Games like Escape the Umbra
If Escape the Umbra is your kind of game, the closest matches are Starhand, Maiden Covenant: The Infernal Citadel and 天雨粟 — 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 Escape the Umbra: A roguelike deckbuilder with the positional combat of a turn-based tactics game. Shape your deck with weapons, spells and relics, use the battlefield to your advantage, and carry light into an ever-changing labyrinth.
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Steam players who put hours into Escape the Umbra 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.
Starhand
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Top pick for Escape the Umbra fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Escape the Umbra.
A roguelite deckbuilder where your cards are your ship. Every card draws on a system — weapons, shields, engines, scanners, engineering. Enemies don't just chew your hull, they knock systems offline and lock those cards out of your hand. Six pilots, 355 cards, eight zones. Improvise or die.
Maiden Covenant: The Infernal Citadel
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Second-strongest match for Escape the Umbra fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Escape the Umbra.
A solo rogue-lite combining deckbuilding and board tactics. Build a deck and play cards governed by movement and combat rules. Seize Magic Ore, manage resources, and face relentless foes. Lead allies across four territories, challenge the Infernal Citadel, and restore order to a shattered world!
天雨粟
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Third-strongest match for Escape the Umbra fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Escape the Umbra.
Break glyphs into radicals, compose them into Chinese characters, and cast every word as a card. An ink-wash roguelike deckbuilder: five script styles, a three-act campaign, hanging characters that live between turns, and verse-linked combos against demons born from corrupted ink.
Royal Booty Quest
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Ranked #4 for Escape the Umbra fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Escape the Umbra.
Dive into the world of Royal Booty Quest and experience the thrill of deckbuilding and roguelike adventure like never before.
POKOR
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Ranked #5 for Escape the Umbra fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Escape the Umbra.
POKOR is a story-driven roguelike tactical turn-based card RPG. Players take on the role of Heart, commanding a deck of playing card soldiers to engage in turn-based battles against enemies as they venture deeper into a vast, pale, and ever-changing palace to uncover the truth and the true self.
Re:Night
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Ranked #6 for Escape the Umbra fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Escape the Umbra.
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.
DUNGEON ARTIFACT
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Ranked #7 for Escape the Umbra fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Escape the Umbra.
DUNGEON ARTIFACT is a title that fuses authentic card game mechanics with the deep complexity of roguelike deck-building. Freely combine over 400 different cards to unleash the ultimate combos!
Marvel's Midnight Suns
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Ranked #8 for Escape the Umbra fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Escape the Umbra.
FIGHT AND STRATEGIZE LIKE A SUPER HERO IN THE DARKER CORNERS OF THE MARVEL UNIVERSE. Play as The Hunter, a legendary demon slayer who must lead a team of Super Heroes and supernatural warriors facing apocalyptic threats.
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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 Escape the Umbra.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Escape the Umbra.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Escape the Umbra.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Escape the Umbra.
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 with Escape the Umbra.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Escape the Umbra.
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.
Coloring Pixels
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Escape the Umbra.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
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Frequently asked about Escape the Umbra
- What games are most similar to Escape the Umbra?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Escape the Umbra are Starhand, Maiden Covenant: The Infernal Citadel, 天雨粟.
- Who developed Escape the Umbra?
- Escape the Umbra was developed by Tyborg.
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 Escape the Umbra.
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