Games like Anvil and Alembic
If Anvil and Alembic is your kind of game, the closest matches are Necromancer's Workshop, A Little Shop in Squirrel Town and Another Pint — 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 Anvil and Alembic: Run a fantasy outfitter at the edge of the realm. Forge blades, hammer armour and brew potions, then sell them to the heroes who walk through your door. Arm adventurers for deadly expeditions, grow your workshop from a roadside anvil to a legend, and become the forge every champion depends on.
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Steam players who put hours into Anvil and Alembic 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.
Necromancer's Workshop
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Top pick for Anvil and Alembic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anvil and Alembic.
Necromancer’s Workshop is a fantasy tycoon game. Craft zombies, work the land. Build a cozy countryside business, worth waking the dead for.
A Little Shop in Squirrel Town
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Second-strongest match for Anvil and Alembic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Anvil and Alembic.
You will become the shopkeeper of grocery shop in Squirrel Town to run your own shop, replenish your stock, sell, make a profit, kill monsters, manufacture outfits, engage in agriculture, angle, cook delicious food, feed monsters and save Monster Forest controlled by the evil crystal.
Another Pint
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Third-strongest match for Anvil and Alembic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anvil and Alembic.
Build and run your own medieval tavern in Another Pint, a systems-driven management game. Starting with little more than an abandoned shack, it is up to you to turn it into a thriving establishment. Grow your tavern, discover ingredients, and brew special drinks to keep your patrons coming back.
四方行
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Ranked #4 for Anvil and Alembic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anvil and Alembic.
a traveling merchant crosses the land — trading goods, winning trust. Bargain, craft, and appraise your way from the northern frontier to the southern seas, and forge your own legend on the road.
Conqueror 940 AD
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Ranked #5 for Anvil and Alembic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Anvil and Alembic.
Conqueror 940 AD, a casual turn-based medieval town-builder where your decisions matter. As an ousted prince, you stumble upon empty land to build a kingdom from. How you fare and what you do with your rising power is up to you. Build, research, plan, do battle, and maybe even fall in love.
Earth of Oryn
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Ranked #6 for Anvil and Alembic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anvil and Alembic.
A medieval kingdom-builder focused on meaningful decision-making and long-term strategy. Rule your lands, manage resources, plan your expansion, and guide your settlement from humble beginnings to a thriving realm as the seasons turn.
Let Them Trade
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Ranked #7 for Anvil and Alembic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Anvil and Alembic.
Build a network of cities that produce and trade resources, upgrade your castle, and protect the cities from cheeky bandits. Tinker with the economy at your own pace, and watch the charming wooden world grow into a lively and thriving kingdom.
SAELIG
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Ranked #8 for Anvil and Alembic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Anvil and Alembic.
SÆLIG is a game that blends together elements of simulation, strategy, RPG, and business management. Centred around the life of you and your family, you must try to survive and bring wealth and prosperity to your household.
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Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Anvil and Alembic.
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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 Anvil and Alembic.
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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 and Simulation with Anvil and Alembic.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 Anvil and Alembic.
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.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Anvil and Alembic.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Anvil and Alembic.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Travellin Cats in Paris
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Anvil and Alembic.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Virtual Cottage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Anvil and Alembic.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
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More from Meridian Studios
Other recommendable Steam games by Meridian Studios, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Hexhorde
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Another title from Meridian Studios, the studio behind Anvil and Alembic. Shares Indie and RPG with Anvil and Alembic.
A pixel-art horde survivor. Pick a hero, wade into the swarm, and let your weapons fire while you move, level up, and shape a build — stacking upgrades, chasing synergies, and evolving your gear across stages full of enemies.
The Ancient Caverns
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Another title from Meridian Studios, the studio behind Anvil and Alembic. Shares Indie and RPG with Anvil and Alembic.
A dark-fantasy roguelite dungeon crawler. Choose a class and descend through ever-shifting caverns, battling tier-scaled monsters floor by floor. Death takes your gear, but the artifacts you recover are yours forever. Loot, craft, and return to town to grow stronger.
Bagatto
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Another title from Meridian Studios, the studio behind Anvil and Alembic. Shares Strategy and Indie with Anvil and Alembic.
Bagatto is a pixel-art poker roguelike. Score with poker hands, multiply them with a growing arsenal of Jokers, and blow past every blind by absurd margins. Buy, sell and stack wild synergies through escalating antes and cunning boss battles — the best trick is the one you build yourself.
Bulwark Tower Defense
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Another title from Meridian Studios, the studio behind Anvil and Alembic. Shares Strategy and Indie with Anvil and Alembic.
Bulwark Tower Defense is a competitive team tower-defense: wall your lane with auto-fighting units to hold back the waves, then spend essence to send monsters that break your rivals' defenses. Grow your economy, upgrade a shared King, and outlast the enemy team across 1v1–4v4.
Twigs and Firewood
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Another title from Meridian Studios, the studio behind Anvil and Alembic. Shares Indie and Simulation with Anvil and Alembic.
A cozy first-person woodland game. Wander autumn glades gathering twigs and firewood, tend a crackling campfire, cook hearty meals, and travel between peaceful areas — buying tools, comforts and campsites to make each spot your own. No pressure, no fail states: just gentle days by the fire.
Crownhold
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Another title from Meridian Studios, the studio behind Anvil and Alembic. Shares Strategy and Indie with Anvil and Alembic.
Crownhold is a cozy storybook tower defense. Line winding roads with archers, mages, artillery and barracks, upgrade them into 12 mighty specializations, lead a hero and rain meteors on the goblin horde across 21 hand-painted levels — then hold on in Endless mode.
Verlicia Saga
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Another title from Meridian Studios, the studio behind Anvil and Alembic. Shares Strategy and Indie with Anvil and Alembic.
Verlicia Saga is a fantasy, turn-based tactical RPG. Command a growing army across a branching campaign of grid battles: master the weapon triangle, promote and reclass your soldiers, forge bonds and marriages, and face permadeath where every fallen hero stays lost.
The Antler and Ale Inn
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Another title from Meridian Studios, the studio behind Anvil and Alembic. Shares Strategy and Indie with Anvil and Alembic.
A cozy fantasy tavern-building sim. Lay the floors, raise the walls, and furnish every corner — then cook, brew, and pour for a village of hungry guests. Hire your crew, run the inn upstairs, and grow a four-table taproom into a legendary multi-storey estate. No timers — play at your own pace.
Frequently asked about Anvil and Alembic
- What games are most similar to Anvil and Alembic?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Anvil and Alembic are Necromancer's Workshop, A Little Shop in Squirrel Town, Another Pint.
- Who developed Anvil and Alembic?
- Anvil and Alembic was developed by Meridian Studios.
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