Games like Ember Folks
If Ember Folks is your kind of game, the closest matches are Fellwood, The Horde of Gorak and Mergeopolis — 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 Ember Folks: Expand your city, summon an army of workers, mine resources and heat a dying star to millions of degrees in this incremental adventure. Discover new upgrades and synergies, prestige to unlock new mechanics and watch numbers go up - a lot.
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Fellwood
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Top pick for Ember Folks fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ember Folks.
Build a wild fantasy lumber empire that bombards a forest across the valley with axes, ballistas, cannons, and magic. Harvest flying logs, stack absurd upgrades, and automate your way to unstoppable woodcutting power.
The Horde of Gorak
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Second-strongest match for Ember Folks fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ember Folks.
Lead a growing orc horde in this pixel art incremental strategy game. Build your settlement, recruit powerful warriors, research new technologies, cast devastating spells, and destroy human castles to rescue your captured Warchief
Mergeopolis
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Third-strongest match for Ember Folks fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ember Folks.
Merge matching buildings to grow a tiny island into a thriving city. Plan residential, commercial, industrial, and civic districts, reinvest their income, unlock more land, and build at your own pace in this relaxing incremental city builder.
Tax Empire
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Ranked #4 for Ember Folks fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Ember Folks.
Build your own Tax Empire! Collect taxes, expand your city, hire tax officers, control traffic, enact new policies and squeeze out as much revenue as you can on your road to riches.
DICE RUSH
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Ranked #5 for Ember Folks fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ember Folks.
Dice Rush is a frantic race toward bigger numbers: roll dice, earn profits, unlock secret boxes, hire helpers, upgrade the talent tree, and watch everything spiral out of control.
Crownhold
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Ranked #6 for Ember Folks fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ember Folks.
Noble Rulers — grow your realm and expand your castle in this short incremental game! Manage resources, discover foreign lands and build up an army to lay siege to your enemies.
If You Build It, Everyone Dies!
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Ranked #7 for Ember Folks fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Ember Folks.
Play as the "Techno King" of a thriving Silicon Valley startup in this active incremental game. Fulfill contracts, harvest data, fabricate supply chains, manufacture consent, bio-integrate with humans, and transcend space and time itself in a dark satire of the retro-futuristic Brave New World.
Mining and Dwarves
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Ranked #8 for Ember Folks fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Ember Folks.
An incremental game where you mine rocks, gather ore, and recruit dwarves. Play actively for maximum gains, or idle and let the dwarves do the work.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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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 Ember Folks.
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Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Ember Folks.
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The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Ember Folks.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Ember Folks.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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 Ember Folks.
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.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Ember Folks.
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Frequently asked about Ember Folks
- What games are most similar to Ember Folks?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Ember Folks are Fellwood, The Horde of Gorak, Mergeopolis.
- Who developed Ember Folks?
- Ember Folks was developed by Hryhorii Trukhan.
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 Ember Folks.
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