Games like Mesmer
If Mesmer is your kind of game, the closest matches are Chronicles: Medieval, I'm a King and Overfall — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative 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 Mesmer also play
Steam players who put hours into Mesmer 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.
Chronicles: Medieval
WHY THIS
Top pick for Mesmer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Mesmer.
Step into a vast, dynamic medieval sandbox set in the age of the Hundred Years' War. Explore a brutal but beautiful, historically grounded Europe, command armies in massive battles, leave a mark the chroniclers can't ignore as you make your name one fight at a time. What story will you write?
I'm a King
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Mesmer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mesmer.
Role-playing strategy "I'm a King". Rule the kingdom, decide the fate of people, investigate, survive during periods of dark storms. This is only a small part of what you have to do.
Overfall
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with Mesmer.
Third-strongest match for Mesmer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mesmer.
Set sail in Overfall, a whimsical roguelike turn-based RPG of diplomacy and danger. Recruit unlikely heroes, forge alliances or crush your foes across ever-shifting seas to find a lost king. Every run is fresh with procedural worlds, permanent death, branching story encounters, and hand-drawn art.
Out There: Oceans of Time
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Mesmer.
Ranked #4 for Mesmer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mesmer.
Out There: Oceans of Time is a space exploration game that puts you at the helm of an interstellar mission of discovery spanning a vast and vibrant cosmos.
Black Book
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Mesmer.
Ranked #5 for Mesmer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mesmer.
“Black Book” is a dark RPG Adventure, based on Slavic myths, in which you play as a young sorceress. Fight evil forces in card-based battles and explore the world, where humans live alongside mythological creatures.
Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Mesmer.
Ranked #6 for Mesmer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Mesmer.
Step into a dark reimagination of Arthurian legends in this first person, open world RPG. Explore a world stuck in everlasting autumn, witness falling legends and make meaningful choices woven into a complex, branching storyline.
Bleak Faith: Forsaken
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Mesmer.
Ranked #7 for Mesmer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Mesmer.
Explore the last remnants of civilization in this vast, unforgiving, and interconnected world. Learn what is left of its history. Discover pockets of natural life in the perpetually expanding Omnistructure. Lose yourself in a journey unlike any other. Find your purpose in the world.
How to Survive 2
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Mesmer.
Ranked #8 for Mesmer fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Mesmer.
Dead or Alive? Make up your mind, stranger. We don’t like that undead business here in Louisiana…Survive solo or with friends as you look to fulfill your basic needs of food, water and shelter, crafting your own tools and weapons while you secure your camp and face flesh hungry zombies.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Mesmer
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Teslagrad
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Mesmer.
Reviewers of Mesmer cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Mesmer.
A journey begins... A treacherous tower... Unravel its mysteries!Discover the secrets kept in the long abandoned Tesla Tower!Magnetism and other electromagnetic powers will help you explore a non-linear world of beautiful hand-drawn environments, in a steampunk-inspired vision of old Europe.
World to the West
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Mesmer.
Reviewers of Mesmer cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Mesmer.
World to the West is a standalone followup of Teslagrad, the indie hit that sold more than 1.6 million copies worldwide. A vast world of blue skies and dark caves awaits you in this 3D action adventure, as you try to unveil the mysteries of an ancient prophecy.
Pathologic 2
WHY THIS
Shares time management with Mesmer.
Reviewers of Mesmer cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mesmer.
Pathologic 2 is a groundbreaking open-world horror RPG. Resist the plague. Make medicine. Heal people. Perform an autopsy. Trade to get what you need. Fight and kill if necessary. Survive. Struggle with an outbreak in a secluded rural town that is rapidly turning into hell.
Pathologic 3
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with Mesmer.
Reviewers of Mesmer cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mesmer.
In this psychological horror game, you are a doctor with only 12 days to save a town from a mysterious plague. Make ruthless decisions and diagnose with precision. Shape the town's future and rewrite the past. Hold yourself together while it all falls apart.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Mesmer at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Mesmer on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Mesmer.
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 ~67% under Mesmer on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Mesmer.
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 Mesmer on Steam right now. Shares Action with Mesmer.
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 Mesmer on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Mesmer.
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 Mesmer on Steam right now. Shares Action with Mesmer.
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.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Mesmer on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Mesmer.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Mesmer on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mesmer.
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!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Mesmer on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mesmer.
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...
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 Mesmer.
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 and Indie with Mesmer.
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. Shares Indie with Mesmer.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mesmer.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Mesmer.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Mesmer.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Mesmer.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Mesmer.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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More from Rain Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Rain Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Teslagrad
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Mesmer.
Another title from Rain Games, the studio behind Mesmer. Shares Indie with Mesmer.
A journey begins... A treacherous tower... Unravel its mysteries!Discover the secrets kept in the long abandoned Tesla Tower!Magnetism and other electromagnetic powers will help you explore a non-linear world of beautiful hand-drawn environments, in a steampunk-inspired vision of old Europe.
Teslagrad 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Mesmer.
Another title from Rain Games, the studio behind Mesmer. Shares Action and Indie with Mesmer.
Lumina, a young Teslamancer, finds herself stranded after her airship crash lands in Wyrmheim, a remote and treacherous land to the North. Embark on a dangerous adventure, exploring a gigantic, abandoned tower looming over a fjordside valley, on a quest to get Lumina home and back to her family.
Teslagrad Remastered
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Mesmer.
Another title from Rain Games, the studio behind Mesmer. Shares Action and Indie with Mesmer.
Return to the indie classic Teslagrad, recharged to provide the ultimate electromagnetic experience! Escape a tyrant king, master the art of Teslamancy, and uncover the secrets buried deep within the Tesla Tower in this puzzle-platforming adventure!
World to the West
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Mesmer.
Another title from Rain Games, the studio behind Mesmer. Shares Action and Indie with Mesmer.
World to the West is a standalone followup of Teslagrad, the indie hit that sold more than 1.6 million copies worldwide. A vast world of blue skies and dark caves awaits you in this 3D action adventure, as you try to unveil the mysteries of an ancient prophecy.
Girl Genius: Adventures In Castle Heterodyne
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Mesmer.
Another title from Rain Games, the studio behind Mesmer. Shares Action and Adventure with Mesmer.
A fabulous Action Adventure game based on the wonderful graphic novel series, Girl Genius™, by authors Phil & Kaja Foglio.
Knuckle Jet
WHY THIS
Another title from Rain Games, the studio behind Mesmer. Shares Action and Adventure with Mesmer.
What's this? An off-the-wall, riveting jetpunk nose-breaking ricochet action platformer, lovingly crafted by the oddballs behind the Teslagrad series!
Frequently asked about Mesmer
- Does Mesmer run on Steam Deck?
- Mesmer is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Mesmer cost?
- Mesmer is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Mesmer?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Mesmer are Chronicles: Medieval, I'm a King, Overfall.
- Who developed Mesmer?
- Mesmer was developed by Rain 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 Mesmer.
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