Games like Avadon: The Black Fortress
If Avadon: The Black Fortress is your kind of game, the closest matches are Avernum: Escape From the Pit, Avadon 2: The Corruption and Avernum 2: Crystal Souls — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and dark. 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 Avadon: The Black Fortress: Avadon: The Black Fortress is an epic, Indie fantasy role-playing saga. You will serve the keep of Avadon, working as a spy and warrior to fight the enemies of your homeland. As a servant of the Black Fortress, your word is law. Use your power to crush a growing rebellion! (Or join it.)
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Avernum: Escape From the Pit
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Shares party management and an atmospheric mood with Avadon: The Black Fortress.
Top pick for Avadon: The Black Fortress fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Avadon: The Black Fortress.
Avernum is a land underground, a subterranean nation full of rogues, misfits, and brigands, struggling for survival in the monster-infested darkness. Hunt for glory, treasure, and justice in the underworld. Fight for survival, freedom, and even vengeance in the epic indie cult-classic.
Avadon 2: The Corruption
WHY THIS
Shares turn based combat and an atmospheric mood with Avadon: The Black Fortress.
Second-strongest match for Avadon: The Black Fortress fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Avadon: The Black Fortress.
Avadon 2: The Corruption is a huge, indie fantasy role-playing adventure, the second chapter in the epic Avadon trilogy. You will serve the keep of Avadon, working as a spy and warrior to fight the enemies of your homeland. As a servant of the Black Fortress, your word is law.
Avernum 2: Crystal Souls
WHY THIS
Shares turn based combat and an atmospheric mood with Avadon: The Black Fortress.
Third-strongest match for Avadon: The Black Fortress fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Avadon: The Black Fortress.
Huge indie fantasy role-playing adventure in a massive, underground land. Packed with over 100 towns and dungeons and an epic story. Fight to complete up to three distinct game-winning quests. Master over 60 spells and abilities. Hunt for hundreds of magical artifacts. Over 50 hours of gameplay.
Avadon 3: The Warborn
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Avadon: The Black Fortress.
Ranked #4 for Avadon: The Black Fortress fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Avadon: The Black Fortress.
Huge, old-school, indie fantasy role-playing adventure. Features an epic story and tactical, turn-based combat. Explore cunning dungeons, hunt for 100s of magical artifacts, and use dozens of magical abilities. Many different endings. Will you save your people or betray them? It's up to you.
Geneforge 1 - Mutagen
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Avadon: The Black Fortress.
Ranked #5 for Avadon: The Black Fortress fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Avadon: The Black Fortress.
Unique, truly open-ended fantasy adventure in a strange, new world. Use battle or cunning to change the world, served by your own army of custom-made mutant monsters. Over 80 zones to explore and 50+ hours of gameplay. Multitudes of skills, abilities, factions, treasures, and servants to create.
Geneforge 1
WHY THIS
Shares moral choice system and an atmospheric mood with Avadon: The Black Fortress.
Ranked #6 for Avadon: The Black Fortress fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Avadon: The Black Fortress.
Geneforge is an Indie fantasy role-playing game, the first game in the five-part Geneforge Saga. It features an enormous world, the ability to create your own army of lethal, totally obedient creatures, and a cunning enemy AI with foes who can go on patrols, stalk you, and run for help. Geneforge has a huge and open storyline.
Avernum 3: Ruined World
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Avadon: The Black Fortress.
Ranked #7 for Avadon: The Black Fortress fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Avadon: The Black Fortress.
Wander free through this epic, indie fantasy adventure. Explore a huge world that evolves as time passes. Towns fight battles. Refugees flee. Disasters happen. Features cunning adventures, great depth, and unlimited freedom. Be a merchant or bounty hunter, buy a home, save the world!
Queen's Wish: The Conqueror
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Avadon: The Black Fortress.
Ranked #8 for Avadon: The Black Fortress fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Avadon: The Black Fortress.
At last, the Queen has given you power and freedom! The cost? You must rebuild her Empire. Will you? In this epic, indie fantasy adventure, you are free to explore, fight for fame and power, and shape the world as you choose. Escape into an unpredictable open-ended story and cunning tactical combat.
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Geneforge 1
WHY THIS
Shares moral choice system and an atmospheric mood with Avadon: The Black Fortress.
Reviewers of Avadon: The Black Fortress cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with Avadon: The Black Fortress.
Geneforge is an Indie fantasy role-playing game, the first game in the five-part Geneforge Saga. It features an enormous world, the ability to create your own army of lethal, totally obedient creatures, and a cunning enemy AI with foes who can go on patrols, stalk you, and run for help. Geneforge has a huge and open storyline.
Avernum 4
WHY THIS
Shares turn based combat and an atmospheric mood with Avadon: The Black Fortress.
Reviewers of Avadon: The Black Fortress cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with Avadon: The Black Fortress.
Avernum 4 is the first chapter in the Great Trials Trilogy, three games that tell the tale of your land’s struggles in the face of powerful forces that seek to destroy it.
Redbeard's Recoil
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Reviewers of Avadon: The Black Fortress cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Fire forward. Bounce back. Traverse tricky traps to take treasure. Seek seagull's sagacious skepticism. Discuss deep dilemmas: destiny, desire, despair.
Richard
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Reviewers of Avadon: The Black Fortress cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Avadon: The Black Fortress.
Welcome to Rose Academy, home to the brightest students in the world! Play as the new transfer student, George, as he embarks on his campaign against Richard, the most popular kid in school. Develop friendships, master your grades, and talk your way to earning the title of Prom King!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Avadon: The Black Fortress at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~50% under Avadon: The Black Fortress on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Avadon: The Black Fortress.
