Games like The Necromancer's Tale
If The Necromancer's Tale is your kind of game, the closest matches are Glasshouse, Vagrus - The Riven Realms and Saga · The Circle — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and dark. 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 The Necromancer's Tale: A story-rich gothic RPG. Master the rituals of an ancient spellbook. Raise an undead army to march against your enemies. Commune with the realm of the dead & struggle with your descent into madness. Progress through secrecy, diplomacy, blackmail, coercion & seduction until ready to reveal yourself.
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Glasshouse
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Top pick for The Necromancer's Tale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with The Necromancer's Tale.
Feudalpunk CRPG, with Turn-based combat, set in a lockdown apartment block at the dawn of a world war. Investigate the mysterious triple murder next door, fight the Political Conspiracy, and make terrible choices before the flatmates do it for you!
RPGSteam ↗Vagrus - The Riven Realms
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Necromancer's Tale.
Second-strongest match for The Necromancer's Tale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with The Necromancer's Tale.
Embark on a perilous journey across a realm forsaken by the gods and devastated by an arcane cataclysm. Accompanied by a hardy crew, you must trade, fight, and explore your way to success as the leader of a traveling company in Vagrus, an award-winning turn-based post-apocalyptic fantasy RPG.
Saga · The Circle
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Third-strongest match for The Necromancer's Tale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with The Necromancer's Tale.
The Holy Sword has been drawn. Now gather the Knights of the Round Table to rebuild the kingdom. Explore and investigate war-torn Britain, and fight in tactical battles where stealing turns matters. In this Literary CRPG, every choice shapes your values, your allies, and the fate of Britain itself.
Crux Diaries RPG
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Ranked #4 for The Necromancer's Tale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with The Necromancer's Tale.
A turn-based isometric non-linear indie CRPG inspired by the classics. Explore an alternate-history dystopian country on the brink of a civil war and leave your mark on its future.
Travelling At Night
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Ranked #5 for The Necromancer's Tale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with The Necromancer's Tale.
CONJURE. CONFESS. DISAPPEAR. Be an exorcist, a stage magician, or - worse yet - a writer, in this globe-trotting choices-matter CRPG. In a very alternate 1940s Europe, choose sides; choose motives; choose your History.
TROUBLESHOOTER: Abandoned Children
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Necromancer's Tale.
Ranked #6 for The Necromancer's Tale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with The Necromancer's Tale.
TROUBLESHOOTER: Abandoned Children is the first season of a turn-based strategy SRPG that takes place in the world of Troubleshooter.
Esoteric Ebb
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Necromancer's Tale.
Ranked #7 for The Necromancer's Tale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with The Necromancer's Tale.
Esoteric Ebb is a single-player CRPG inspired by the freedom of tabletop adventures. Unravel a political conspiracy with your goblin sidekick. Roll dice in tense encounters. Become a cleric of legends or completely ruin the campaign.
Lawless Lands
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Necromancer's Tale.
Ranked #8 for The Necromancer's Tale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with The Necromancer's Tale.
Lawless Lands is a dark medieval role-playing game featuring a grim setting and innovative mechanics that allow players to delve into a low-fantasy, apocalyptic world of epic proportions. Defy and destroy the darkness that has taken hold over these Lawless Lands.
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The Age of Decadence
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Shares a dark mood with The Necromancer's Tale.
Reviewers of The Necromancer's Tale cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with The Necromancer's Tale.
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.
Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Necromancer's Tale.
Reviewers of The Necromancer's Tale cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure and RPG with The Necromancer's Tale.
Uncover secrets of past lives in this story-rich, tactical roleplaying game set in Sigil, a dark fantasy city at the heart of the Dungeons & Dragons multiverse. Explore the planes, survive combat alongside a party of bizarre companions, and solve puzzles unlike any ever seen in the genre.
Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Necromancer's Tale.
Reviewers of The Necromancer's Tale cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with The Necromancer's Tale.
Imagine a place of wonder, where magick and technology coexist in an uneasy balance, and an adventurer might just as easily wield a flintlock pistol as a flaming sword. Welcome to the land of Arcanum.
Pathfinder: Kingmaker — Enhanced Plus Edition
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Shares a dark mood with The Necromancer's Tale.
