Games like Candleborne
If Candleborne is your kind of game, the closest matches are Warhammer Survivors, Dead Broke and PuppetOFF — 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 Candleborne: Climb a tower consumed by darkness in this top-down action roguelite. Grow your flame, choose upgrades with dangerous tradeoffs, stay within the candlelight, and defeat each floor’s guardian to continue your ascent.
Players who liked Candleborne also play
Steam players who put hours into Candleborne 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.
Warhammer Survivors
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Top pick for Candleborne fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Candleborne.
Become the embodiment of bullet hell in Warhammer Survivors, a fast-paced roguelite survivors game. Play as characters from the Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer: Age of Sigmar universes, collect and evolve iconic weapons and destroy endless swarms of enemies.
Dead Broke
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Second-strongest match for Candleborne fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Candleborne.
An arena roguelite where money is your life, your ammo, and your currency. Shoot, gamble, and survive in a casino from hell: every bullet costs, every coin saves you. 13 characters, 5 endings, and local co-op. The House always wins... until you stop owing it.
PuppetOFF
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Third-strongest match for Candleborne fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Candleborne.
PuppetOFF — a co-op (1–4 players) survivors-roguelite where the puppet theater stage turns into a battlefield. Play as heroes inspired by classic tales, upgrade your abilities, and mow down thousands of crazed puppets. Collect buttons and spare parts to make it through the show alive.
Croaked
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Ranked #4 for Candleborne fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Candleborne.
Croaked is a frog-themed roguelike survivor where you choose unique frogs, battle massive hordes of enemies, catch insects for powerful bonuses, evolve weapons, discover special events, and defeat challenging bosses while creating new builds every run.
Hexforger
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Ranked #5 for Candleborne fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Candleborne.
Craft your spells in ONLINE CO-OP with your friends in this SURVIVORS-LIKE! Slaughter monsters, gain gold, upgrade your spells to infinite heights. Crush challenges and unlock new spells, upgrades, pickups, realms. Up to 4 players in this unique twist on the survivors-like formula!
ERLIK
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Ranked #6 for Candleborne fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Candleborne.
A Turkic folk-horror bullet-heaven roguelite. Every run drifts between two gods; feed Erlik's corruption for savage power and lifesteal, or rise toward Tengri's light for shields and renewal. Every weapon evolves down two opposed paths. Survive the Long Night.
Dreamfend
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Ranked #7 for Candleborne fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Candleborne.
Dreamfend is a pixel-art roguelite survivor where you play as an old teddy bear guarding a sleeping child from nightmares. Fight off swarms of monsters, collect and upgrade weapons, find power-ups, hunt down every boss and survive the night. Just don't lose yourself — and don't lose the child.
Weed Out
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Ranked #8 for Candleborne fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Candleborne.
A bullet heaven with a slot machine for a level-up. The crops have risen — mow down hordes of mutant plants, spin the reels, and build around whatever drops: buffs, curses and nearly a hundred game-warping Jokers.
Free alternatives
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Candleborne.
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 Action and Indie with Candleborne.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Candleborne.
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.
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 Candleborne.
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 with Candleborne.
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.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Candleborne.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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Frequently asked about Candleborne
- What games are most similar to Candleborne?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Candleborne are Warhammer Survivors, Dead Broke, PuppetOFF.
- Who developed Candleborne?
- Candleborne was developed by Lightspire 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 Candleborne.
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