Games like Janwar
If Janwar is your kind of game, the closest matches are Guildrun, Kingdom of Ashes - Fallen Era and Cardslinger — 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 Janwar: Janwar is a tactical auto battler in a roguelike format. Build your roster, level up your animals and find powerful synergies. Formidable enemies in themed biomes will challenge your strategy on the battle grid. A vast choice of unlockable animals, items and perks guarantee new strategies each run.
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Guildrun
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Top pick for Janwar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Janwar.
Turn a simple team into an unstoppable force and crush waves of monsters in this PvE autobattler roguelike. No two runs feel the same as you bend heroes beyond their class roles and discover countless combinations and synergies. Seal the rifts at your own pace and uncover what tore them open.
Kingdom of Ashes - Fallen Era
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Second-strongest match for Janwar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Janwar.
A single-player roguelike deck-builder set in a fallen kingdom. Draft cards, chain elemental resonances, fight through procedural maps of battles, shrines, and bosses. Spend Ash at the Forge for permanent upgrades. Eight heroes, brutal Ascension tiers.
Cardslinger
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Third-strongest match for Janwar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Janwar.
Cardslinger is a singleplayer, weird west, roguelite where you fight your way through the harsh Frontier to cut out the source of the corruption; the Devil himself. Pick a team of two Outlaws both cursed by the devil. Don trinkets and gather powerful cards to perfect the build and break the curse.
Montabi
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Ranked #4 for Janwar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Janwar.
Tame, collect, fight! Assemble an unstoppable team of unique Montabi in this Creature-Collector Roguelike Deckbuilder. Master their awesome abilities, synergize their strategic strengths and save the city in tactical turn-based combat!
Free of the Land
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Ranked #5 for Janwar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Janwar.
A tactical roguelike deckbuilder of misfits and monsters. Build your deck, summon your minions, cast your spells and survive long enough to claim the land.
Knightstones
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Ranked #6 for Janwar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Janwar.
Lead your troops on your war table in this unique roguelite auto-battler. Deploy your decks of elite warriors, trigger devastating chain reactions, and invest your rewards to rebuild your fallen Order. Be ready… or perish in the final battle.
Forge the Fates
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Ranked #7 for Janwar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Janwar.
Take deckbuilding to the next level. Transform your hand of cards into a tactical grid of runes. Plan, shift, and strike to unleash powerful combos and chain match-3 bonuses. Choose your hero, master their deck, and fight through deadly dungeons to face a mysterious dark overlord.
Save Humanity.exe
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Ranked #8 for Janwar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Janwar.
A roguelike deckbuilder based around designing a microchip from a pile of junk circuits to out compute incoming viruses trying to crash your system. Combo hardware with software programs to chain multipliers that overflow your FLOP meter before the glitches overwhelm you.
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Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Janwar.
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Tukoni: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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Frequently asked about Janwar
- What games are most similar to Janwar?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Janwar are Guildrun, Kingdom of Ashes - Fallen Era, Cardslinger.
- Who developed Janwar?
- Janwar was developed by Zelgas.
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 Janwar.
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