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Games like Ember Frontier

If Ember Frontier is your kind of game, the closest matches are MegaBattle, Capesong and Girls Summon — 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.

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About Ember Frontier: Reconnect eight post-catastrophe regions in a tactical card game. Deploy unique Troops, advance through linked bases, cover enemies with higher values, surround regions to claim Embers, or breach the enemy HQ. Face the campaign, Free Battle, Veteran difficulty, and weekly challenges.

2026StrategyIndieAdventureSimulationCasualWindowsby FishForge
Ember Frontier — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into Ember Frontier 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.

  1. MegaBattle

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Ember Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ember Frontier.

    MegaBattle is a sci-fi ROGUELIKE DECKBUILDER and CARD BATTLER where you build, upgrade, and battle robots! Create the best deck, refine your strategy, and push through waves of enemies in tactical arena battles.

    2026StrategyIndieAdventure11.19 USDSteam ↗
  2. Capesong

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Ember Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Ember Frontier.

    A plan-and-clash strategy game for buildcrafters and matchup theorists. Create original superheroes and send them into simultaneous turn-based combat where the right read can be the difference between life and death.

    StrategySteam ↗
  3. Girls Summon

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Ember Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Ember Frontier.

    Girls Summon is a beautifully crafted idle card game where you collect and nurture characters.

    2026StrategyAdventureSimulationFreeSteam ↗
  4. Slay Sean, Save The World!

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Ember Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ember Frontier.

    A comic-book auto-battler where the Greek gods brawl. Draft your pantheon, fuse skills into game-breaking combos, and crush real players' ghost armies to climb from Mortal to Olympian. Rebuild your board every round. Then slay Sean and save the world.

    2026StrategyIndieCasualSteam ↗
  5. Darkest Darkness

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Ember Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ember Frontier.

    Darkest Darkness is a roguelike deck-building game with extraction elements. Choose your identity and venture into a Lovecraftian town. Craft every card yourself—collect materials, build powerful cards, plan your route, or extract with your gathered materials to gain an edge in your next run.

    StrategyIndieCasualSteam ↗
  6. CARDUNGEON

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Ember Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ember Frontier.

    A hand-drawn dungeon Roguelike card game where everything is a card. Explore dangerous dungeons, fight enemies, discover events, recruit companions, collect gear, and build powerful card combinations. Adapt your strategy and defeat the Boss.

    StrategyIndieSteam ↗
  7. Maiden Covenant: The Infernal Citadel

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Ember Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ember Frontier.

    A solo rogue-lite combining deckbuilding and board tactics. Build a deck and play cards governed by movement and combat rules. Seize Magic Ore, manage resources, and face relentless foes. Lead allies across four territories, challenge the Infernal Citadel, and restore order to a shattered world!

    2026StrategyIndieRPGSteam ↗
  8. Lucky Punk: a push your luck Deckbuilder

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Ember Frontier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ember Frontier.

    1% chance. 100% choice. Draw another card or *Stop*. Push your luck and beat the odds in this roguelike deckbuilder. Survive and thrive in a vibrant eco-dystopia… or don’t. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Gather supplies and grow your community in the post-apocalypse. Do you feel lucky, Punk?

    2026StrategyIndieCasualSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Ember Frontier.

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ember Frontier.

    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.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Ember Frontier.

    Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. The Lab

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Ember Frontier.

    The Fairytale Curse was only the beginning...

    2017IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  6. No Results Found

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ember Frontier.

    Search, dig deeper, and search again. Can you reach the end of the truth?

    2026IndieAdventureSimulationFreeSteam ↗
  7. Landfall Archives

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ember Frontier.

    Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!

    2023ActionStrategyIndieFreeSteam ↗
  8. Handshakes

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Ember Frontier.

    Take your brain for a walk in Handshakes, a simple yet tricksy sokoban puzzle game. Guide two hands through puzzles designed to stump, not frustrate, so that they may achieve their dream of a warm, firm handshake.

    2023Free To PlayCasualFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Ember Frontier

What games are most similar to Ember Frontier?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Ember Frontier are MegaBattle, Capesong, Girls Summon.
Who developed Ember Frontier?
Ember Frontier was developed by FishForge.

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 Frontier.

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16 Games Like Ember Frontier — Ranked for 2026 · imho.run