Games like Red Lily
If Red Lily is your kind of game, the closest matches are Pathway, Aether & Iron and Inkbound — 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 Red Lily: A tactical survival game, play as a teacher/general leading your students to safety. Keep them alive by hiding from enemies, while gathering enough supplies to survive the night! If one of your students dies, they're gone forever, leaving one less mouth to feed. Inspired by the Battle of Okinawa.
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Steam players who put hours into Red Lily 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.
Pathway
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Top pick for Red Lily fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Red Lily.
Explore the strange unknown with Pathway, a strategy adventure set in the 1930s great wilderness. Unravel long-forgotten mysteries of the occult, raid ancient tombs and outwit your foes in turn-based squad combat!
Aether & Iron
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Second-strongest match for Red Lily fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Red Lily.
Immerse yourself in this Decopunk Narrative RPG set in an alternate 1930s where anti-gravitational technology has taken cars, roads, and even New York City into the sky. Muster a crew, master tactical turn-based combat, and unravel the dark secrets lurking beneath the floating metropolis.
Inkbound
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Third-strongest match for Red Lily fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Red Lily.
A turn-based tactical roguelike from the creators of Monster Train. Play solo or co-op, create powerful builds, and save the Atheneum.
Valkyria Chronicles 4 Complete Edition
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Ranked #4 for Red Lily fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Red Lily.
A Continent Engulfed in the Bitter Flames of War! Commander Claude Wallace and his childhood friends set out to fight in a desperate war, but bone-chilling blizzards, waves of imperial soldiers, and the godlike powers of the Valkyria stand between them and victory.
Arcadian Atlas
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Ranked #5 for Red Lily fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Red Lily.
Arcadian Atlas is a Tactical RPG about the choices people make for love and power, and how those decisions tear a kingdom apart.
The Last Spell
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Ranked #6 for Red Lily fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Red Lily.
Defend the last bastion of humanity with your squad of heroes! Exterminate fiendish monsters with magic and brute force by night and re-build your battered city defenses by day in this tactical RPG with rogue-lite mechanics.
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark
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Ranked #7 for Red Lily fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Red Lily.
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark is a turn-based tactical RPG with a focus on storytelling and strategic battles. Unfold a mature story as you progress through hand-crafted scenarios, controlling your own group of Arbiters, with each character customizable from a wide selection of classes and abilities!
Lost Eidolons: Veil of the Witch
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Ranked #8 for Red Lily fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Red Lily.
Veil of the Witch is a roguelite strategy RPG with turn-based combat and branching progression. Set in the world of “Lost Eidolons,” build a nimble squad of five, pick your skills as you level, and adapt to each unique run. May the gods favor the bold and the wise.
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Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Valkyria Chronicles 4 Complete Edition
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and RPG with Red Lily.
A Continent Engulfed in the Bitter Flames of War! Commander Claude Wallace and his childhood friends set out to fight in a desperate war, but bone-chilling blizzards, waves of imperial soldiers, and the godlike powers of the Valkyria stand between them and victory.
The Last Spell
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Red Lily.
Defend the last bastion of humanity with your squad of heroes! Exterminate fiendish monsters with magic and brute force by night and re-build your battered city defenses by day in this tactical RPG with rogue-lite mechanics.
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Red Lily.
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark is a turn-based tactical RPG with a focus on storytelling and strategic battles. Unfold a mature story as you progress through hand-crafted scenarios, controlling your own group of Arbiters, with each character customizable from a wide selection of classes and abilities!
Lost Eidolons: Veil of the Witch
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Red Lily.
Veil of the Witch is a roguelite strategy RPG with turn-based combat and branching progression. Set in the world of “Lost Eidolons,” build a nimble squad of five, pick your skills as you level, and adapt to each unique run. May the gods favor the bold and the wise.
Frequently asked about Red Lily
- Is Red Lily free to play?
- Yes — Red Lily is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
- What games are most similar to Red Lily?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Red Lily are Pathway, Aether & Iron, Inkbound.
- Who developed Red Lily?
- Red Lily was developed by Red Lily.
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 Red Lily.
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