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Games like Walthros: Renewal

If Walthros: Renewal is your kind of game, the closest matches are 8-Bit Adventures 2, Chained Echoes and Cosmic Star Heroine — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and lighthearted. 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 Walthros: Renewal: Make some friends, eat some burgers, and unearth terrible secrets from the depths of space. A turn-based RPG with a kind-hearted doofus trying to make tough times a little easier.

2023IndieRPG14.99 USDWindows · Linuxby Super Walrus Games
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Players who liked Walthros: Renewal also play

Steam players who put hours into Walthros: Renewal 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. 8-Bit Adventures 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with Walthros: Renewal.

    Top pick for Walthros: Renewal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Walthros: Renewal.

    Pilot your Airship, prepare your party, and explore a vast World Map in 8-Bit Adventures 2 – an exciting, emotional tribute to the Golden Age of JRPGs. Dynamic turn-based battles & pixels with personality!

    2023IndieAdventureRPG19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Chained Echoes

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Walthros: Renewal.

    Second-strongest match for Walthros: Renewal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Walthros: Renewal.

    Take up your sword, channel your magic or board your Mech. Chained Echoes is a 16-bit style RPG set in a fantasy world where dragons are as common as piloted mechanical suits.

    2022IndieRPG24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Cosmic Star Heroine

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Walthros: Renewal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Walthros: Renewal.

    3 exotic planets to explore. Aliens. Robots. Magic. Forbidden technology. Ruined Worlds. Ghosts. Long-lost secrets. Conspiracies. A galactic threat. And one brave heroine to make things right. Cosmic Star Heroine is an exciting new RPG from the creators of Cthulhu Saves the World.

    2017IndieRPG14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with Walthros: Renewal.

    Ranked #4 for Walthros: Renewal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Walthros: Renewal.

    Follow Vi, Kabbu, and Leif as they uncover the secrets of the Land of Bugaria! Explore and combine your team's abilities to solve puzzles, defeat powerful enemies and find ancient treasures!

    2019ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Sea of Stars

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Walthros: Renewal.

    Ranked #5 for Walthros: Renewal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Walthros: Renewal.

    Sea of Stars is a turn-based RPG inspired by the classics. It tells the story of two Children of the Solstice who will combine the powers of the sun and moon to perform Eclipse Magic, the only force capable of fending off the monstrous creations of the evil alchemist known as The Fleshmancer.

    2023IndieAdventureRPG34.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Ruined King: A League of Legends Story™

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Walthros: Renewal.

    Ranked #6 for Walthros: Renewal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Walthros: Renewal.

    Rise Against Ruin - Unite a party of League of Legends Champions, explore Bilgewater and set sail for the Shadow Isles to uncover the secrets of the deadly Black Mist in this immersive turn-based RPG.

    2021IndieRPG29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. FINAL FANTASY IX

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Walthros: Renewal.

    Ranked #7 for Walthros: Renewal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Walthros: Renewal.

    Selling over five million copies since its release in 2000, FINAL FANTASY IX proudly returns on Steam! Now you can relive the adventures of Zidane and his crew on PC !

    2016RPG6.29 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Virgo Versus The Zodiac

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Walthros: Renewal.

    Ranked #8 for Walthros: Renewal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Walthros: Renewal.

    Dethrone the Zodiacs, revive the Golden Age and purge the Heretics that swarm the galaxy as Virgo, the queen of Purity, in this unforgiving timed actions turn-based JRPG.

    2019IndieRPG19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Walthros: Renewal at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Walthros: Renewal on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Walthros: Renewal.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Walthros: Renewal on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Walthros: Renewal.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Walthros: Renewal on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Walthros: Renewal.

    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?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Walthros: Renewal on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Walthros: Renewal.

    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!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Walthros: Renewal on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Walthros: Renewal.

    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...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Walthros: Renewal on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Walthros: Renewal.

    An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Walthros: Renewal on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Walthros: Renewal.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Noita

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Walthros: Renewal on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Walthros: Renewal.

    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.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Walthros: Renewal.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Walthros: Renewal.

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Walthros: Renewal.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Walthros: Renewal.

    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 ↗
  5. Our Life: Beginnings & Always

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Walthros: Renewal.

    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. NGU IDLE

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Walthros: Renewal.

    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!

    2019IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Walthros: Renewal.

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Travellin Cats in Paris

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Walthros: Renewal.

    Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!

    2023IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. 8-Bit Adventures 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with Walthros: Renewal.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and RPG with Walthros: Renewal.

    Pilot your Airship, prepare your party, and explore a vast World Map in 8-Bit Adventures 2 – an exciting, emotional tribute to the Golden Age of JRPGs. Dynamic turn-based battles & pixels with personality!

    2023IndieAdventureRPG19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Chained Echoes

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Walthros: Renewal.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and RPG with Walthros: Renewal.

    Take up your sword, channel your magic or board your Mech. Chained Echoes is a 16-bit style RPG set in a fantasy world where dragons are as common as piloted mechanical suits.

    2022IndieRPG24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with Walthros: Renewal.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and RPG with Walthros: Renewal.

    Follow Vi, Kabbu, and Leif as they uncover the secrets of the Land of Bugaria! Explore and combine your team's abilities to solve puzzles, defeat powerful enemies and find ancient treasures!

    2019ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Sea of Stars

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Walthros: Renewal.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and RPG with Walthros: Renewal.

    Sea of Stars is a turn-based RPG inspired by the classics. It tells the story of two Children of the Solstice who will combine the powers of the sun and moon to perform Eclipse Magic, the only force capable of fending off the monstrous creations of the evil alchemist known as The Fleshmancer.

    2023IndieAdventureRPG34.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Virgo Versus The Zodiac

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Walthros: Renewal.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and RPG with Walthros: Renewal.

    Dethrone the Zodiacs, revive the Golden Age and purge the Heretics that swarm the galaxy as Virgo, the queen of Purity, in this unforgiving timed actions turn-based JRPG.

    2019IndieRPG19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Walthros: Renewal

How much does Walthros: Renewal cost?
Walthros: Renewal is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Walthros: Renewal?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Walthros: Renewal are 8-Bit Adventures 2, Chained Echoes, Cosmic Star Heroine.
Who developed Walthros: Renewal?
Walthros: Renewal was developed by Super Walrus 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 Walthros: Renewal.

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