Games like Nocthra
If Nocthra is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Universe of Death, Germ Swarm: Evolution & Mutation and Hear My Cult — 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 Nocthra: Nocthra is a grim retro-style game where you play as a necromancer defending waves of attackers by raising hordes of minions from fallen enemies’ corpses. Protect your graveyard from relentless assaults, and dive into a perk system that offers endless skill combinations for infinite replayability.
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The Universe of Death
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Top pick for Nocthra fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nocthra.
Hand-drawn isometric Diablo style rogue like with Elden Ring style controls, and it's also a tower defense. Level up in run to try new skills and builds, level up between runs to increase your stats to begin each run stronger. Acquire loot and give old loot to your towers and mercenaries.
Germ Swarm: Evolution & Mutation
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Second-strongest match for Nocthra fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nocthra.
Fight ever-mutating bacteria and viruses, collect gene modules from fallen pathogens, evolve and strengthen your immune system, unlock a variety of medical interventions, and create powerful synergistic builds to survive an ever-escalating infection.
Hear My Cult
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Third-strongest match for Nocthra fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nocthra.
Build a Cult. Command an Army. Earn the Favor of Ancient Gods. Recruit followers, summon terrifying creatures, perform forbidden rituals, and forge a different army every run in this dark fantasy roguelite.
Fortress Merge
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Ranked #4 for Nocthra fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Nocthra.
Merge buildings, upgrade your defenses, and protect your fortress from endless waves of zombies. Plan each move carefully, adapt your strategy, and survive as long as you can.
Seed World
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Ranked #5 for Nocthra fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nocthra.
Seed World is a game that aims to combine automation, conveyor belts, and level progression. The game simplifies automation 'construction' into a series of progress bars, with each progress producing or consuming resources, and players need to manage resources.
Pattern Survivors: Bullet Hell — Create Chaos
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Ranked #6 for Nocthra fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nocthra.
“Pattern Survivors: Bullet Hell” — a dynamic roguelike where you design your own attack patterns and defend your tower against endless waves of enemies. Upgrade, modify, and adapt your strategy in real time — can you survive the chaos of patterns?
Withering Age
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Ranked #7 for Nocthra fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nocthra.
Withering Age is a real-time strategy roguelike set in a dark fantasy, medieval world brimming with magic, danger, and decay. Build and expand your kingdom, train loyal troops and mighty champions, and defend your lands against relentless hordes.
Eslabong
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Ranked #8 for Nocthra fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nocthra.
Arena combat meets mercenary club management. Recruit from a dynamic market, build your squad, and compete season after season in leagues and cups.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Nocthra.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Nocthra.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nocthra.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
Electoral Carnage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Electoral Carnage is an absurd 2D fighting game featuring America's most famous (and infamous) politicians. If you don't download it you hate America. Also JFK can assassinate himself. What more do you need to know?
Lily's Well
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Nocthra.
It is a rainy night in the Spring of 2005. Lily is left home alone after her Papa put her to bed. She is awoken by a cry for help outside her window. It is coming from the well. Help Lily gather rope to go down the well and save the poor soul trapped down there.
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nocthra.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
The Last Sovereign
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nocthra.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
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Other recommendable Steam games by Flat Lab, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Menace from the Deep
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Another title from Flat Lab, the studio behind Nocthra. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nocthra.
Menace from the Deep is an enthralling Roguelike Deckbuilding card game that unfolds in a dark world, drawing inspiration from Howard Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos.Set against the backdrop of 1920s USA, the narrative revolves around a clandestine occult society.
Cargo Protocol: Cyberpunk Trains
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Another title from Flat Lab, the studio behind Nocthra. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nocthra.
Build a logistics empire in a grim cyberpunk world: lay tracks, optimize production and delivery chains, research technologies, and expand your influence. Corporations are the new gods, and the Market decides who survives.
Kill Factory
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Another title from Flat Lab, the studio behind Nocthra. Shares Indie with Nocthra.
An arena-based trap builder where defenses aren’t placed—they’re assembled from interconnected modules. Combine weapons, magnets, rotors, and elemental effects, fight with your cursor, and rebuild the factory before every new wave.
Frequently asked about Nocthra
- What games are most similar to Nocthra?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Nocthra are The Universe of Death, Germ Swarm: Evolution & Mutation, Hear My Cult.
- Who developed Nocthra?
- Nocthra was developed by Flat Lab.
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 Nocthra.
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