Games like Dragonward
If Dragonward is your kind of game, the closest matches are Survivor Cells, Space Mercenary Defense Force and Running on Empty — 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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Steam players who put hours into Dragonward 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.
Survivor Cells
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Top pick for Dragonward fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Dragonward.
Discover the beauty and fragility of life in Survivor Cells, a unique survival game against viruses and bacteria, which strategically combines the elements of roguelite, bullet hell and tower defense in a challenging experience. Your destiny depends on your agility and choices. How far will you get?
Space Mercenary Defense Force
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Second-strongest match for Dragonward fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Dragonward.
Defend against the alien invasion and take down the mother ship! Utilise branching upgrade trees, unlock new ships, and equip permanent upgrades to create your own unique build and defeat the growing hordes of invaders in this sci-fi action roguelike!
Running on Empty
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Third-strongest match for Dragonward fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Dragonward.
Running on Empty is a minimal yet deep post-apocalyptic role-playing game with resource management mechanics (in 64x64 retro pixel graphics!)
Forrader Hero
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Ranked #4 for Dragonward fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Dragonward.
Forrader Hero – turn-based game with roguelike elements where heroes can’t step back and must fight through the end to save their soul in ‘Forgotten Proto.World’ fighting hordes of monsters, undead creatures, and their overlords.
Hearthkeeper
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Ranked #5 for Dragonward fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Dragonward.
Hearthkeeper is a fantasy colony simulator, with rpg and platformer elements. Your characters will require food, water and shelter as the seasons change and the world turns. Plant crops, build structures, defend against raiders and beasts, research technologies and much more.
Cryptrunner
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Ranked #6 for Dragonward fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Dragonward.
Cryptrunner is a hack and slash shooter with roguelike elements. Enter the Crypt, blast and slash your way through monstrous foes, and delve deep in search of ancient fortunes. Once you enter, there's no turning back. The only way out is found below.
God Of Weapons
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Ranked #7 for Dragonward fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Dragonward.
Embark on a thrilling journey in God of Weapons, an action roguelike where you must ascend the tower of Zhor to reclaim the last light for the world. To survive the monster onslaught on each tower's level, you'll need to obtain and carefully organize weapons and accessories in your inventory.
Spaceship Survivors
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Ranked #8 for Dragonward fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Dragonward.
Spaceship Survivors is an anime-style arena survivor roguelike where you play in space to fight against loads of alien spaceships. Create unique builds to survive and kill the final boss, or go for an endless run. You can unlock 33 playable spaceships.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Dragonward.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dragonward.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Dragonward.
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.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Dragonward.
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Epic Battle Fantasy 3
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Dragonward.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
Trick & Treat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Dragonward.
Trick or treating in a vampire's house.Trick & Treat is a light-hearted Halloween adventure. It's about exploring and solving puzzles in a spooky atmosphere. There will be some horror elements, romance, many bad ends and a happy ending of true love.
The Last Sovereign
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Dragonward.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
Wheelchair Wizards
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Dragonward.
Wheelchair Wizards is a 4 player party game where you battle your friends while upgrading your wizard.
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Frequently asked about Dragonward
- What games are most similar to Dragonward?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dragonward are Survivor Cells, Space Mercenary Defense Force, Running on Empty.
- Who developed Dragonward?
- Dragonward was developed by PunyMagus.
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 Dragonward.
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