Games like The Yellow King
If The Yellow King is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Elder Scrolls Online: Necrom, Secret World Legends and The Elder Scrolls® Online — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and immersive. 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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Players who liked The Yellow King also play
Steam players who put hours into The Yellow King 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.
The Elder Scrolls Online: Necrom
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Yellow King fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Yellow King.
Traverse the Telvanni Peninsula in Morrowind and preserve secrets ascribed to the unfathomable realms of Apocrypha. Unlock the runic power of a brand-new class - the Arcanist - and fight to uphold reality itself.
Secret World Legends
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Yellow King.
Second-strongest match for The Yellow King fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Yellow King.
Secret World Legends is a story-driven, shared-world action RPG that plunges players into a shadowy war against the supernatural, where ancient myths and legends cross over into the modern day.
The Elder Scrolls® Online
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Yellow King.
Third-strongest match for The Yellow King fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Yellow King.
Every legend starts somewhere and in The Elder Scrolls Online, it starts with you. Join millions of players in an online, fantasy RPG set in a vast living Elder Scrolls world.
Zero-based World-从零开始
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Yellow King.
Ranked #4 for The Yellow King fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Yellow King.
Zero Based World is a multiplayer sandbox survival game.
Dragon Saga
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with The Yellow King.
Ranked #5 for The Yellow King fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Yellow King.
Dragon Saga is a f2p arcade style side scrolling 3D Fantasy MMORPG set in a world of Dragons and magic. Choose one of four classes (Warrior, Mage, Thief, and Archer) and explore a rich world filled with unique monsters. Power up to unlock devastating abilities, hidden combos and hilarious effects.
TERA - Action MMORPG
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Yellow King.
Ranked #6 for The Yellow King fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Yellow King.
TERA is an epic fantasy MMORPG experience. Master the action-packed combat system and prove yourself in solo and multiplayer adventures – all in the stunningly beautiful world of Arborea!
Lugh World
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Yellow King.
Ranked #7 for The Yellow King fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Yellow King.
Lugh World is an action monster-taming MMORPG set in a living, ever-evolving open world. Capture and evolve unique beings called Lughs, explore a vast world, and face epic challenges in real-time battles. Uncover secrets, forge your own path, and live the game you’ve always dreamed of!
WARMA
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Yellow King.
Ranked #8 for The Yellow King fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Yellow King.
WARMA is a multiplayer game about a showdown between the police and bandits! Robbery, chases, tuning and much more!
Reviewers mention these as similar to The Yellow King
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RuneScape ®
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with The Yellow King.
Reviewers of The Yellow King cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Massively Multiplayer and RPG with The Yellow King.
RuneScape is a high fantasy open world MMORPG. Explore an ever changing and evolving living world where new challenges, skills, and quests await. Featuring unprecedented player freedom, you choose how to play, adventure, and grow.
Never Return
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Yellow King.
Reviewers of The Yellow King cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with The Yellow King.
"Never Return" is a 3D action adventure game with roguelike elements. There are various weapon types to choose from. Each Type has its own play style. With thousands of creative prefixes and a huge amount of skills, every player can easily create their own build.
FATE
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with The Yellow King.
Reviewers of The Yellow King cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with The Yellow King.
Play (or Re-play) This Classic Dungeon Crawler!During the golden days of action RPGs, FATE was a powerhouse, winning runner-up for PC Magazine’s Role-Playing Game of the year. Popular enough to spawn 3 sequels, this was one of the premier dungeon crawlers of its time.
DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Yellow King.
Reviewers of The Yellow King cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with The Yellow King.
Then, there was fire. Re-experience the critically acclaimed, genre-defining game that started it all. Beautifully remastered, return to Lordran in stunning high-definition detail running at 60fps.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Yellow King at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under The Yellow King on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Yellow King.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under The Yellow King on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Yellow King.
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!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Yellow King on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Yellow King.
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.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under The Yellow King on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Yellow King.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under The Yellow King on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Massively Multiplayer with The Yellow King.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~89% under The Yellow King on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Yellow King.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Yellow King on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Yellow King.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under The Yellow King on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Yellow King.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with The Yellow King.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with The Yellow King.
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.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Massively Multiplayer with The Yellow King.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
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 The Yellow King.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Yellow King.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Yellow King.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Yellow King.
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.).
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Yellow King.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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Other recommendable Steam games by Spellbook, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
The Infinite Black 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Yellow King.
Another title from Spellbook, the studio behind The Yellow King. Shares Adventure and Massively Multiplayer with The Yellow King.
Command a fleet of ships to hunt aliens, trade resources and loot treasure! Form corporations with your friends while fighting a never-ending intergalactic war in this open-world online space adventure!
The Infinite Black
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Yellow King.
Another title from Spellbook, the studio behind The Yellow King. Shares Indie and Massively Multiplayer with The Yellow King.
Fleet up with thousands of players in The Infinite Black -- The wildly popular online space combat and adventure game! Command massive spaceships, form powerful corporations, and battle it out in never-ending intergalactic warfare!
Heroes of Dire
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with The Yellow King.
Another title from Spellbook, the studio behind The Yellow King. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Yellow King.
In Heroes of Dire, a new massively-multiplayer tactical role-playing game by Spellbook, players command squads of fighters through strategic turn-based battles to win treasure, fame, and glory for their guilds!
Virtual Boxing League
WHY THIS
Another title from Spellbook, the studio behind The Yellow King.
Virtual Boxing League is a realistic physics and skill-based VR boxing simulation! Learn how to box, build self-confidence, have fun and get a great workout while developing your own personal fighting style!
Frequently asked about The Yellow King
- How much does The Yellow King cost?
- The Yellow King is listed on Steam at 8.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does The Yellow King have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — The Yellow King supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to The Yellow King?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Yellow King are The Elder Scrolls Online: Necrom, Secret World Legends, The Elder Scrolls® Online.
- Who developed The Yellow King?
- The Yellow King was developed by Spellbook and published by www.Spellbook.com.
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