Games like Emberline
If Emberline is your kind of game, the closest matches are Cardstronaut, Train of Thought and Tavrik — 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 Emberline: Emberline is a real-time roguelike deckbuilder where your train never stops. Generate and spend Ember to play cards, reinforce your train and fight creatures attacking across a 3×3 battlefield as you chart a path through the hostile continent of Pacifica.
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Steam players who put hours into Emberline 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.
Cardstronaut
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Top pick for Emberline fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Emberline.
A unique spin on the deckbuilding genre, where you must play cards and use strategy and tactics to activate ceiling mounted flame throwers to defeat the aliens and find out the truth
Train of Thought
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Second-strongest match for Emberline fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Emberline.
Train of thought is a roguelike deck builder set in post-apocalypse London. Your goal: escape
StrategySteam ↗Tavrik
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Third-strongest match for Emberline fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Emberline.
Tavrik is a hex-grid roguelite deckbuilder where every card reshapes the map. Build roads and bridges across a dangerous medieval world, then reach the exit before your energy runs out—with a friendly cat at your side.
Hell Deck
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Ranked #4 for Emberline fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Emberline.
Collect units and build powerful synergies on a restricted grid in Hell Deck, a dark roguelike deckbuilder defense game. Construct your own bizarre, twisted ecosystem through a brutal cycle of predation and sacrifice, and defend hell from the holy swarm
Pelican Empyrean
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Ranked #5 for Emberline fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Emberline.
A roguelike cooking card game about collecting magic artefacts to amplify your culinary powers! Share the magic of abundance by cooking delicious meals for all who come to Pelican's kitchen. Food is love!
I AM NIGHT
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Ranked #6 for Emberline fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Emberline.
A folk horror roguelike deckbuilder where you tear apart and scrap together cards to face monsters, unravel mysteries, and survive a world forged in fear. Set out on a brave, twisted adventure of self-discovery.
Zoominoes
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Ranked #7 for Emberline fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Emberline.
Build the ultimate Zoo in this number-go-up roguelike deckbuilder. Find powerful mythical animals, boost them with snacks, and even manipulate the board itself. Break the game by scoring millions (and more) with insane combos.
Veilwalkers
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Ranked #8 for Emberline fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Veilwalkers is a dark fantasy roguelike deckbuilder where every card you play builds momentum. Strategically manage your deck, master turn-based combat, and battle through cursed forests filled with twisted enemies and eldritch secrets.
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Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
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Tails Noir: Prologue
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Frequently asked about Emberline
- What games are most similar to Emberline?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Emberline are Cardstronaut, Train of Thought, Tavrik.
- Who developed Emberline?
- Emberline was developed by Odd Leaf Games.
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 Emberline.
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