Games like AbsentedAge: Squarebound
If AbsentedAge: Squarebound is your kind of game, the closest matches are AbsentedAge 2: Ghostbound, Inkbound and Dungeon Scavenger — 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.
Get personalized picks →About AbsentedAge: Squarebound: "Satsuki" is a ghost girl that lost her memory and substance, and she explores DRIFTWORLD to revive her life. This game is the consecutive mixture of ARPG and tactical RPG in roguelike dungeons with the seamless, rapid and stress-free gameplay.
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AbsentedAge 2: Ghostbound
WHY THIS
Top pick for AbsentedAge: Squarebound fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with AbsentedAge: Squarebound.
A ghost girl recovers her true self and her bonds with her schoolmates through her adventures in DRIFTWORLD. This game is the consecutive mixture of ARPG and tactical RPG in roguelike dungeons with the seamless, rapid and stress-free gameplay.
Inkbound
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for AbsentedAge: Squarebound fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with AbsentedAge: Squarebound.
A turn-based tactical roguelike from the creators of Monster Train. Play solo or co-op, create powerful builds, and save the Atheneum.
Dungeon Scavenger
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for AbsentedAge: Squarebound fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with AbsentedAge: Squarebound.
Dungeon Scavenger is a unique turn-based old school dungeon crawler that sets you on a challenging path of exploration. Select a hero to keep the threat of the dungeon and demon realms away from the town's people with an innovative combat system. Can you save the town from the danger below?
Pathway
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for AbsentedAge: Squarebound fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with AbsentedAge: Squarebound.
Explore the strange unknown with Pathway, a strategy adventure set in the 1930s great wilderness. Unravel long-forgotten mysteries of the occult, raid ancient tombs and outwit your foes in turn-based squad combat!
Tactical Breach Wizards
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for AbsentedAge: Squarebound fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with AbsentedAge: Squarebound.
In Tactical Breach Wizards, you lead a team of renegade wizards in kevlar through turn-based battles to unravel a modern conspiracy plot. Combine their unique spells in clever ways, or rewind time to try every crazy plan you can think of to punch a Traffic Warlock through a 4th story window.
Valkyria Chronicles 4 Complete Edition
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for AbsentedAge: Squarebound fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with AbsentedAge: Squarebound.
A Continent Engulfed in the Bitter Flames of War! Commander Claude Wallace and his childhood friends set out to fight in a desperate war, but bone-chilling blizzards, waves of imperial soldiers, and the godlike powers of the Valkyria stand between them and victory.
Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for AbsentedAge: Squarebound fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with AbsentedAge: Squarebound.
A cooperative tactical RPG set in the D&D universe. Embark on a fantasy tabletop adventure. Your quest, on your schedule.
Jagged Alliance: Rage!
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for AbsentedAge: Squarebound fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with AbsentedAge: Squarebound.
Jagged Alliance is back – With a new take on turn-based tactics, adventure elements and the well-known quirky mercenaries! Set 20 years after the first Jagged Alliance, this spin-off lets you experience a road trip into a jungle hell to test your mind and body to the limits!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below AbsentedAge: Squarebound at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under AbsentedAge: Squarebound on Steam right now. Shares Indie with AbsentedAge: Squarebound.
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 ~62% under AbsentedAge: Squarebound on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with AbsentedAge: Squarebound.
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 ~46% under AbsentedAge: Squarebound on Steam right now. Shares Action with AbsentedAge: Squarebound.
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.
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~65% under AbsentedAge: Squarebound on Steam right now. Shares Action with AbsentedAge: Squarebound.
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 ~42% under AbsentedAge: Squarebound on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with AbsentedAge: Squarebound.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~52% under AbsentedAge: Squarebound on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with AbsentedAge: Squarebound.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under AbsentedAge: Squarebound on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with AbsentedAge: Squarebound.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under AbsentedAge: Squarebound on Steam right now. Shares Indie with AbsentedAge: Squarebound.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with AbsentedAge: Squarebound.
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]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with AbsentedAge: Squarebound.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with AbsentedAge: Squarebound.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with AbsentedAge: Squarebound.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with AbsentedAge: Squarebound.
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.
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with AbsentedAge: Squarebound.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with AbsentedAge: Squarebound.
Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.
Saihate Station
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with AbsentedAge: Squarebound.
An exploration/horror/adventure game about the codependent, love-hate relationship between two men.
![UNBEATABLE [white label] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1290490/header.jpg?t=1736770503)
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[International] AbsentedAge: Squarebound
WHY THIS
Another title from terunon's Lab, the studio behind AbsentedAge: Squarebound. Shares Action and RPG with AbsentedAge: Squarebound.
Absented Age is a fresh mix of genres: an action RPG outside of combat that becomes a roguelike-style strategy RPG during combat.
AbsentedAge 2: Ghostbound
WHY THIS
Another title from terunon's Lab, the studio behind AbsentedAge: Squarebound. Shares Action and Strategy with AbsentedAge: Squarebound.
A ghost girl recovers her true self and her bonds with her schoolmates through her adventures in DRIFTWORLD. This game is the consecutive mixture of ARPG and tactical RPG in roguelike dungeons with the seamless, rapid and stress-free gameplay.
[English] AbsentedAge 2: Ghostbound
WHY THIS
Another title from terunon's Lab, the studio behind AbsentedAge: Squarebound. Shares Action and RPG with AbsentedAge: Squarebound.
Absented Age is a fresh mix of genres: an action RPG outside of combat that becomes a roguelike-style strategy RPG during combat.
![[International] AbsentedAge: Squarebound — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1615930/header.jpg?t=1771382564)
![[English] AbsentedAge 2: Ghostbound — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/3550640/9abb77c2a746277daf60d57619a5666076ebebc9/header.jpg?t=1770088994)
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Tactical Breach Wizards
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with AbsentedAge: Squarebound.
In Tactical Breach Wizards, you lead a team of renegade wizards in kevlar through turn-based battles to unravel a modern conspiracy plot. Combine their unique spells in clever ways, or rewind time to try every crazy plan you can think of to punch a Traffic Warlock through a 4th story window.
Valkyria Chronicles 4 Complete Edition
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Strategy with AbsentedAge: Squarebound.
A Continent Engulfed in the Bitter Flames of War! Commander Claude Wallace and his childhood friends set out to fight in a desperate war, but bone-chilling blizzards, waves of imperial soldiers, and the godlike powers of the Valkyria stand between them and victory.
Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Adventure with AbsentedAge: Squarebound.
A cooperative tactical RPG set in the D&D universe. Embark on a fantasy tabletop adventure. Your quest, on your schedule.
Frequently asked about AbsentedAge: Squarebound
- How much does AbsentedAge: Squarebound cost?
- AbsentedAge: Squarebound is listed on Steam at 12.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to AbsentedAge: Squarebound?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside AbsentedAge: Squarebound are AbsentedAge 2: Ghostbound, Inkbound, Dungeon Scavenger.
- Who developed AbsentedAge: Squarebound?
- AbsentedAge: Squarebound was developed by terunon's Lab.
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