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Games like Pemkie Island

If Pemkie Island is your kind of game, the closest matches are 深渊书简, Craftaway: Tactics and Dicebinder — 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.

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About Pemkie Island: Pemkie Island is a monster taming RPG adventure, in a roguelite format. Travel across the 5 different regions while discovering and taming unique creatures called Pemkies. Master their traits, choose the right skills and build the best team possible to restore balance!

StrategyIndieAdventureRPGWindows · macOS · Linuxby MESHUP Games
Pemkie Island — Steam game cover

Players who liked Pemkie Island also play

Steam players who put hours into Pemkie Island 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.

  1. 深渊书简

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Pemkie Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pemkie Island.

    深渊之书是一款克苏鲁风格的多人组队冒险类卡牌构筑Rouguelike游戏。每个角色除自身卡牌构筑外,还可以通过游戏特有的深渊“书简”和“追忆”形成技能连携、给予敌人额外伤害。玩家将组织一支自杀探险小队,接受女伯爵委托,前往神秘的深渊群岛去探寻疯狂黑公爵的秘密。

    StrategyIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  2. Craftaway: Tactics

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Pemkie Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pemkie Island.

    Fight, Strategize, and Power up in this tactical roguelite with progression, equipment, card crafting, and campaigns! DEMO COMING SOON!

    StrategyIndieRPGSteam ↗
  3. Dicebinder

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Pemkie Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pemkie Island.

    A dark fantasy roguelite card battler where you roll your action points and bind the monsters you fight. Piece together each turn from your dice, adapt to rule-bending encounters, and reshape your party as you climb.

    2026StrategyIndieRPGSteam ↗
  4. Cards of the Abyss

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Pemkie Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Pemkie Island.

    Cards of the Abyss is a roguelike deckbuilder where movement is your only defense. Move on a grid, dodge enemy attacks, trigger countless chain-reactions and unleash overpowered card combos as you dive deeper into the Abyss.

    2027StrategyRPGSteam ↗
  5. Dragon Eclipse ARENA

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Pemkie Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pemkie Island.

    Dragon Eclipse ARENA is an auto-battler deckbuilder that combines clever 3x3 grid positioning, tactical combat, and powerful synergies. For each run, draft a new starting deck and choose a unique Tamer. Use Blessings to get mighty permanent buffs, evolve Mystlings, and achieve victory!

    ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  6. FULL BET - FIGHTING CASINO -

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Pemkie Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pemkie Island.

    FULL BET – FIGHTING CASINO – is a turn-based 1v1 game blending card battles, gambling, and fighting-game strategy. Choose a card and BET your limited chips—only the player who bets more can act. Read your rival, bluff, and hide Counters as you lead unique fighters to the top of Casino Tower!

    2026StrategyIndie16.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Deckmon

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Pemkie Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pemkie Island.

    Deckmon is a card-based strategy roguelite game inspired by blackjack. As a Deckmon trainer, you command your three Deckmon in battles against other Deckmon, challenge the 5 major league gyms, and ultimately defeat the league champion to become the ultimate Deckmon Master!

    StrategyIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  8. Kingdom of Ashes - Fallen Era

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Pemkie Island fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pemkie Island.

    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.

    2026StrategyIndie8.09 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Pemkie Island.

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pemkie Island.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pemkie Island.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Pemkie Island.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Travellin Cats in Paris

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Pemkie Island.

    Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!

    2023IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pemkie Island.

    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.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Pemkie Island.

    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.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. An Arcade Full of Cats

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Pemkie Island.

    Journey through gaming history's time and space, while searching for adorable feline companions in 'An Arcade Full of Cats,' the ultimate pet'em up hidden object game.

    2023IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Pemkie Island

What games are most similar to Pemkie Island?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Pemkie Island are 深渊书简, Craftaway: Tactics, Dicebinder.
Who developed Pemkie Island?
Pemkie Island was developed by MESHUP Games and published by MESHUP.

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 Pemkie Island.

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