Games like Desolation Arcanist
If Desolation Arcanist is your kind of game, the closest matches are Furry Defenders, Spell Magic and RUNE GUNNER — 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 Desolation Arcanist: Craft your own magic in this Action Roguelite. "Program" your wands with varied Spell Cores (Fireballs, Flying Swords... or Watermelons?) and Runes. Raise your companion Dragon, command a Puppet army, and abuse physics to knock enemies off cliffs. Your build is your destiny.
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Furry Defenders
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Top pick for Desolation Arcanist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Desolation Arcanist.
In Furry Defenders, where the Demon Clan covets the Dragon Veins and incites war among all races, you will play as Cynton, the Dragon Bloodline Warrior. Rally your allies and set masterful traps at crucial passes to outsmart the looming threat of the Demon Army.
Spell Magic
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Second-strongest match for Desolation Arcanist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Early Access with Desolation Arcanist.
Craft, cast, and master magical spells using mathematical concepts. Explore, battle, and solve puzzles in a thrilling adventure that combines arithmetic, geometry, and algebra with fast-paced action and strategy.
RUNE GUNNER
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Third-strongest match for Desolation Arcanist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Desolation Arcanist.
RUNE GUNNER is a 1-4 player co-op roguelite shooter where you fuse guns and magic, mix classes mid-run, and break your build in the best way possible.
They won't get our eggs!
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Ranked #4 for Desolation Arcanist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Desolation Arcanist.
They won't get our eggs!!! Welcome to the fantasy world, where you play as the dragon, trying to protect your eggs from the enemies. They won't get our eggs - is a roguelike game where you need to shoot infinite waves of enemies, attacking your nest.
Escape to Ariah
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Ranked #5 for Desolation Arcanist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Desolation Arcanist.
Strategically use runes on a mystical grid in this tactical roguelike deckbuilder. Choose a character with unique abilities and runes for a variety of build ideas. Can you survive your quest to escape to Ariah?
Witch & Dragon: Hope of Elements
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Ranked #6 for Desolation Arcanist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Desolation Arcanist.
Harness elemental chains to defeat foes, collect treasures, and craft unique builds in high-risk, high-reward adventures. Witch & Dragon: Hope of Elements is a roguelike with elemental gameplay, RPG mechanics, and turn-based tactics. Join Elise and dragon Pipi on their magical journey.
Skyward Bastion
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Ranked #7 for Desolation Arcanist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Desolation Arcanist.
Skyward Bastion is a roguelite tower defense game set on floating islands. Build and upgrade your defenses, unlock new strategic possibilities, and adapt your run to procedurally expanding maps.
RealmGuard
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Ranked #8 for Desolation Arcanist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Desolation Arcanist.
Realmguard is a rogue-like tower defense where every run is a strategic balancing act of expansion and elemental strategy. Expand the map tile by tile, uncover random encounters and hidden rewards, upgrade weapons and combine elemental effects for powerful synergies to survive.
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Desolation Arcanist.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Desolation Arcanist.
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.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Desolation Arcanist.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Desolation Arcanist.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Desolation Arcanist.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Desolation Arcanist.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Desolation Arcanist.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
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- What games are most similar to Desolation Arcanist?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Desolation Arcanist are Furry Defenders, Spell Magic, RUNE GUNNER.
- Who developed Desolation Arcanist?
- Desolation Arcanist was developed by MipodasGame.
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