Games like Rogue Mate
If Rogue Mate is your kind of game, the closest matches are Valor of Man, First Age and Blackbriar Crypt — 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 Rogue Mate: A roguelite chess RPG where your pieces don't stay as they are. Earn upgrades, unlock branching skill trees, and build your warband across runs as you fight through 10 boss encounters, each one rewriting the rules to take you apart.
Players who liked Rogue Mate also play
Steam players who put hours into Rogue Mate 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.
Valor of Man
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Top pick for Rogue Mate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rogue Mate.
Forge your party. Master your fate. In this turn-based roguelite RPG, lead four heroes through a fractured realm of danger and destiny. Build synergies, unlock powerful abilities, and face ever-shifting challenges in an epic battle for survival. No journey is ever the same.
First Age
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Second-strongest match for Rogue Mate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Rogue Mate.
A turn-based strategy card game set in the Neolithic Age. Sacrifice villagers, tame mammoths, and build powerful card synergies to lead your tribe through the threat of the Dark Ages. Will your people stand the test of time?
Blackbriar Crypt
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Rogue Mate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rogue Mate.
Lead three doomed mercenaries through a plague-haunted roguelite. Loot drops as items you physically fit into 4x4 packs. What touches what unlocks combos, curses, fire, poison, and the tactics you need to survive.
Iron Resolution
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Ranked #4 for Rogue Mate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rogue Mate.
Command a mercenary company in a brutal tactical RPG where death is permanent, morale breaks, and injuries leave a lasting scar. Master multiple classes + varying terrain across 10 campaign levels, 100+ Rogue mode, or duel with friends in PvP. The Ironlands need a leader. Will you answer the call?
Face The Gauntlet
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Ranked #5 for Rogue Mate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Rogue Mate.
Fight your way through the colosseum and ascend its ranks in Face The Gauntlet, a turn-based action RPG. Spend points to take actions, or save them for when you parry your opponent and interrupt their turn. Weigh your options carefully and strike fiercely as one of five unique classes.
FROGGLE
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Ranked #6 for Rogue Mate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rogue Mate.
Froggy roguelite (Froguelite!) dungeon crawler - choose, upgrade, and combo powerful sigils. Then break the game! Inspired by Balatro, Slay the Spire, and Inscryption. Adorable 2D graphics made by humans - Original funky froggy beats - Strategic & Unique turn-based combat - Tons of endgame content!
Conquest Tactics : Realm of Sin
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Ranked #7 for Rogue Mate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rogue Mate.
Conquest Tactics: Realm of Sin is a dark-fantasy roguelite tactics game. Command your army and engage in turn-based battles on a hex-based board as you advance step by step to conquer a land shrouded in sin. Your choices carry weight: will you restore order… or allow eternal darkness to reign?
Set a Watch: Digital Edition
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Ranked #8 for Rogue Mate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Rogue Mate.
Assemble your party to survive in this dice-management game! Master steel and magic: roll dice and next use them to attack directly or for powerful abilities. Scout, light a fire, use ancient runes or equip perks to prepare before battle. Use tactics to fight monsters and Unhallowed. Set a watch!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Rogue Mate at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Rogue Mate on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rogue Mate.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
The Test
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Priced ~50% under Rogue Mate on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Rogue Mate.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~63% under Rogue Mate on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rogue Mate.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~75% under Rogue Mate on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Rogue Mate.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
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Priced ~50% under Rogue Mate on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Rogue Mate.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Peggle Deluxe
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Priced ~75% under Rogue Mate on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Rogue Mate.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
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Priced ~75% under Rogue Mate on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rogue Mate.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
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Priced ~50% under Rogue Mate on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Rogue Mate.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Rogue Mate.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
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 Rogue Mate.
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 with Rogue Mate.
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 RPG with Rogue Mate.
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.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Rogue Mate.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
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 Rogue Mate.
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 and Casual with Rogue Mate.
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 Rogue Mate
- How much does Rogue Mate cost?
- Rogue Mate is listed on Steam at 3.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Rogue Mate?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Rogue Mate are Valor of Man, First Age, Blackbriar Crypt.
- Who developed Rogue Mate?
- Rogue Mate was developed by MiThiKaL Productions.
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