Games like Iris and the Giant
If Iris and the Giant is your kind of game, the closest matches are Banners of Ruin, A Long Way Down and Deep Sky Derelicts — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and melancholic. 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 Iris and the Giant: Iris and The Giant is a fusion of the CCG, RPG and roguelike genres. You play as Iris, who must brave her fears in her imaginary world. Dive into a melancholic and gripping adventure, filled with cute monsters and buried memories. Ready to face your inner demons?
Players who liked Iris and the Giant also play
Steam players who put hours into Iris and the Giant 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.
Banners of Ruin
WHY THIS
Top pick for Iris and the Giant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Iris and the Giant.
Assemble your party. Answer the call. Win the war. Build a deck and fight a series of turn-based combats with up to 6 party characters through the city of Dawn's Point. Each character can unlock a set of unique cards and abilities that can augment your deck in powerful, exciting ways.
A Long Way Down
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and an atmospheric mood with Iris and the Giant.
Second-strongest match for Iris and the Giant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Iris and the Giant.
A deck-building roguelite RPG set in a dark and tormented world. Assemble your party and use your cards to survive, fight and build your way through a dark maze of monsters orchestrated by an evil mastermind. Your choices will lead you to judgement.
Deep Sky Derelicts
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and an atmospheric mood with Iris and the Giant.
Third-strongest match for Iris and the Giant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Iris and the Giant.
Deep Sky Derelicts is an original combination of turn-based strategy and RPG, enriched with tactical card combat and popular roguelike elements. Explore derelict alien ships, fight, loot and upgrade your gear, all in distinctive retro-futuristic comic book aesthetic style.
Die in the Dungeon
WHY THIS
Shares grid based combat with Iris and the Giant.
Ranked #4 for Iris and the Giant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Iris and the Giant.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but dice! Deal with enemies by combining powerful dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and risk it all hoping for a good roll on unexpected encounters.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares deck building with Iris and the Giant.
Ranked #5 for Iris and the Giant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Iris and the Giant.
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!
Trials of Fire
WHY THIS
Shares deck building with Iris and the Giant.
Ranked #6 for Iris and the Giant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Iris and the Giant.
A Tactical, Deck-Building Roguelite. Choose 3 Heroes and adventure into a post-Cataclysmic wasteland. Engage enemies in a unique meld of card-play and tactical, positional combat. Level up and scavenge what you can to customise your decks and build a party to take on any challenge!
Monster Slayers
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a whimsical mood with Iris and the Giant.
Ranked #7 for Iris and the Giant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Iris and the Giant.
Monster Slayers is a rogue-like deck-building RPG adventure. Create a hero and choose your path through the perilous Northern Valley as you battle to become a true Monster Slayer.
Neurodeck : Psychological Deckbuilder
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and an atmospheric mood with Iris and the Giant.
Ranked #8 for Iris and the Giant fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Iris and the Giant.
Neurodeck is a psychological deckbuilding card game to challenge your fears. Build your deck & capacities by answering personality tests, visiting rooms or meditating. Face your phobia and defeat them through the power of life-inspired cards.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Iris and the Giant at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under Iris and the Giant on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Iris and the Giant.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Iris and the Giant on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Iris and the Giant.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Iris and the Giant on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Iris and the Giant.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Iris and the Giant on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Iris and the Giant.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under Iris and the Giant on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Iris and the Giant.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~56% under Iris and the Giant on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Iris and the Giant.
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?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
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 Iris and the Giant.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Iris and the Giant.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Iris and the Giant.
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.
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Iris and the Giant.
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.
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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Die in the Dungeon
WHY THIS
Shares grid based combat with Iris and the Giant.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Iris and the Giant.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but dice! Deal with enemies by combining powerful dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and risk it all hoping for a good roll on unexpected encounters.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares deck building with Iris and the Giant.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Iris and the Giant.
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!
Trials of Fire
WHY THIS
Shares deck building with Iris and the Giant.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Iris and the Giant.
A Tactical, Deck-Building Roguelite. Choose 3 Heroes and adventure into a post-Cataclysmic wasteland. Engage enemies in a unique meld of card-play and tactical, positional combat. Level up and scavenge what you can to customise your decks and build a party to take on any challenge!
Frequently asked about Iris and the Giant
- Is Iris and the Giant verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Iris and the Giant is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Iris and the Giant cost?
- Iris and the Giant is listed on Steam at 17.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Iris and the Giant?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Iris and the Giant are Banners of Ruin, A Long Way Down, Deep Sky Derelicts.
- Who developed Iris and the Giant?
- Iris and the Giant was developed by Louis Rigaud and published by Goblinz Publishing, Maple Whispering Limited, Mugen Creations.
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