Games like Tenrei
If Tenrei is your kind of game, the closest matches are Ashigaru Tactics, Crown and Adventure and Battle Brothers — 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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Steam players who put hours into Tenrei 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.
Ashigaru Tactics
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Top pick for Tenrei fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Tenrei.
Ashigaru Tactics is a turn-based hex tactical combat sandbox game, set in Sengoku-era Japan. Assemble a squad of mercenaries and fight, survive, and kill in a land ravaged by clan wars, bandit incursions, and whispers of Yokai emerging.
Crown and Adventure
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Tenrei fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Tenrei.
An open-world adventure RPG. Choose your favorite character, train your elite legion step by step, and crush all enemies on the battlefield. Strengthen yourself, establish a powerful family, create a great dynasty, and become the dominator of this fantasy world.
Battle Brothers
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Tenrei fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Tenrei.
Lead a mercenary company in this tactical RPG set in a medieval fantasy world. Chase fame and fortune as you choose where to go, who to recruit, which contracts to pursue, and how to train and equip your men in a procedurally generated open world campaign.
Huaxia: Warring States
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Tenrei fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tenrei.
Build your own epic story in the Huaxia: Warring States. Start a clan, conquer the lands, and build an empire. Or roam the Nine Provinces as a lone warrior fighting bandits and monsters. The choice is yours!
Forged of Blood
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Ranked #5 for Tenrei fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tenrei.
A fantasy turn-based tactical RPG built on depth and mechanical complexity, featuring classless character building, strategic management, and small unit tactics on a world scale.
Song's Fantasy
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Tenrei fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tenrei.
This Chinese martial arts sandbox game blends character growth, adventure, survival, and building. It offers varied regions, towns, factions, engaging NPC interactions, and branching narratives. The combat system is novel, focusing on troop arrangement and skill cards, with replayable talent points.
Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes
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Ranked #7 for Tenrei fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tenrei.
Fallen Enchantress is 4X strategy game from the makers of Sins of a Solar Empire and Galactic Civilizations. Build a civilization in the magical world of Elemental. Recruit heroes, train armies, build cities, forge alliances and save the world in this rich world where it's never the same game twice.
Fuga: Melodies of Steel
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Ranked #8 for Tenrei fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Tenrei.
Fuga: Melodies of Steel is an RPG where you place children, each with their own unique characteristics and skills, at different gun turrets in a tank to fight against the enemy.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tenrei.
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.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tenrei.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tenrei.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tenrei.
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 Indie and Adventure with Tenrei.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Tenrei.
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.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Tenrei.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tenrei.
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 Tenrei
- What games are most similar to Tenrei?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Tenrei are Ashigaru Tactics, Crown and Adventure, Battle Brothers.
- Who developed Tenrei?
- Tenrei was developed by Alan Lun.
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 Tenrei.
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