Games like EMBER
If EMBER is your kind of game, the closest matches are Greetings from El Rey, BeatBo and Oby Adventure — 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 EMBER: EMBER is a dark cinematic 2.5D platformer. Descend through a beautiful and merciless world of ancient ruins, forgotten rituals, and creatures born from grief. Every path demands sacrifice, every mistake brings death, and sorrow alone walks beside you. Observe, endure, and rise again.
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Steam players who put hours into EMBER 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.
Greetings from El Rey
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Top pick for EMBER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with EMBER.
A noir 2.5D platformer in which Satrapo explores a sealed city through a rotating 2D perspective, engaged in an obsessive hunt for the mysterious R. A paranoid tale about desire, featuring eccentric characters and complex three-dimensional labyrinths.
BeatBo
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Second-strongest match for EMBER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with EMBER.
BeatBo is a sidescroller rhythm platformer, where everything follows the beat of the music, with every level bringing a different and refreshing twist to rhythm platforming! Follow the music, unleash your abilities to the beat with Brio and Oliy to save Rhythm City!
Oby Adventure
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Third-strongest match for EMBER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with EMBER.
Join Oby on a platforming adventure through a whimsical world of living fruits. Jump, run and stomp enemies through playful levels packed with surprises. Defeat mighty bosses and restore peace to the kingdom.
Fist of the Forgotten
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Ranked #4 for EMBER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with EMBER.
Jump, punch, slide, and swing through the remnants of civilizations, facing powerful bosses to unlock new movement and combat abilities for your giant, mechanical fist as you seek out the remnants of humankind.
DekaDuck
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Ranked #5 for EMBER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with EMBER.
DekaDuck is a 2D action platformer, featuring fully hand-drawn art and animation. Fight enemies using their own abilities and quirks to solve puzzles and defeat bosses, in a sci-fi world full of conspiracies!
Astrolander
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Ranked #6 for EMBER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with EMBER.
Astrolander is an action-packed modern take on retro platformers featuring innovative 2.5D+3D gameplay and unique optional local co-op chaos! Attack enemies with your CDjector, dodge cassette launching boomboxes, and more on your quest to save the Most Valuable Programs!
Star Head
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Ranked #7 for EMBER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with EMBER.
A head-launching sci-fi action adventure where you'll master the art of dual-point control. Overcome mechanical adversaries through precise skill or clever tactics - your head, your rules.
Kick
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Ranked #8 for EMBER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with EMBER.
Kick is a nostalgic tale of making your way to school, all the while honing your soccer skills throughout challenging levels packed with unique challenges. Do you have what it takes to Kick it?
Free alternatives
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 with EMBER.
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 Action and Adventure with EMBER.
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 EMBER.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with EMBER.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with EMBER.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with EMBER.
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.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with EMBER.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with EMBER.
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.
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Frequently asked about EMBER
- What games are most similar to EMBER?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside EMBER are Greetings from El Rey, BeatBo, Oby Adventure.
- Who developed EMBER?
- EMBER was developed by Eviling 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 EMBER.
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