Games like Shadow of the Road
If Shadow of the Road is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Age of Decadence, Colony Ship: A Post-Earth Role Playing Game and Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition — picked from the ranked list below. 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 Shadow of the Road: Shadow of the Road is a story-driven, turn-based RPG where feudal Japan meets magic and machine. Assemble your team from a diverse set of characters and test your skills against yōkai and steampunk contraptions. Carve your own path through an immersive story and change the fate of the Empire.
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The Age of Decadence
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Top pick for Shadow of the Road fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Shadow of the Road.
The Age of Decadence is a turn-based, hardcore role-playing game set in a low magic fantasy world. The game features a detailed skill-based character system, multiple skill-based ways to handle quests, choices & consequences, and extensive dialogue trees.
Colony Ship: A Post-Earth Role Playing Game
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Second-strongest match for Shadow of the Road fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Shadow of the Road.
Colony Ship is a turn-based, party-based role-playing game set aboard a generation ship launched to Proxima Centauri. The game features a detailed skill-based character system, multiple ways to handle quests, choices & consequences, and branching dialogue trees.
Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition
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Third-strongest match for Shadow of the Road fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Shadow of the Road.
The critically acclaimed RPG that raised the bar, from the creators of Baldur's Gate 3. Gather your party. Master deep, tactical combat. Venture as a party of up to four - but know that only one of you will have the chance to become a God.
Knights of the Chalice 2
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Ranked #4 for Shadow of the Road fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Shadow of the Road.
Knights of the Chalice 2 is a 2D RPG with turn-based combat. Create six Adventurers and set forth on an epic adventure against Evil. Overcome the odds with superior tactics. Enjoy a whole new dimension of complexity and variety based on the 3.5 ruleset! Includes a Module Editor.
Prophecy of Ashen
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Ranked #5 for Shadow of the Road fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Shadow of the Road.
Prophecy of Ashen: a dark fantasy tactical CRPG. Be a secret messenger between the Hall's judgment and the Ashborne's vengeance. Recruit allies, use terrain and magic in turn-based combat. Your choices reshape Rattalan: uphold order or ignite destruction.
Black Geyser: Couriers of Darkness
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Ranked #6 for Shadow of the Road fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Shadow of the Road.
Black Geyser is an isometric, party-based fantasy RPG inspired by genre classics. Recruit characters with unique personalities and explore a land ravaged by civil war and a mysterious curse of greed. Your choices, good or evil, will decide the fate of the Kingdom of Isilmerald.
Expeditions: Rome
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Ranked #7 for Shadow of the Road fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Shadow of the Road.
Determine the destiny of Rome as you conquer foreign lands and navigate political intrigue in this turn-based RPG. Directly fight with your party of Praetorians, guide your legion to victory, and choose your own path in a story where every decision matters. How will you shape the future of Rome?
Wasteland 3
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Ranked #8 for Shadow of the Road fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Shadow of the Road.
Following the critically acclaimed 2014 Game of the Year winner Wasteland 2, the RPG series that pioneered the post-apocalyptic genre in video games returns with Wasteland 3.
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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.
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shadow of the Road.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shadow of the Road.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shadow of the Road.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shadow of the Road.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Shadow of the Road.
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.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shadow of the Road.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shadow of the Road.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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Frequently asked about Shadow of the Road
- What games are most similar to Shadow of the Road?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Shadow of the Road are The Age of Decadence, Colony Ship: A Post-Earth Role Playing Game, Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition.
- Who developed Shadow of the Road?
- Shadow of the Road was developed by Another Angle Games and published by Owlcat Games.
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 Shadow of the Road.
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