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Games like Nightmare Conquest

If Nightmare Conquest is your kind of game, the closest matches are Guildrun, Stonespire and My Infamous Dungeon — 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 Nightmare Conquest: Build your monster team, combine skills, and create absurd builds to push farther and farther in this strategic auto battler!

2026StrategyIndieRPGCasualWindowsby DreamSmith
Nightmare Conquest — Steam game cover

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  1. Guildrun

    WHY THIS

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

    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.

    ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  2. Stonespire

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Nightmare Conquest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Nightmare Conquest.

    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 ↗
  3. My Infamous Dungeon

    WHY THIS

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

    Be evil. Build your dungeon and grow your empire in this roguelite dungeon builder. Hire monsters, set traps, battle heroes, and conquer the overworld with an ever expanding legion of evil.

    2026StrategyIndieRPG14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Primal Tactica

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Nightmare Conquest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nightmare Conquest.

    Recruit a team of Primals, then equip and evolve them to survive deadly encounters! Loot powerful Relics and Augments and stack synergies to create wild gamebreaking teams. Primal Tactica is a roguelike autobattler where TFT meets Slay the Spire, with thousands of possible builds.

    2026StrategyIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  5. Open The Gate: Just A Little

    WHY THIS

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

    Medieval Tower Defense and Real-time Strategy hybrid where positioning, gold farming and tower capturing decide the outcome against waves of legions and dragons.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation4.79 USDSteam ↗
  6. Overbuffed

    WHY THIS

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

    A dark fantasy roguelike deckbuilder with auto-battler combat. Build your deck, summon creatures, upgrade your weapon, and fight your way through floors filled with ever-deadlier enemies. Every run is different. Every mistake can be fatal.

    StrategyIndieSteam ↗
  7. Idle Monster TD: Evolved

    WHY THIS

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

    Evolve epic monsters and crush puny humans in this endless idle tower defense game! Unlock, upgrade, and evolve over 150 unique monsters and pets, ranging from cute and colorful flower creatures to epic fire breathing dragons, to assemble the ultimate team against the endless waves of enemies.

    2022StrategyIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Kings & Savages

    WHY THIS

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

    A fast-paced, high skill Solo/Auto-Battler. Easy to learn, hard to master. Inspired by Chess and Dota.

    ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

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

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Nightmare Conquest.

    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.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  4. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

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

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Star Fetchers

    WHY THIS

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

    The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories

    2020ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  7. Coloring Pixels

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Nightmare Conquest.

    A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.

    2018IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  8. Eternal Senia

    WHY THIS

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

    Thoughts and expectations ARPG

    2015ActionIndieRPGFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Nightmare Conquest

What games are most similar to Nightmare Conquest?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Nightmare Conquest are Guildrun, Stonespire, My Infamous Dungeon.
Who developed Nightmare Conquest?
Nightmare Conquest was developed by DreamSmith.

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 Nightmare Conquest.

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