Reviewers of The Necromancer's Tale cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure and RPG with The Necromancer's Tale.
Pathfinder: Kingmaker - Enhanced Plus Edition is the first isometric party-based cRPG set in the Pathfinder fantasy universe. Enjoy a classic RPG experience inspired by games like Baldur's Gate, Fallout 1 and 2 and Arcanum. Explore and conquer the Stolen Lands and make them your kingdom!
Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition
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Shares an immersive mood with The Necromancer's Tale.
Reviewers of The Necromancer's Tale cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with The Necromancer's Tale.
Return to the Forgotten Realms in this bestselling Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game. Combines all the content of Neverwinter Nights Diamond Edition with all-new enhanced features. Includes 100+ hours of award-winning adventures and the tools to create your own!
Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition
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Reviewers of The Necromancer's Tale cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Adventure with The Necromancer's Tale.
Embark on a journey to a realm overrun by demons in a new epic RPG from the creators of the critically acclaimed Pathfinder: Kingmaker. Explore the nature of good and evil, learn the true cost of power, and rise as a Mythic Hero capable of deeds beyond mortal expectations.
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
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Shares a dark mood with The Necromancer's Tale.
Reviewers of The Necromancer's Tale cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Adventure with The Necromancer's Tale.
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world ruled by real but unrelenting gods. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice has a price and entails consequences. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
The Thaumaturge
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Necromancer's Tale.
Reviewers of The Necromancer's Tale cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure and RPG with The Necromancer's Tale.
The Thaumaturge is a character-driven RPG with a rich story, morally ambiguous choices, and turn-based combat. In a city on the brink of change, use your mystical powers to read emotions, uncover motives, and command folklore-inspired demons — while resisting the temptation of your own pride.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Necromancer's Tale at current Steam store prices.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~60% under The Necromancer's Tale on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Necromancer's Tale.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Bloons TD 6
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Priced ~44% under The Necromancer's Tale on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with The Necromancer's Tale.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
Fallout: New Vegas
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Priced ~60% under The Necromancer's Tale on Steam right now. Shares RPG with The Necromancer's Tale.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~80% under The Necromancer's Tale on Steam right now. Shares RPG with The Necromancer's Tale.
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!
PEAK
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Priced ~68% under The Necromancer's Tale on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Necromancer's Tale.
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?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Necromancer's Tale.
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 Adventure with The Necromancer's Tale.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and RPG with The Necromancer's Tale.
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 Adventure with The Necromancer's Tale.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Necromancer's Tale.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and RPG with The Necromancer's Tale.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Necromancer's Tale.
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
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More from Psychic Software
Other recommendable Steam games by Psychic Software, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Darkwind
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Shares a dark mood with The Necromancer's Tale.
Another title from Psychic Software, the studio behind The Necromancer's Tale. Shares Strategy with The Necromancer's Tale.
Darkwind is a multiplayer online, simultaneous turn-based game of vehicular combat. Set in a post-apocalyptic world, it involves physics-based tactical combat and deathracing, online leagues, cooperative wilderness scouting and looting, trading and camp-based crafting. Live and online since 2006!
Musclecar Online
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Another title from Psychic Software, the studio behind The Necromancer's Tale.
Online top-down racing game with a new player-designed racetrack every day. Design your own tracks and race against the ghost recordings of thousands of players around the world. Includes daily and monthly championships, achievements, and leaderboards.
Goblins and Grottos
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Necromancer's Tale.
Another title from Psychic Software, the studio behind The Necromancer's Tale. Shares Adventure with The Necromancer's Tale.
Reverse the roles & play as a goblin rather than a knight or wizard in this parody dungeon game. Level editor & online sharing - Mario Maker with goblins! Watch your family get blasted by a lvl 100 paladin & embark on an epic quest of revenge, beset on all sides by greedy powerleveling adventurers.
Frequently asked about The Necromancer's Tale
- Is The Necromancer's Tale verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — The Necromancer's Tale 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 The Necromancer's Tale cost?
- The Necromancer's Tale is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Necromancer's Tale?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Necromancer's Tale are Glasshouse, Vagrus - The Riven Realms, Saga · The Circle.
- Who developed The Necromancer's Tale?
- The Necromancer's Tale was developed by Psychic Software.
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 Necromancer's Tale.
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