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- Free
- Deck Playable
- 2019
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- Released: 2023
- Developer: Nimble Neuron
- Price: Free to play
- Steam Deck: Deck Playable
- 81% of 12,805 reviews
- Genres: Strategy, Indie, Free To Play
- Platforms: Windows
Players highlight
- Blends moba and roguelike elements seamlessly
- High stakes meta keeps gameplay fresh
- Persistent world evolves with player choices
- Atmospheric
- Challenging
- Competitive
About Eternal Return
The closest matches to Eternal Return: Immortal Soul: Black Survival, SUPERVIVE, Battlerite, Atlas Reactor, and Lost Ark. Ranked by imho.run from Steam co-play data, shared tags and reviews.
If Eternal Return is your kind of game, the closest matches are Immortal Soul: Black Survival, SUPERVIVE and Battlerite — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers describe it as atmospheric, challenging and competitive, and single out its character synergy and environmental interaction. 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.
Nimble Neuron's Eternal Return is a free-to-play battle royale that incorporates MOBA-style character selection, real-time combat, and crafting into a survival-horizon format. Three teams compete across an island setting framed as an eternal experiment, where character synergy, environmental interaction, and meta-progression shape each encounter. Players note that the persistent world evolves based on collective choices, and reviewers highlight how the high-stakes meta keeps gameplay feeling fresh. Session length sits at medium, and the top-down perspective makes it playable on Steam Deck. The title carries an 81% positive rating from over 12,800 Steam reviews.
About Eternal Return: Eternal Return is a free-to-play, 2.5D perspective Battle Royale game. Search, Craft, Hunt, and Fight using a variety of characters. Plan your strategy and become the last survivor on this eternal experiment.
Is Eternal Return worth buying?
Recent reviews are much worse
A summary of what players say, not a promise you'll like it. Every signal is listed below.
- 81% of 12,805 Steam reviews are positive.
- Last 30 days: 67% positive across 405 new reviews, 13 points below its all-time score.
- Free to play.
- People who recommend it had played a median of 291 h when they wrote their review.
- Critics had played a median of 914 h before turning negative, so complaints are about the long run, not the first hours.
- Steam Deck Playable: works, with some rough edges.
What fans praise · Themes mined from positive reviews
- Blends moba and roguelike elements seamlessly
- High stakes meta keeps gameplay fresh
- Persistent world evolves with player choices
- Servers expand but remain a pain point
Top critical reviews
The most up-voted negative English reviews in our sample, quoted as written.
“bring back Immortal Soul please it was unique and i loved the game, this game is just a copy of lol with the characters from the first game”
“Not worth playing if in the EU region. Devs pretend we dont exist. And the player base is at the point where youll come across the same high elo 3 stacks that run down the entire lobby cause our region has no matchmaking. Gooner season…”
People who play it also play: Immortal Soul: Black Survival, SUPERVIVE, Battlerite
Frequently asked about Eternal Return
Can I run it?
Does Eternal Return run on Steam Deck?
Eternal Return is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
Is Eternal Return free to play?
Yes — Eternal Return is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
Does Eternal Return have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Eternal Return supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, PvP).
What games are most similar to Eternal Return?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Eternal Return are Immortal Soul: Black Survival, SUPERVIVE, Battlerite.
Who developed Eternal Return?
Eternal Return was developed by Nimble Neuron and published by Nimble Neuron, SapStaR Games.