Games like The Madness of Little Emma
If The Madness of Little Emma is your kind of game, the closest matches are Our Darker Purpose, Heavy Bullets and Straimium Immortaly — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its bleak, 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.
Get personalized picks →About The Madness of Little Emma: The Madness of Little Emma is a difficult action platformer with roguelike elements. Featuring over 250 items with insane synergies, varied enemies, and numerous secrets and mysteries to discover.
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Our Darker Purpose
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with The Madness of Little Emma.
Top pick for The Madness of Little Emma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Madness of Little Emma.
Journey to the dark heart of the Edgewood Home for Lost Children in this fiendishly difficult action RPG!When her teacher stepped out of the classroom a month ago, Cordy never imagined he would be gone for good. Now her fellow students have turned on each other as the school descends into chaos.
Heavy Bullets
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Madness of Little Emma.
Second-strongest match for The Madness of Little Emma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Madness of Little Emma.
Heavy Bullets is a randomized FPS dungeon crawler where players make their way through a colorful maze, while protecting themselves from aggressive creatures and malfunctioning security devices. The goal lies at the end of the 8th level, where they must reset the security mainframe to restore order and reap the rewards.
Straimium Immortaly
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Madness of Little Emma.
Third-strongest match for The Madness of Little Emma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Madness of Little Emma.
Straimium Immortaly is a shmup roguelike dungeoncrawler. Explore the butts-hard procedurally generated Cubicus battling beasties, looting endless item and weapon upgrades and defeating huge boss meanies in your vengeful quest to eradicate the Queeni Emperess.
Bard's Gold
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Madness of Little Emma.
Ranked #4 for The Madness of Little Emma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Madness of Little Emma.
Bard's Gold is a challenging platformer that let's you explore eerie worlds in a quest for a Goblin that stole your gold. Help the Bard to overcome the dungeon’s many dangerous perils and use your new-found treasures to improve your character and to buy new weapons and gear!
Hell is Other Demons
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with The Madness of Little Emma.
Ranked #5 for The Madness of Little Emma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Madness of Little Emma.
Hell is Other Demons is an action-platform shooter, with Roguelite elements. Explore a sprawling, hand-crafted world full of demons, insanely over-the-top boss fights, and a heavy synthwave soundtrack.
Just Get Through
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with The Madness of Little Emma.
Ranked #6 for The Madness of Little Emma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Madness of Little Emma.
Just Get Through is a randomly generated platformer with roguelike elements. Featuring a destructible environment, sandbox mode, user-created levels, various gamemodes, hardcore mode, color palettes, deadly traps, explosions and more.
Diehard Dungeon
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Madness of Little Emma.
Ranked #7 for The Madness of Little Emma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Madness of Little Emma.
Combining its own unique take on the real-time roguelike genre, with a nostalgic 16-bit look and feel, Diehard Dungeon is a game that feels both familiar and quite different at the same time. Followed by a trusty, treasure collecting companion chest, you must make your way through the dungeons many randomly-generated rooms and levels.
Full Mojo Rampage
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Madness of Little Emma.
Ranked #8 for The Madness of Little Emma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Madness of Little Emma.
Full Mojo Rampage is a rogue-like game that takes place within the confines of the Voodoo reality. In this realm only the most powerful rites and powers can provide a safeguard against evil. Dying is not the end, only the beginning to becoming a stronger voodoo soul!
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The Binding of Isaac
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with The Madness of Little Emma.
Reviewers of The Madness of Little Emma cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with The Madness of Little Emma.
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Spelunky
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Madness of Little Emma.
Reviewers of The Madness of Little Emma cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with The Madness of Little Emma.
Spelunky is a unique platformer with randomized levels that offer a challenging new experience each time you play. Journey deep underground and explore fantastic places filled with all manner of monsters, traps, and treasure.
Rogue Legacy
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Madness of Little Emma.
Reviewers of The Madness of Little Emma cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with The Madness of Little Emma.
Rogue Legacy is a genealogical rogue-"LITE" where anyone can be a hero. Each time you die, your child will succeed you. Every child is unique. One child might be colorblind, another might be a dwarf with vertigo. But that's OK, because no one is perfect, and you don't have to be to succeed.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Madness of Little Emma at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under The Madness of Little Emma on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Madness of Little Emma.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under The Madness of Little Emma on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Madness of Little Emma.
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!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Madness of Little Emma on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Madness of Little Emma.
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.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under The Madness of Little Emma on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Madness of Little Emma.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under The Madness of Little Emma on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Madness of Little Emma.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~89% under The Madness of Little Emma on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Madness of Little Emma.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Madness of Little Emma on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Madness of Little Emma.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under The Madness of Little Emma on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Madness of Little Emma.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
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 with The Madness of Little Emma.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Madness of Little Emma.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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 The Madness of Little Emma.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Madness of Little Emma.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Madness of Little Emma.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Madness of Little Emma.
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 Madness of Little Emma
- Does The Madness of Little Emma run on Steam Deck?
- The Madness of Little Emma 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 Madness of Little Emma cost?
- The Madness of Little Emma is listed on Steam at 8.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Madness of Little Emma?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Madness of Little Emma are Our Darker Purpose, Heavy Bullets, Straimium Immortaly.
- Who developed The Madness of Little Emma?
- The Madness of Little Emma was developed by Bartosz Bojarowski.
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