Games like Trial of Ember
If Trial of Ember is your kind of game, the closest matches are Guildrun, Stonespire and Three Kingdoms Club Manager — 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 Trial of Ember: Assemble a band of forest allies to defend your woodland home in this roguelike auto-battler. Level your hero, recover artifacts, upgrade allies and learn spells to build powerful synergies. Strategically deploy your forces to repel the rising flame and complete the Trial of Ember.
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Steam players who put hours into Trial of Ember 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.
Guildrun
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Top pick for Trial of Ember fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Trial of Ember.
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.
Stonespire
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Second-strongest match for Trial of Ember fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Trial of Ember.
Stonespire is a roguelike autobattler about defeating a great evil to protect your city. Recruit an army and collect powerful relics while managing the limited lives of your units through a unique injury system. Unique enemies across various biomes create strategic challenges.
StrategySteam ↗Three Kingdoms Club Manager
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Third-strongest match for Trial of Ember fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Trial of Ember.
This is a tactical roguelike with grid battles. Recruit heroes, collect gear and passives to build teams. The roguelike mode has Slay the Spire-style maps, 6 classes with unique difficulties. Shop pulls items and rare upgrades. League mode offers 18 factions with football-style ranks.
Montabi
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Ranked #4 for Trial of Ember fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Trial of Ember.
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!
Railroads & Catacombs: Prologue
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Ranked #5 for Trial of Ember fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Trial of Ember.
Start your training in Railroads & Catacombs! Learn how to build your cards in the most effective way. Test your deck against the first boss and master your strategy for the full game.
Knightica
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Ranked #6 for Trial of Ember fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Trial of Ember.
Recruit powerful units, place them strategically and find the best synergies in this Roguelike Autobattler! Knightica lets you guide a warband through many challenges to free the Kingdoms. Discover optimal combinations, weave powerful enchants, face dangerous monsters and lead your army to victory!
The Dungeon Beneath
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Ranked #7 for Trial of Ember fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Trial of Ember.
The Dungeon Beneath is a tactical rogue-like autobattler. Gather your party and descend into the dungeon, battling your way through room after room of nefarious enemies. Collect powerful artifacts and equipment to create an endless variety of strategies.
Lost In The Open
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Ranked #8 for Trial of Ember fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Trial of Ember.
An unexpected assassination attempt leaves you wounded and fleeing across no man's land. To survive in this roguelike, low-fantasy tactical RPG, you must recruit strategically, fight desperately and repent sincerely.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Trial of Ember.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and RPG with Trial of Ember.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Trial of Ember.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Trial of Ember.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Trial of Ember.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Coloring Pixels
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Trial of Ember.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Trial of Ember.
A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!
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Frequently asked about Trial of Ember
- What games are most similar to Trial of Ember?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Trial of Ember are Guildrun, Stonespire, Three Kingdoms Club Manager.
- Who developed Trial of Ember?
- Trial of Ember was developed by Second King Studio.
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 Trial of Ember.
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