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Games like Eldervale

If Eldervale is your kind of game, the closest matches are Heaven Dust 2, Rise of the Tomb Raider™ and El Paso, Elsewhere — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmosphere is on point, multiple endings and atmospheric. 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 Eldervale: Eldervale is a Third-Person Survival Horror Adventure game, made in the style of early 2000's classics. Explore a large, interconnected level, solve puzzles, uncover the story and survive the horrors by strategic use of your resources and fight or flight decisions.

2019ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDWindowsby Solkitte
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Steam players who put hours into Eldervale 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. Heaven Dust 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Eldervale.

    Top pick for Eldervale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Eldervale.

    Deep inside a research base, waking up from a cryogenic pod, you find yourself trapped in a living hell, surrounded by zombies. Heaven Dust 2 is a love letter to classic survival horror games featuring exploration, action, puzzles, and resource management.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure7.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Rise of the Tomb Raider™

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Eldervale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Eldervale.

    Rise of the Tomb Raider: 20 Year Celebration includes the base game and Season Pass featuring all-new content. Explore Croft Manor in the new “Blood Ties” story, then defend it against a zombie invasion in “Lara’s Nightmare”.

    2016ActionAdventure29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. El Paso, Elsewhere

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Eldervale.

    Third-strongest match for Eldervale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Eldervale.

    STAKES. GUNS. SLOW-MO. Fight werewolves and vampires in a reality-shifting motel. Dive through barricades to escape the grasp of evil puppets. Destroy the villain you loved. A new, third-person love letter to classic shooters. Neo-noir never looked so good.

    2023Action19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Them and Us

    WHY THIS

    Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Eldervale.

    Ranked #4 for Eldervale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Eldervale.

    Them and Us is a classic, survival horror game with a focus on atmosphere and player immersion. Discover the truth of Alicia’s past as she descends further into her strange, unending nightmare.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure39.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Bendy and the Dark Revival

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Eldervale.

    Ranked #5 for Eldervale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Eldervale.

    Bendy and the Dark Revival® is a first-person survival horror game set in the creepiest cartoon studio to ever exist. Discover the truth. Escape the studio. Above all, fear the Ink Demon…and survive.

    2022ActionAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Secret Archives

    WHY THIS

    Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with Eldervale.

    Ranked #6 for Eldervale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Eldervale.

    This is a third person shooter game The main plot is a secret experiment being conducted somewhere in the future During this process, a strange mineral was discovered and caused a large-scale infection The protagonist's task is to retrieve important "files" and escape from this place!

    2024ActionIndieAdventure12.79 USDSteam ↗
  7. The Persistence

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Eldervale.

    Ranked #7 for Eldervale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Eldervale.

    Survive aboard a doomed deep space colony starship, overrun with horrific and murderous aberrations. Explore, evade and fight your way through the depths to bring the ship back to Earth. Gather resources, upgrade abilities and fabricate an arsenal of weapons in this sci-fi horror roguelite.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure29.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Resident Evil 4

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Eldervale.

    Ranked #8 for Eldervale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Eldervale.

    Survival is just the beginning. Six years have passed since the biological disaster in Raccoon City. Leon S. Kennedy, one of the survivors, tracks the president's kidnapped daughter to a secluded European village, where there is something terribly wrong with the locals.

    2023ActionAdventure39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Eldervale at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Eldervale on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Eldervale.

    Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Eldervale on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Eldervale.

    Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~53% under Eldervale on Steam right now. Shares Action with Eldervale.

    An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Eldervale on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Eldervale.

    PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Eldervale on Steam right now. Shares Action with Eldervale.

    Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Eldervale on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Eldervale.

    We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Eldervale on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Eldervale.

    Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Eldervale on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Eldervale.

    An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

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

    The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

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

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

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

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

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

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

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

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

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

    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.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Looker

    WHY THIS

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

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Counter-Strike:Global Offensive

    WHY THIS

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

    Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).

    2012ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Eldervale

How much does Eldervale cost?
Eldervale is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Eldervale?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Eldervale are Heaven Dust 2, Rise of the Tomb Raider™, El Paso, Elsewhere.
Who developed Eldervale?
Eldervale was developed by Solkitte.

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 Eldervale.

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