Games like Stem The Tide
If Stem The Tide is your kind of game, the closest matches are Guild Idle, HeroesSagaZero and For Our King — 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 Stem The Tide: Lead the last bastion against the Swarm in this hybrid auto-battler and roguelite. Build your camp, recruit and merge units, create faction synergies, upgrade your warriors, and survive procedurally generated waves of monsters to save the world from destruction!
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Steam players who put hours into Stem The Tide 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.
Guild Idle
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Top pick for Stem The Tide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Stem The Tide.
An incremental idle RPG focused on hero management, buildcraft, optimization, and long-term progression. Develop powerful heroes, push them through the endless Eternal Strife, and immortalize them in asynchronous PvP where their legacy strengthens future generations.
HeroesSagaZero
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Second-strongest match for Stem The Tide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stem The Tide.
Pixel-art meets 2.5D battles in this strategy-driven, loot-focused roguelite RPG. Build your own team, master countless skill combinations, and collect gear with endless randomized options. No two strategies are ever the same—unleash your tactics and carve your path to infinite victory!
For Our King
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Third-strongest match for Stem The Tide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stem The Tide.
A medieval Tower Defense x Autobattler Roguelite. Defend your Keep across escalating waves, recruit different unit types, and cast spells from different Schools of Magic. Spend what you earn on a skill tree with over 300 upgrades, and place them on a Decree Bar with many unique modifiers and mults.
Orium
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Ranked #4 for Stem The Tide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stem The Tide.
Aboard your ship, exterminate your enemies, exploit planets and weave your enterprise across the stars of a dying procedural galaxy. Orium is a Lovecraftian space roguelite, infused with streamlined 4X elements.
ANANKE: Roguelike AutoBattler
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Ranked #5 for Stem The Tide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stem The Tide.
A single-player roguelike auto battler. Build a squad, position them on the hex board, then send them in. Win, upgrade, go deeper.
Pocket Squire: Arena
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Ranked #6 for Stem The Tide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Stem The Tide.
Pocket Squire: Arena is a single-player turn-based combat game built around one simple, punishing structure: 5 themed arenas, 9 fights each, with no rest in between. You play a squire stepping into the arena as one of 18 combat classes, a handful of gold, and a backpack of potions.
Wildvale
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Ranked #7 for Stem The Tide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stem The Tide.
Wildvale is a single-player roguelite autobattler where you choose a Hero, bond with an animal Companion, recruit Wildfolk and build an army to conquer a branching path of battles and bosses.
Heatspire
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Ranked #8 for Stem The Tide fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stem The Tide.
Build devastating chains in this satisfying Connect-Four roguelike. Battle drunk ogres and loud knights, stack run-defining charms, drink powerful brews, and push your luck for explosive combos.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Stem The Tide.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
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 Stem The Tide.
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.
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 Stem The Tide.
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.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Stem The Tide.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Coloring Pixels
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Stem The Tide.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Stem The Tide.
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Frequently asked about Stem The Tide
- What games are most similar to Stem The Tide?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Stem The Tide are Guild Idle, HeroesSagaZero, For Our King.
- Who developed Stem The Tide?
- Stem The Tide was developed by Jakub Wabik.
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 Stem The Tide.
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