Games like The Grimwood Hex
If The Grimwood Hex is your kind of game, the closest matches are Hex Blast, Forge the Fates and Duoshift — 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 The Grimwood Hex: Free the forgotten souls trapped inside a cursed board game. In this roguelike deckbuilder, time is against you. Place and explore a board of enchanted tiles, craft unique decks and fight twisted wooden creatures in the safety of daylight, rushing back to the town before nightfall.
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Hex Blast
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Top pick for The Grimwood Hex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with The Grimwood Hex.
Hex Blast is a horde survival x roguelike deckbuilder where you strategize on a hex grid, chaining explosive card combos to wipe out cyber hordes. Build your deck, collect overclocked chips, and discover the most broken builds to annihilate cyber threats—before they overwhelm you.
Forge the Fates
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Second-strongest match for The Grimwood Hex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Grimwood Hex.
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.
Duoshift
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Third-strongest match for The Grimwood Hex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with The Grimwood Hex.
Defend The Wall on a tactical 11x7 grid using your pair of battle vehicles. Outmaneuver waves of scavenged war machines, unleash game-breaking hacks and chain synergies. Draft, fight, and survive in this endlessly replayable tactical roguelite.
Overwritten: Defeat The Net
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Ranked #4 for The Grimwood Hex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Grimwood Hex.
A roguelike deckbuilding card game where you control, and buff your objects to defeat all kinds of funny sci-fi enemies.
Empire in Decay
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Ranked #5 for The Grimwood Hex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Grimwood Hex.
Start a rebellion and fight chess inspired turn-based combats in this roguelike deckbuilder. Upgrade your units and cards wisely. You will need it to progress through the districts of Daandria, the city where the tyrant king awaits you. Save this Empire in Decay.
Touhou Rinrinki ~ Crafts of the Lucky Beast
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Ranked #6 for The Grimwood Hex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Grimwood Hex.
Touhou Rinrinki ~ Crafts of the Luck Beast is a Touhou Doujin Card-Strategy Game. Using cards across different seasons, join forces with duelists of unique abilities, face various opponents from all over Gensoukyo, and uncover the truth behind the Card Duel Incident!
Master of Piece
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Ranked #7 for The Grimwood Hex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Grimwood Hex.
Recruit mercenaries, combine their traits, and forge endless synergies. Venture through the mysterious medieval realm, facing powerful foes and mighty bosses. Simple turn-based rules hide deep strategic depth—build your ultimate team, master the pieces, and uncover the secrets of the Black fog.
Re:Night
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Ranked #8 for The Grimwood Hex fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Grimwood Hex.
Re:Night is a strategy game that blends turn based tactics with roguelike deckbuilding. In each run, build your deck, plan your tactics, and experiment with countless 3-character team combinations. Journey to a mysterious town, break the endless cycle of night, and bring dawn back to the world.
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Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Grimwood Hex.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
The Children of Clay
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Grimwood Hex.
The Children of Clay is a short stop motion archeology horror game, where you have to study an ancient artefact and discover its dark secret.
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Grimwood Hex.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
Nightmare House: The Original Mod
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Grimwood Hex.
Wake up, it’s time for the real nightmare to begin. Make your way through a terrorizing house, uncover the secrets of a haunted hospital, fight through hordes of the undead, and try to escape Nightmare House.
Shape of Dreams: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Grimwood Hex.
《Shape of Dreams: Prologue》is a unique game that blends action roguelite with MOBA-style gameplay. Edit your character's Memories to create your own champion. Face all challenges alone or play with friends in up to 4-player co-op.
SCP – Containment Breach
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Grimwood Hex.
A procedural first-person horror adventure. You are on your own after something goes terribly wrong in this top-secret containment facility. Collect items to aid in your escape and try to uncover the truth, as horror lurks behind every door. Can you make it out alive?
Poppy Playtime
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Grimwood Hex.
You must stay alive in this horror/puzzle adventure. Try to survive the vengeful toys waiting for you in the abandoned toy factory. Use your GrabPack to hack electrical circuits or nab anything from afar. Explore the mysterious facility... and don't get caught.
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Frequently asked about The Grimwood Hex
- What games are most similar to The Grimwood Hex?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Grimwood Hex are Hex Blast, Forge the Fates, Duoshift.
- Who developed The Grimwood Hex?
- The Grimwood Hex was developed by Little Lake 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 The Grimwood Hex.
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