Games like Cycle of Cinder
If Cycle of Cinder is your kind of game, the closest matches are Rogue Realm: Guardian Grids, Kingdom of Ashes - Fallen Era and Soul Card Duel — 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 Cycle of Cinder: Cycle of Cinder is a puzzle-driven roguelite card game. Master action sequencing, positioning, resources, and timing to reshape encounters with powerful spells. Customize your loadout, create broken synergies, and overcome ever-changing challenges
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Rogue Realm: Guardian Grids
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Top pick for Cycle of Cinder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cycle of Cinder.
Rogue Realm: Guardian Grids is a medieval fantasy blend of tower defense and roguelike progression. Build defenses on a grid, manage resources, and survive ever-evolving enemies.
Kingdom of Ashes - Fallen Era
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Second-strongest match for Cycle of Cinder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cycle of Cinder.
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.
Soul Card Duel
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Cycle of Cinder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cycle of Cinder.
A deckbuilder where position and direction make combats more tactical. Flank enemies with 8 attack directions and combine cards to win in any situation. Explore procedural maps, create decks and armor to customize your hero, and forge your legend in the region's grand tournament.
River Devil/河牌恶魔
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Ranked #4 for Cycle of Cinder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cycle of Cinder.
River Devil is a single-player Texas Hold’em roguelike about bluffing demons, managing chips, surviving boss tables, and spinning the Fate Wheel. Read opponents, take risks, push all-in at the right moment, and win with either a monster hand or a perfect lie.
Reminiscence of Gusuku: Card and Explore
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Ranked #5 for Cycle of Cinder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cycle of Cinder.
Any 2 Cards Can Be Fused. Build Your Combo Engine! Survive on a small island. Every choice reshapes your destiny in this deck-building roguelite. Stranded on an island said to gather everything that drifts ashore, you explore, build your deck, and push toward its deepest reaches.
Revive & Repeat
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Ranked #6 for Cycle of Cinder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cycle of Cinder.
Revive & Repeat is a card-based dungeon crawler roguelike where you combine modifiers and artifacts, build insane setups, fight powerful bosses, and compete with other players on the leaderboard — every death makes you stronger.
Alegraz
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Ranked #7 for Cycle of Cinder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cycle of Cinder.
In this card game, you are the creator of your own deck. Alegraz is a roguelite strategy card game where you personally shape your cards in every run. Each run progresses with a deck built entirely from scratch, driven by the choices you make along the way.
Forestygian
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Ranked #8 for Cycle of Cinder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Cycle of Cinder.
Tactical Roguelike Deckbuilder with ability-based combat, fueled by card synergies. Build a powerful deck to support your hero. Use abilities to wipe out hordes of enemies. Discover powerful combos within the near-endless variety of composite cards.
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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 Cycle of Cinder.
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 with Cycle of Cinder.
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?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cycle of Cinder.
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.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cycle of Cinder.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Cycle of Cinder.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Cycle of Cinder.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
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Frequently asked about Cycle of Cinder
- What games are most similar to Cycle of Cinder?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cycle of Cinder are Rogue Realm: Guardian Grids, Kingdom of Ashes - Fallen Era, Soul Card Duel.
- Who developed Cycle of Cinder?
- Cycle of Cinder was developed by Dreamspire 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 Cycle of Cinder.
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