Games like When the Embers Wake
If When the Embers Wake is your kind of game, the closest matches are Country Walk, Bumblebee - Little Bee Adventure and Kyoryu — 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 When the Embers Wake: When the Embers Wake is a third person narrative adventure about Emmie and the relationship with her mother. You play as a red panda as their story unfolds, raising awareness of the urgent and very real threats facing wildlife today.

Players who liked When the Embers Wake also play
Steam players who put hours into When the Embers Wake 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.
Country Walk
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Top pick for When the Embers Wake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with When the Embers Wake.
A relaxing walking and exploration game set in the ever-changing countryside of Avelon. Follow winding paths, meet and talk with travellers, take photographs, build your photo album and share unique walks with others using Waymarks.
Bumblebee - Little Bee Adventure
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Second-strongest match for When the Embers Wake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with When the Embers Wake.
Bumblebee – Little Bee Adventure is a story-driven, narrative 3D flight exploration game in which you control a little bee on its journey to find a new home. On its quest to find a beautiful and fitting it discovers distant places, friendly and calm animals, and amazing and dangerously habitats.
Kyoryu
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Third-strongest match for When the Embers Wake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with When the Embers Wake.
You are a young, genetically modified, son of a samurai T-Rex in a post-apocalyptic Tokyo, who is fascinated by the once mighty humans and the ruins of their civilization.
ARIDA 2: Rise of the Brave
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Ranked #4 for When the Embers Wake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with When the Embers Wake.
Journey through the 19th-century Brazilian backlands in this narrative, culturally rich adventure. Face the drought to explore arid biomes, craft and manage resources, complete quests, and guide Cícera to Canudos - the mythical village promising to change the story forever.
Fast Radio Burst
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Ranked #5 for When the Embers Wake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with When the Embers Wake.
You took the job to escape. Then the light descended. Fast Radio Burst is a first-person narrative parkour platformer where unexplained cosmic beams transport you into surreal, liminal memories.
Shelter 3
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Ranked #6 for When the Embers Wake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with When the Embers Wake.
Enter the wilderness and keep your calf and your herd safe from harm. Make your way through the open landscapes as a majestic elephant. Be alert and gather your herd during times of danger. Your herd is your family, shelter is your only hope, and survival your only goal.
Penguin Colony
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Ranked #7 for When the Embers Wake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with When the Embers Wake.
Cosmic horror, through the eyes of a penguin. Rival human factions have come to your home in the Antarctic, seeking an ancient and inconceivable being. Observe their descent into insanity in this faithful re-imagining of H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness, and other stories.
Toto's Journey
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Ranked #8 for When the Embers Wake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with When the Embers Wake.
Toto’s Journey is a cozy adventure inspired by the world of The Wizard of Oz. Play as Toto, a brave dog lost in a magical world after a mysterious cyclone. Explore enchanted lands, meet unusual creatures, and solve environmental puzzles as you search for a way back home.
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with When the Embers Wake.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with When the Embers Wake.
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 Indie with When the Embers Wake.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with When the Embers Wake.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with When the Embers Wake.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with When the Embers Wake.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with When the Embers Wake.
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.
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Frequently asked about When the Embers Wake
- What games are most similar to When the Embers Wake?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside When the Embers Wake are Country Walk, Bumblebee - Little Bee Adventure, Kyoryu.
- Who developed When the Embers Wake?
- When the Embers Wake was developed by Llamaplay.
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 When the Embers Wake.
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