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Games like The Tau Experiment

If The Tau Experiment is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Elder Scrolls Online: Necrom, The Elder Scrolls® Online and New World: Aeternum — 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.

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About The Tau Experiment: The Tau Experiment is an MMORPG where you play as an employee with the Tau Corporation. Group up with other players and complete thousands of quests as you work to help put an end to the company's plans.

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Steam players who put hours into The Tau Experiment 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.

  1. The Elder Scrolls Online: Necrom

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for The Tau Experiment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Tau Experiment.

    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.

    2023ActionAdventureMassively MultiplayerSteam ↗
  2. The Elder Scrolls® Online

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for The Tau Experiment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Tau Experiment.

    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.

    2017ActionAdventureMassively Multiplayer19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. New World: Aeternum

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for The Tau Experiment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Tau Experiment.

    Experience a thrilling action RPG set on the supernatural island of Aeternum. Forge your destiny on an adventure filled with danger and opportunity.

    2021ActionAdventureMassively MultiplayerDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Throne and Liberty

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for The Tau Experiment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Tau Experiment.

    Throne and Liberty captures the essence of classic MMORPGs while introducing new gameplay elements, depth and excitement at every turn. Gather your guild, prepare for battle, and set forth for throne... and liberty!

    2024ActionAdventureMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Ilysia

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for The Tau Experiment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Tau Experiment.

    Venture forth alone or with allies in a classic high fantasy VR MMORPG as you embark on quests, grow in power, hone your skills, learn new trades, and tackle dangerous challenges as you gain power in the ever-evolving online world of Ilysia!

    2023ActionAdventureMassively MultiplayerFreeSteam ↗
  6. Champions Online

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for The Tau Experiment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Massively Multiplayer and RPG with The Tau Experiment.

    Grab your cape and defend Millennium City in this comic book-style action MMORPG! Design your hero and costume from thousands of costume pieces, face super-villains like Dr. Destroyer, and create your own unique nemesis.

    2011Massively MultiplayerRPGFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. TERA - Action MMORPG

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for The Tau Experiment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Tau Experiment.

    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!

    2017ActionAdventureMassively MultiplayerDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. DC Universe™ Online

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for The Tau Experiment fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Tau Experiment.

    DC Universe Online is a Free-to-Play, massive multiplayer online action game set in the popular DC Universe. Become one of a new breed of Heroes or Villains and wield incredible powers as you go to war with legendary characters such as Batman, Superman, Lex Luthor and The Joker.

    2011ActionAdventureMassively MultiplayerFreeSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. 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 Tau Experiment.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Tau Experiment.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. 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 Tau Experiment.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Tau Experiment.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Our Life: Beginnings & Always

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Tau Experiment.

    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.

    2020IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  6. A Date with Death

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Tau Experiment.

    Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Tau Experiment.

    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.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. UNBEATABLE [white label]

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Tau Experiment.

    A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about The Tau Experiment

Does The Tau Experiment have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — The Tau Experiment supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
What games are most similar to The Tau Experiment?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Tau Experiment are The Elder Scrolls Online: Necrom, The Elder Scrolls® Online, New World: Aeternum.
Who developed The Tau Experiment?
The Tau Experiment was developed by Mistflux Games and published by Mistflux Games, Lunexa Studios.

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 The Tau Experiment.

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