Games like Archvale
If Archvale is your kind of game, the closest matches are One Step From Eden, Furcifer's Fungeon and UNSIGHTED — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its dangerously satisfying crafting system, delicious bullet hell mechanics and pixel perfect dodge gameplay. 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 →Archvale is a 2021 action-adventure game developed by idoz & phops and published by Balor Games. It combines bullet-hell shooting with RPG progression systems, offering players a looter-crafter experience alongside platforming challenges. Players navigate a fantasy world in their quest to defeat the Undying guardians, upgrading weapons throughout their journey. Reviewers highlight the atmospheric design and immersive quality of the world, while the crafting system has been described by players as dangerously satisfying. The game supports local co-op multiplayer and runs well on portable devices, having received Steam Deck Verified status. It offers a medium-length adventure with challenging gameplay designed for short gaming sessions, currently priced at $14.99. The game holds a 91% positive rating from over 1,200 Steam reviews.
About Archvale: Take up your weapon in this RPG bullet-hell world and embark on a journey to right wrongs from long ago. Only you can defeat the evil forces of the Undying guardians and reunite the world with the fabled Archvale.
Players who liked Archvale also play
Steam players who put hours into Archvale 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.
One Step From Eden
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Archvale.
Top pick for Archvale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Archvale.
Build a powerful deck, cast spells on the fly, battle evolving enemies, find game-changing artifacts, make friends or make enemies, just make it to Eden.
Furcifer's Fungeon
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Archvale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Archvale.
An autoscrolling roguelike where everything you do impacts your talent options. Become a necromancer goose, or a berserker wielding a thunder blade! Collect legendary items in each run, and bring them back home for even more build options in the future.
UNSIGHTED
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Archvale.
Third-strongest match for Archvale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Archvale.
EXPLORE YOUR WAY. Awoken to a world ruined by war, Alma must traverse the vast city of Arcadia before the life force of her friends and herself withers away. Time is ticking, and every moment matters. Who will you save, and who will you leave to turn UNSIGHTED?
Jamestown
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Archvale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Archvale.
Jamestown: Legend Of The Lost Colony is a neo-classical top-down shooter for up to 4 players, set on 17th-century British Colonial Mars. It features all the intensity, depth, and lovingly handcrafted pixels of a classic arcade shooter, with a modern twist: deeply-integrated cooperative gameplay.
Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Archvale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Archvale.
Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove is the complete Shovel Knight collection, containing all 5 games in the epic saga! Dig, blast, slash, and bash your way through a fantastical, 8-bit inspired world of pixel-perfect platforming, memorable characters, and world-class action-adventure gameplay.
Nuclear Throne
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Archvale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Archvale.
Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter. Not 'the final hope of humanity' post-apocalyptic, but 'humanity is extinct and mutants and monsters now roam the world' post-apocalyptic. Can you reach the Nuclear Throne?
Flynn: Son of Crimson
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Archvale.
Ranked #7 for Archvale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Archvale.
Our valiant hero Flynn possesses the ability to influence a mysterious energy and modify his style of combat, transforming him into a force to be reckoned with. Inspired by the golden age of the SNES, Flynn: Son of Crimson is the 2D action adventure that’ll take you right back to the 90s!
Legend of Dungeon
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Archvale.
Ranked #8 for Archvale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Archvale.
Legend of Dungeon is a randomly generated action RPG Beat'em'up with heavy Rogue-like elements, striking visuals, and dynamic music.
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Terraria
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Archvale.
Reviewers of Archvale cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Archvale.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Realm of the Mad God Exalt
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Archvale cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Archvale.
Embark on an exhilarating journey into the pixelated Realm of the Mad God! Join, an action-packed, free-to-play MMO bullet hell game. Discover a world with danger, challenges, and hidden treasures as you battle through waves of enemies. Team up with players and conquer dungeons to become a legend!
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Archvale.
Reviewers of Archvale cross-mention this title as a similar play.
At Thors Military Academy, Erebonia’s best learn everything from the art of war to liberal arts. First year Rean Schwarzer learns he’s been selected to join the controversial Class VII, and they’ll need to deal with more than just class warfare--they’ll need to safeguard their country from chaos.
Tiny Rogues
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Archvale cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Archvale.
Tiny Rogues is a challenging fantasy rogue-lite bullet-hell dungeon crawler with rpg elements. Build a new unique character each run and fight one monster-infested room after another! Discover unique weapons, collect magical items and level up to become more and more powerful!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Archvale at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Archvale on Steam right now. Shares Action with Archvale.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Archvale on Steam right now. Shares Action with Archvale.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Archvale on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Archvale.
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?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Archvale on Steam right now. Shares Action with Archvale.
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.
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Archvale on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Archvale.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Archvale on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Archvale.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~93% under Archvale on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Archvale.
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 ~80% under Archvale on Steam right now. Shares Action with Archvale.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
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. Shares Action and Adventure with Archvale.
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 Action with Archvale.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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 Adventure with Archvale.
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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Archvale.
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 Adventure with Archvale.
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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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.
One Step From Eden
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Archvale.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Archvale.
Build a powerful deck, cast spells on the fly, battle evolving enemies, find game-changing artifacts, make friends or make enemies, just make it to Eden.
UNSIGHTED
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Archvale.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Archvale.
EXPLORE YOUR WAY. Awoken to a world ruined by war, Alma must traverse the vast city of Arcadia before the life force of her friends and herself withers away. Time is ticking, and every moment matters. Who will you save, and who will you leave to turn UNSIGHTED?
Jamestown
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Archvale.
Jamestown: Legend Of The Lost Colony is a neo-classical top-down shooter for up to 4 players, set on 17th-century British Colonial Mars. It features all the intensity, depth, and lovingly handcrafted pixels of a classic arcade shooter, with a modern twist: deeply-integrated cooperative gameplay.
Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Archvale.
Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove is the complete Shovel Knight collection, containing all 5 games in the epic saga! Dig, blast, slash, and bash your way through a fantastical, 8-bit inspired world of pixel-perfect platforming, memorable characters, and world-class action-adventure gameplay.
Nuclear Throne
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Archvale.
Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter. Not 'the final hope of humanity' post-apocalyptic, but 'humanity is extinct and mutants and monsters now roam the world' post-apocalyptic. Can you reach the Nuclear Throne?
Frequently asked about Archvale
- Is Archvale verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Archvale 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 Archvale cost?
- Archvale is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Archvale have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Archvale supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Archvale?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Archvale are One Step From Eden, Furcifer's Fungeon, UNSIGHTED.
- Who developed Archvale?
- Archvale was developed by idoz & phops and published by Balor Games.
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