Games like Deep Rise
If Deep Rise is your kind of game, the closest matches are Ironwake, Salt and Soil: A Frontier Family Sim and Edroseph's Tower — 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 Deep Rise: Colony management roguelite. After every combat, draft one of three cards to build your run. The surface world ended a thousand years ago. Now the road up is open. Build a colony, send your six survivors into the dark, and reach for the first dawn in a thousand years.
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Ironwake
WHY THIS
Top pick for Deep Rise fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deep Rise.
A gothic turn-based roguelite with a deep customization system via equipment, ability trees, and pet development. Become a keeper of the Ironwake gates. it. Raise a creature from an egg to adulthood. Descend ever-shifting dungeons for legendary loot. Grow your relationships with the town and ascend.
Salt and Soil: A Frontier Family Sim
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Deep Rise fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Deep Rise.
A minimalist roguelite colony sim about one family on the American frontier, 1609–1900. Build a homestead, survive the lean years, and pass the ranch down through the generations — every year ends with a family council shaped by what really happened.
Edroseph's Tower
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Deep Rise fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deep Rise.
A dark fantasy turn-based roguelike RPG with 25 classes and deep buildcraft. Climb the tower solo or in online co-op for up to 4 players, combine talents and equipment, and adapt your party to every run.
Edge Islands
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Ranked #4 for Deep Rise fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deep Rise.
Discover a unique blend of Colony Sim and Tactical RPG. Recruit and train your heroes, build your outpost, explore dungeons and engage in turn-based strategic battles to protect and expand your domain. Shape your stories by managing moods, relationships, ambitions and more!
BioKept
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Ranked #5 for Deep Rise fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deep Rise.
Conquer dungeons and hoard epic loot in this auto battler adventure! Command 72+ beasts, master strategic combat, and claim your throne in the loot-filled depths. Are you ready to reign supreme?
Project Thea
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Ranked #6 for Deep Rise fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Deep Rise.
Wake to a brutal world bent on destroying your colony. Rebuild, Explore the Wastelands, and Gather scarce resources. Will you strike a deal with the ruthless Baba Yaga - or hack a rogue Cyber-Rat to turn it into an ally? A dark strategy-survival RPG with card-based tactical combat.
Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville
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Ranked #7 for Deep Rise fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deep Rise.
Rebuild a ruined city in this post-apocalyptic mix of strategy and simulation. Manage survivors, scavenge for food and supplies, deal with rival gangs, illness, interpersonal strife and zombie attacks.
METRO QUESTER | OSAKA
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Deep Rise fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deep Rise.
METRO QUESTER | OSAKA is a dungeon exploration RPG based in a post-apocalyptic futuristic world created by the manga artist Kazushi Hagiwara, with a deep game system designed by Hironori Kato that offers the excitement and surprises reminiscent of 1980s computer games through hack and slash.
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Deep Rise.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Deep Rise.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Deep Rise.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Deep Rise.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Deep Rise.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Deep Rise.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Deep Rise.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
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Frequently asked about Deep Rise
- What games are most similar to Deep Rise?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Deep Rise are Ironwake, Salt and Soil: A Frontier Family Sim, Edroseph's Tower.
- Who developed Deep Rise?
- Deep Rise was developed by Max Karnaukh.
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 Deep Rise.
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