Games like Ember Folks
If Ember Folks is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Horde of Gorak, Fellwood and WorldShaper Idle — 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: Heat a dying star to millions of degrees. Mine resources, summon an army of workers, and expand your city. Discover new upgrades and synergies, prestige to unlock new mechanics, and push the heat ever higher. Numbers go up - a lot.
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The Horde of Gorak
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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.
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
Fellwood
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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.
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.
WorldShaper Idle
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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.
Relax and build your own world! Discover new tiles by experimenting with tile placement. Use their bonuses to optimize your production, or just sit back and become ever more powerful! What will your worlds look like?
Human: Profit
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Ranked #4 for Ember Folks fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Ember Folks.
An accurate depiction of our world, baked into a short, classic incremental game. Take over Grandpa's farm, rebuild the town, and do whatever it takes to succeed. Also rabbits.
Mining and Dwarves
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Ranked #5 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.
Dwarf Eats Mountain
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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.
Dwarves hunger for gold, and no mountain shall stand in their way! Mine riches, unearth artifacts, and upgrade your dwarves to devour ever-bigger peaks in this whimsical incremental game.
Captain of Industry
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Ranked #7 for Ember Folks fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ember Folks.
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
IDLE BOSS RUSH
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Ranked #8 for Ember Folks fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ember Folks.
Slay giant bosses and turn the hollow wasteland into the almighty kingdom! Endlessly rewarding incremental game where you collect fountains of rare loot, unleash crazy combos and watch the monsters fall under your knees. Boss Rush that keeps on going when you're gone!
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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.
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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 The Horde of Gorak, Fellwood, WorldShaper Idle.
- Who developed Ember Folks?
- Ember Folks was developed by Hryhorii Trukhan.
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