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Games like Spirit Links

If Spirit Links is your kind of game, the closest matches are Rogues & Fate, Wireworks and Village Defenders — 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.

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About Spirit Links: Awaken elemental spirits, sculpt the land into living defenses, and stand against the cursed tide. A deep, adjacency‑driven roguelike tower defense where every placement shapes your fate.

StrategyWindowsby Surfin Bird
Spirit Links — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into Spirit Links 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.

  1. Rogues & Fate

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Spirit Links fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Spirit Links.

    A fast-paced two-hero inventory management roguelike. Assemble your inventory and crush bizarre creatures. Break the game with thousands of insane builds to defeat the Fate King in this RPG auto battler.

    2027StrategyIndieRPGSteam ↗
  2. Wireworks

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Spirit Links fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Spirit Links.

    Design your defenses, build your module board, and manage your wires. Combine signals and create synergies to empower your weapons and survive in this base-defense roguelike auto-battler.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation5.59 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Village Defenders

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Spirit Links fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Spirit Links.

    Village Defenders – A thrilling pixel art 2D roguelike game where you strategize to protect your village from relentless waves of undead. Gain experience, unlock powerful abilities, and defend your home from monstrous invaders! Can you hold the line and save the village?

    2025ActionStrategyIndie2.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Cursed Soulless Vagabonds

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Spirit Links fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.

    Master a dark fantasy rogue-incremental game. Steer your character through massive enemy hordes while your chosen build of floating swords fights for you autonomously. Survive intense, short runs without active skills or healing potions. Die often, keep your loot, and unlock permanent upgrades.

    ActionIndieRPGSteam ↗
  5. Gear Up Einstein!

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Spirit Links fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Spirit Links.

    Recruit historical figures and turn them into badass soldiers to save the world. With up to 2 friends, travel across history, find ridiculous combos and master tactical battles in this over-the-top roguelite.

    2026StrategyIndieSteam ↗
  6. GOAT - Gear Optimization Auto-Battle Tactics

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Spirit Links fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Spirit Links.

    An evil goat stole all your clothes. Win them back piece by piece, auto-battle goats, create powerful gear combos, and find absurd synergies in this dress-up roguelike auto-battler.

    StrategyIndieSteam ↗
  7. Abyss Outpost: Auto Frontline

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Spirit Links fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Spirit Links.

    A strategic roguelike auto-battler. Explore the abyss, gather unit data, and print battle cards. Combine unique gear and runes to build an unbreakable automated front, deploying entity armies via your Energy Core. Fend off brutal bosses, shatter enemy lines, and forge your legend within the abyss!

    StrategyCasualSteam ↗
  8. Vivid World

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Spirit Links fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Spirit Links.

    A follow-up to the hit game Vivid Knight, Vivid World is a completely new party-building, roguelike strategy game! Our story takes place in the Underworld, a land ruled by demons. Utilize and master our protagonist, Lemuria's new Jewel Magic to conquer strange dungeons.

    2025ActionSportsStrategy19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    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.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Coloring Pixels

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.

    2018IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  4. Eternal Senia

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Thoughts and expectations ARPG

    2015ActionIndieRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Disfigure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!

    2023ActionIndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Tails Noir: Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Landfall Archives

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Spirit Links.

    Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!

    2023ActionStrategyIndieFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Spirit Links

What games are most similar to Spirit Links?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Spirit Links are Rogues & Fate, Wireworks, Village Defenders.
Who developed Spirit Links?
Spirit Links was developed by Surfin Bird and published by Surfin Bird 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 Spirit Links.

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