Games like Lilac Wave
If Lilac Wave is your kind of game, the closest matches are Thirteen: Risk & Rogue, Calc and Beat and CharmEdge Deck — 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 Lilac Wave: Choose your magical sea creature, synergize spells, and dominate battles where strategy is your only weapon. Channel mystical pools day by day, survive ocean perils, and craft the perfect build to face the final boss. The fate of the deep is in your hands!
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Steam players who put hours into Lilac Wave 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.
Thirteen: Risk & Rogue
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Top pick for Lilac Wave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lilac Wave.
Thirteen: Risk & Rogue is a card battle game that blends roguelike survival with the strategy of the Chinese poker game Thirteen Cards. With a limited stack of chips, you must fight your way through multiple stages — each one a true battle of wits. Survive, and victory is yours.
Calc and Beat
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Lilac Wave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lilac Wave.
“Calc and Beat” is a roguelike puzzle game where you must anticipate future developments—much like the “lethal calculation” mechanic in card games—to determine the best move. Use items strategically to protect the golem and conquer randomly generated dungeons!
CharmEdge Deck
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Lilac Wave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lilac Wave.
A laid-back casual roguelike-DBG game! As a genius mage-swordsman apprentice, build your magic deck, wield Enchantments and Skills, and teach that snarky young mentor a lesson!
Seven Sins Poker
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Lilac Wave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lilac Wave.
Texas Hold’em meets a roguelike autobattler where losing costs you health. Face four opponents at once, use abilities to turn the tide of each hand, and time your counters in QTEs. Create your build and defeat the Seven Sins.
Pick Squad
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Ranked #5 for Lilac Wave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lilac Wave.
A strategy game blending deckbuilding, auto-battler, and roguelike elements. Recruit and upgrade units to build your squad. Draw random numbers to activate matching units’ skills on the board, earn points, and defeat the boss. Test your strategy and arrangement — with a little luck.
Showdown of Luck
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Ranked #6 for Lilac Wave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lilac Wave.
This is a PvP auto-battler game that blends deck-building with slot machine mechanics. Players purchase cards and symbols to assemble their own game machine and battle, with the core lying in the clever combination of cards and symbols. Spin fate, build victory!
Azoth
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Lilac Wave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Lilac Wave.
Build game-breaking combos as you ascend through challenging rituals in this strategic deck builder. Master the unique card linking resource system and discover infinite procedural possibilities.
Ultracapitalism
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Ranked #8 for Lilac Wave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Lilac Wave.
Ultracapitalism is a company-building roguelike autobattler where cash is your health and debt is your weapon. Assemble a 10-slot board of corporate assets, customize synergies with buzzwords, and auto-battle rival founders in deterministic asynchronous boardroom combat.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Lilac Wave.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Lilac Wave.
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.
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Lilac Wave.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Lilac Wave.
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.
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Lilac Wave.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Lilac Wave.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Lilac Wave.
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.
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Frequently asked about Lilac Wave
- What games are most similar to Lilac Wave?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Lilac Wave are Thirteen: Risk & Rogue, Calc and Beat, CharmEdge Deck.
- Who developed Lilac Wave?
- Lilac Wave was developed by Lucas Ar.
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 Lilac Wave.
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