Games like Tessera
If Tessera is your kind of game, the closest matches are Roll and Die, Match & Drop: Pachinko Rush and Rutrum — 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 Tessera: A match-3 × falling-block hybrid roguelike. Forge gems into tetrominoes on the left board, drop them to clear lines and strike on the right. Fight through a five-chapter dark-fantasy campaign with elemental counters, 100+ relics and one-life runs, or chase high scores in Endless mode.
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Steam players who put hours into Tessera 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.
Roll and Die
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Top pick for Tessera fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Tessera.
A push-your-luck dice roguelite. Greed gets you power. Greed gets you killed. Keep the rolls you like, push the rest, and pray you do not hit a skull. Climb the Pit to the god who runs it.
Match & Drop: Pachinko Rush
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Second-strongest match for Tessera fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tessera.
Match & Drop: Pachinko Rush fuses match-3 puzzles with physics-based Pachinko action! Match tiles to drop bouncy balls through pegs into multiplier slots for massive combos. Unleash powerful boosters, buy permanent upgrades, and dominate global leaderboards!
Rutrum
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Third-strongest match for Tessera fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tessera.
Rutrum is a physics roguelike about dropping gems, popping rocks, and unlocking chests. Build a deck of gems, inscribe them with runes, merge them together to cause damage, touch them to acquire loot from enemies. DROP, POP, UNLOCK!
Pandora's Sack
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Ranked #4 for Tessera fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tessera.
Pandora's Sack is a deck builder roguelite auto battler where the players use a slot machine system to create a ridiculously silly army to fight Pandora's minions.
Fortuna's Ledger
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Ranked #5 for Tessera fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tessera.
You are not the adventurer — you are his luck. A roguelike where fortune is a currency you spend and earn, choosing every twist of fate for an autonomous hero. Borrow against ruin, then settle the Audit before the stairs. 24 floors, 65 relics, 20 tiers of ascension.
Dungeon Tracer
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Ranked #6 for Tessera fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tessera.
A puzzle RPG where you connect tiles to fight and survive strategically in ever-changing dungeons.
A Bun Above
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Ranked #7 for Tessera fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tessera.
Stack it. Don't drop it. Cash in on synergy. A physics-stacking burger roguelike where neighbouring ingredients chain effects into each other — the taller and tidier your build, the bigger the score. Draft a deck, pick from 8 cooks, work the shift.
Matchinko
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Ranked #8 for Tessera fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Tessera.
Match glowing crystals to build a pachinko board, then rain your ball loadout through it for an exploding score. A cozy winter roguelite of fairies, tiles, and fate: light every town on the climb to the boss — but miss one target and the run is over.
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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 Tessera.
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 with Tessera.
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?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tessera.
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 Tessera.
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 Casual with Tessera.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Tessera.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
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Frequently asked about Tessera
- What games are most similar to Tessera?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Tessera are Roll and Die, Match & Drop: Pachinko Rush, Rutrum.
- Who developed Tessera?
- Tessera was developed by Peace War Found.
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 Tessera.
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