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.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~50% under Avadon: The Black Fortress on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Avadon: The Black Fortress.
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!
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~50% under Avadon: The Black Fortress on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Avadon: The Black Fortress.
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.
WEBFISHING
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Priced ~50% under Avadon: The Black Fortress on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Avadon: The Black Fortress.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~90% under Avadon: The Black Fortress on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Avadon: The Black Fortress.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~70% under Avadon: The Black Fortress on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Avadon: The Black Fortress.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
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Priced ~50% under Avadon: The Black Fortress on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Avadon: The Black Fortress.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Avadon: The Black Fortress on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Avadon: The Black Fortress.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Avadon: The Black Fortress.
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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Avadon: The Black Fortress.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Avadon: The Black Fortress.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Avadon: The Black Fortress.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Avadon: The Black Fortress.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Avadon: The Black Fortress.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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More from Spiderweb Software
Other recommendable Steam games by Spiderweb Software, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Avernum: Escape From the Pit
WHY THIS
Shares party management and an atmospheric mood with Avadon: The Black Fortress.
Another title from Spiderweb Software, the studio behind Avadon: The Black Fortress. Shares Indie and RPG with Avadon: The Black Fortress.
Avernum is a land underground, a subterranean nation full of rogues, misfits, and brigands, struggling for survival in the monster-infested darkness. Hunt for glory, treasure, and justice in the underworld. Fight for survival, freedom, and even vengeance in the epic indie cult-classic.
Geneforge 1 - Mutagen
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Avadon: The Black Fortress.
Another title from Spiderweb Software, the studio behind Avadon: The Black Fortress. Shares Indie and RPG with Avadon: The Black Fortress.
Unique, truly open-ended fantasy adventure in a strange, new world. Use battle or cunning to change the world, served by your own army of custom-made mutant monsters. Over 80 zones to explore and 50+ hours of gameplay. Multitudes of skills, abilities, factions, treasures, and servants to create.
Geneforge 1
WHY THIS
Shares moral choice system and an atmospheric mood with Avadon: The Black Fortress.
Another title from Spiderweb Software, the studio behind Avadon: The Black Fortress. Shares Indie and RPG with Avadon: The Black Fortress.
Geneforge is an Indie fantasy role-playing game, the first game in the five-part Geneforge Saga. It features an enormous world, the ability to create your own army of lethal, totally obedient creatures, and a cunning enemy AI with foes who can go on patrols, stalk you, and run for help. Geneforge has a huge and open storyline.
Queen's Wish: The Conqueror
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Avadon: The Black Fortress.
Another title from Spiderweb Software, the studio behind Avadon: The Black Fortress. Shares Indie and RPG with Avadon: The Black Fortress.
At last, the Queen has given you power and freedom! The cost? You must rebuild her Empire. Will you? In this epic, indie fantasy adventure, you are free to explore, fight for fame and power, and shape the world as you choose. Escape into an unpredictable open-ended story and cunning tactical combat.
Avernum 2: Crystal Souls
WHY THIS
Shares turn based combat and an atmospheric mood with Avadon: The Black Fortress.
Another title from Spiderweb Software, the studio behind Avadon: The Black Fortress. Shares Indie and RPG with Avadon: The Black Fortress.
Huge indie fantasy role-playing adventure in a massive, underground land. Packed with over 100 towns and dungeons and an epic story. Fight to complete up to three distinct game-winning quests. Master over 60 spells and abilities. Hunt for hundreds of magical artifacts. Over 50 hours of gameplay.
Avernum 3: Ruined World
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Avadon: The Black Fortress.
Another title from Spiderweb Software, the studio behind Avadon: The Black Fortress. Shares Indie and RPG with Avadon: The Black Fortress.
Wander free through this epic, indie fantasy adventure. Explore a huge world that evolves as time passes. Towns fight battles. Refugees flee. Disasters happen. Features cunning adventures, great depth, and unlimited freedom. Be a merchant or bounty hunter, buy a home, save the world!
Avadon 2: The Corruption
WHY THIS
Shares turn based combat and an atmospheric mood with Avadon: The Black Fortress.
Another title from Spiderweb Software, the studio behind Avadon: The Black Fortress. Shares Indie and RPG with Avadon: The Black Fortress.
Avadon 2: The Corruption is a huge, indie fantasy role-playing adventure, the second chapter in the epic Avadon trilogy. You will serve the keep of Avadon, working as a spy and warrior to fight the enemies of your homeland. As a servant of the Black Fortress, your word is law.
Avernum 4: Greed and Glory
WHY THIS
Shares party management, turn based combat and an atmospheric mood with Avadon: The Black Fortress.
Another title from Spiderweb Software, the studio behind Avadon: The Black Fortress. Shares Indie and RPG with Avadon: The Black Fortress.
The cult-classic saga is back! Battle for fame, power, and wealth in the subterranean nation of Avernum. Conquer an enormous underworld in this epic turn-based fantasy RPG. Features huge, clever dungeons, varied and cunning foes, 100s of artifacts to find or craft, and a really cool story.
Frequently asked about Avadon: The Black Fortress
- Does Avadon: The Black Fortress run on Steam Deck?
- Avadon: The Black Fortress is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Avadon: The Black Fortress cost?
- Avadon: The Black Fortress is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Avadon: The Black Fortress?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Avadon: The Black Fortress are Avernum: Escape From the Pit, Avadon 2: The Corruption, Avernum 2: Crystal Souls.
- Who developed Avadon: The Black Fortress?
- Avadon: The Black Fortress was developed by Spiderweb Software.
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