Games like Irsen
If Irsen is your kind of game, the closest matches are Forsworn, Fraga 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 Irsen: IRSEN is a turn-based roguelite where you fight alone against coordinated enemy squads - progression does not come from traditional XP, gold, or gear. Defeat enemy groups, extract their genes, rebuild your body, reshape your skills, and adapt your strategy during each run.
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Steam players who put hours into Irsen 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.
Forsworn
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Top pick for Irsen fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Irsen.
Stack game-breaking synergies until your party can slay gods. Command a party of heroes, forge powerful synergies, and level them up across runs in this turn-based tactics roguelite. Battle the gods solo or in co-op, where defeat is just another beginning.
Fraga
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Second-strongest match for Irsen fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Irsen.
You are a pilgrim lost in a mysterious forest. Survive in this procedurally generated, turn-based tactical roguelite inspired by Galician mythology. Upgrade your gear, adapt your strategy and remember: something is always lurking in the shadows.
Blackbriar Crypt
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Third-strongest match for Irsen fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Irsen.
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.
Warhounds
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Ranked #4 for Irsen fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Irsen.
Warhounds is a turn-based tactical game about an elite mercenary squad with an old-school action movie vibe, inspired by XCOM and Jagged Alliance. Recruit unique fighters, upgrade your base, and fight for Africa’s future. Less fake RNG, more true ballistics and lethal tactics.
Wishseeker
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Ranked #5 for Irsen fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Irsen.
Wishseeker is a turn-based tactical roguelite where you lead a party of four Wishseekers into the ever-changing Hollow Vault. Master fast-paced grid-based combat, craft unique builds with skills and artifacts, and uncover the truth behind the corruption lurking beneath every expedition.
Valor of Man
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Ranked #6 for Irsen fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Irsen.
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.
The Severed Gods
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Ranked #7 for Irsen fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Irsen.
A fantasy roguelite RPG where heroes reincarnate to stop the mystic dragon Umbra. Master turn-based combat, sever giant bosses, and shape your Karma through a journey filled with relics and evolving NPC interactions.
Veterum
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Ranked #8 for Irsen fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Irsen.
Turn-based tactical strategy with a detailed combat system and interactive environment. Explore the open world, complete quests, search for rare artifacts. Lead the last army of the Order of the Gatekeepers and stop the coming chaos!
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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 Irsen.
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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 Irsen.
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.
Tails Noir: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Irsen.
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Irsen.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Irsen.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
The Last Sovereign
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Irsen.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
DFHack - Dwarf Fortress Modding Engine
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and RPG with Irsen.
Extensions for Dwarf Fortress, including bugfixes, interface improvements, automation agents, design blueprints, modding building blocks, and other tools.
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Frequently asked about Irsen
- What games are most similar to Irsen?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Irsen are Forsworn, Fraga, Blackbriar Crypt.
- Who developed Irsen?
- Irsen was developed by Datchannin.
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