave open the way into the realm of neon - a world of revived imagination and fantasy, more real than reality itself.

    2025ActionSportsIndie11.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. The Divine Invasion

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with We Are The Dwarves.

    Another title from Whale Rock Games, the studio behind We Are The Dwarves. Shares Action and Indie with We Are The Dwarves.

    Strange events occur in the cyberpunk age: a mysterious criminal steals museum pieces, historical documents in order to make certain corrections and then puts everything back. Someone is trying to prove that Good and Evil have swapped places in the past… But why?

    2021ActionIndieAdventure11.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Cybernetic Fault

    WHY THIS

    Shares environmental interaction with We Are The Dwarves.

    Another title from Whale Rock Games, the studio behind We Are The Dwarves. Shares Action and Indie with We Are The Dwarves.

    Prove your ability to read names next to the big red buttons! Show your ability to fight for life in a science center that is falling apart from the consequences of an insane scientific experiment!

    2025ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. NeverSynth

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with We Are The Dwarves.

    Another title from Whale Rock Games, the studio behind We Are The Dwarves. Shares Action and Indie with We Are The Dwarves.

    NeverSynth is a 3rd person game that is a rhythm driving simulator.This game is a dynamic action game in which you have to drive a car to rhythmic music and collect beats. The more beats you collect, the more game points you earn.

    2022ActionSportsIndie11.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Inquisitor’s Heart and Soul

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with We Are The Dwarves.

    Another title from Whale Rock Games, the studio behind We Are The Dwarves. Shares Action and Indie with We Are The Dwarves.

    Summon demonic invasions, punish heretical enclaves, punish traitors and renegades. Do not deny yourself anything - after all, you are the hand and anger of the highest good. Give the apostates darkness, so that they learn to appreciate the light!

    2025ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Heavy Burden

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with We Are The Dwarves.

    Another title from Whale Rock Games, the studio behind We Are The Dwarves. Shares Indie and Adventure with We Are The Dwarves.

    How does Sisyphus feel as he climbs to the top of the mountain? Tired from the weight of the stone, the scorching sun, and the steep climbs, he nevertheless continues on his way up. What awaits him there?

    2023IndieAdventureSimulation13.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Dofamine

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with We Are The Dwarves.

    Another title from Whale Rock Games, the studio behind We Are The Dwarves. Shares Indie and Adventure with We Are The Dwarves.

    You must explore the labyrinth of riddles and investigate the apocalyptic event at the research facility following the experiments with the Higgs boson, or “the God particle”.

    2021IndieAdventureSimulation7.77 USDSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Hades II

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with We Are The Dwarves.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with We Are The Dwarves.

    Battle beyond the Underworld using dark sorcery to take on the Titan of Time in this bewitching sequel to the award-winning rogue-like dungeon crawler.

    2025ActionIndieRPG29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Tower of Babel: Survivors of Chaos

    WHY THIS

    Shares skill progression and a tense mood with We Are The Dwarves.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Strategy with We Are The Dwarves.

    Battle hordes of monsters, acquire new skills, and upgrade your abilities. Customize your build with hundreds of item combinations and reach the top to fulfill your deepest desires. Conquer the tower in this thrilling roguelite hack and slash survivors game!

    2026ActionStrategyIndie10.39 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Striving for Light

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with We Are The Dwarves.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with We Are The Dwarves.

    Blending deep Action RPG buildcrafting with roguelite action, Striving for Light lets you shape and customize an infinite skilltree. Hunt for powerful loot, craft and upgrade weapons to legendary power, slay hordes of enemies and challenging bosses in ever-changing dark worlds.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure12.59 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Hades

    WHY THIS

    Shares a dark mood with We Are The Dwarves.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with We Are The Dwarves.

    Defy the god of the dead as you hack and slash out of the Underworld in this rogue-like dungeon crawler from the creators of Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre.

    2020ActionIndieRPG24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about We Are The Dwarves

How much does We Are The Dwarves cost?
We Are The Dwarves is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
Does We Are The Dwarves have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — We Are The Dwarves supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Co-op).
What games are most similar to We Are The Dwarves?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside We Are The Dwarves are Otherlights, Fallen Worlds, Hades II.
Who developed We Are The Dwarves?
We Are The Dwarves was developed by Whale Rock 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 We Are The Dwarves.

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