Games like Candletales
If Candletales is your kind of game, the closest matches are Knucklebones, till death ROLLS us apart and Lilifel — 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 Candletales: A board with no pauses and no mercy. Roll the dice in the heat of battle to unleash your power against the horde. Slay titans and beware the gaze that awakens above. The candles await. The dice roll. The eye watches. Will you survive the board?
Players who liked Candletales also play
Steam players who put hours into Candletales 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.
Knucklebones
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Top pick for Candletales fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Candletales.
Knucklebones is a dark tactical dice builder on a snakes-and-ladders roguelike map. Roll, assign, and upgrade your dice as you fight your way to the end.
till death ROLLS us apart
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Candletales fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Candletales.
"till death ROLLS us apart" is a roguelike dice battler where you collect new dice, stack powerful modifiers, and unleash huge combos in stylish, fast-paced duels.
Lilifel
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Third-strongest match for Candletales fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Candletales.
High roll your way through an everchanging dungeon in this roguelike, turn-based dungeon crawler. Fight enemies using your elemental runes to conjure powerful spells. Synergize your elements as you loot items that combo with just about everything. Ever Low roll? Just SLAM your way out of it!
Set a Watch: Digital Edition
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Ranked #4 for Candletales fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Candletales.
Assemble your party to survive in this dice-management game! Master steel and magic: roll dice and next use them to attack directly or for powerful abilities. Scout, light a fire, use ancient runes or equip perks to prepare before battle. Use tactics to fight monsters and Unhallowed. Set a watch!
Joy Malignant
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Ranked #5 for Candletales fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Candletales.
A surreal dice-based RPG in a cursed city of gut-wrenching suffering. Here, your choices shape your skills and your appearance. Survive the city's hellish trials, meet tortured characters, and develop your own unique identity. Every choice matters as your actions will literally shape you.
Die Diver
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Ranked #6 for Candletales fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Candletales.
Here's an indie game idea... Build your Dice Pool and dive through the canopy of the 'Forest of the Dead' - the place where all who die will go.
Vitalis
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Ranked #7 for Candletales fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Candletales.
Vitalis is a TTRPG-inspired survival Roguelike where you try to escape an occult forest. Cast your die to move, fight, and flee. Scale your character, collect items, and weapons. Do whatever it takes to survive. Whether overcoming threats, or run away to fight another day.
TheVillage: Possession
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Ranked #8 for Candletales fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Candletales.
TheVillage: Possession is a first-person horror game where you return to a cursed village to uncover the truth behind a failed ritual. Explore abandoned locations, solve puzzles, collect doll parts, and survive terrifying supernatural encounters while an unseen force manipulates your mind.
Free alternatives
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. Shares Action and Adventure with Candletales.
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 Candletales.
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 Candletales.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Candletales.
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.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Candletales.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Candletales.
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 Candletales.
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.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Candletales.
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!
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Frequently asked about Candletales
- What games are most similar to Candletales?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Candletales are Knucklebones, till death ROLLS us apart, Lilifel.
- Who developed Candletales?
- Candletales was developed by Desalichao Studio.
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 Candletales.
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